Stifler

For the record, issuing new shares is!’t allowed from a PSR perspective. You are allowed to do it, but it doesn’t count towards your income. So if this is for January, then it would mean that we are allowed to spend another £35m that the club doesn’t currently have. It could be used for anything else non-football related.

Until Christmas, when he hopefully has a Christmas dinner with Yorkie, and learns the error of his ways.

Is level 7 not good enough for you?

I wanted to go today, but I had to work. I’ll be there for the Sunderland match. I guess alongside ticket price, you also have to factor in that it’s winter now, and fucking cold. Having a match at 2pm on a Sunday, with shit public transport, when fans will be leaving in the dark is a bit of a downer. Absolutely no reason why it couldn’t have been played on the Saturday, especially as most North East none-league teams were away from home as well.

The whole North Shields people shouldn’t support Newcastle and aren’t Geordies bothers me more than it should. First off, a Geordie is someone from Tyneside, heck even some people from Northumberland, and Durham class themselves as Geordies due to a connection they have to Newcastle. Novocastarians are from the city centre, but a Novocastarian is a Geordie as well. Anyway, North Shields is a Newcastle suburb. Ok I know they are not in the same council areas, but the definition of a suburb extends to areas in different councils, and is more of a ‘commuter belt’, and strong economic ties than anything else. Also Newcastle and the North East was deliberately fucked over in the 70’s with the creation of the different councils. It moved away from large regional huge counties, to cities with commuter belts. Look at the size of the likes of Manchester, and Leeds councils. Newcastle by rights should have had all of Gateshead, both of North/South Tyneside, and parts of Northumberland within its boundary. Cramlington when it was built was even marketed as a suburban commuter town for Newcastle. It was split into different councils though to skew the population statistics, to make it look like 4/5 different economic areas, rather than the 2 larger ones it really is. Teesside is similar with 3 different councils. RTG’s keep going on about how everyone in Durham should be Sunderland fans, and how places of Durham are pretty much part of Sunderland. In reality it should be the other way round. Durham was the big city, had an established university, connections outside of the region etc. Sunderland was the North East Durham town. The end result is that Sunderland has grown into a city, and they have been the winners of the population gerrymandering, the rest of the region though has lost out massively, because the government treat everywhere as smaller populated areas, rather than 2/3 major population areas. The private sector is guilty of the same.

Sunderland fans in March 2024: ‘How dare you disrespect the English flag by using a different shade of red on it for the England kit’ Sunderland fans in June 2024: ’How dare you disrespect England by wearing club football tops to an England match’ Sunderland fans in November 2024: ’I want England to lose because 3 Newcastle players are in the team’

I’m not convinced it’s that. I think the standard so far in this league has been shocking, and by the same measure I think we have been rather poor, and we have played better in previous seasons. I honestly think our squad from last season would win more games than our current squad, and even beat our current teams.

I don’t think Miley will be a world beater, and I think we will likely leave him behind as a club. In saying this, Miley plays in the Premier League, and has played in the Champions League, and held his own. He is tried, and tested at a higher level. Jobe hasn’t even played at either of those levels. This time a month ago, Rigg was their greatest player ever, and before that Patrick Roberts. At the end of the day though, I think there is a distinction between our fans being excited about a young prospect from our academy, and a Newcastle fan playing for his club and looking like he will be doing so at a decent level, and them claiming that 2024’s Anton Ferdinand is going to be 1 of 2 of the greatest players.

Yeah, possibly Jude, and then Lamine Yamal.

Aye, I think the point about Wigan, which was made from every football fan, was that it was a Rugby town. After their first season in the Premier League, their fans turned their backs on them. I went to the away match when we played them in the Championship. Half an hour so outside their ground and I shit you not, I only saw 1 person with a Wigan top on. Don’t get me wrong, come the start of the game they still had more fans that us in the stadium (as you should for a home match), but barely, and they must just drop in 5 minutes before KO. Additionally, if we were to house the same percentage of fans/population in our stadium as Wigan do, then we would need the worlds largest stadium. Even 25% of Tynesides population would require a 250k-300k stadium.

Really? She literally just left the ball behind her all the time.

The referee must have been from Hampshire, everything given to them, nothing given to us, blatant penalty at the end as well. They had no composure in that match, lust lashing it up in the air, straight back at them. I’m not convinced by a few of our players. Andrews can run with the ball, but has no final product, I don’t know what she offers over Kacie Barker. Lumsden, does she know that she is meant to take the ball with her? Out of the hour I saw, we did deserve a point, but it was poor really. Southampton only had 2 scares right after each other in the 2nd half, other than that, they were comfortable by doing nothing at all.

Nothing related to the stadium. They management company they put in charge of it has done a really bad job, basically they haven’t done anything at all.

I keep saying it time and time again, but it’s amazing how people in North Shields aren’t entitled to support Newcastle, but they keep trying to claim South Shields, Ashington, and think everyone in Spennymoor should be a Sunderland season ticket holder. For the record, a lot of my friends happen to be friends with Sam Fender, and he is a regular in one of my local pubs. He absolutely was a Newcastle United fan before the takeover. We all know he grew up in poverty, but when he did have money he went to games with mutual friends of mine.

Fucking sickening isn’t it? Rather log back onto Twitter than watch the Rugby.