GeordieT

The Design & Access statement is worth flicking through, the scale of the change is larger than the initial refurbishment. Very little of the existing facilities remain untouched.

https://idoxpublicaccess.northtyneside.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=SUCQKKBHH3I00&activeTab=summary

East Stand, oddly given its far from an a architectural masterpiece even amongst those who admire brutalism features on the C20 at Risk List “10 outstanding twentieth and twenty-first century buildings across the UK threatened with demolition, dereliction, or neglect”. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/apr/09/its-unjust-charity-fights-to-save-uks-at-risk-modern-buildings

Frustratingly can’t be there today, images already look epochal. I know of a couple of potential sponsors that are being courted today (Rooftops, VIP area at Moor and then Vermont for the after party), hopefully the scenes on show affirm that they want to be involved in the club. Have a brilliant day boys and girls.

Hate everything about it. Feels like a homage to commercialism as opposed to catering to the average match going fan.

£29m of income from related party transactions (PIF stable sponsors).

Guessing it’ll be: Season Ticket Holders Cup Scheme +2 Away Cup Fixtures Season Ticket Holders Cup Scheme +1 Away Cup Fixture Season Ticket Holders Cup Scheme Season Ticket Holders Mags+ Unless there is a loyalty points tier (25+) again at the onset. I’d have thought very few season ticket holders are not in the cup scheme, but that’s purely empirically based on people who sit around me.

Update on this - on offer for as little as £5m per year, which feels surprisingly low, but appreciative it’s often rolled into a broader sponsorship of the training ground. Looking at some benchmarks where it’s merely the kit: Spurs (Bet MGM £10m); City (Asahi £20m); Man United (Tezos £20m); Chelsea (BingX £12m).

Absolutely abhorrent. That week has the potential to be a transport nightmare.

https://x.com/skysports_keith/status/1882726873798439140?s=46&t=x_gwvtxKMs0B7zGA7uNbvA Just get it done.

Would be a PSR dream. Pure profit? Won’t happen.

Posted a couple of years ago about a company I work with being approached for the front of shirt sponsorship that ultimately went to Sela. They weren’t overly interested - and it felt rather scattergun, which I assumed was in part trying to benchmark interest to pass the requisite PL ‘fair value test’. Nevertheless they are being actively being courted now for the training [kit] sponsorship with a couple of preliminary meetings in early December. Don’t have the figure they are looking for, but it would suggest the club really are at a pretty nascent stage still. Interestingly unlike last time it’s not been led by what was a New York based agency but via the in-house commercial team. Which hopefully talks to an increase in the sophistication of the function.

Interesting to see what it does for the price of the ‘original’ shirt.

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/newcastle-united-land-stunning-seven-30635129 The figures quoted from Lee Ryder here seem unlikely. Monthly operating profit of £1.5m in what is otherwise a fairly bleak year for hospitality.

The language in the statement from the club is worrying. Hope he’s OK.

Manchester City, Aston Villa, Newcastle United and Nottingham Forest were the only clubs to vote against the proposed alterations according to the Athletic.

https://x.com/chariiebennett/status/1858069882891325592

Cup / away / women’s tickets was my perhaps misguided assumption, the ticketing platform is still pretty siloed - feels a stretch that they could apply credit elsewhere. Unless it’s just a discount code.

I know it’s been the case for sometime now in 3PM kickoffs, but painful today. Sections of the game where it felt like the football was sideshow to a sponsored silence.

One year contract extension triggered.