Stifler

He’s in hospital. Imagine sacking him when he’s in hospital man.

Shhhh man, fucking hell.

Played his last game for us then.

Yeah, up until foundations etc all go in, everything is up for grabs. If homes England own it then don’t expect anything to quickly happen. On major projects the government like to make multiple announcements, it makes them look good. The land will effectively be for sale in anyway, they will be selling to developers, homes England don’t do the building themselves, they only put in roads and such via subcontractors. They are doing exactly just that at a development on the Northern edge of Morpeth right now. If we wanted the site and paid enough they would sell to us, although we may either have to give them land on in return to build houses, or compo them a bit on top to buy new land. That job will already have been earmarked for someone, or someone has already been working on it and are waiting to be given a transfer of title etc, but they legally have to let people apply for it. Even Homes England have owned the land for a while, but this announcement is just there to give Sunak’s pledge to build houses in urban areas some credence, like I was saying before, multiple announcements.

Yeah, the old railway bridge would have been used as a pedestrian access, and would have brought you direct to Central Station. There were plans some years back for an arena rebuild with travellators running along it. The downsides travel wise would have been that it’s a bit further out from the main local bus stations, and all the Metro passengers would have been lumped into 1 station instead of spread out between all the city centre stations, and Jesmond station.

I’m a firm believer that we need more homes in built up areas to reduce the need for commuting etc, however with that site I’m not so sure. Irregardless of us ever using that as a location for a Newcastle United stadium, I have long thought that they should use that site for various, and multiple sporting facilities. Maybe a replacement for Kingston Park, maybe a cycling velodrome, or an ice rink so we can bring back an Ice Hockey team to the city. Also think maybe we could built a small athletic stadium to replace the Gateshead International stadium.

The FA went half arsed with developing St George's Park. 25 years behind France developing regional academies so they could win the World Cup, and England half arse it so a select few kids from schools in Derbyshire could have a day trip there. I’d do what France did, develop regional or even county academies. Complete with a school for kids, both male & female so both sides of the game are developed. Most kids may never make it at the top level, but so long as their attitude is right and they want to continue with football, give them the coaching to do so. They may not be Premier League players, but they might bring up the standard of League 1, League 2, or even non-league football. At the same time, some kids might not be good at playing, but they might have the right attributes to become a referee, linesman, or a coach/manager. Why keep letting club academies bring in, and kick out players all the time? On top of this, make coaching courses and referee’s courses all free for people. Open the academy facilities up to others outside of the normal day. Football can bring people together, it can give people purpose, it can make them healthier, it can put a smile on their face, utilise it.

I like the 3pm blackout being lifted, however I’d still be tempted by having all Premier League games on Sundays in anyway. I like the idea of club/league chartered transport for away fans. Rent the busses/trains directly, give the fans it at cost price, make sure they get home etc. I like the idea that was mooted a few years ago where bigger clubs could own say a 10 stake in a local lesser club. This would encourage infrastructure development, shared academies etc. Imagine Newcastle owning 10% of Gateshead and Gateshead having a brilliant stadium, that can also be used for NUFC’s academy and women’s teams? Newcastle academy players on loan there. This would also coincide with the National League being adopted by the EFL, and the National League, and League Two being split along the North/South divide on an equal level. Lots of good ideas in here, and lots of ideas that I have always had that I’ll have to throw in when I get a better chance to type them up.

Taxi driver comes across as sound as owt. I remember them showing the Brexit march in a previous season, and him saying he doesn’t agree with it etc. Just a bloke who wants to go and see his team play and try. It can often be overlooked that there is plenty similar people about, all hidden by the likes of RTG, social media, and those who live to wind others up, or antagonise.

In terms of historic success maybe. 15 years ago no one was picking Man City over Man Utd. Now look at them, who the fuck is picking Man Utd over Man City? Their stadium is falling down. The rich Sheikh who wanted to buy them actually didn’t have the money to do so. The guy buying them who is the U.K. richest person, who resides in Monaco, and is a self confessed Man Utd fan couldn’t even be fucking arsed to support them as he has a Chelsea season ticket. Look at his other clubs and sporting organisations, hardly the big fucking success. He was supposed to be funding a new stadium for them, he’s not even handed the cheque over and he’s already half arsing it, weaselling his way out of it by begging the government/FA money for a Wembley of the North. Their club legend publicly slammed the training facilities, nothing has even been mentioned about improving them. Anyone who thinks they are on their way back is fucking moron, the Glazers, and Radcliffe will milk as much out of them for as long as they can. Irregardless of any of this, they are a rival at the moment for our way up, and we should stay clear of doing any business with them, they will either want the best parts of us, or want to sell us the worst parts of them. Fuck them, and fuck Ashworth if he goes there.

Man Utd are possibly the weakest club in the current top 6, who do you think are dropping out if we move into it? Long term the ambition will be to win the league etc. We’ll be aiming to leave them behind.

I’d gardening leave him for the rest of his contract. I’m sorry but we need to make an example. Man Utd are club that we’ll leave behind, if you think you are going there instead of being with us then you are going there when they dead and fucking buried. It’s like when Fergie would only sell us his shot, not a chance he would let his good players come to us. We got their used goods like Butt, and Obertan

Surely it will be done so we can get something for him in the summer, and worse case scenario we have someone as back up.

I’m not so sure about that though. I said earlier in this thread, it’s alright going to Man Utd with big plans, but Man Utd aren’t going to be building up players who need to develop. Their fans now demand the big stars, they don’t care that kid A from some unknown French club will be mint in 5 years time, they will want Mbappe now, then kid A in 5 years time. The owners, especially the Glazers if they hang around will want that as well. Big names sell shirts, they get the tourists coming through the gate instead of going 5 miles across the city of Manchester. That’s why Ronaldo came back. Also from my point of view, the very best job he’ll do at Man Utd is re-establish the status quo that we have had since the 50’-60’s. At Newcastle he could change the face of football.

I’m surprised an MLS team are not after him to be honest.

I’ve bought a hospitality seat for the Portsmouth match, despite only having 1 booking reference, they appear to have given me 2 different tickets. Is that normal?

Are you watching? Are you watching? Are you watching North Shields?

Still had to pay for the tickets, a reduced price fair enough, but they went fast.

Can’t wait for when this locked Premier League inevitably comes along, and Palace are locked in to stay forever, with their 2 banners, and a guy with a fucking drum.

Forever giving relegation shite hope.

The only game they care about is next Monday.

Why didn’t the keeper dive for it?

I got offered a place at Sunderland uni, I ended up going to Northumbria. I looked into my UCAS email account that I created after I had graduated from Northumbria, and I was still getting emails from them offering free tickets. If I had access to the account still, I wonder if I’d still be getting those emails.

The lack of wider support for them is a glaring issue that they refuse to acknowledge. I’m not going to sit here and say that they don’t have their share of loyal fans, because they do, I even went to uni with one of them. However they overestimate their support. For example I remember when those two chancers owned their club, and they had realised that they were exactly that. The Euro millions topped £200m at the time and they posed the question of if they won, would they buy the club, which at the time was for sale for about £30m-£50m. Each one of the said that they wouldn’t. So at the time they thought their club was going bust, but if someone put £200m into their account they wouldn’t give £50m to save their club. At the same time there was rumours of the supporters consortium starting up to save and buy shares off Ashley for NUFC and although that wouldn’t have been enough to buy the club, I would certainly have put £100m or so into the pot for us to buy NUFC off him. It’s alright saying you support your club through thick and thin, but it’s no good if even in a hypothetical scenario you have millions beyond your means and you still wouldn’t put in to save your club, never mind only going to games when you can walk into the reception at Sunderland Uni/Sunderland Council/local school, and pick up a free ticket.

Cast your mind back to us 3 years ago.