Stifler

Stoke in the Championship relegation zone, and Charlton only just outside the League One relegation zone. Both had decent spells in the Premier League.

Have you thought about some ear defenders for her, or some noice cancelling headphones? It seems to be an increasingly big issue now. My fiancée had some ear defenders, but now often uses noise cancelling headphones as pound noises get to her.

No flushing of that shit.

Probably go on to get hammered today, look all but out, then win all those 3 games to claw their way back.

No it’s not, they wanted the Sheikh, well they wanted Ratcliffe before he came along, then they wanted the Sheikh instead.

Ok, right now it’s in the referral stage, so I don’t need anymore signatures right now. But if it gets accepted, I’ll be doing exactly that.

I’m trying to start a petition to prevent the government from providing any public funds on a new stadium for Man Utd, or even a redevelopment. I need some signatures to get it started though. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/657662/sponsors/new?token=JzTj82z3AaDGRk0qMXSn

I went to the last game before lockdown, it was international woman’s day that weekend. They had one of their biggest crowds, and that was only just over 200 people. I think it might have been the last, or one of the last games they played with fans attending, before the takeover. The takeover, like the rest of the club, has obviously got people interested and wanting to go. It’s interesting because at work I was talking to a couple of people who you would think would never go to a woman’s match, but either go, or would go. If we got to the Championship, I think a 5k seater stadium would be reasonable, with the possibility to extend to 10k, and maybe 15k at the top end for if we get all the way to the WSL, and compete. If you are getting crowds bigger than that, then you are probably just looking at using SJP, or a new stadium more. With the mens team it’s easy, you know that if we match what our owners want to achieve, then we can easily sell out a 70k-80k stadium. With the women’s it’s more complicated because we don’t know where the ceiling is, both for our own team, and that of the women’s sport in general. You don’t want to go too low and prevent your growth, but you also don’t want to go too high and end up with a facility that is too big for the team.

This is going to end in fucking tears for Man Utd fans this Ratcliffe. It’s like the early days of when those chancers bought Sunderland, and everyone could see through them but their own fans. Give the fans a bit of bravo, and a bit of banter, then let it all come tumbling down.

I have to say though, I’m not convinced that Radcliffe is the one to bring it though. He’s had to pay an absolute shit load of money just to get a minority amount, and we believe in B shares. He came in with the whole pretence of developing OT and building a new training ground complex. He hadn’t even got his foot in the door, and he already had the begging bowl out to the government, possibly via the FA that he wants funding to build a Wembley of the North. Even if that was/is a potential avenue, with the whole nationwide problem of having potentially a year before we change governments, he can’t even go asking for the money for it yet. This is on top of his record of being mediocre in his other sports assets, and taking a great Team Sky cycling team, and pretty much dismantling it.

Yeah, they probably own all of the land in Newcastle city centre that is ripe for development, plus the Horse racing, and dog racing tracks.

Yeah, in theory we could loan money out and then pay that off over the course of 100 years, however I’m assuming it wouldn’t be classed as revenue, thus making it impossible, yet it’s ok for Man Utd to be in 10 years worth or Premier League payments debt levels.

I’ve seen them for the away fans in the Leazes, but never anywhere else to be honest.

Just don’t get it really. It’s down to the drinking culture more than anything, people are too used to having a drink in their hand. We either need to decide on having alcohol back in stadiums, and even though I’m virtually teetotal, I’m not convinced by the argument that it would create more unsafe environments. Or the alternative is that the game as a whole starts introducing longer half times. It’s not just a Newcastle problem.

Said it before, but we should work with the police more and have drugs dogs sniffing on the inside as you go in. We need to be more proactive on it. Having drugs and being on it all the time has suddenly became an accepted part of society, and especially in football.

I thought that she was a first team starter?

Just for the record, the father of one of the players is in here, please be respectful, and try not to act like you’re going to be outed on the NUFC creeps Twitter page.

Can get fucked with that, we have a training ground, and a stadium pitch that would come under the remit of gardening.

Aye, needs to be upfront as well, no £60m spread over 5 years. Fuck them, let them deal with how they will afford it. Never been a problem in the past.

We need to play hardball, and when I say hardball I mean. £100m to get him now. Otherwise we’ll put him on gardening leave. Settle for £60m. If they aren’t willing to pay stupid prices, they shouldn’t try and play stupid games, threaten them with reporting them for tapping him up.

Doncaster are not really in trouble, aside from being generally bad, it’s just that he has big connections there as well. He was supposed to be moving his Sports Direct HQ and distribution centre to Coventry, but they are trying to get him to choose Doncaster instead. He already has a fuck ton of stock stored there.

I keep an eye out for them because half my family live there. A large amount of Newcastle fans there as well.

I have family in Doncaster, and my brother’s mate, who is also his boss has a transport company there which a couple of years ago took on the Sports Direct contract. As such my brother has met people like Mike Ashley’s son in law, who comes from Doncaster. As it happens his father owns a load of nightclubs and property in Doncaster, and him and his other associates are the ones who bought the Strawberry land off Ashley, before then selling it on to the developers, who then sold it to our new owners. Anyway, long story short, Ashley is fairly interested in Doncaster Rovers if he’s not successful in his attempts to get Reading. He’s already helping fund a local non-league team that has been set up by agent Willie McKay.

Best Super Sunday ever for Sky, Man Utd 2-0 up within 7 minutes, what more could they want?

Fuck off Neville man, as if he meant that.