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So after waiting around no decent teams wanted him and he's decided to sign for us after all.

I remember when the summers used to drag and I couldn't wait for it all to start again. Seems like no time at all since the West Ham game and it's back again in 3 weeks.

Just been watching this. Great memories and my first season as a season ticket holder. The most I've ever celebrated a goal and possibly the best atmosphere I've experienced.

Cracking result for Aberdeen.

Would rather have a striker who we know can score goals on a poor team in the PL as opposed to an Eastern European with a decent goal scoring record for a top team in the Belgian League. For that reason I hope we get him.

Decent replacement for Johnson.

They sell them to DFDS Seaways because there's loads of Dutch come over for our home games and they're sold as a ticket/ferry/hotel package. A load of Platinum Club tickets are sold to them. With 5 Dutch players and a half Dutch manager now I'd expect these packages to be more popular than ever for the coming season.

Thing is, unless you're Barca or Real Madrid then you're always liable to having your best players taken from you. I have no real issue with that. It's the fact that we've never re-invested the funds received that has always been the issue. To an extent. However we actively encourage bids for our best players, especially in the build up to the January transfer window when it's a sellers market and Ashley knows he'll get way over market value. It's not that long ago we had the 8th highest revenue in Europe. We're a big club, one of the biggest in the country, that's been downsized to a Southampton sized club and the sad thing is that a lot of fans have just accepted that.

Hate being all negative but nowadays signing a player like this means 1 of 2 things. He'll either be a flop and not adapt to English football or he'll be a hit and Ashley will have cashed in on him within 2 years. Bids will come in as other clubs know we are eager sellers. Gone are the days where we'd find ourselves a top player and build a team around them which a club the size of NUFC should be able to do. Just can't get myself excited about any signings anymore which is pretty sad really. Suppose if he's good just enjoy him whilst we can.

Of the present squad the only stand out I see as captaincy material is Janmaat. Can't really see how you could justify giving the captaincy to anyone else. Coloccini has been on a pretty sharp decline over the past couple of seasons and clearly isn't capable of lifting his team mates on the pitch which is part of the reason we've gone on these ridiculous losing streaks over the past couple of years and automatically lose any game we go 1-0 down in.

Rivière should be thrown out of the door once we've got a couple of new strikers in. Just not good enough. Some of those misses last season you'd expect a 10 year old to finish.

Total waste of time. Just a load of arse kissing happy clappers on the supporters panel who are scared to ask proper questions or demand proper answers. The whole thing should be abolished immediately because it's totally pointless.

Good point. I can't say I'm too bothered about this. It would be a good signing for Palace, but as far as our club is concerned, I think 'never go back' applies in this case. People seem to want Palace to fail so that Pardew fails, but as far as I'm concerned we've got plenty of other things to worry about. I want Palace to fail purely because I see them being one of our relegation rivals this season.

This. It's cheaper to pay match by match anyway and then in January when they all down tools again you can simply stop bothering as well.

Enjoy!

I'd take Remy back in a shot. He'll have better options than us though.

The letter us non renewers received on Saturday has been put on this site I think, maybe the previous page. Here's the email from yesterday copied and pasted. Pretty standard stuff tbh; Season ticket holders have until this Friday (19th June) to renew their seat before they're released on full general sale. Renewal packs were sent out to supporters in March, detailing all information related to their renewal. Those on any of the Club's popular price-freeze schemes do not need to take any action as their ticket will automatically be renewed. Once the renewal deadline has passed, any seats that have not been renewed will be released on general sale so supporters are advised to return their forms quickly to avoid disappointment. All seat moves will be processed before tickets are released. Any supporters who have not received their renewal pack should contact the Box Office to request new forms. This can be done by emailing [email protected] or calling 0844 372 1892. Season tickets in many areas of St. James' Park are now on sale to supporters priced from just £525 for adults and £250 for children. Full information can be found here. The 2015-16 fixture list is also now available and can be found by clicking here. Newcastle United will be issuing new season cards for the 2015-16 campaign, so all previous cards can now be discarded.

Excellent point. Really fearing for us when the new TV deal kicks in because the traditionally smaller clubs will throw caution to the wind and spend what they feel they'll need to in the hope of surviving in the PL whilst we will no doubt continue on as we have been and the sort of bargain basement players we're looking at now will be deemed too expensive as player values soar in line with all the additional money entering the league.

Just had a look and aye, mine is still attached to me. Not a single block of the ground blocked out if you're a regular adult. http://i.imgur.com/Dsg2cmx.png There'll be loads more availability come Saturday when the latest renewal deadline has passed (unless they extend it again). My seat is still greyed out with red "R" next to it when I log into the stadium plan but it'll be available on Saturday.

Beggars belief really. This is the one summer more than any other where player recruitment needs to be spot on. A lot of money needs investing on 5 or 6 players who will walk straight into the 1st team. We avoided relegation on the final day of last season, season ticket sales have collapsed, and a new manager is in place. Surely it's now where the idiots running things need to say right lets abandon our old policy of haggling to the last penny in the hope we can secure a bargain or 2 and instead just go out and get the players we've identified who will make sure we aren't in the same mess, or worse this time next year. If a player is rated so highly by our board then the chances are he's also rated at his current club so the asking price will need to be paid otherwise they aren't selling him.

People expecting us to spend much more than that will be in for disappointment. Not really, they spent more than that last year. The net spend wasn't anywhere near that which is what we're talking about here.

They're actually the polar opposite to us. One club living well beyond their means and another generating huge turnover but refuses to spend it.

Personally I think it's all a waste of time but could you ask why, after being a season ticket holder for 24 years and cancelling for next season they now see me as untrustworthy to travel to away games. Is it because they don't trust me to travel to another city without causing bother (even though I'm easily traceable as they have all my details on their computer) or is it all just a money making scheme to force people to buy memberships? I think this is a very important question now going by the amount of long term season ticket holders I know who've cancelled for 2015/16 who will now also be denied the opportunity to follow the club on the road if they wish. Also if they continue this policy into next season will they still continue to pester me with email after email asking me to buy tickets for home games when they won't allow me to buy for away games? Just seems rather hypocritical to me.

People expecting us to spend much more than that will be in for disappointment.

If we spend £15m on Austin that leaves around £10m to spend on strengthening another 5-6 positions in the team so no way us this happening. Might as well lock this thread.