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Sounds like it was shite again. Glad I don't bother anymore. Had a great day down London watching The Heed win the Trophy. On the rattler back home now.

An Easington fan got headbutted as well and the kid that done it got chucked out. Don't get these sort of shenanigans at Heaton Stan mind

Blue Star who play in the League below North Shields are letting people either pay cash or card tonight, or even allowing people to buy tickets online and scan your phone at the turnstile.

Even the supporters group that's been recently formed is being plagued by infighting with accusations flying around, people being thrown off the WhatsApp group etc. Fans all threw a fiver in to get it up and running and the treasurer quit shortly after and nobody knows who's looking after the money now! Just seems like a right shitshow, the entire club. My mate is a season ticket holder there and has been for years but he's started drifting away to watch Percy Main lately (they're actually getting similar crowds to North Shields these days) and he's on about watching them next season cos he's had his fill with it all. That turnstile that they were donated back in January is still lying in a heap outside their ground collecting rust.

Not sure where to put this one!

When you watch the highlights of their games on SSN he seems to be to blame for a very large proportion of the goals they concede, usually because he flaps at crosses so badly. In this day and age of strict FFP and PSR rules etc it would be a bold chairman who writes a cheque for £12m for him I'd think.

Fair play to them if they can get £12m for Patterson. Makes the £10m we paid for Nick Pope seem like daylight robbery!

I don't think they have got a particularly saleable squad. If those 7 players you've quoted are worth that claimed £76m there's no way they're finishing 16th in the Championship, 6 points clear of relegation. I think it's more likely the usual case of mackems bigging up bang average players and some people falling for the hype. Pritchard was their best player by an absolute mile against us. He was their only player who didn't look completely out of his depth against PL players. They sold him for £100k.

Different lights for a senior mate.

Heaton Stan 1-0 Birtley. Attendance: 1,235 Stan play West Auckland at home in the Final on Monday for a place in the Northern Premier League East.

It's OK marras. Grumpy old man has just started a thread telling them everything will be alright

Can probably add another 3 or 4 quid onto that for this season as will with the ticket price increases and the Champions League tickets being £60 a pop for adults.

Was £26 during Ashley's last full season. Haven't seen anything more recent but I'd reckon around £34/£35 now.

Shame it's not as simple as being able to whip the top tier of their ground and bolt it onto our East Stand/Gallowgate. Win, win situation for all.

Pewer financial results released today?

That's pretty quick from planning permission being granted to completion then.

Trying to think back to how long the level 7 expansion took. I had a season ticket in the Leazes End at the time and remember we spent the entire 99/00 season without a roof over our heads but can't remember what the full timescale was.

145 there. Superb crowd for a Monday night Northern Alliance fixture!

You're right it is good news. The way I see it is that will it be good if we can fit another 8,000 fans into SJP? Yes of course it is. Secondly, would a mere Level 7 extension to the Gallowgate feel a bit underwhelming after all the speculation and different stadium mock ups we've been looking at these past 2 years? The answer to that would also be yes though.

Also if they simply stuck a Level 7 onto the Gallowgate West Corner and Gallowgate Upper that would only add 6,500 seats. To get to 8,000 they'd have to create a Gallowgate Level 4 West Corner, like they did in the Leazes in 2000 (those seats directly below the TV studios) which would add another 1,500 and take capacity to a fraction over 60,000. However, currently the Gallowgate West Corner houses quite a bit of hospitality and I can't see them taking that out and replacing them with standard seats so I'd assume they'd have to rip out all the current hospitality suites in that area and place them on the same level as the TV studios are on in the Leazes.

There was talk that it could maybe be made steeper or maybe even cantilevered but that's all it was really. Will be a shame if they can't do anything at all with the East Stand but if they can't, and anyone wants to see what it'll look like on completion of the Gallowgate, look at Celtic Park as it'll be pretty similar in design and capacity.

Surprised they haven't already tbh. We proved back in 2010 that we could safely accommodate away fans in the Leazes West Corner in levels 2 and 4 when we allowed 3,300 Arsenal fans to go there for a League Cup match. I think they spilled into the Leazes central section a bit but we don't have to give away teams quite as many tickets for standard league games.

What's with the attitude like? Someone had posted a concept and I've commented that or would be disappointing if we couldn't touch the East Stand as that would stop it being an elite level stadium in my opinion.

Can never be seen as a top class arena up with the best there is whilst that 1970s monstrosity is part of it. If you disagree that's fine.

East stand still looks shit and out of place.