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1000 sold in the first half hour! ;D Madness for an U21 game!

Made Garth Crooks Team of the Week......

That's the Twitter equivalent of hiding in the bushes by the training ground with a camera isn't it?

Blackpool away please. Take about 7k and take over the place.

That does not surprise me one bit. Coming away from the game last night I said to my mate I would arguably have given him MotM as I thought the amount of times he broke up play by getting a foot in was phenomenal.

Both goals inside the first 11 minutes?

not as good as he thought he was. his finishing was awful. Scholes scored more at St James Park than he did. That isn't even remotely close to being true though, is it? Not across Dyer's career at Newcastle. From 2002 to 2007 Scholes scored 6 to Dyer's 5 at SJP though. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/aug/01/theknowledge.sport Right. Interesting. Kinda like a Trumpism, take a fact, repeat it whilst excluding some relevant details, and you have a brand new more impressive fact, that, whilst not true, can be argued with a degree of merit, thus creating the impression that new made up fact is actually fact.

not as good as he thought he was. his finishing was awful. Scholes scored more at St James Park than he did. That isn't even remotely close to being true though, is it?

You only get 2k as opposed to 3k there though don't you? Although agreed 100 does seem very high, despite it still being in the Xmas period, so theoretically more people off work and wanting to go. Be interesting to see what it ends up at.

They'll have just asked for the lower allocation to start with, they'll get the rest once these have sold, or nearly sold. Although given it's on Boxing Day and will clearly sell out, that seems fairly unnecessary. It's just lower tier anyway at Anfield, Everton where it's upper and lower, we've only got lower this season. Probably just Ashley being Ashley, a few seasons ago we only got tiny allocations away aswell. It's fair enough with Everton, we still haven't sold what we've got, so no need to take the larger allocation. But midweek, shortly before Xmas is a somewhat different to Boxing Day...

They'll have just asked for the lower allocation to start with, they'll get the rest once these have sold, or nearly sold. Although given it's on Boxing Day and will clearly sell out, that seems fairly unnecessary.

I think the point is that in that one game he showed miles more than our other forwards ever have. Whether he can do that consistently is obviously to be seen, but the fact that he can do it at all would suggest he is a significant upgrade and key to how our season goes.

hardly, wont play this year Why not? Injured. He is training though, but I doubt he'll start for a few games yet. I know he's been injured, but like you say he's back training, so I wondered if there was something I didn't know about that would prevent him playing for another three months. I suspect, given the current mood around the club, we just take every bit of news, add a negative factor of x10, and assume that's how it will play out?

hardly, wont play this year Why not?

Off the bench you mean? I've heard there's a good chance he won't be in the squad at all. He can't be that far off given the videos of him training on the treadmill and whatnot he's been posting. We'll soon see if he's back training with the rest of them this week.

2-0 win. Rondon double.

https://www.nufc.co.uk/media/37271/fans-forum-minutes-23-february-2017.pdf Stadium wi-fi CE asked if the club was considering introducing stadium-wide wi-fi for supporters. NA confirmed the club is continuing to look into options but advised it is a significant infrastructure project which requires a complex solution. ER stated that significant investments had already been made in boosting phone signal at the stadium but this was continued to be tested by the demands of 50,000+ crowds each matchday. LM explained that the club will continue to enhance the content across its PA system, screen and digital platforms in order to give supporters the essential in-stadia information they require.

Have you reported it? Yes, you shouldn't have to, but if you do and nothing is done, it strengthens the case that things aren't being maintained to a satisfactory level. Agree with the 4G, that's a pain in the a*se. I know we go for the match, not to be staring at our phones, but being able to get the other scores would be nice. I believe it was brought up at the fans forum in the past, can't remember what the response was though.

Let's hope they make a better fist of it than the absolute shambles that took place in the FA Cup last season.

12th October. Or thereabouts.

Can't play the next game (v Chelsea) anyway. Would have been interesting to see if that game would have counted for any ban. Won't get to find out thankfully.

We have opted on Tuesdays a few times, a couple of years ago we even played our League Cup games on a Tuesday and Sunderland played theirs on a Wednesday, which is unusual when both teams have a game in midweek. I don’t think the rule is as strictly applied as it once was. For league games we're always on a Wednesday. Just wondering if it may change if one of our midweek games, like Man City at home in January, is picked for TV. Aye it could theoretically change (to the Tuesday) if it was picked for TV like. That said, I suspect they (BT I think it is who have the midweek package) would just pick one game from those scheduled on the Tuesday and one game from those scheduled on the Wednesday, and they'd be no need for anything to be moved. I suppose what might change that is if say Man City and Liverpool were both playing amazing football at the top of the league and they were desperate to show both of their games, one would have to be moved to the Tuesday. All-in-all I reckon it staying on the Wednesday a pretty safe bet.

I don't think she was an agent whilst she was at Sunderland mind. Although that's not to say she didn't have things in the pipeline before she left....

I can see a flaw in your plan....

Includes bonuses and £30m of wages we're writing off from players who will never play for us again. Hence it's bullshit accounting. Various fans with professional accountancy qualifications have analysed the accounts for these instances of 'creative accounting'. The BBC and others just quoted the £112m as fact without questioning it. That's what the fans are dealing with when we take on Mike Ashley. We're on our own. Don't expect any help from journalists. Most of them are happy to print what they are spoon fed. Not that it really matters but my mate noticed that the chart that showed the wages to turnover ratio had a footnote that stated that Brighton and Huddersfield’s figures included bonus payments for promotion, but didn’t say anything about Newcastle. So he tweeted one of the reporters to question it. The reporter replied saying it was an ‘oversight’ and he would get it amended, which, fair play, he did pretty sharpish, but it doesn’t help dissuade any conspiracy theories around Ashley’s crew and media spin....