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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.

We've just bought tickets for the Womens game next month. Was £3 for me and £1 for the bairn. Problem there if you offered loyalty points is that people would buy tickets for events such as these without any intention of turning up, effectively buying a loyalty point. You should definitely get them for home cup games and pre season friendlies though.

Brighton have started doing this.

Sssshhh man

I've lived in Wallsend all of my life (44 years) and in all that time I can honestly say I've only ever seen 1 Sunderland shirt around here. Strangely that was after a derby match against them at the SoL when Kieran Richardson scored that free kick and some bloke in a Sunderland shirt came walking into the Powder Monkey. Let's just say he didn't get a chance to order his drink.

If they do he'd have the nerve to take partial credit for it as well.

Was sold out including extra seats that Brentford sent back. There's always going to be the odd empty seat as not every ticket holder can make it. Things happen at short notice. Regarding points made about capacity/new stadium; I think it's fair to say SJP is now too small. It's been relegated to 7th biggest in the league (could be 8th when Evertons new ground is open). The demand to watch PL football is off the scale amd is growing by the season. Not just here, everywhere. Just about every team is now selling out every match (Southampton sometimes 1/2k short). You've even got the likes of West Ham who have a far smaller fanbase than us currently averaging 62,500 and that's them in the bottom half and playing in an awful stadium, but that's how demand is. 60k needs to be an absolute minimum. 65k would be ideal. If neither of these scenarios is possible then an alternative venue would need to be considered. A club with our ambitions isn't going to be satisfied with a pretty much mid table stadium when it comes to capacity. However as far as I can see there's only 2 possible sites. Castle Leazes or Arena site if they can buy back the land from whoever bought it. Anywhere else outside of the city boundaries is a big no no for me. We've all been to places like Bolton, Brighton, Wigan etc and these new builds plonked in the middle of nowhere are horrendous and aren't what Newcastle United are all about at all. Someone mentioned digging down. Pretty sure that's what Ajax did at the Arena which increased their capacity from 51,500 to 55,000 so it would be a start if it was possible here.

Of course.

We'd sell out 60k every week as things stand and we've done nothing yet. If we get a hint of success 65/70k is achievable. I think 65k is the perfect capacity.

Opposite for me. My dad started taking me when I was 6 back in 1984 and that's what shaped me as a Newcastle fan as an impressionable kid back then (the Bobby Robson quote definitely applied to me!). I was hooked from such a young age and going to the match with my dad on a Saturday afternoon or sitting watching Ceefax or Oracle waiting for the page waiting for our score to come around) when we were away are my favourite childhood memories.

We draw a huge support from South East Scotland as well which anyone on the Edinburgh - Newcastle train on a matchday will testify!