Wallsendmag

Hopefully the Don is taking the Peter Ridsdale approach to running a football club here by sending them further into debt on pointless extravagances. Goldfish in the boardroom next?

Like the rest of the stadium it's been largely neglected over the past Decade. The bar area and food are pretty poor and the cushioned seat I had was missing big chunks out of it. Surprised people don't complain considering what they pay to sit there.

Still think they'll walk that league. It's easy to forget how bad the 3rd Division is until it's International weekend and Sky are forced to show it. The standard is absolutely rotten. Rotherham got relegated for the Championship in worse fashion than Sunderland and went straight back up the next season. Even if/when they win the 3rd Division next season it still equals their worst ever season so no satisfaction can be taken from it.

Nah, it's bland and shit for the NUFC games too. Only positive is you can preorder your HT pints and there's bad seats to sit down on. Swapped seats for one of the games last season and went into the Platinum Club. Ordered my pint for half time before the match and they must have poured it straight away and stuck the little ticket on it because not only was it flat but it was room temperature as well. Not something I'd do again if I went in there.

Everton sold Stones for £50m. £30m is an insult and I don't even think Ashley would entertain that.

One of my favourite all time NUFC players was Laurent Robert. Absolutely loved him!

So with all the hype, the feel good factor with a new owner and manager, not to mention the huge price cuts and virtually free kids tickets they've lost 4000 season ticket holders compared to last season.

It was definitely through Carrs recommendation. My old boss at the time was at Carrs 70th Birthday party when Pardew was still in charge and Carr told him back then that Pardew was unlikely to see the season out and he'd do everything in his power to convince Ashley to bring Steve McClaren in. Pardew left a couple of months later, Carver took over till the end of the season and we all lumped on Steve McClaren to be the next permanent manager at 16/1 and for me that was the only good thing to come out of the McClaren era.

Let's hope Ellis Short left his FTM badge in the drawer for him then.

Completely different IMO. Keegan, Shearer and Rafa are well known in football pre-Ashley so don't need to rely on trying to keep Mike Ashley happy in order to make a good living. Neither do Beardsley or Moncur, off their names alone they can get plenty of work paying them ridiculous money outside of sucking up to Ashley, so fuck them. As a bloke who's barely more than a club secretary and has had an opportunity to go fuck knows how many more times than the salary he was on and provide a good life for his family I don't think it's fair to slate him anywhere near the level of Ashley or even Beardsley/Moncur. Hes complicit as are the 50 000 morons who turn up to fill Ashleys pockets ...They are enablers and as such can all get to fuck It's only because of the supporters that we have one of the world's best mangers here you daft prick. My point stands ...you muppet For once i don't think Wallsendmag's the muppet here! Cheers Mick

Completely different IMO. Keegan, Shearer and Rafa are well known in football pre-Ashley so don't need to rely on trying to keep Mike Ashley happy in order to make a good living. Neither do Beardsley or Moncur, off their names alone they can get plenty of work paying them ridiculous money outside of sucking up to Ashley, so fuck them. As a bloke who's barely more than a club secretary and has had an opportunity to go fuck knows how many more times than the salary he was on and provide a good life for his family I don't think it's fair to slate him anywhere near the level of Ashley or even Beardsley/Moncur. Hes complicit as are the 50 000 morons who turn up to fill Ashleys pockets ...They are enablers and as such can all get to fuck It's only because of the supporters that we have one of the world's best mangers here you daft prick. My point stands ...you muppet The mackems stopped going to matches and look how that turned out. They're now down in Division 3 and have a manager nobody has heard of. You can't argue the fact that without the supporters we wouldn't have Rafa Benitez, he's said as much himself.

Completely different IMO. Keegan, Shearer and Rafa are well known in football pre-Ashley so don't need to rely on trying to keep Mike Ashley happy in order to make a good living. Neither do Beardsley or Moncur, off their names alone they can get plenty of work paying them ridiculous money outside of sucking up to Ashley, so fuck them. As a bloke who's barely more than a club secretary and has had an opportunity to go fuck knows how many more times than the salary he was on and provide a good life for his family I don't think it's fair to slate him anywhere near the level of Ashley or even Beardsley/Moncur. Hes complicit as are the 50 000 morons who turn up to fill Ashleys pockets ...They are enablers and as such can all get to fuck It's only because of the supporters that we have one of the world's best mangers here you daft prick.

That's not him like. No way

I paid £21.60 for a 5 minute check up this morning like.

Canny

The Milan team that night was mental as well. Ha ha ha aye - I was looking before at the teams - absolutely incredible team! AC Milan: Dida, Cafu, Maldini, Stam, Nesta, Gattuso (Rui Costa 112), Seedorf (Serginho 86), Pirlo, Kaka, Shevchenko, Crespo (Tomasson 85). Subs Not Used: Abbiati, Kaladze, Costacurta, Dhorasoo. Goals: Maldini 1, Crespo 39, 44. Liverpool: Dudek, Finnan (Hamann 46), Traore, Hyypia, Carragher, Riise, Gerrard, Luis Garcia, Alonso, Kewell (Smicer 23), Baros (Cisse 85). Subs Not Used: Carson, Josemi, Nunez, Biscan. Booked: Carragher, Baros. Goals: Gerrard 54, Smicer 56, Alonso 59. You look at those respective line ups and it defies all footballing logic that Liverpool won

If anyone was in any doubt about the chasm that's opened up between us and them, forget the 2 leagues difference, forget the fact we almost treble their crowds, forget that we'll quadruple their turnover and take a look at who will likely be leading each team out in August. We'll have Rafael Benitez, ex Valencia, Liverpool, Inter, Napoli, Real Madrid manager. They'll have Jack Ross. Nobody had heard of him until today.

As long as you've kept your season ticket going in that time they'll still be on. If you haven't renewed it at any time and then got it back they will have come off.

They probably will like, 16,500 season tickets sold so far, that's not bad tbh. They'll probably get close to 20k before the start of the season, now since all this optimism has hit them. Then they'll start playing games and realise how crap that league is, they'll be winning virtually every week and they'll flock back. The following season is going to be the big test, it'll be the last of the parachute payments, financially they may need back to back promotions to survive as a club. https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/16-and-a-half-thousand-season-tickets-sold-so-far-says-donald.1431619/ Not a chance. At the end of the day there's a ceiling of how many fans will turn up to see them play the likes of Rochdale, Fleetwood and Accrington Stanley, and Sunderland fans traditionally go missing after a relegation (as I mentioned they only averaged 30k for their championship title winning season under Keane). Even if they sell 20k season tickets, which is doubtful as most people will have bought during the early bird period and the prices have been ramped up now, they'd still be relying on 10,000 people to rock up on a match by match basis to watch 3rd division football. I can't see it like.

Done well with Dubravka and Kenedy, not so with Slimani. Hopefully the two who did well will be back here permanently although I'm not hopeful about Kenedy. I'm just not a big fan of the whole loan system tbh. Clubs who tend to rely on it a bit too much, as Sunderland did, can find themselves in a lot of trouble with it and clubs like Chelsea can stockpile young talent knowing they can just lend them out to desperate clubs such as ourselves.

This is weird logic. Nothing weird about it. We need to spend £25m to have the same team we had at the back end of last season. That's nothing to do with logic it's just a fact. For a club who will have a transfer budget on the wrong side of £50m it's a huge chunk of money we need to spend to have the same team as we had for the last 4 months of last season. So you would rather have had a worse team last season? No I'd rather we stopped relying on the loan system and actually spend money on buying players that are ours to keep.

This is weird logic. Nothing weird about it. We need to spend £25m to have the same team we had at the back end of last season. That's nothing to do with logic it's just a fact. For a club who will have a transfer budget on the wrong side of £50m it's a huge chunk of money we need to spend to have the same team as we had for the last 4 months of last season.

This is one of the reasons I don't like loan deals. £20m probably would get him and £5m gets Dubravka but we're spending a huge chuck of our transfer budget just to have the same team we had at the end of last season.

Not a chance they're getting 25-30k next season. Even when they won the Championship under Keyno they only averaged 30k and that was with a massive feel good factor going on and in a division higher than they will be next season. Agree that they'll piss that league. It's absolute dross.

Which ironically is also stating that West Ham are bigger than SAFC.... which I am sure they will dispute (3 league titles in 1900s, Bank of England Club, 6IAR, 9-1 FTM etc) There is only one measurable that currently puts West Ham as a bigger club than us and that's current attendance, they've impressively sold out over the last two seasons in the stadium they hate. But honestly it's not even a debate outside of that small point. They doctor their crowds anyway. Stadium has a capacity of 57k but never looks more than 75% full. More people have watched NUFC this season than West Ham whatever they try to tell us.