TheGuv

Fair play…

Spent an hour or so with him last year. Wonderful bloke. RIP

Pretty sure Toon Ultras website had the words to songs IIRC. No doubt where I picked a lot of it up before going to the match on the weekend!

I’ll be starting as much ‘rogue’ stuff as I can in Trafalgar Square on Saturday night. Get it right there, and it’ll be taken into the ground. Takeover Night, I left SJP after 2 hours or so after finishing my cans and went to the Strawberry. I’d been there from just before it was announced, and I must have heard the same 6 songs on repeat for 2 hours. Can’t blame the young lads, they’ve probably never heard the songs tbf. But they need to be educated and they need to WANT to be. A lot of my education was having a ST next to the Toon Ultras and travelling on away buses as a young lad (14+).

Same

Anyone received their E tickets yet for Club Wembley…?

The only Geordie on the pitch that day I believe? At least we could have a couple this time!

You’ll be fine…I hope

Legit how most fans sing our songs tbh (still creased mind!)

Leicester battering Manure atm…

Noted As a member I try and get my seats there on the regular, and generally have been able to all season. It would be great if it was a secondary option to the Strawberry Corner. It certainly has its moments. But a large chunk in that part of the ground are definitely ticket only and not STs. So the atmosphere fluctuates hugely on a game by game basis.

Managed the game very well when we went down to 10 men. It was great to see us still trying to attack with 2 up top, it’s just a shame we couldn’t sneak a goal. However, still really confused why we didn’t start a cup tied Gordon. Also find it a wee bit worrying that Liverpool are the first side to comfortably work out a way to confuse our back 4 - and it was simply long balls and splitting the defence. Very old school and very simple, yet it worked. It’ll be very interesting to see how Eddie will look to change things up (if at all) moving forward.

Really good post. I think you’re spot on with the chanting. People really don’t know anything other than a songbook of 6 songs. So so so many from the 90s-2010s seem to have disappeared/locked out. Fair enough, we made our bed. But something needs to change. My hand is fucking killing today as I kept banging the back wall trying to generate some atmosphere in the Leazes East Corner - which is basically around 10-20 lads on the back row attempting to generate an atmosphere. Generally, it does work and we can get some change going. But you better believe it can only be ‘Eddie Howe’s Black and White Army’ as anything else leaves people bemused who clearly don’t know the words. The amount of people streaming out the ground from the 80th minute, with a cup final on the horizon was just baffling. Yet, as a member, I of course aren’t as important as other fans apparently. Get to fuck quite frankly.

So proud of the boys after 20 minutes. It is what it is.

Not under current regulations. It’s 1:1. I think Germany is 1:1.8

It’s not a guess. Already seen people moaning about it on Twitter

The Strawberry Corner, as good as it is in there, just isn’t big enough to A) accommodate those that want to sing and stand B) big enough to generate enough noise for the rest of the stadium. I’d honestly be suggesting two 5,000 person standing areas at either end of the ground.

I wonder how many would want to stand. What if it was 10,000?

After the ticket issues for the cup final, I’m looking forward to the season ticket fume when some people are asked to move to create a safe standing section. I sincerely hope it’s bigger than just the Strawberry Corner, as that is already effectively at capacity and has more that sit then don’t.

never heard any of them. I really like the United one. Especially for next weekend!

He did win the Ballon D’or twice. Played for and managed the club (twice) managed England. Played for Liverpool, Southampton and Hamburg. We’ve got a squad with a fair few Geordies in, as well as back room staff such as Jones, Dawson etc. Derek Wright only retired last year. I’m pretty sure the players be aware of who he is…

Listened to the Atheltic podcast. Got quite teary during the final episode as SBR described his cancer and treatment etc. As a young man of 15, when he died, I thought 76 was so old. It really isn’t, is it? So sad really.

I posted on Twitter today that we should get them in the Strawberry Corner because they can sing it properly…and at a good pace

Eurgh. This has brought up so many bad memories man. Still not sure I’ve ever fully recovered from this era as a fan. I still only feel about 85-90% of what I used to.