Jackie Broon

Better coach than Howe according to FM22

If the stand were the same depth as the Milburn the back of it would be approximately where the kerb is on the opposite side of Strawberry Place. That would be very close to 'building D' of the Strawberry Place development, which I think would be at least part residential, so could potentially be a showstopper. There's also the issue of the metro station underneath, which might make it unviable.

Moving Leazes Terrace gets brought up virtually every other page in this thread. It's never going to happen. The east stand couldn't just just be built straight up. It's cantilevered and as shallow as it can be right now, even if another tier were built above the structure and infrastructure would have to be further back behind the stand. To get any sort of worthwhile expansion it would have to be both closer to Leazes Terrace and a lot higher. That would be very likely to be considered to have an unacceptable impact on the setting of Leazes Terrace. It would require the demolition of at least part of St James Street. Whether that would also unacceptably impact on light to Leazes Terrace would be a matter for technical assessment but I expect it would. It doesn't matter whether residents object or not, or even support it, the impacts on them are considered in a planning application in the same way whatever.

Technically Historic England wouldn't make the decision, Newcastle City Council would (unless it were called in by the Secretary of State), Historic England would only be consulted. But, yes, never going to happen. Turning it Leazes Terrace into a club museum certainly would outweigh any impact. What's the benefit in heritage or any other terms of it being a museum? Why couldn't a club museum be in any other building?

That's one set of issues, it wouldn't resolve the issues of impact on the listed buildings.

It's not: https://www.google.com/maps/@54.9758916,-1.6206326,3a,75y,346.79h,92.84t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sNOOttltf4rAmmtAYxhytVA!2e0!5s20150601T000000!7i13312!8i6656

It would need a support structure etc. behind the existing stand, there just isn't room for it, there would be columns in the middle of the road at least. The east stand already cantilevers out over the road a bit and is within touching distance of St. James Street (also listed). It would be likely to need at least the end of St. James Street to be demolished, it would almost certainly be considered to have an unacceptable impact on the stetting of Leazes Terrace, even if it doesn't impact on it physically. Then there's the loss of light and overbearing impact on the flats in Leazes Terrace which would probably be unacceptable in planning terms. And there's also possible common law right to light issues (which scuppered Chelsea's stadium plans). It's a non-starter.

Castle Leazes or a Gallowgate extension (if feasible with the metro station underneath) are the only viable options. There's zero chance of extending the east stand, whether Ben is bothered or not.

I'd love to see the 'I don't know what they think he did wrong, he ran the club well' types turn if he actually did take over their club. Although to some degree he probably would be good for them, they could do with an owner that won't pander to them.

That doesn't come from nowhere, I get the feeling a few of our squad did think that at first, possibly including him.

Yeah, Short lost something like £200m on Sunderland, basically gave the club away the when their support called for him to go. Imagine Ashley doing that! Or sacking manager after manager whenever their supporters call for it. They've basically been run on every whim of their supporters for the past decade.

The definition of an associated party in the PL rules is incredibly broad and could potentially be applied to any Saudi business, not just those controlled by PIF. This bit in particular: (b) The Person and the Club are directly or indirectly controlled, jointly controlled, or Materially Influenced by the same government, public or state-funded body or by the same party;

They can say it's a related party transaction and adjust the amount counted towards the FFP calculation to a fair market value, i.e. 500p.

perfect

His contribution to us winning three games in a row has transformed our season. We wouldn't have done that without him but all we need to do from here is average a point per game and we'll be comfortably safe.

I don't think so, I don't really know much about accounting but I think it would be on a separate part of the balance sheet and wouldn't count towards our cash profit / loss that FFP is based on. Payment for shares is actually specified in the PL rules as one of the ways that an owner can fund a club to cover cash losses, which needs to be done to allow a club to lose the upper FFP amount of £105m over three seasons rather than 15m if those losses aren't covered

Nope, not how it works, that's not part of our profit / loss in terms of the FFP calculation. Even if it were then the PL could just say its a related party transaction at above market value and adjust it down to the value of 10 shares.

As far as I understand it's only subjective decisions that have to meet the clear and obvious error test, a call as to whether a foul was in or outside of the box will probably be seen as a factual decision.

Yeah, but then what about the offside by a toenail goal of theirs? For once we really benefited from VAR today.

What a great battling win! Just three more wins this season will see us safe I think.

It is but they were always going to find form eventually, I think we have more chance of finishing ahead of Leeds.

A point per game is going to comfortably enough to stay up, most seasons but particularly this season.

Yes, it is perfectly legitimate. No equivalence whatsoever.

The best they can look back on since the glory days of finishing 7th twice is a 10th place under Bruce, their only top half of the top division finishes since 1956 Has anyone else noticed how their fortunes seem to be inversely related to ours? They were going along quite nicely while we were really struggling, now things are starting to look up for us everything has fallen apart for them. Seems to happen every season.

The weight on his through balls is so perfect, it almost looks like they have back spin on them the way they split the defence then suddenly slow for the attacking player to run onto.