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He comes across as a lad who wants to play football first and foremost which is the reason he left a club going for the title for a club fighting relegation. With that sort of attitude I'd be gobsmacked if he left a club managed by Rafael Benitez to join one managed by Alan Pardew. Stranger things have happened but I'd be surprised and disappointed if it comes off.

still can't believe they covered it all up because they were so desperate to remain in the league. What a truely disgusting organisation they are. Yep - still can't believe the lack of wider interest/commentary pieces on the fact a Paedo effectively kept them up. I should think Marg Byrne is still getting paid now for doing her job well and then taking one for the team. I thought she was given a job over in America at one of Ellis Shorts companies.

still can't believe they covered it all up because they were so desperate to remain in the league. What a truely disgusting organisation they are.

Keep forgetting he's on the books.

We didnt have flags at that game... There's always one

Townsend

Tbf he's a bit better than competent. Probably one of the top half dozen managers in World football.

Best of luck to you fellas. I've got my season ticket back for next season and although I couldn't get back into the corner I've managed to get pretty near to it and I'll be joining in with whatever you do. Ideally the rest of the stand will get involved as well because the noise is immense when the whole of the Gallowgate are all up and singing together.

It's certainly going to be interesting when they play Boro at home in the battle of the beasts. It'll be a right paedo fest with both sets of fans chanting about the others being nonces all without a hint of irony.

Norwich away. Blackburn home on Boxing day.

Apparently season ticket sales will be capped at 44k, which baring in mind away fans will be allocated just over 3k seats, leaves just over 5k tickets (or 10% of capacity) for general sale on a match by match basis. 44k season tickets was the maximum reached when SJP was extended when Sir Bobby Robson was manager. Realistically we may hit 40k season ticket sales this year and could possibly go higher if we're flying high when part season tickets go on sale at Xmas. I don't think there's another club in the country that could command that sort of support after so many years of mismanagement and under achievement (see the literally 10s of 1000s of empty seats at Old Trafford and The Emirates last season when their fans thought they were under achieving). Clearly we need to get things right on the pitch, and certainly that will happen if Benitez is here for the next few years, before we need to consider extending. If things do click on the pitch extending the stadium to a 60k capacity is a must because we've gone from having the 2nd biggest stadium in the country a decade ago to the 6th biggest next season and in a few years time the 8th biggest when Spurs and Chelsea expand.

Great post, would it not be possible to put another tier directly above the east stand but don't build out? What would the capacity be if the Gallowgate was extended ? If it was designed exactly as the Leazes End is it would take capacity up to 60,000.

NSFW Why bum bags need to be banned from Euro 2016;

Four goals, flares, fight in the stands, perv cam, and a guy blew up. Can't disagree.

SSN reporting that 200 Polish fans have been arrested after a night of violence in Paris and are being deported back to the UK.

Embarrassing. They got their @rses handed to them of a few dozen Russians and they'll foolishly think that provoking the police is a way to restore their dented pride.

Just goes to back up what I've been saying all along. The majority of Sunderland fans support paedophilia. Forget that their club covered it up, it's more disturbing that a huge percentage of their fans clearly have paedophile tendencies. I've spoken to mackems, one a family member (through marriage) no less, who I'd always thought were pretty balanced people who pin the blame for the whole thing firmly on the bairn. Not normal people. Bit harsh to say most mackems are paedos tbf. Evidence suggests so. I support Newcastle so apparently I like to punch horses. Just playing by their rules. Tbf he only said it was harsh, he didn't say it wasn't true Aye fair comment!

Just goes to back up what I've been saying all along. The majority of Sunderland fans support paedophilia. Forget that their club covered it up, it's more disturbing that a huge percentage of their fans clearly have paedophile tendencies. I've spoken to mackems, one a family member (through marriage) no less, who I'd always thought were pretty balanced people who pin the blame for the whole thing firmly on the bairn. Not normal people. Bit harsh to say most mackems are paedos tbf. Evidence suggests so. I support Newcastle so apparently I like to punch horses. Just playing by their rules.

Just goes to back up what I've been saying all along. The majority of Sunderland fans support paedophilia. Forget that their club covered it up, it's more disturbing that a huge percentage of their fans clearly have paedophile tendencies. I've spoken to mackems, one a family member (through marriage) no less, who I'd always thought were pretty balanced people who pin the blame for the whole thing firmly on the bairn. Not normal people.

Absolute rubbish.

They're even wearing gum shields before going into battle. English fans are hardly blameless but the Russians and local French youths seem to be the instigators. The problem is that the English brought hooliganism into European Football so they are now the scalp the hooligans from other countries want. The 2nd problem is that all the proper English hooligans were banned from travelling and the wannabee hooligans over there now just can't hack it against the rest. I followed Newcastle to Marseille 12 years ago and it was a dodgy experience back then and that was without 1000s of Russians milling about looking for trouble. In hindsight it was always going to be a recipe for disaster.

You should still be able to view it if you click on proceed. I get a message saying I can't buy another season ticket ticket but I can still view the stadium plan. An educated guess would be around 34-35,000 sold so far. The Upper Gallowgate is starting to sell well now in sections R, S & T with people who can't get anywhere else in the the stand. Middle and lower sections as good as sold out. Upper Leazes still has loads of availability but other than that not much left really. With 2 months to go until the start of the season you'd expect final sales in the region of 40,000 which is nothing short of remarkable for a club playing in the 2nd tier of English football.

One of the stupidest posts on here for some time, that too from someone who claims a football coaching and business background. Nowt wrong with my post, he is a poor footballer and the only reason we will get decent money for him is because that's the way football is these days. I wouldn't, based on his performances for us, want to pay good money for him. I hope he goes to Arsenal because he will be found out big time. He lacks the brains and technical ability to play actual football. He can run I'll give him that... Totally agree. He's Athletic, I'll give him that but he's not a particularly good footballer. Combined with his poor goalscoring record and questionable attitude I wouldn't be sad to see the back of him, especially if we can mug some other club of £10m+.

The irony being I don't know of a single Newcastle fan who takes a blind bit of notice of anything Lee Ryder says.

Agree totally. The group stages in these Euros is going to be a pointless waste of time as well. It'll be more difficult to get knocked out of them then to qualify.