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I think you'll probably find that the whole stand ends up being 90%+ Newcastle fans.

All gone. They're not. It's just the box office website is useless...

Pretty much.

What’s his contract situation? 1 year left. Hence Bornemouth likely having to sell for around the price being quoted.

I think it would cost a small fortune to transport (think I read it weights 54 stone). They also want it here in time for the Liverpool game, and the gap between it being finished and that game means that it wouldn't arrive unless they collect themselves.

This all goes away once Cardiff lose meekly to Burnley on Saturday...

They’ll want one semi on the Tues and one on the Wed for ‘maximum exposure’ and it’ll be UEFA who decide who goes when.

Aye, any of them probably. Sat evening? What happens if Spurs (who are supposed to play Mon night) get through and Liverpool get knocked out? Could it switch to the Monday night? Basically, no further forward with it.

So from what I can gather the date won't be confirmed until after the specific dates of the CL semi's are announced (assuming they beat Porto)? .com are saying they are playing on the Tuesday if they get through (so the game wouldn't be on the Sunday), but looking at the UEFA website it doesn't look like that's confirmed to me?

It's almost as if TalkSport say these things in an attempt to provoke people into calling them/interacting with them on social media...

I realise that thread is just isolated snapshots of 40k+ fans, but Jesus Christ.

15. They have 3 of the 6 lowest totals.

Assuming it’s a three match ban, he gets a nice break over the summer and can start pre-season on time.

Not sure about that yet. Sky haven't announced the matches they have picked, have they? Is it not just a case of the clubs not wanting to wait any longer to put the tickets on sale They specifically stated it “goes ahead as planned” at 3pm so they must have been given the nod.

Palace game unchanged. Thankfully.

Yes mate. They go on sale to season ticket holders and members before (usually a week) they go on general sale. The link below has the list sale dates but the Liverpool one is still TBC as they’ll likely be a bit cautious with it if they’re still in with a shout of the league. You are limited to how many you can buy per ST though (suspect in this instance it definitely be no more than two): https://www.nufc.co.uk/tickets/on-sale-dates

Hopefully continue to be for the rest of the game. Think everyone would rather our game against them wasn’t shifted.

Well, it's better than Lascelles, but it's nowhere near Lejeune or Schar. Don't think we really want him trying to ping 50 yard diagonals like those two...

Potentially not, if it's going to spoil my enjoyment of the game. Suppose it's all about the degree of intrusion you're prepared to put up with. You're prepared to wait up to a few minutes to (supposedly) get the correct decision. I'm not, as I think it devalues both the moment and the atmosphere.

Bit weird mate Nonetheless, hanging fire for a second or so is a bit different to a couple of minutes... So no one else looks at the lino to check? I do, it’s not weird at all. If there’s a chance of an offside/foul/handball in the build up then i always hang fire in case it gets disallowed. Yes, joking aside, we probably all do glance at the linesman, if we think there's something, usually offside, potentially wrong with any goal. But as I say, that's a second or so that doesn't impede upon the spontaneity of your celebration. Hanging fire while they check 17 different camera angles to look at something will. It was very evident in that brilliant goal Tadic scored at Madrid last week.

Bit weird mate Nonetheless, hanging fire for a second or so is a bit different to a couple of minutes...

We fundamentally disagree there then.

My point isn't really about whether it's going to benefit NUFC particularly (although just because we've had the rough end of decisions over the past couple of seasons, and would have theoretically benefited from it's use, doesn't necessarily mean it's going to play out like that going forward, but anyway). It's more about what it takes away from the game as a whole (from a fan perspective). Perhaps we shouldn't care about being joyous in the moment, during a game. Perhaps we should all just be happy afterwards that the correct decision was made and we can all agree on that (unless it involves a handball decision obviously, which is a complete shambles at the moment).

It struck me when looking at that glorious picture of the crowd following Perez's second goal, this is the kind of thing that VAR is going to take away from us. And I don't just mean because it was offside, and hence would subsequently have been disallowed. Even if Rondon had been onside, they would have referred it to be checked. So you would have had those few seconds of total joy, then the ref would have been like, hold on lads, we're just checking VAR to see if it counts. So everybody puts celebrations on hold while they check it for a couple of minutes. Oh, it's alright, start your celebrations again. VAR will undoubtedly result in more 'right' decisions being made, certainly in respect of offside anyway, so in that sense it's difficult to argue it's a 'bad' thing. But, IMO, it's definitely going to take something away from the matchday experience. Even if you're just watching on the telly. Those spontaneous moments of sheer joy in the aftermath of a goal, so well captured in the Perez picture, are going to be diluted, and that is to the detriment of the game.

Kept a clean sheet didn’t he....