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Thats too much potential competition and these clubs do not want competition.

I understand, it’s hard for people to critique the folks the saved us from Ashley. I’m with them on that to an extent. problem is. It’s the owners that said these things unprompted so as fans it’s up to us to hold them accountable.

The goal for such a venture wouldn’t an immediate increase of pnl it’s about increasing the value of the club as a whole. And yes it’s a gamble but we won’t be “number 1” with our current facilities.

Would be perfectly on brand for us

This is pretty much where I am, if your budget is 50% of your rivals because of stupid FFP rules you can’t compete on a consistent basis and given how slowly we move we either aren’t aware of it OR we are ok with it. Either way, if we aren’t closing the financial gap we are falling further behind. So fingers crossed for city today and fingers crossed our owners are about what they claim to be.

I’m curious to see how this plays out, my big concern is how we actually get past the stagnation pitfalls which I feel is our biggest risk. We have to grow our revenue at a faster rate than the cartel clubs and dragging and delaying things will only make this harder. Going to be a lot of #wait in future from the looks of it.

You’ve been saying this or a version of it from the start tbf.

They would literally be eating themselves, hilariously.

It’s such an impeccable racket. I was thinking spot forest and how they got done, it’s really bizarre promoted clubs have less FFP leeway when promoted, how to be anything but a yo-yo club in such situations? The incumbent advantage is monumental and it’s why most of the clubs love these rules you are basically protected from competition weather your a cartel club or an established mid table club.

The amusing thing about this is the clubs who are against these rules will also be picking up the tab as it will just be deducted from the “pot” Hopefully this will give them all food for thought.

#wait.

They are both pretty worthless sadly.

We don’t know if that changed that’s the point. The league has gone out of its way to block them and we’ve been largely compliant. Either we will know for sure in due time.

If it’s purely an investment play absolutely.

We aren’t close to that yet, I think a few are concerned myself included but not close to calling for heads or anything like that.

Yes and no, they could be investing in the stadium and training ground or spending more on short term related party sponsorships but that appears to be all on ice. We can’t know either way at this point though, we will see when #wait because reality.

All good points, I think people are generally concerned because we’ve looked hopelessly away from home for almost a year now. It’s one thing to lose but we’ve consistently performed badly and seemingly lost our identity.

From Waughs Q&A With St James’, the findings from the feasibility study which has been conducted over the past year have still not been released. Darren Eales, the CEO, claimed in July the results were “imminent”, but they are yet to be published. The expectation is Newcastle will stay at St James’ and look to redevelop and expand, but that will require significant investment from PIF. Whether they are willing to plough in the hundreds of millions required to facilitate those upgrades will be indicative of their long-term commitment.

This is a huge question mark for me mind and the stadium decision is what I’m waiting for to make my own assessment.

Do any other clubs get 50k for league cup ties against lower league clubs?

Oh yeah absolutely which is why we have to be at our best week in week out. Regression into stagnation isn’t something we can afford.

We need to be in Europe next season.

We are playing at home, no such thing as a free hit.

No, but they will reschedule and then they will go.