manorpark

You can support "North Tyneside United" if you like, no problem with that. It is simple and non-contentious, I prefer Newcastle United to be in Newcastle, that's all!

Yes, it seems they are from "Newcastle 31", and they probably don't know it !!!!

I think I am just being fair, but (like I say) I wouldn't object to it becoming even stronger. However, like most of us, I think that 'up front' is now our absolute priority!

An excellent location, and importantly (to me) it is in Newcastle, whereas the current place is just outside the City Boundary in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside.

You are right, our midfield is not pretty strong. it is very strong !!! I wouldn't object, though, to it perhaps becoming even stronger.

He was great. Loved his accent, “Hellaw Jurn”. Well said Danh1 - that is exactly how he sounded. I will miss those calls from Albert.

Yes, they are not representative of any human beings that I have met, neither are they (I am sure) even vaguely representative of the people of Sunderland, or even of those in Sunderland that support football and their football club. HOWEVER . . . They are a "little gem" for the rest of the world, they are fantastically hilarious and produce daily "sheer enjoyment" for us all. Personally, I have never laughed so much since the prime years of Morecambe and Wise !!!!! This contribution by them should not be underestimated.

There were a couple of worrying developments yesterday about this. Firstly the Planning Application at the City Council was updated by the Developer. Secondly, they released some new CGI's of the proposals, which makes it look like they are still planning to go ahead with this particular scheme on the St James' Park Metro Station Car Park Site. Here are the CGI's - Click on each image to enlarge it . . .

This situation is regularly discussed at the above linked thread.

Not sure if they are that advanced yet, the Metro Station Car park is still being used as a 'compound' for the materials and machinery being used on the next door "Home Group HQ building" construction that is nearly finished next to the Strawberry. We follow this (and all developments in the City Centre) very closely over on SkyscraperCity.com, and we are already up to 'Post No. 559' for this project. We have a team of local photographers that keep us up to speed (I rely totally on them) and their latest post does not show any preparation work for these four new builds . . . yet! See - https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threads/one-st-james-st-james’-metro-station-car-park-newcastle-various-approved.1406356/post-178290366

Yes as mentioned earlier, that seems very possible, especially with the involvement of Jamie Reuben!

About five years ago someone sent me this different photo of (what I assume is) those same steps. They said the photo was taken at the Gallowgate end, under the new stand . . .

It will take a while to mentally adjust to the new reality. Joyously though, we will all have to do so - sooner rather than later !!!!

LOVE the long queues and huge crowd jostling to get at the merchandise !!!!

Yes, there is a definite chance (a strong chance) that the club will be able to buy the St James' Metro Station Car Park land back. Particularly with Jamie Reuben involved, as the 'Reuben Brothers' already own many large areas of the City Centre already, and property/land development is his primary business!

I am only telling you what the local media call it !! Their mastermind specialist subject is "getting things wrong" - particularly the Chronicle!

The St James' Park Metro Station Site (One St James') consists of four large buildings. 1 x Residential, not for students. 2 x Office Blocks. 1 x Radisson Red Hotel (the tallest block of the 4).

Here is a CGI of what has been approved to be built on the "St James' Metro Station Car Park" site. The local media keep calling this 'Strawberry Place', which it is not called. Strawberry Place has already been built around the Strawberry Pub (it is now the Home Group Office Block). The St James' Park Metro Station Project (seen here) is called "One St James' . . .

Here is the Strawberry now surrounded by the new "Home Group Headquarters" Office Block . . .

As I understand it, that phrase is being used because the actual 'effective date' of the transfer will not be until this Friday, 1st July 2022. That is because the current accountability period for FFP ends on the 30th June, and wef from 1st July the next period starts.

Here are the recently approved plans for the area to the south of the Arena. The Arena can be seen marked on the plans just to the north of the development . . .

A definite wind-up, Mr Ashley!

In fact it is very unlikely, in fact historically it is almost impossible, for all the top 4 teams (at any time) to be "improving year in and year out". They will change their personnel, as will we (which we currently have more scope for) with the objective of improvement. However, those changes they make will very often either make them stay at roughly the same level (with different names) or will not work out, so will have actually made them worse. Sometimes those changes will improve them. Yes, with intelligent and hard working leadership at various levels (which we have and are still obtaining) there is great scope for the unique organisation that we now are (since October 2021) to catch up with some of those that are already at the level that we aspire to be at.

And I cannot think of a better equipped wealthy set of owners to lead that (very essential) fight, than our three owners . . .

EXCELLENT summary of the situation. EXCELLENT work by Howe, Staveley, Ghodoussi, Ashworth & Co. WE are already great with this lot working for us - just think of all the years to come . . .