bobbydazzla

You want to build a new house and there is a risk the neighbours of the plot you want to build on might object to your plans. So you buy the neighbouring houses. Cogito ergo sum, no objections to your plans to build the new house.

Not disagreeing, because I don’t think it’s happening either. But if we needed a neutral 52,000+ stadium to play in for a year or two, then it’s the best option.

Might be a Smoggie in the opposite position who’s buzzing his fucking tits off.

Shirley that would need a trial game to see how the logistics work, ideally against another Premier League side as a pre-season friendly.

If we stay where we are and build that fish shaped design, where we playing our home games whilst it gets built ?

I once looked out my upper floor hotel room window of the Hilton in Leeds at approximately 5am and used the mega-zoom on my Sony camcorder to see beyond what was possible with the human eye and I ended up watching a randy couple doing the nasty on the bonnet of a car.

Which of these options are the most likely if you’re a savvy investment fund ? A) Spend £25,000,000 to buy and then knock down a Grade II listed building and create public fucking outcry that Saudi’s have come over here and are destroying our ancient architecture with bulldozers. B) Spend £25,000,000 to buy a commercial enterprise that generates significant amounts of revenue even if they do absolutely fuck all to change the building and when you meet local building owners to try and push through your plans for a new stadium in the park this happens:

30,000 seats below street level. It’ll be known as The Nou-castle Camp. Believe.

Today's news is concrete evidence of that.

Fucking hope so, the defence has been sloppy as fuck this season

Don't want to start any rumours flying but I'm positive I just saw Fred Dibnah walking up past the Trent House towards the ground

If we do well next season then the club will have been proved right. If we don't then they'll have been proved wrong. I suspect results in Aug & Sept will be the biggest clues as to whether Howe has learned from 25/26 or not. Time will tell and I'm not claiming to be Nostradamus, I think arguments for both keeping / sacking have strong positives & negatives.

It's a PR piece. A lot of what is said might be accurate and true, but it completely skips over most of the fuck ups Howe's made this season. As you say, if the players were surprised by the intensity of a trip to Wearside then the management team need their arses kicking for not preparing them properly for a local derby. If I'm being spoonfed the inside track of all of the difficult things Eddie's had to face into this season, I also want to see some acknowledgement that he handled things badly too many times. I'd like a bit of balance. The article has got about as much balance as Alan Barnes sharing a see-saw with John Candy.

If we have a poor season next year then I hope everyone gets the credit they deserve for showing great frustration, a desire for change and seeing the bigger picture. Can't have it one way, but not the other.

Very easy to get a ticket nearer to the game this season. If you live locally, or can get to Newcastle at short notice then buying an ST resale in the days before the game has been a piece of piss. Obviously not everyone can make themselves available for a game at 48hrs notice though. Didn’t even have to F5, just select from hundreds of available seats. As a result, I sacked off the 10am sale a while back. Surprising how many people I know who weren’t aware that resale tickets were widely available.

Whilst that’s true about it taking nothing to apply for a ballot, there’s also plenty of people who don’t work on computers and therefore ballot is their only option. I can make myself free at 10am on a Monday and also F5 whilst on phone calls at my desk job. If I was a teacher I don’t have those options. Which would mean my only way to get a ticket would be to get someone with a desk job to link accounts and buy tickets on my behalf. If I don’t have any friends with desk jobs who are also NUFC match goers, then I’m fucked.

I just tried that. I thought of Alan Barnes

What would rather wear a jumper with a picture of me nanna's growler screen printed across the front.

I do wonder how many tout accounts will be priority 1. I'd estimate it'd be in the billions. And how are they going to police the waiting list, if the billions of tout accounts decide to join it.

Feels big to us because it’s NUFC. If a different club did the same thing with one of their players it probably wouldn’t even register with most of us.

Apparently some of the players have been speculating informally that it might be Guinness 0%, but it’s still very much a rumour. And it does feel unlikely. And am sure Diageo will have researched how much their turnover would decline when Guinness becomes a boycoutted product in Chickentown.

Diageo are one of the biggest drinks companies in the world, if they’re sponsoring the front of a football team shirt they’ll have done their due diligence on what markets they will be able to target and the likely Return On Investment.

Scenes at Craven Cottage when he signs for Fulham