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Payment getting taken tomorrow (Thursday) for those in the cup scheme.

Not that it’s of any relevance really, but that photo’s from at least two seasons ago. These FB ‘banter’ pages are terrible for that.

There’s definitely a Carlisle NUFC supporters bus that parks up there every game. Tbh there’s buses from all over but we don’t seem to have the same obsession with identifying as a ‘branch’.

It’s open now but there’ll be more popping up as the match gets closer. Have a read of this thread: https://newcastle-online.org/topic/38236-ticket-general-sale-hints-and-tips/

You can’t buy in the resale unless you’re a member.

He may be able to get a Brentford one in the resale in the coming days? Appreciate the thought of paying twice for the same match won’t be particularly appealing though.

Is it possible for someone to be more Mike Ashley than Mike Ashley?

Why we leave early: 1001 excuses https://x.com/sunderlandafc/status/1851583577671999692?s=46&t=OQLMckSuatbpqWF13Al4mQ

Whitley Park

We all know what he means.

Depends how you want to spin it. We’re playing (very) inconsistently, even within matches. Granted, probably veering more towards bad than good considering the season as a whole. But Forest are fifth, who we’re five points behind, and I remain very confident of finishing above them. I’ll accept I’m nearly always glass half-full, whereas others may be glass half-empty, but it really feels difficult to be fully confident either way on which direction the season goes from here.

All very well giving it the big un like that until none of these ‘Champion’ teams come in for you, and you realise that one of the ‘middle’ teams will double or treble your wages…

Isn’t that the case with nearly everyone outside of the current top 4 (and even Man City you could argue)

So it’s predominantly a cash flow hack, rather than a PSR hack?

Why are Barca bothering with this 20 year business then? Surely whatever they are charging now, they’d get more in 15 years time?

I think it transpired that the medical team were advising that he get the surgery done, but Botman himself was adamant that he felt OK and he could play through it, with the ‘expert’ opinions that were sought being split on whether doing so would result in it going completely. In hindsight it was obviously a massive error to let Botman get his own way, but having said that, effectively forcing a player to have surgery when they feel they don’t need it is probably easier said than done.

Our incentive would be his significant wages off the books, but that’s probably only really relevant if we think he’s no longer likely to contribute to any real degree on or off the pitch.

200 VIP boxes in our new super stadium. £500k a season. Pay upfront for a 20 year lease. PSR sorted forever.

They didn’t really ‘spend what they wanted’ though. They complied with FFP, just not in time for the deadline, due to them selling Brennan Johnson a month or so later to get a better price for him. It would have been like us hanging on to Minteh for a bit longer, then getting £40m instead of £30m for him. Which in the grand scheme of things, would hardly have been worth a points deduction.

Indicative of how much of an absolute twat it is to get away from that ground. I certainly don’t ever advocate leaving a game early, but queuing outside a shopping centre to get a train at 10pm on a Monday night in the bastard freezing cold is not where it’s at.

That weekend looks a bit of a cluster fuck as TNT have selected Everton v Man Utd as the early Saturday game, but it will get moved to the Sunday if Man Utd are in the Europa on the Thursday. Seems the two matches picked by Sky on the Sunday (ours and Man City v Liverpool) will definitely stay on the Sunday, but could be any time if they end up with three TV games that day.

Tbf I think he tried it without the ‘for a while’ on the end.

February fixtures supposed to be confirmed today.

Off your own back, yes. However, you only have to have a (free) NUFC account set up for someone who has a ticket, be it a ST holder or member, to transfer you a ticket if they aren’t going. There’s obviously the unofficial third party / tout route as well.

Those two are their two holding midfielders aren’t they? So hopefully they won’t be as effective in doing that?