Stifler

A member of SSC is fairly on the ball with TPO’s. He is constantly identifying trees that Newcastle City Council have felled that have TPO’s on them. NCC obviously seemingly do not care, however the spotlight would be on them if NUFC are planning on building a new stadium at Castle Leazes, so they would have less scope of being able to get away with it.

I’m not sure I can see that to be honest. Don’t Gateshead college use it for Athletics? If Athletics can’t be used there anymore, then surely there is no point in keeping it, it might as well just be knocked down and either rebuilt as a football club, or we just realise that it’s going to become an industrial unit like everything else around it.

Nah, I’m tired of us when we start getting good, ruining it by buying the top 6’s cast offs. We should be avoiding buying anyone from those clubs, unless they had actual potential.

Yeah, either that or say that Howe is in trouble. If we had a couple of poor results, that would be the narrative, although I’m not convinced that they won’t go down that route in order to help their mates in the gambling industry make a few extra pounds in the back of the reduced odds it would result in.

Just reading, apparently the EFL rules have changed. They would need a 5 year lease, with the option to extend it to 10 years if they stay up for a 2nd season. If they got promoted though, a stadium of their own would really need to be looked at. Gateshead Council should be helping them to be honest. Outside of the Quayside, the whole of Gateshead is needing investment, and they are in the process of demolishing half the town centre.

It’s like a month into the season.

Full build up of a goal from a youth team in Florida. https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/s/rG1FRj9FXK

Internally I think it looks poor. It’s very 2006 generic German stadium-ish. It just lacks something, I guess Lego Blue never helps either. Outside the renders look great.

The only problem is that the listed park status follows the tree line, and it’s unknown if the trees themselves have any protection. That may make it tight at 1 section to fire the stadium in, but there might be leeway. The tree preservation society will certainly kick up a fuss.

Well since our takeover the Premier League have allegedly closed the door on state backed takeovers. We have seen evidence of this with Chelsea’s takeover, the no buyers for Liverpool, and Roland Rats takeover of Man Utd. All 3 clubs who would have been ripe for Middle Eastern takeovers. So let me get this right, when Chelsea sold things like their hotels, did they sell to Clearlake? If so, do Clearlake still retain ownership? If they do, and Clearlake sell without selling that stuff back to Chelsea, surely they have been asset striped?

I wonder if that blue trim will be blue like the Northern Rock one.

If PSR stays, then we’ll likely get to a point where clubs like top 6 will have casts amounts of trophies, near or above 50 for some of them. The rest of us will end up with small amounts. I know some of us don’t want a new stadium, but one of the arguments is that we have to join these clubs or be pushed out. These clubs have already tried to break away and steal control of football in recent years. Even for completions that they have no respect for like the League Cup, they are making it more difficult for the rest of us to win by allowing themselves to come in a round later, and now be seeded. If PSR is to stay, then we need to make sure we are on the right side of the divide before it gets too big.

He must have no mirrors in his house.

3 year legal battle to build there? I guess that maybe a realistic time frame. I don’t think we’ll see the result of whatever we decide this side of 2030.

Who’s the one on here who knows the guy in charge of Sela?

Not to mention that debt is allowed. Man Utd and Spurs both at between £600m - £1bn each. It’s external debt that is the issue. Very few clubs get into problems because the owner has pulled the plug, it’s almost always external debt that is a problem. Chelsea is the only real example of the owner walking away causing problems, and that was because the government pulled the plug on his behalf.

I think it’s starting to show its age. The East stand is coming to the end of its life considering the materials/methods it was created with. The cladding on the stadium has weathered badly, and now it’s very much like a ‘rain ahead’ grey in the sky. The glass atrium looks good, but the tunnel underneath the Milburn stand is dark, dirty in places, and has bits of the old ground, including corrugated steel staircases.

Yeah, I just don’t see why we add only 8k cheap seats which would do nothing for corporate offerings, nothing for other uses of the stadium etc, and wouldn’t be a cheap alternative. Building over the Metro lines is possible, New York has built skyscrapers over their rail yards, but there is a difference between real estate prices in Manhattan, and a stadium used 19 times a year in Newcastle. The dream scenario is to build a new stadium on a slightly bigger footprint of SJP. But that comes with its own challenges as well. Spurs for example played a season at the old White Heart Lane without a stand, then spent 2.5 years playing at Wembley. When you have half our fans throwing toys out of the pram at the mere suggestion of playing at the SOL, plus inevitable police concerns, is it really that much of an option? As others have said, if PIF have high hopes for us, and we have to play by the rules, then a new stadium is realistically the only option. The only option that would get most onboard would be Castle Leazes.

Considering the Sky 6 keep saying they should get a greater proportion of the revenue, it stands to reason that they should pay a greater portion of the bill, minus Man City of course.

The external design is nice, but internally it just looks bland.

Aye, Spurs’ has a bar in it. I don’t mean a kiosk where you can order and then stand in front of a TV, like actually go into an area and sit at tables and chairs. Not just for corporate either.

We already have dynamic pricing here, they just disguise it under different category games.

Have they fixed the leak at the top of the escalators that has been there since the week after it very first moved there from the Gallowgate/Milburn stand corner?

Incidentally, I think it’s the sponsors themselves who should take action. I have said this before, but let’s say I’m a multi-millionaire/billionaire. I want to sponsor NUFC, either on the shirt or by other sponsorship. Let’s say I want to give them £50m for it. I pay more than another company because I have an emotional connection to the club. That little bit more could see us achieve our targets, or exceed them, and in my view that’s my money well spent. Imagine if the Premier League said no, but I could sponsor Liverpool in the same manner for £50m. Well no, that’s not money well spent in my opinion. How come I can sponsor 1 club and give them an advantage, but not another, or the team who I support?

Not really. They got off because they got relegated and they technically had a small gap between not being a Premier League club, and the end of their accounts. The Premier League will just re-word their rules so that in future if you are a Premier League club for the majority of an accounting period, then they have the authority to deduct you points upon any return to the league. Massive news for Leicester, who now won’t receive a points deduction.