Stifler

Amazing that some people on here are suggesting that we play in that shipping container stadium from Qatar whilst we rebuild SJP, yet make a little noise about shipping containers being used for a temporary store that is only going to be there for 3 months whilst our current store is refurbished, or the stack where we will have temporary fanzone until they can expand/rebuild SJP.

I remember watching it on SSN, and I was doing the maths of it. I realised at the time that they were mathematically down because of another fixture the in following weeks meant that they couldn’t catch both teams above them. SSN didn’t realise for a few hours, even their own fans were getting home and thinking they could still stay up, and about 10 threads on RTG once they realised asking how they were down.

Aye, means if you take the 40 point target, you need to get 55 points. Even if you lower it to 35 points, it’s still 50 points. So a newly promoted club would need to hit European form just to stay up. In saying that, if the points total for safety repeats last season, Leicester could easily do it.

Because they are in a bit of limbo with no clarity from the Premier League over m how they can finance their new stand. The Everton situation has thrown it all up in the the air, and if it’s true that interest on loans for stadium/infrastructure is not detectable, then they may need that extra £20m per year to finance their new stand.

Out of everything I have seen from Adidas, they have not put a clubs badge on a patch on either recent clubs shirts, or next seasons as is shown in the video. Puma did for us, and Castore did for the players versions, but Adidas seemed to have stayed away from it. In saying that, everything else is like all the leaks have told us.

That is 100% a DH Gate bag.

Premier League clubs will be asked next week to agree to new financial proposals aimed at boosting English sides’ competitiveness in Europe. The proposal, put forward by Crystal Palace, aims to give clubs such as Aston Villa — who were surprise qualifiers for the Champions League — more flexibility around spending and financial losses. Uefa’s coefficient payments are based on a club’s past ten years of results in European competitions. For the 2023-24 season, for example, Manchester City received £28million while Newcastle United were given only £3.8million. Aston Villa will be in a similar position to Newcastle next season after qualifying for the Champions League for the first time since 1983. Palace’s proposal, which targets the “artificial” impact of those coefficient payments, would alter the Premier League’s Profitability and Sustainability Rules (PSR), allowing clubs to claim the difference in coefficient funding between themselves and the top club in Europe as allowable losses. That could allow Villa, who are believed to be close to the line in terms of breaching PSR’s maximum £105million losses over three years, an extra £20million-£30million in allowable financial losses. Newcastle, who failed to get out of the Champions League group stage, have claimed they were hamstrung in the tournament by needing to keep within PSR limits. Palace’s chairman, Steve Parish, has long argued that Uefa’s coefficient payments are unfair and, unlike the Premier League’s payments structure, are not based on merit according to the season just played. The proposal will go to the Premier League’s annual meeting next week, where — as revealed by The Times this month — Villa will also try to convince clubs to raise the PSR limit from £105million to £135million. The move by Palace is regarded as an alternative plan that would help Villa but not change the general PSR limit. Uefa is reducing the size of coefficient payments for the new Champions League format that starts next season but it is still not clear exactly what they will be. The Premier League’s annual meeting near Harrogate will also vote on a proposal by Wolverhampton Wanderers to scrap VAR. Although most clubs are expected to vote against Wolves, there is a general sympathy with some of the points raised by the club. Wolves have sent a six-page document to the other 19 clubs in support of their proposal. It claims VAR is damaging the reputation of the league. The document states: “Since the introduction of VAR, we are giving oxygen to those who suggest that the Premier League and PGMOL [Professional Game Match Officials Limited, the referees’ body] are corrupt, and this is damaging the reputation of our league. “Under the current version of VAR, it’s impossible to solve the problem because people often distrust referees who are far removed from the pitch and cannot experience the game as those present do. “The involvement of multiple referees in decision-making increases suspicion of corruption, as accountability is dispersed, making it easier to shift blame. Fans also expect technology to be 100 per cent accurate and when VAR fails to meet this expectation, it’s harder to justify and explain the inaccuracies, leading to greater dissatisfaction and mistrust.”

Castore stuff will be job lot sold to discount retailers, TK Maxx, M&M Direct, and even possibly that mystery football shirt company.

Every single betting company does this.

Who the fuck are Quidd?

Crystal Palace co-owner Textor has instructed people to sell his 45% share of Crystal Palace, so he can buy Everton.

I have a solution for them, give us the spot.

If it was a way of sponsoring the club without sponsoring, then yeah.

The queue for the shirt printing will start on Wednesday, by the time you walk out it will be Saturday/Sunday.

No idea why they went with him. Did what he was expected to get Norwich promoted, then went and got relegated without much of a fight. Nothing he has done has shown him to be able to do anything in the Premier League, which is surely Leeds’ main aim.

Finished 4th didn’t they?

Update. Just saw another Newcastle fan here. Also saw a 2nd Arsenal shirt, a couple more Man Utd fans, a West Ham fan (fully decked out), and a kid wearing a PSG top.

Yeah, I’ve been here since Friday and I just generally get the impression that football isn’t even that big of a deal around here. Someone below me mentioned they thought Chelsea would be popular here, since my post earlier I have actually seen a kid wearing a Chelsea training top. In general I just don’t think it’s as popular. Even in term of Crawley who have had a fairly big takeover in recent years, and last week played in and won a play off final. There is nothing around here to indicate that it even happened. In North Shields, where I live, our pubs still have the windows painted from the EFL Cup final last year, and in some cases refreshed with a Champions League painting. I saw a kid with a Man Utd top on here after they won, just going about like any ordinary day. A little kid, he mustn’t have been around when they last won the league, but they still win cups to an extent that there is no real excitement at all.

I’m currently in Crawley for the weekend, aside from a lower league team they are not really a catchment area for any club. Brighton have apparently gained more popularity in recent years, and apparently Palace are also popular, although I haven’t seen anything on the latter. So far I have seen a few Man Utd tops, an Arsenal top, a Benfica top, and a Sporting Lisbon top. My fiancée’s father is a Spurs fan. I have also seen 1 Brighton training top. Amazingly though yesterday we were sat outside a cafe and my fiancée pointed out someone wearing a Newcastle top, I briefly spoke to him and he has an aged NUFC tattoo. Not sure why he supports us, I never got the chance to ask him, certainly didn’t have a Geordie accent.

I’ve just got 35/1 with Ladbrokes. It was 33/1, but they offered me a bet boost to 35/1, ended up putting an each way bet on. I mean the cup final yesterday shows that my betting luck has changed and no longer a fucking jinx, so fuck it.

I believe they are gone. You can go back now. I honestly think if they manage this right, get the trust back, then there is no reason why North Shields can’t get 500 people through the gate for big games.

I spoke to my stepdad who is the kitman for North Shields Athletic, which is basically the senior team of North Shields Juniors. Apparently they have been wanting to do a takeover for a while, and want to use North Shields’ ground as their home, as the juniors, and John Spence basically use the John Spence facilities too often, even though a large amount of funding for the facilities was gained from North Shields Athletic. I think it’s something to do with the lease where John Spence still has more than their fair share of access. Anyway the feeling is that North Shields Athletic will l use the Darren Pearson stadium for home games, going to assume they will ask for fixtures to be alternative to North Shields. My theory is that North Shields Athletic will end being a reserve side, or a North Shields 2 team in the long run. I guess a good thing is that North Shields Athletic open up their 3 sails club house outside of match days, so I could see them trying to do similar the club house for North Shields. I have a feeling that Malcolm McDonald has been player in bringing this together, as he is involved with both clubs. I’ll try to get more information, but at the minute I’m down south at the in-laws for the weekend, and my stepdad hasn’t been to any games for the majority of this season as he is recovering from a leg amputation, but I’ll try to find out more information, and yes, pass the message on to let us buy tickets via card payments.

Did we need to buy Targett? After his loan spell he has hardly features, we played Burn there, and bought Hall in during the summer. Burn did ok for about 6 months, since then people have regularly and I say fairly criticised him. Is he a long term option for us? I don’t think he is. Wood, again we sold him as soon as we could, he was never going to be a long term option, and I don’t think he gave us anything we couldn’t have got elsewhere. If we get a new goalkeeper, then Pope will surely be off. I can’t see him being happy to sit on the bench. Would we not have been better off buying that 1st choice keeper sooner instead of getting Pope? Barnes wasn’t really needed when we bought Gordon 6 months beforehand, and RW is a massive weak spot for us.

Even though today was disappointing, and it robs us of a European place that is usually the reward for our placing, the club really does need to have a difficult look this summer, which is what they need to do every summer really. We are now 2 seasons into the 5 year plan to win something, and cups aside, we are not within 3 years of competing. Our squad isn’t good enough, and we have arguably spent too much on positions that were not really a priority over places that need urgent attention. The RW position has been a problem since before the takeover and is still a problem now. We need to take a long hard look at our injuries as well, the season before this one was probably an anomaly in lack of injuries for us. Something is a miss with our medical or physio department. We need to start getting our gaps filled. We can’t keep getting stop gap players like Wood, Burn, and if we get a new keeper, then I’ll include Pope in that. On a wider aspect, the club need to start making decisions on what’s happening both with SJP, and the training ground, and communicate that with the fans. I touched on it a bit in the transfer thread earlier as well, but the club possibly need to weigh up the pro’s and cons of taking a hit on going over budget and setting our squad up for the long term with a points deduction for 1 season, a la Everton, and Wolves. We probably also need to be a bit more ruthless going for sponsorships. We need that training kit deal etc. Sooner or later we need to make those massive steps, and I honestly think it needs to be this summer. We have Man Utd who despite winning today, are probably the worst Man Utd side since before SAF, a Liverpool team who will be on the transition, a Chelsea team who keep shooting themselves in the foot with hiring and sacking managers, a Spurs team who going through a biannual tradition of being decent, and then tailing off, and an Aston Villa side wanting to break into that group of clubs alongside ourselves. We really need to put our foot in the door and force our way in, and shut it ahead of anyone.

They were jammy though. They should have been out against Coventry, they got gifted their opening goal today, and those chances Man City had in the 2nd half, any other game and most if not all of them go in.