Stifler

The relegation battle this season will be interesting. Forest are totally bombing right now and it’s clear these players are not going to gel and it will be a case of whoever is left next season, doing the job to get them back up. Leicester are also poor and if they have players leaving in January, you can see them just totally dropping. Southampton for the past few years have only just been good enough to be above those scrapping, but you expect to drop sooner or later. Wolves are a shadow of their former selves and this new manager you feel is their roll of the dice. You have a Villa side with an out of depth Gerrard in charge. Everton with a clueless Frank in charge, and then you question if Fulham and Bournemouth will drop away as the season goes on. It could honestly be a 5-7 team shit off down there.

Pretty much. Liverpool bought everyone’s best players in the 80’s, including academy prospects. Man Utd did the same during the Busby era and then the 90’s and early 2000’s with SAF. Now the money is more than they can afford so it’s unfair. With Madrid and Barca, both clubs are effectively state controlled, albeit indirectly. The only reason why they have became the giants they are is that it would be political suicide for any Spanish government to allow either club to fold, and for Spanish banks it would be financial suicide to do likewise. So therefor the Spanish banks will not ever foreclose on either club, they will just keep offering the solutions, even if it means payments in reality are never paid back. The government themselves will never foreclose on them either, mean both clubs can effectively borrow a such as they want and likely avoid paying back taxes as much as they want. It works well for them domestically, and for a large period of time it worked well for them in Europe. Even now it’s not like it’s a disaster for them in Europe, Real Madrid have won how many of the last 10 Champions Leagues? And Barca are not far behind in winning a few. Neither PSG or Man City are winning European honours ahead of them, however PSG are buying Messi and Neymar from them, and offering more money than them to keep Mbappe. Man City are also offering more money than they are for Haaland. That there is their problem.

Absolutely unreal, Gateshead is as black and white as you can get, fucking hell you can see into SJP from Gateshead and Felling, like actually inside the ground/stands. As for Hetton, I fucking doubt it, it’s defo in the mackem zone of influence.

Most of South Tyneside from my experience is Newcastle fans, that is aside from Boldon. Considering you could walk from Boldon to Roker Park, it’s no surprise really.

The amount of decision that go their way? Nah man, fuck that.

WBA: We want a manager who can take us away from going up and down tween the Premier League and Championship. Bruce: Well you know, I can do that.

I would snatch your hand off for a draw.

Their next 3 fixtures are massive. Palace, Leeds, Wolves, before playing Man City.

Do we want a Spurs win and keep us above Brighton, or a Brighton win but still within touching distance of Spurs?

My work has a yard in Sunderland, and we do quite a bit of work out of there, or at least around Sunderland. We also have a yard in Tyneside, and Northumberland. The other day they had one of those domino cards, and everyone was invited to join across the company. The guy organising it, who I actually get on well with said ‘I just don’t want it to be a Geordie to get it’. Despite being born and raised in Sunderland, pretty much in the city centre, he’s a Man Utd fan. There was a dirty van around there the other day and someone had wrote on it ’FTM SAFC’. Most of them are canny to be honest, and one of who I get on well with there is a Sunderland fan and doesn’t get involved in any bitterness or anything, although to be fair I’ve not known any of them whilst they were riding high and we were getting relegated etc. There is a few amongst them though that is very much anti-Newcastle before they are pro-Sunderland. As it happens, economically I don’t wish Sunderland bad at all. I truly believe the region would be better off if we all were better off. Between Tyneside and Wearside (Northumberland & Durham) we once built half the ships the world, and quite literally took the whole world out of the the dark and through the Industrial Revolution. We both need to be thriving areas, and I can’t get past the ‘Our success is your failure’ attitude there is.

Why the fuck do their games always have Liverpool like added time in them? 10 minutes today.

Rodgers is surely gone now. Ralf at Southampton must surely be under massive pressure now, although playing against Man City might help him cling on to his job for now. Southampton may actually do well to get Rodgers to be honest.

Excellent win for us, some of our attacking play was great and our high pressure forcing them to make mistakes. I’m pleased Miggy got his goal, because since he has been here he has tirelessly pressured high, and that goal has been coming for him.

Can we have ASM and Joelinton on please? Edit: My river was flowing slowly.

Brighton will be ahead of because they have won more games than us, as well as alphabetically.

What did the Caulkin bit of the banner say?

We got lucky there, those interfering decisions are wild, usually a gamble if they are applied.

If we get sustained success then the North East will by and large become NUFC fans. It is arguably in anyway, but you’ll start to see Sunderland’s catchment area decrease, as well as Boro’s. Depending on how Leeds do, we’ll possibly expand to have some sort of following in North Yorkshire as all, not to mention Cumbria.

That’s a pisstake. I mean it’s not such a bad journey for Everton fans, but you know they’ll sting another club (us) later down the line with an across the country journey on a Sunday night, requiring Monday’s to be taken off work.

If we rebuilt SJP I’d absolutely love it if we did what Spurs did and made it so it can host NFL games as well. We already have a lot of Rugby games. I doubt the NFL will be coming to Newcastle though.

No midday KO’s today?

I’m not sure of the percentage of Fenders fans coming from outside the area, but it could now be a case of Pinks’ 1st day being problematic for hotel availability.

I entirely agree, however my original post was just declaring how that Burnsie guy is full of shit and spreading fake news. Even if a planning application was launched today, in my opinion we would still be about a year away from it being approved.

I never said it was. There is more concerns than just being on parkland. Let’s say you close Strawberry Road for a Gallowgate extension. You have to allow for the traffic to be re-routed. More fans means more public transport needed, etc. Will the stadium change in design and will it be in keeping with the local area? There are so many variables. I agree with you that going against a stadium expansion right now would not be a good political move, but some councillors may put their views above that. Let’s not forget that the councillors who voted for the buildings to be build above SJP Metro station have largely been voted back in since. What I’m trying to say is that there is currently no planing permission submitted and certainly no planning permission granted for an extended SJP. Of course the club will be talking to the council to engage what would be acceptable or in line with their regulations, that’s just a normal part of the planing process for large scale developments and advised for all proposals. That doesn’t mean something will or won’t be passed though.

That’s not to say it’s been given permission. The planning authority can talk to developers and say these will be concerns, these won’t be. In the end though it will still go to councillors on the planning committee who will make their own decision. The planning department will make them a recommendation based on if legally they can reject the scheme and if so on what grounds. A lot of councillors go their own way or go the way of the political party even if it disregards the panning authorities recommendation. When Spurs were building their stadium, one of the councillors on there was very anti development and didn’t want to build a football stadium purely because he was not a Sports fan, and very typically upper class rich person who thinks anyone who doesn’t have a library for a house is a degenerate. He managed to pretty much delay the votes for as long as possible.