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Fixtures released. Unbelievable not one clashes with my shift pattern! Roll on season tickets Kick off away to London Lionesses. First game at home against Sheffield United

Some of you need to take a long hard look at yourselves! Some of you deserved Mike Ashley. Anyone who says anything remotely negative about Amanda Staveley should be banned from this forum, Newcastle and within 20 miles of the River Tyne. Is that plane still going to Rwanda!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everything positive about us in 2024 was driven by her. If people can't see that I'd take a white stick and Labrador on that Rwandan flight because you'll never find your way back. She has to have financial issues otherwise she'd keep her shares as they are only going up so if she has a cash flow problem, I for one, wish her well and good wealth and health in the future. She might e a 'ruthless' business women but the love and enjoyment on her face was real. No act, 100% real. She really got it and she will be missed massively.

I really hope Amanda's tenure ending doesn't have a negative effect on the lasses. The relationship, with both the men's and especially the lasses, was unique in football. She is very tactile and has personal relationships with the staff and players and was very open and loved a hug and kiss when the game was over, win lose or draw. With the Kingston park crowd she regularly held impromptu meet and greets and it created something no other clubs can match. This can't be replicated as it's real, personality based and natural. It's what makes us different and as many have said, she just got us. I'm sure the lasses will continue to be backed and Becky and Sue will still drive us forward but a part of what made us so special is no longer going to be there. I'm sure we are going to be competitive yet again and I wouldn't be surprised if we continue as we have and win the league again but it's going to be difficult to maintain the personal investment from the board without Amanda's involvement. A professional corporate management appear to be the wish of the majority but for me the close, hands on approach is what made supporting the lasses so special. Roll on the next signing and winning the championship

Looking back this has to be true. Joelinton wasn't offered the contract until the couple of weeks after ashworth left. This will be the reported friction between Howe and twatface and why it ran till the end of June. Ashworth would have blamed Joe for not signing the contract and sold him to balance the books and painted Joe to be the bad boy. I don't think it could have worked out any better in the end.

FFS. Gat a grip everyone. We probably have £100M in sponsorship deals awaiting approval on Master's desk with us threatening a court case to follow on from Man City's. If we are close to ffp then it is down to Masters & the PL not allowing the sponsorship deals. Its a smoke screen to highlight the cartel stranglehold. We need everyone together. Stop saying they are incompetent. They know what they are doing. Of course it may be that they are playing us because we may have a deal for 'The Aramco Arena' or the 'Saudia Stadium' and trying to show the worst case scenario first. Anyone pick a Gordon sale over St James with 30 hours to go Whatever it is this a play by the club, I'm sure of it

Nobody in their right mind can believe that our board have left it this late to balance the books, they are far too switched on for what's happening. I am convinced though that we are desperate to raise £30-50Mish to create wiggle room going forward for future windows and this is all strategic for the long/medium plan and not to balance this years. There have been no knee jerk transfers, galactico signings or desperate moves to date. (Even Chris Woods was a strategic signing that worked!). Have confidence that they know what they are doing. If we raise funds before Sunday we increase the £105M loss balance gap for next season's 3 year limit and hopefully 25/26 will have a different psr requirement going forward. PSR won't change mid season so this may be strategic to give us headroom going forward for the short term for next year. I am sure all of the untouchables will remain in black and white this season and I'm also convinced that Wilson, Trips and Miggy will all be offloaded to Saudi in July when their transfer window opens, all for decent money, so this weekend will be purely to maximise the next two seasons spend and the Saudi sales will cover for next season. Any sales this weekend will be for maximum paper profit with Anderson and Longstaff most at risk and all will be player swap type deals for players we actually want. Have faith. Everything up to now has been right with the board.

Just got back and thought it was tremendous. Thousands there and everyone appeared to enjoyed it. As Heron said light years away from the prior regime and what a showcase to promote to sponsors. Look at our support, be part of it. Sick of cynics. If you are underwhelmed what hope is there. Free night, promoting black and white. Great

I really want to get to the excitement of buying who we want and restore a level playing field again with the cartel and hope other clubs join in. Its easy to forget that Forest were the first club to pay a million and that wolves and non Arab City were the first to spend £1.5M on players. I'm sure Keegan was the highest paid player in the league when he signed for us in the old second division and he was financed by our sponsor S&N. We broke the world record when we signed Shearer. The richest league in the world with the richest owners should have carte blanche to sign who they want. Every Premier League club should have been after Mbappe, who at the reported £15M in wages and £25M in yearly signing on fees, would have been self financing. No-one could ever argue that Mbappe or Harland don't warrant an additional £40-60M in sponsorship. The club profile would have gone stratospheric considering he alone has 40 time as many followers on Instagram than Newcastle!!!!!! (118M to 2.8M) Social media following would have immediately grown to the Red Cartel levels and would open the door to signing anyone we wanted. I don't believe we need to sell Bruno or Isak for FFP but not being allowed to bring in sponsorship from Saudi is preventing buying additional Bruno's to speed up the process. I really hope City win this case and we grow quickly with 3-4 superstars every window with a speeded up evolution rather that a cataclysmic revolution. If we are allowed to spend £200M a window our sponsorship and prizemoney will grow to Man U, City & Liverpool levels within a couple of years, but with regulations it will never get there. Spending money generates money if spent correctly and I'm convinced our board will spend correctly. I really hope City blows the rules to bits!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyone with an update on Adam P. Apparently ended up in hospital yesterday and missed the Brentford match after collapsing on the underground

To be honest its not as bad as I expected and when you look at the positions being vacated it is very sensible. It leaves room for a keeper, couple of each defenders, midfielders, wingers and strikers. Surmising that they will be bringing in a minimum of Championship level, if not WSL, so the league is again there for the taking and at the same time keeping the strength of the existing squad. I'm surprised about PBG and especially Naomi, who when she played always looked really capable but since January everyone else has been bench support rather than weekly starters. It will be interesting who comes in and at what level and experience. I guess, due to the fact transfer fees are relatively low, we will be buying the league and not holding back. I agree with OpenC that I would have rather evolved as wholesale changes spoil the relationships that fans build with players but if this is the way the women are going to go I'm still all in. Looking forward to a summer of recruitment and the season ticket release date. As far as supporting the team and not individuals, as Et Tu Brute said above I have to disagree entirely. The set up now with the men's team I feel is perfect for winning a trophy and Eddie is the perfect manager. Can you imagine having a statue of Souness, Fat Sam, Kinnear or Bruce as the manager who brought / bought success? Give me four more years of Eddie without a trophy than a Caribou cup and a Mancini or Mourinho statue!!! The evolution of NUFC men's team is what I love above all else.

I'm going to feel like a grieving father here. Wish I didn't get so emotionally attached as I do. Was planning on taking bereavement leave if Joelinton hadn't signed his contract and since then hoped this summer was going to be all positive. This club man, it really causes anxiety every which way, even if its for the long term benefit.

Not looking forward to seeing the list. I convinced myself this wouldn't happen.

A great 0-4 win to finish off the season. Roll on next year.

I don't have any doubt that Becky Langley will be here for the long haul. I'm sure she has just turned 29 but I may be wrong on that one. She has been very fortunate that her role at the Uni included NUFC women part time before the takeover but you could argue not as fortunate as NUFC women having Becky Langley. She is very young for the position and in the last 3 years has finished second, followed by back to back promotions. This is her first full time role and only started for the club full time following the takeover. Having Andy Cook alongside has been a great addition and I think she worked as an intern for him at Forest. She is definitely cut from the same cloth as Eddie. Can you imagine being in that position when the takeover happened? She must have been 24 or 25 when she took the Northumbria Uni job with the part time foundation role and potentially by the time she is 30 she could be a manager of a WSL team. Its just incredible. Good luck to her. I have no doubt that she will continue to take the club forward. We may have two future England managers currently at Newcastle.

I don't think ffp will come in to it. We are averaging 10 times the attendances that half the championship are getting and only the top 4 or 5 in the WSL can match or beat our crowd levels. I think this season we will grow from 3k to 5/6k averages and will only be behind Arsenal in crowd level averages by the time we make the WSL. There is no other club that can enhance the WSL like we can and the WSL will want us to be up there. Every club in the WSL has to have cash put in to survive so they can't bring ffp in until they are self sufficient. The mens game wouldn't dare put the women's costs in to current PSR as it would shut down the WSL. The lasses will get there in a couple of years without immediate wholesale changes. I hope the club will be happy with just evolving. I know the fans are.

It's going to be interesting how she develops the team. We have played a high line back 3, in a 343 and the defence has had very little to deal with due to the front pressure and midfield block. We may have to go to a more rigid back 4 and play 433. I don't go with the massive changes required thought. I can see 4 or 5 coming in but not all starters. I expect if going 433 that the defence will be Watts , Bedeau, Potts and Cataldo. Boddy , Kelly and Stobbs in midfield with Lumsden and Barker as 2 of the front 3. That just leaves 2 starters and squad enhancers required. I will be very disappointed if 6-8 starters are brought in this summer. Palace have dropped 18 points to win the league so I hope we give them a chance and see the league at Christmas and make a transfer push then if required. We are better than most think and Becky Langley is too.

Hannah Reid didn't have a save to make

Just got home and I think Becky Langley will have confirmed a few exits today. The players who came in didn't step up and we had no cutting edge. I know they will have been rusty with the lack of game time but Dodds, Elson, Soulsby and Galloway couldn't create any clear cut chances. It was totally one sided but no cutting edge or final through balls. Watt, Stobbs, Greenwood, Boddy and Kelly all played well enough but Barker and McQuade were fighting for scraps and it didn't improve when Bailey Gayle and Galloway came on. Shame they can't get to the 60 points. On a side note 7 balls were lost today in peoples gardens and woodland. The pitch was terrible and their keeper was player of the match.

Anna soulsby on for Kacie Elson

About 20 attempts to nil. Unfortunately the wingers haven't created anything worthwhile. Think Lumsden and Bailey Gayle will come on soon for Elson and Dodds. Bartle very rusty. Will score plenty in the second half. Halifax have had no attempts

Struggling to create anything clear cut but had about 15 attempts to nil. Agree Greenwood is a great player

Kacie Elson just hit the bar

Could have scored 3 in the first 5 mins but slowed down a bit since then. Hannah greenwood playing in the pottsy role. Back 6 playing very fluid and changing about continuously but Kacie and Dodds not playing as well as the wingers normally do.

Be interesting without Charlotte Potts offensively as well as defensive. She starts off that many attacks. Hopefully Jodie Bartle will pick up and fill in well. Could be an interesting game. We should have more than enough but it will be great if we have to score 6 cos they've got 5

It will be either Katie or Jasmine mcQuade. Hope it's Katie. Must be 2-300 here. Ground is atrocious.