Stifler

It all depends on what they want and how inflation has made prices rise. If we built at the same time as Spurs did, we could have got Spurs’ stadium in Newcastle for £600m-£700m instead of the £1bn it cost them. For the same £1bn we could have got a much better stadium. £1bn now would likely not even be enough for a replica in Newcastle. So if they wanted the biggest, more executive seats, more flexibility in changing it’s use etc, then yeah we likely are looking at between £1bn-£1.5bn now.

Absolutely not. It would however be a great location for a small stadium for North Shields. It has been sold to developers though, whoever they may be, and we’ll likely see some houses on it.

I can easily see them spending £1bn-£1.5bn on a new stadium with all the corporate seats etc.

We also are absolutely fucking not getting £200m per year for the naming rights of it. Spurs can’t get a naming rights deal for their stadium, Everton are struggling on theirs. Man City, and Arsenal get nowhere near that for their naming rights deals.

Leazes Park is listed, can’t build on it. Basically a random dude reading the Eales interview and coming up with Tyneside Life conclusions.

I honestly think if they came out with decent renders for a new stadium at Castle Leazes, then a lot more people would be willing to move. It’s no good asking people if they would be willing to move without them seeing where too, or what they could get. You’ll always get some season ticket holders who are happy to stay put, they have their ticket, without acknowledging that ultimately if we stay, then they will be priced out of their seats. It’s the same with the club badge, asking people if you want to change it, instead of coming up with a modern version of the 1976/83 badge, or a Magpie etc being shown on potential merchandise etc is always going to get people saying they would prefer the same old same old. You have to show people what they could have, not ask them. As Henry Ford once said, if he asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

Isn’t that like a national park?

The majority of the stadium was already designed and going ahead before Eales went there. I think the only thing he had a say in was the blinds that cut off the top tiers, however they are rarely used for Atlanta games now.

No they won’t. NUFC own the stadium, but the Freeman of the city own the land and lease it to NUFC with the condition that it has to be used for sporting and/or leisure activities for the people of Newcastle. If we do a land swap with Castle Leazes, then where SJP is will be turned into an extension of Leazes Park, with potentially a permanent multi purpose fan zone, and/or an amphitheatre like structure. If we move away from the area altogether (say the Arena site) then the Freeman of the city will take back control of the site.

Could have just stop the quote of the article at the part where it says ‘Written by Luke Edwards’.

It’s still a listed park. The only way we could land swap is if we swap SJP with Castle Leazes, and this is the only way we’d be able to create a significantly bigger stadium. The only other way we could do it is if Barrack Road Southbound was reduced to 1 lane, and we moved the footprint of SJP to the west a little, and South above the SJP Metro station.

Looks like a monotone version of our 1976/83 club badge in the background. I wonder if that might in fact be our new club badge. It’s very much blurred on shots where more of it is viewable.

To be honest, we are probably only a few decades away from needing stadiums with roofs, and air conditioning.

I actually like them to be honest, but the more simplistic ones with a smaller case. Brushed steel, with a black face, no date.

Off topic, but a Rolex from 15-20 years ago was a great looking simple watch. A Rolex today is far too big on the wrist, in an attempt to get people to notice. They went from simplistic and just a touch of something special, to flashy and a status symbol, even more so with the models that have multiple dials, and altitude indicators. You’re not using them as you drive to your business meeting in your Porsche.

Chris Wood is enough of an example to show that we should be investing in players to get in the 1st team and trickle down the talent into the squad, rather than buying players for the squad.

They look shit though. A Rolex Date is nowhere near £100k like. Probably about £40k.

They won’t go for Howe. They need someone who is going to big the players from the big clubs all the time. Howe will drop obvious players day in day out if he feels that they can’t work to his standards. Pushing shirts that say Kane on the back is more important than playing Watkins and winning the Euro’s.

We’ll spend the next 4 years doing fans surveys, coming up with proposed designs/plans, and going through the panning process. If SJP is being rebuilt or worked on, then the wrecking ball will be ready to go as soon as the Euro’s are over. That is if option C isn’t used.

This is it. He isn’t suited to international football, you could say the same for Rafa, and Mourinho. They need time to bed in their philosophy, look at Hall, a year to get a game, even only did because of injuries, even though Howe see’s him as someone for the future. I can’t see him going even if the FA asked about him, but even if he did, he’d be making a huge mistake. The FA will go for someone who won’’t cause a fuss, who’ll pick the players at big clubs who’ll sell a few more England shirts, any sort of progress or success is secondary to them.

Going to be in the winning team photo, no matter who wins.

They play again on Tuesday I believe. Their Twitter page doesn’t say cash only, so they might be taking card payments for entry?

That 100% has to be another Burnsie account.

We have the team in place which makes her role pretty much redundant now. You could argue that she should oversea the women’s side of things, but even that will be highly stays based now, with their infrastructure etc all being included in the plans we have elsewhere in the club.

I believe so.