Sir Toon

im down to a 3.  We never seem to score on a Saturday between just after 3:45ish pm and the 4 o'clock mark.   

Win tomorrow and I may be back to a 7.  Rafa is trying to instil a mentality of confidence without being overly confident about it. It would be pretty stupid of us to presume it's over on that basis.

I worked in Gossy back then and the petition carriers always came in to our work trying to fob off some spiel that the ground was going to go on the land where the rides go when the moor is on.    You just know they'd be collaring some unexpected folk with tales of doom.  All because they'd have nowhere for their dogs to have a shit although in reality, the land just gets shit on daily.

Can we not glorify Fat Freddie? He was already well on the way to running us into the ground.

 

He helped turn us into a big name and make us one of the richest clubs in the world.  Ashley has taken us backards.  Relegated twice for starters.

but.....but.....Mike saved the club....from doing another Portsmouth, Coventry, Leeds and any other sob story out there. 

May be Alibaba.

 

The bloke (Jack Ma) who made the company, which is big in China, came here in February and he supposedly calls Newcastle his second home.   

 

Are you sure?

 

Internet and reputable news sources suggest he visited Newcastle to launch a scholarship program.

 

Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

No im not sure.  I read this the other week but it mentioned the Newcastle city hall and Newcastle University so I just presumed it was here.  Didn't mean much at the time and it probably doesn't now.    In hindsight, maybe I shouldn't have tweeted the company afterwards to ask Jack to buy the club. 

May be Alibaba.

The bloke (Jack Ma) who made the company, which is big in China, came here in February and he supposedly calls Newcastle his second home.   

I went to an event on safe standing a couple of years ago and safe standing barriers dont increase capacity by a great deal

Im sure I read that it equates to a ratio of 1.5:1.  Which means for every seated fan you can get 1 and a half standing ones.  For example If we could use a block of 10,000 seats then it would turn into 15,000 'safe' places.

I know this is never going to happen in such a big block but im just stating that capacity technically could be increased in turn.

Not seen 'Wadds was here' for years.  Maybe it's a comeback.

For those of us older heads it is a concern but in the eyes of the 21st century, if we needed a bigger ground and we had an owner who wanted it, we would.

 

Off the top of my head it is perfectly feasible to incorporate the land that we use now and redevelop the whole of Leazes park and surrounding cow grass to create one big St James' Park with freeman land to go with it.

 

Could maybe move some of the older materials from the stadium to a new one just a few hundred yards or so North.  Where the ground is now could see a grand entrance to the whole park which could be the centre piece of the country with retail units scattered around instead of the drug ridden no-go zone we have at night.

 

Would I want this, no but it's a better idea than shifting altogether.

 

You are in cloud cook cuckoo land if you think that is even remotely possible. The two major blockers are:

 

1) cost of a brand new stadium is prohibitive unless you build a relatively small identikit flat pack stadium.

2) you would never get planning consent to build a new stadium on Leazes Park or the Town Moor.

Bearing in mind I made my thoughts on this pretty clear in that it is neither wanted or likely as it was just a basic idea off the top of my head. 

Having thought about it though off the back of your unnecessary slight about where my mental state is.  Maybe I am a fruit cake, maybe im not but if someone with money and clout wanted it, it would happen. Simple as. Nee blockers, nee nowt.

The welly wearing tree huggers went round the toon years ago with their petition about no business on the town moor, well since all this time has passed, there has been plenty of 'business' done on the land that we were going to extend onto which wasn't the town moor but hunters moor.  That business being a student walk across and cows shitting until the cows come home.

Alternatively, a lower bowl safe standing level could easily take the attendance close to 60,000 at the existing St James'

For those of us older heads it is a concern but in the eyes of the 21st century, if we needed a bigger ground and we had an owner who wanted it, we would.

Off the top of my head it is perfectly feasible to incorporate the land that we use now and redevelop the whole of Leazes park and surrounding cow grass to create one big St James' Park with freeman land to go with it.

Could maybe move some of the older materials from the stadium to a new one just a few hundred yards or so North.  Where the ground is now could see a grand entrance to the whole park which could be the centre piece of the country with retail units scattered around instead of the drug ridden no-go zone we have at night.

Would I want this, no but it's a better idea than shifting altogether.

huddersfield have a straight forward run in. only really fulham at home looks tricky for them.

Surely we can write off the opponents in the final games because we've been everyone's cup final all season and If Brighton and Huddersfield keep up then surely they'll be everyone elses also.

At least that's what im hoping.  Im also hoping that Rafa's prediction of April being the month to separate the wheat from the chaff will come true because one good week for us will complete the job.

Ive been a 7 all season until the Brighton week where we got 7 points. Then I was a 9, now for some reason im as low as 3.

I blame social media because the way everyone's been, we're in danger of relegation.  :frantic:

We go up and a commanding midfielder who can tackle is going higher up my list by the game.

We fail to go up and someone like Craig Gardner will be high on the list for our new boss.

Somewhere down a dark back lane lies one man who thinks he would do a better job.  A man who proclaims himself to be the best manager in the league...

EVER.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03281/carver2_3281254b.jpg

No thanks, leave this to Rafa.  His month is approaching.  The month he's been banging on about all season. April. 

The good thing about this is when Ashley does fuck it up then everyone will be on the same page for once and we should be able to stir up enough anger to cause more than a ripple.    Then again, if candy crush release an update around this time, we may have to wait.

Pardew under Delia.  Perish the thought. 

It's all about mentality this one.  Some of the fans for getting too edgy too soon if we're not 2 up by their 17th minute wake up alarm.  Also for some of our players to realise that starting in first gear only works for a few seconds.  For an engine to work properly you have to shift through the gears.

Hopefully the quicker we get to 3rd or 4th gear will determine that our chances will increase.  an edgy display again I reckon with it being a score draw or a one goal win.

By the time the international break comes in 2 weeks, we could or should confirm a play off spot.

With shirt sponsorship being transparent in the accounts for one reason, you can pretty much rule out all Ashley associated companies.  Why would he shift money from one account to another in order to blazen his name across a shirt in small writing when it's all over the ground for nowt?

However, im not business savvy enough to think of the financial benefits to him by using us as some sort of money laundering service.

This seems to be the template for the striped Puma gear for next season.  As long as wors doesn't have any dodgy colours aside from the black and white plus we have a sponsor that doesn't cause offence then it should fly off the shelves.

http://todosobrecamisetas.com/wp-content/uploads/pe%C3%B1arol-copa-libertadores-2017-h-640x452.jpg

Santander

Aston Villa have to win every game left to finish on 78 points. With 11 games left, we have 76. 

Im sure I said the same thing a few pages back as in he's my player of the season

It wouldn't surprise me if Ashley hadn't been looking at Wagner and thinking how easy it is to do this on the cheap if he pushed Rafa out. I hope today taught him something.

 

I doubt Ashley has even heard of Wagner.

Oh he will have done. 

http://www.getanact.com/filestorage/wagner_1.jpg

Sick of hearing from people supposedly in the know that Rafa is gone in the Summer and he's being professional in getting us up.  Surely Ashley and the regime wont want to fuck this all up over a couple of quid here and there.