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Away fans right next to the platinum club? Dunno about that like Why not? They've been there before.

They'll be put in the north west corner underneath the Sky boxes. That corner holds around 3k and is the closest to Barrack Road where the away buses park up.

Spurs at home and Huddersfield away next it is!

They're still skint. Just not quite as skint.

On one hand they lose their best player but one the other hand they are never in a position to say no to an offer like that. Hopefully Short offsets the money against some of the money he's blown on keeping them afloat and the club don't see a penny of it.

Stupid argument. Newcastle don't play International football. David Healy had a really good goalscoring record at International Level. Didn't mean a thing at club level though where he was useless.

So you're judging a then 20 year old player from a season where the whole club was dogshit from top to bottom? I will be first to say he needs to lose some weight and gain an extra yard, but he's far from a bad player. He has a cult following which you are clearly part of, I get that, but so did Ameobi and he wasn't good enough either. To my knowledge there's never been a centre forward with such a chronic lack of pace, coupled with poor finishing ability who has made a successful career for himself. Judging by the amount of game time he had last season I think Rafa sees things the same way.

If we can get near enough our money back I'd sell him in a shot. Forget the stats, his poor goalscoring rate, his poor chance conversion % or his questionable temperament, I've watched him for 2 seasons now and it's clear that he's not good enough.

Hearts away would be canny.

I pay for my tickets. I'm not saying there aren't a load of free tickets slung about, but 'refuse to pay' ? Complete bullshit Your average ticket price last season was £12 according to club accounts. To put that into perspective Gateshead of the Conference charge £15 a ticket. You are either giving away 1000s upon 1000s of tickets every week or are charging fans less than what fans of non league teams pay. It's one or the other.

The OP reckons it's going to be the first game of the season.

Man City (a) first game Liverpool (a) Boxing Day Leicester (h) last game

That's cos I've always maintained that he's not very good. Would be rather silly of me to praise him now Rafa has given him the boot. No need to get upset about it precious.

Had some awful displays as a right back in the Championship as well. Wolves at home he was terrible but Fulham at home was one of the worst displays I think I've ever seen from a full back. Glad to see the back of him.

They were hemorrhaging money at a ridiculous rate when they were on the gravy train of the richest league on the planet and Short has had to bail them out with over £100m of his own money just to keep them going. The have a stadium which is now 20 years old and was built very cheaply (£15m iirc) and is now needing quite a bit of money spent on it and a playing squad worth very little, but costing them a fortune in salaries. To compound that, they have a supporter base that refuses to pay for tickets and as a result they generally make a loss on home cup fixtures as very few people turn up to these games as they have to charge a nominal amount for entry due to the receipts being shared. Anyone paying more than the £1 Bob Murray sold it to Drumaville for really needs their head examining.

The man is a legend. He's even improved the performance of our ballot counters.

Agreed. The chronicle site is virtually unreadable.

Or desperate not to get their usual good hiding when they play Millwall.

Hope we're home first match. 1st match only please, or else we'll have clapping on the 17th (18th?) and the 24th (25th?) minute every game. 17th minute applause had all but stopped by the end of last season. I think that's it done now. Was loud and very clear from the milburn paddock at least vs Barnsley like Very few people in the Gallowgate bother now. In some games it stopped happening altogether.

Hope we're home first match. 1st match only please, or else we'll have clapping on the 17th (18th?) and the 24th (25th?) minute every game. 17th minute applause had all but stopped by the end of last season. I think that's it done now.

Aye they will be. The lower League teams usually go back a week or two earlier than the big boys in the Premier League with their season starting earlier.

The Gallowgate Upper is undoubtedly the best option. The low roof amplifies the noise unlike the Leazes where a lot of the noise is lost. Also more likely to get more people from the Gallowgate joining in whereas the Leazes is really a lost cause now. Shame I've just renewed my season ticket in the Strawberry Corner though. Suppose I'll just stay there now rather than messing around trying for a seat swap and if the Gallowgate Upper seems canny I'll move up there the season after.

No point in announcing anything in that case. It already is a sort of unofficial singing area but there's still a lot of fans who have sat in there for years who don't sing and wouldn't move.

Gallowgate blocks R, U and V have very few season ticket holders in. A few more in S and T but assuming it's going to be the Gallowgate, which would be the best place for a singing section, the Upper tier makes most sense.