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Honestly nowhere which is sort of the point. Hanging onto the city limits thing, but also thinking that the arena site constitutes that, doesn't make sense to me as I've said I personally would rather stay smaller and hypothetically struggle until PSR gets fired into the sun. Happily it's not up to me

It's a fucking wank location for a football stadium when the one we have is where it is, in my humble opinion

It could be worse, definitely, but the area is just so out of keeping with what we really want.

I just don't think there's an approach to the Arena that equals virtually any of the approaches to SJP from the city. IMO you'd just end up with hundreds of billions of cars parked on all those derelict little streets, people going straight to the game and people going straight home. It's far enough away and through a dismal enough part of town to make people think, "I'll just go to the game" I reckon. Once you get to that mindset, you might as well put it out at Callerton Parkway

Aye but the principle is the same like There is a clear town centre and the stadium feels like it's miles away, out into residential and light industry zone although it's not actually that far. Arena site would be exactly the same. Amazing new stadium will honestly not be so amazing imo, when your viewpoints are the Tsang Foods car park and looking over the garages from the college. The Gallowgate Pigeon doesn't compare to those bridges around Railway Street

Stadium of Light is only a ten minute walk and feels like it's on a building site

Also requires passing through a completely soulless and pretty dead part of town, although some folk appear convinced that bars and cafes and shops will spring up magically with the maybe-once-a-fortnight footfall that it will bring, just like it has in Sunderland

Because it's miles away from the centre of town. Elswick riverside would be a better choice than that for me. Additionally, honestly not to be down on anybody who's genuinely excited by this prospect because your opinion is worth as much as mine, but how good something will look to people coming in on a train, or from a drone shot with the river behind it shouldn't be anywhere near our thinking, like I keep reading this as a reason for the arena site, "because it'll look good for people who aren't there and most of them won't go / will look good on the telly". Complete non-issues imo

Not sure what to make of the team, a lot of unknown quantities in there playing together. We'll see

Unusually harsh boot put in by the BBC here a nice partisan "your support is fucking shit" there, absolutely no need for it at all

Can't even beat us on the internet marra. I conclude from this that Newcastle are getting on for four times more massive, as a minimum

Wey that'll do lads

Nearly

Ah well

Man I can't believe that stadium announcer is still Bruuu-noooooohhh'ing

It's not mine alas (although the beard is similar), I just caught the lad as he was passing by. There was a young lass doing the bits that he would previously have done, aye

Didn't see this or I would have. Where were you? In the covered stand?

Newcastle Online rattled at light being shone on internal dramas it's a fair question imo, and worthy of discussion, and might keep the same sort of chat away from the Eddie Howe thread, which can then be used for what it's supposed to be for, either complaining that he's driving the players into the ground so they're injured all the time, or complaining that he's not working them hard enough so they're flabby and unable to do 90 minutes

I just see it as a different version of the same game, in the same way as watching Italian or German football isn't the same as watching Premier League. It's great that the opportunity is there for them because they obviously fucking love playing and some of them are technically very gifted although the game isn't played at the pace of the men's game. Watching Pottsy clean somebody out as last defender is every bit as satisfying for me as watching Botman do it. What's also important about it though, is that there appears to be none of the toxicity that swirls around the men's game and a lot of people seem to have decided that it's a good place to take the family, so you get a lot of kids watching that you don't see at SJP because they can't get a seat. I don't see this as a bad thing, although I'm sure plenty would. It honestly wouldn't surprise me one bit if the elite level men's game started to tail off because of people being priced out, and because they're getting priced out by corporate types with no interest in the game, and because of the shite and politics which are slowly destroying it, while the women's continues to grow (but will inevitably go the same way)

Newcastle men's team are frequently pretty poor with regard to intensity and technical play as well, to be fair It's not for everyone, just like non league is not for everyone, or watching Sunderland, which is obviously fine :) that four year old post was fucking honking though

Brilliant professional performance, great to see played lasses

I'm not sure, I'm working on the basis that these are all paid teams. Sheffield are in a bus, which makes a change from last year.

I assume she's been injured, there was a post on Instagram pointing that way. New keeper is immense like, she's been brilliant.