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I've noticed that they appear to developing their Rafa level of hatred towards Howe. Strangely enough, of our last 3 managers there's only been Bruce who they haven't had a complete meltdown over and have basically just left alone. Can't think of why this could be.

Seems like there's a bit of chew with these lot nowadays. I've heard off a couple of people at work today that they were acting themselves outside the ground and in the town yesterday and seemingly an Everton fan was knocked unconscious outside the Gate post match. Scouse Mackems indeed.

Thinking the same. I know we're better than these but I'm not confident. Don't think Wilsons hamstrings will take 3 games in a week so I think there's a strong chance we play Wood tonight, and well, he's not very good is he.

The general standard looks absymal from what I've seen this season. Usually you get one, sometimes 2 exceptional teams but it's just much of a muchness by the looks of it.

Baring in mind a win would put Blackburn top here I think it's fair to say that this must be the weakest Championship in years. They are terrible!

What brilliant memories do you have of the Boris Johnson reign may I ask?

Ticket prices shot up all over the country though in the mid 90s when the Premier League really grew in popularity. We were no different to any of the other big clubs at the time. We certainly weren't exorbitant like some are suggesting. The Platinum Club I didn't agree with but the bond scheme was 100% optional and lets not forget was a Freddy Fletcher idea that he'd previously done whilst a director at Rangers. Mike Ashley put around 20k season tickets up in price by over £120 from one season to the next (17/18 to 18/19) and few batted an eyelid, and that was to watch a pointless club that wasn't even trying.

There's an awful lot of presumptions, possiblys, and may haves in that statement. And we certainly didn't have the highest season ticket prices in the country at that point. I had a season ticket throughout that time and can't remember amy sharp increases. In fact even when Mike Ashley took over in 2007 ST prices in the Leazes/Gallowgate were onky around the £400 mark. Checkout what Ken Bates was charging Chelsea fans in the mid 90s!

We certainly didn't have the most expensive tickets in the country. That was Chelsea by an absolute mile! My season ticket cost £45 in 1991, was held at the same price in 1992 and jumped up to £178 in the new Leazes End in 1993. Pretty sure we outsold everybother club in England for replica shirt sales for a time though. Hall took a gamble on us and it paid off. To take a club from where he found us to where he left us was nothing short of amazing. Standing there in a crumbling wreck of a ground with 14,000 others was a pretty grim experience before he came in and rescued us. I don't begrudge him a penny of what he walked off with.

Usually agree with you on most football related matters but can't on this one mate! I loved SJH and my best times and memories of being a NUFC supporter are from when he owned the club. When he took over we were playing in a crumbling wreck of a ground with no protection from the elements unless you were prepared to pay for a seat. The club was skint, crowds were dwindling and the team were heading into Division 3 and oblivion. He brought in Keegan. He immediately galvanised the whole club. He rebuilt the stadium into one of the best in Europe at the time and we had an unbelievable team out on the pitch. Amazing times and memories which I wouldn't swap fro anything. We literally went from relegation to Division 3 certainties in 1992 to a 3rd place Premier League finish in 1994!

The lad from South Shields @4.20 knows his stuff mind

Remember we used to get that opera singer Greame Danby to song it on the pitch beforehand until he asked the Portsmouth fans if they'd came in a fucking minibus and I don't think he was invited back again.

Hahahaha that is absolutely pathetic like

From one of their most prominent accounts and another pretendy human rights activist. Never forget, this is how they really feel!

I think his argument though was that it's happened to arguably the worlds most iconic stadium but everyone still calls it by its original name.

Good point. I don't know a single person who refers to it as The Spotify Nou Camp either. It'll always be the Nou Camp or the Camp Nou depending on which way you are inclined!

Exactly. Name change under Ashley = zero benefit to the club. Name change under PIF = 10s of £millions every season to be invested back into the club. Those scenarios aren't up for comparison. Like it of not football, especially Premier League football is big business these days and clubs need to maximise every possible stream of revenue to give themselves the best chance of competing. PIF couldn't bankroll the club themselves even if they wanted to so this is the road we must go down. We need to close the gap on "the big 6" commercially and this is a good way of doing that. As I said all the fans will still call it St James' Park anyway and actually when I think about it, myself and just about everyone else I know don't even refer to it as that. We just call it "the ground". As in I'll meet you outside the ground after the match.

Couldn't care less about Scousers. This isn't what it's about for me. This is about Liverpool Football Club. The club, along with Spurs, who were the main opposition to our takeover because they didn't want the competition when, at the time they were plotting to join a European Super League anyway. The club who forced residents out of their homes so that they could increase the capacity of Anfield. This is also about Jurgen Klopp. A bloke I can't stand. Another massive hypocrite who does nothing but whinge. I've got nothing against Scousers personally and you are right in what you say. We do have more in common with them than most others.

If the money is right and it helps push the club onto the next level I honestly couldn't care less what they call it. The supporters will always call it St James' Park anyway. German clubs like Borussia Dortmund, Eintracht Frankfurt have thier stadiums sponsored and the fans haven't batted an eyelid and German fans are against things like this. They just still call their stadiums by their traditional name.

The club has had loads of crests mate.

After putting up with having Sports Direct plastered all over the place and the club getting nowt for it I'd have no objections to this if the money was right. The club needs to generate as much income as possible. We can't expect PIF to prop it up.

I bought 3 tickets last week (cost £7 in total!). Never attended a womens game before but with the World Cup being on it's still a chance to get to watch a Newcastle team play at SJP. From what I can gather the last game they played there went down a storm so it should be canny.

I remember queuing all night for a ticket for Blackburn away in 1993 and it was absolute chaos. In the end they had to get the ticket office out of bed and to the ground at around 5am. I think they accepted that they would need to change how away tickets were distributed after that and the Loyalty point system started in 93/94 I think. They were definitely in place the season after that. You filled your slip in and either handed it in or posted it off to the ticket office and you received a ticket or a rejection letter in the post.

I've got a feeling the next womens games at SJP in November will pull in 35k+. Would be quite funny if they ended up getting more than Sunderland mens team get just for the sheer fewm from that lot if nowt else.

Thing is it's changed now and it's a completely closed shop these days. Even under Keegan in the 90s you could get an away ticket for most games and also allocations were bigger. We'd get 8k for Blackburn amd Sheff Wed, 6k at Sheff Utd, even Arsenal gave us 6k at Highbury in 93/94, so did Everton. Spurs and Man City would give us 4k as would Leeds Nowadays 3k is the max and it's now pretty much impossible for anyone under the age of 14 (when I started going away regularly) to get a foot on the ladder which is a real shame.