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Bookies have us down as favourites. Late afternoon kick off, back holiday weekend so people will have a good drink inside them should see a proper bear pit atmosphere and if that happens there's a chance Arsenal could fold like they did last season. In saying all that I'd take a draw now if offered!

Quite funny on there tonight. A few Sunday evening meltdowns after our result and some of their most prominent posters have started turning on each other and throwing around accusations that they're actually Mags

2 wins gives us 71. That'll be enough.

My wife supports them. We also have a mutual understanding. I hate them and slag them off and she does likewise. It works well for us. I wish nothing but the worst for them and her the same for us.

He must have to try really hard to come over as thick as he does. He's literally wrong on everything he says. As well as that he's a massive racist. Not much going for him really.

Went to PSV v Ajax yesterday. To say it was a bit heated would be an understatement! There's a new rule in Holland now where if fans throw objects onto the pitch the ref has to take the players off and if one of the players are directly hit by an object the match is stopped indefinitely. With PSV leading 2-0 for some reason one of their fans launched a pint glass onto the pitch and sure enough the ref took the players off for about 20 minutes before they returned to finish the game. PSV won 3-0 in the end with Luuk De Jong (remember him?) scoring twice. Atmosphere inside and outside the stadium was terrific I have to say. Very loud, very passionate, very hostile, and a real bear pit for the Ajax players to deal with. It kicked off half an hour earlier than NUFC v Spurs and as my Internet was struggling the lads behind took great delight in letting me know when the Newcastle goals were flying in which just added to my enjoyment!

Going to PSV Eindhoven v Ajax this weekend. It's usually a pretty fiesty affair shall we say! Usually I'd be very excited about this but as it now means I'll miss the Spurs game and won't even be able to watch it over there on TV as KO times are only 30 mins apart there's very much mixed emotions.

Also remember it being sung about Franz Carr in the very early 90s. Groups of people singing it outside the ground before his home debut v Watford. Thankfully it never really took off once inside. As has been mentioned there was still a racist undertone around the place at that time but the Andy Cole signing the following year more or less killed that stone dead.

Of course it did. Pre Ashley and including the first few years of his reign we had a varied songbook that included many traditional Newcastle songs. Post Ashley we have a boring generic songbook and the support is far different these days. Any regular at the match over the past 15 years could see how the support has changed over that time, and not for the better. Something changed during those years. Speaking from my own experience I know loads of lads, lads I'd have classed as diehard fans, travelled across Europe, midweek aways to the far end of tne Country etc who drifted away during Ashley (some are back at the home games now but can't get access to away tickets) and I've also seen new fans replacing them as crowds remained pretty constant. People who only had a passing interest and in some cases no interest at all (one lad I know who now has a ST in L7 with his son once told me several years ago that he'd rather watch Coronation Street than a football match!) have taken their place but it's to the detriment of the atmosphere, or more specifically the songbook, which is the most boring we've had in my lifetime.

The Mike Ashley era ruined our support. Loads and loads of the most passionate, vocal supporters chucked it and now can't get back in. They've been replaced by people who don't share a fraction of their passion for the club. Our away support these days is very hit and miss.

Good stuff Must admit went to the Barnsley game at SJP last year which was the first ever womens game I've been to and it wasn't for me as the standard was atrocious so didn't bother today but great to see another very healthy crowd supporting them.

The transport links to there are always high up on the mackems list of excuses why for they can't match us for support, just behind the North Sea argument, but usually above the one where loads of MLFs turned their backs on them in 1992 to support us instead, so even they would disagree with you on that count.

It's 3.5 miles away from the city centre. Last time we went we had to get a train from Glasgow Queen St to Dalmarnock Station then walk the rest of the way. Was a bit of a pain. And I say the less said about the area the ground is in, the better. The best stadium I've been to in Scotland was Murrayfield (watched Hearts v Aberdeen there). Great location in a great city with a 67,000 capacity but as you say, with it being a Rugby ground it wouldn't be considered.

It is. I've been a few times and the view from the away end is beyond bad and there's loads of supporting pillars. It's in a very bad area of Glasgow with not great transport links from the city centre (at least Ibrox is on the Subway line and easily accessible from Ibrox and Govan stations).

Celtic Park is an awful ground and in an even worse area. Ibrox is the better stadium and probably in a marginally better location but Hampden makes more sense (that's not great either).

Great news! Hopefully it'll be a 60k+ stadium by then.

Depends how you look at it. I think when we went down last time we came back stronger for it. Shipped out a lot of the mercenaries and brought in some really solid pros, some who we still have on the books although they are no longer regular starters. Burnley have gone down and look like they are rebuilding the right way which they might not have done if they were still in the Prem and having to make decisions with the threat of relegation there. Of you then have the likes of Sunderland who were a complete basket case and went down, then went down again

Never enjoyed the derby's even when we had the upper hand and beat them 5 times in a row. The nervous tension, the knot in my stomach before and during it. It's just not an enjoyable experience for me. I'd happily see them rot away in the lower leagues for years and never have to share a football pitch and stadium with them again.

Also the Gallowgate as it is currently is would be increased. At present the South West Corner only goes up to Level 2 but with an expansion they would surely put a Level 4 block of seating in place same as they did in the Leazes lower when it was expanded. Altogether probably an 8k increase at most.

I actually think 4 more wins will do it as far as top 4 is concerned, provided 1 or those 4 wins is v Spurs.

Not sure if serious.

Wouldn't be surprised. They are the worst set of fans for doing that, utter cowards that they are.

Leazes East corner has been excellent this season.

Couldn't see them from the Gallowgate Upper and can honestly say I never heard them once either. They literally might as well have not been there as far as I was concerned!

Was a really loud version of the Blaydon Races in the Gallowgate yesterday 2nd half which I was delighted to hear. Agree with what you are saying though. Aside from that there was a lad in the Gallowgate Upper just behind us with a huge megaphone which he was using to get the chants going! Lasted about 5 mins before the stewards took it off him, then 5 minutes before the end he started again so he either had another one or managed to get that one back