Wallsendmag

Spurs weren't filling Wembley like. They filled it a handful of times v the likes of Arsenal, Man Utd and Liverpool and they had times when very few turned up (29,000 v Watford). When we played them at Wembley the crowds were 54k and 41k respectively. They aren't even filling their new stadium, they've had a few recent sub 50k attendances.

I'd only want a new stadium if it could be built within the city boundaries for the reasons you've mentioned and it would need a capacity of circa 70k. If we could extend round the Gallowgate End to bring capacity to around 59k and maybe remodel the East Stand (as mentioned above), giving it a steeper rake without building out any/much further but adding a further 2k seats to that stand taking capacity up to around 61k that would be a good solution.

In the past when season tickets have sold out, under SBR and for 1 season under Benitez they capped sales at 44k. Allowing for 3,200 away fans that leaves 5k to go on sale game by game. I'd predict that would mean no general sale at all next season with members scrambling for those 5k tickets.

I think even extending the Gallowgate to the level of the Leazes only gives us an extra 6k seats so we'd still only be on around 58/59k. It would be a lot of expense (I know money isn't really an issue) and upheaval for a relatively modest increase. The East Stand is the real issue but I don't see a solution there.

I hate Derby days. I'd rather they just bobbed between League One and League Two from here on in, with the odd season in the Vanarama. It's still kinder than they wish on us mind!

Met him at Whitley Park one afternoon a few years ago when I had a walk along to watch an U23 game. I was with the bairn at the time and not only was he happy to have his photo taken with him but spent another couple of minutes just having a chat with him as well. Really made his day! Came across as a very nice bloke.

In amongst all of todays hilarity they've now gone 7 points behind 2nd placed Wigan, who also still have 3 games in hand on them!

I think this will be a project quite high on their list of priorities. SJP is already too small as things are. Brighton tickets went on public sale and sold out within an hour and that included almost 2k extra tickets that Brighton couldn't sell. No doubt 60k+ could have been sold for this one. That's for a team 4th bottom of the league for a game against Brighton. Once we're up towards the top, challenging and hopefully winning trophies demand for tickets will just be crazy! Mayb in an ideal world the Gallowgate could be expanded to the size of the Leazes which would probably take capacity to 58/59k, keeps us at our spiritual home with its prime location and gives us a decent increase but part of me would love the club to either re-explore the possibility of a brand new 70k super stadium on the Town Moor or the current Arena site. I suppose the possibilities are endless when money is no object!

I'll be devastated if they don't make another Netflix series after this!

Yeah this. Under KK the sky was the limit. He had us believing we would be the biggest club in the country, we could beat anyone, we could buy anyone, but that was Keegan. He had the players believing that as well. Just an amazing character. Under SBR we always knew we'd be playing 3rd fiddle behind Man Utd and Arsenal. Still great times Under Sir Bobby but that ceiling was in place by then and we knew we couldn't break it.

It's a definite 1 for me. Haven't been this excited about NUFC since 92-96!

The Edinburgh - Newcastle trains are always packed with NUFC fans on a matchday so there's definitely loads of Edinburgh based Mags that's for sure!

Scary how much I love this bloke. He was even coaching the ball boys today!

Totally agree with you there. SJH is the greatest thing to happen to NUFC, certainly in the modern day. If it wasn't for him coming in and wrestling the club away from Gordon Mckeag we wouldn't have the club we have today. He literally saved the club from complete oblivion. There would have been no KK retuning as manager, none of those magical days in the 90s, no 52,000 seater stadium, probably no Sir Bobby Robson managing us as him coming in was a consequence as to what had happened between 92-99. Mike Ashley looked the perfect owner at the time. A British, self made Billionaire with a background in sport. Certainly the fanbase were excited when it was announced he'd bought the club. In fact for me it was one of those moments when I'll always remember where I was when the news broke (The Benton Ale House). None of us knew what his true intentions were back then. He duped Hall, the same as he duped the rest of us.

Haha I know mate and I certainly wasn't implying that. I was just emphasising the point that tickets are already in huge demand and that is only going to get bigger and bigger. If you are lucky enough to ever find yourself in possession of a season ticket you'll have no problem in selling it for games you can't make it up to.

Trippier getting all the plaudits today, and rightly so, but it's great to see so many people saying how good this lad was. I thought he was class last night and he'll be a huge miss on Sunday.

He'd be mad to even consider leaving us considering what is about to happen here. You wouldn't get an atmosphere anywhere else in Europe to perform in and he's already playing in the best league in the world. No chance he gives that up to go and play in the French League at PSG.

He was definitely our weakest player last night. Just looks so slow and lethargic to me. On the plus side we scored 3 goals with our Centre forward not having a particularly good game so that's a good sign.

You'd be able to pass it on no problem. Seen tickets changing hands yesterday for double face value, and whilst I'm totally against selling your ticket for anymore than FV it just shows the levels of demand. And that's for a team in the relegation zone. Imagine what demanding be like when we actually start challenging! 60,000 would be nowhere near enough.

Got to say the atmosphere since the takeover has been on another level. It's absolutely deafening these days, every single home game. Best in the country by a mile now, and I'd go as far to say best in Europe. I'm a bit of a groundhopper, and I've done all the big grounds in Germany, Italy, Spain, and Holland and nothing comes close to what we have right now. The intensity of our crowd now is just awesome. It must be amazing for our players to play in an atmosphere like that.

The one blot on an otherwise perfect night. First time I've seen him live in the flesh (wasn't at the Watford or Leeds games) and he looks like a dreadful footballer. Major lack of mobility for a Premier League footballer.

6. We've sorted out the defence which was the priority (assuming Burn comes in) but I still think we look a bit light up the other end. Not sure there's enough goals in that team. Good window overall though.

I can totally understand their levels of bitterness towards us. It was expected after the takeover and they haven't disappointed. However look at it from their perspective. Most of the posters over there are in their 40s, 50s, 60s and even older. They are never going to experience a time where they will be anywhere near as good as we are. They'll never get close to us again in their lifetimes. They know this and that's the sort of thing that would just eat away at you. It's broken a lot of them

Same here. Would rather be hated than be one of those non entity clubs that nobody gives a toss about like Southampton, Burnley etc.

If Rafa gets the sack I'd immediately sack Howe and bring him in. He's had a nightmare at Everton, but in truth it was never going to work out there for him. It was a match made in hell. He just seemed to be a nice fit here. Improved us massively whilst turning in a profit in the transfer market. Bring him in and give him some proper backing. There's nobody out there, available or who would take the job, who would be a better option than him.