bowlingcrofty

If he’s 3rd/4th choice next year then that’s fair enough imo. Can see us signing a main striker this year to compete with Wilson for the main spot, and an up and coming one too. Toney, Wilson, Ekitike and Wood (or similar) would be a decent bunch to work with for next year.

They stopped new members at the end of feb, because otherwise the “annual membership” would have lasted less than three months.

Yeah agree with all of this. They still do have everyone’s history there but think I’m in the same boat as you. I was ST holder for years, loads of loyalty points etc. signed up as a member on takeover day and I’ve been to every game since. So got the purchase history, ST history and I’m a member. I would hope that would count for something, but again that’s my personal circumstances and can see why people would argue differently.

Everyone’s definition of “fair” is basically whatever suits their own individual needs best (me included).

The fairest solution is no new season tickets until supply can keep up with demand (ie stadium expansion). Tbh I think anyone who really wants one will get one. It may not be in the ideal seat etc but for every game this season as long as you’ve been online at 9.55 and got in the queue, there’s been no issue with getting them. Got to remember there’s quite a significant number of people who are happy to part with £50 for Liverpool at home but not so keen to part with the thick end of £700 or £800

Will you please get off that stupid message board

Not on your life, my Christian friend.

Surely we’d want it the other way round as we’ll be camped in their half?

Nah just for the craic mate

If only it was in the thread title or something

Saka’s dad is a massive NUFC fan. Would be nice if he ran down his contract for a year and we got him on the cheap next summer…

Faux Marra - fake Sunderland fan?

I can see it being a spend of about £120m and we’ll recoup about £30m. £120m should get us three or four players (Paqueta, Targett, Toney and Botman for example). Then can see us looking at the loan/free market. Henderson and Eriksen etc

Bassey looked decent last night

That’s good because his understudy is always injured

Sounds like the locals were given a proportion of tickets for the game (a few thousand) and they’ve just flogged them all to Rangers fans

20/21 accounts have been filed - will be available on companies house in next few days.

Loan to Norwich with a £5m obligation to buy if they’re promoted. Everyone’s a winner. Well, except for Norwich.

The additional ST for current ST holders doesn’t sit right with me at all. Like been said before - why should someone get a season ticket just because they happen to be a mate/related to a current ST holder? I think the free for all is the best option, possibly with a small number aside for 21/22 members. The other option is to just not offer new season tickets until demand can be met (ie expanded stadium etc) and just continue with the match to match sales of over 10k tickets

A few quotes off their forum below. Granted there’s a few who are cautious on their but a lot of their fans think it’ll be a piece of piss on Monday: ”I don't think we'll even have to play well to win.” ”Newcastle just don't have tools to hurt us.” “If we can't beat that lot while we are desperately fighting for CL then we don't deserve it” “I can’t see us not winning against Newcastle” ”Absolute banker of a win” ”Let’s be honest… if we can’t beat this lot we don’t deserve top 4” “We’re winning this one” https://arsenal-mania.com/forum/threads/pl-newcastle-vs-arsenal-monday-16th-may-ko-20-00-bst-sky-sports.35471/

He said that Howe is really aware of how important the job is, what an honour it is and how the manager of NUFC is an ambassador to the city and region. Reckons Howe has completely fallen in love with the place and he’s a perfect leader for the club. Honestly the way KK talks about the club still gives me goosebumps after all these years.

Club didn’t start using the @nufc handle until 2014, it was used by a randomer before then. You would have thought they would have deleted all previous tweets when they took it over

Said he’s spoken to Howe who sought his advice on lots of things. Said he just kept saying “be honest with the fans and you’ll be ok”. Thinks he’s a top manager and will become a club legend. Is buzzing with the takeover. Will come back to watch some games next season. Thinks modern football is shite apart from the odd game. Doesn’t like teams keeping possession just for the sake of it. Has spoken to the owners, including the big bods at PIF. They invited him to the first game back v Spurs but he said no as he didn’t want to be a distraction during a big game and a relegation fight. Believes Ashworth is the best in the business. Says he reckons we’ll win a trophy within three years. Thinks best bet would be Europa League or Conference League.