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Expecting a defeat without scoring. As long as it's not a rout it's not the end of the world. Hopefully have a few back for Palace and with a few favourable fixtures start on another run.

Used to be a song when I started going in the 80s (and it carried through into the 90s) which I can't quite remember the full lyrics to, but it ended with; "We are the Mags, we are the mags, we are, we are, we are the mags!"

Jsut gone past Hartlepool

Whilst the football landscape in the NE stands as it is, their club is basically irrelevant, even to them.

Cried like a baby when Toon Toon rang him whilst he was at a funeral as well.

They'll have to be really, really bad to get relegated from that league. The standard is dreadful.

I hope we get Blackburn away in the next round. We'll sell out the 7,000 away end but there's a chance, a very small chance, but a chance that I'll be able to take my 9 year old son who's a member to his first away game.

Returned 500 tickets against Bristol City on Saturday as well for their first away game back in the Champo. 1k tonight is pathetic for a 2hr journey. We'd have sold out without it even making general sale!

I've gone for 8th which seems to be the majority verdict. However if we can bring in another quality attacking player I honestly think 6th is achievable. We're 4th over the last 20 or so games so why not 6th after the next 37? 1. Man City 2. Liverpool 3,4,5 is Chelsea, Spurs and Arsenal in whatever order but 6th is definitely up for grabs.

That's the ideal scenario. Safe standing plus an extension of the Gallowgate would take us to around 65k which I think is perfect. Hopefully they can increase the capacity in safe standing areas in the coming years. Watched a couple of Bundesliga games on TV yesterday in Stuttgart and Cologne and they really pack them in behind the goals.

Just reading all the comments from Forest fans over the weekend; "best away trip ever", "drinking with home fans in all the bars in the city centre", "Incredible atmosphere", "proper football city", that's just some of many of them I've read. We'd lose all of that if we moved to an out of town site somewhere and a big part of it if we left SJP. Get the capacity up to 60k and leave it at that.

I wouldn't necessarily say he's the best player in the world, but he's definitely in the top one.

SJP was 99% filled to capacity last season and we spent most of it in the relegation zone. Even in the Championship, occupancy levels were at over 98%. That data all points to a stadium expansion being required. Mehrdad mentioned trying to get SJP up to 60/65k. I think that's about right for us.

Done

https://www.geordietimes.com/2012/10/nufc-v-safcaverage-gates1893-to-2012.html?m=1

Aye they did. Remember them all laughing about someone running to the front of Level 7 and throwing a pocket load of change down onto NUFC fans below and also throwing the flare down that burnt the kid in the wheelchair. Now they cry like bairns when it happens to them the fucking hypocrites.

3,500 v Oldham as well.

Aye it's a good crowd tbh. It's probably the highest the Championship has seen since we were in it.

I can feel the fewm on Wearside. They thought Athletic Club were their besties!

He's admitted in the past he's only bothered because it's NUFC. He couldn't care less about Qatar/PSG or Abu Dhabi/Man City. In fact he couldn't care less about human rights at all. What really bothers him is that NUFC are now absolutely minted!

Toone with the 1st goal, Toon fan Georgia Stanway with the 2nd!

Meanwhile in the real world our standard season ticket prices under Mike Ashley were the 6th highest in England. Only Arsenal, Spurs, Chelsea, Man Utd and Liverpool charged more.

Not very politically correct but quite funny I must admit. Got to love the Dutch sense of humour

It's usually a combination of alcohol, the opposition, the result and controversy that leads to an incredible atmosphere. I'm lucky to have been in quite a few memorable atmospheres at SJP since I first went in 1984, strangely though I don't remember too many electric atmospheres in the traditional 3pm Saturday games. Portsmouth in 1992 for obvious reasons, the last 25 mins in the 4-4 v Arsenal another but more often they've been night games or even Sunday 4pm ones.

General sale on 26th July mate.