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It only really matters to me that NUFC will not be playing at SJP which is obviously not suited for multi use or it would be getting multi used. I don't want a new stadium full stop. I would be more comfortable with one which is less than a fanny hockle from where we are now but I just don't see them bulldozing Leazes Park

Like I say, I might be completely wide of the mark and like I say I completely respect that everybody has their own opinion on what is an emotive and difficult decision for the club. That's honestly how I feel though, I can't help it genuinely shaking my head in wonder at folk ready to call the bulldozers in and justifying it because we're not pissing in the open air at the Gallowgate any more so SJP is no longer SJP. My opinion is worth the same as everybody else's and ultimately counts for fuck all at the end of the day, so no need to take it personally. If you know that you haven't been seduced by smoke and mirrors at all then it's all good.

I have no idea, I haven't really kept up with the owners' motivations, or whether it's actually true that to satisfy PSR you have to have a swiss army knife of a stadium that's busy 24/7. This is only my perspective unpopular opinion but if this is the price of being competitive, to turn your club into some sort of all things to all people multiexperience and be more accessible to casual visitors and folk who just want to experience the crack of a football day without being that invested, then fine but I personally am just not that arsed about that sort of future I would be happier if they built the official NUFC Second Home Wongadome somewhere between Morpeth and Seaton Burn and let the women and bairns play there and put on shit bands, go karting, USAball and adult size bouncy castles to keep the punters coming but it seems that you're only allowed to make money by bringing people into your primary playing venue for whatever reason

You won't need one man, you'll get in for a fiver every week because it'll be built completely altruistically to make sure everybody who wants a ticket can get one no chance whatsoever that they'll calculate it perfectly to keep access restricted and demand and prices high I just feel like everybody has been seduced by a slow burning smoke and mirrors fairytale of What Might Be. I completely respect people's opinions and I'm not saying anyone is wrong but I honestly can't believe so many are prepared to just consign SJP to history after a few months of dripfed It's The Only Way To Compete In The Modern Era

I want us to be global players, I just don't want to see us abandon SJP solely to comply with fucking ridiculous deliberately anticompetitive financial regulations that might be legally dismantled before the last bit of smoked glass goes into the new stadium, before the go kart track has even been slid out on its new castors. I just don't buy the New Stadium Will Fix Everything scenario.

I keep reading this but I just don't see it. Who's opening a business in an out of the way part of town that only gets significant footfall once a week at best? Where is the organic growth around the stadium of light? They wheel in the funfair stands full of sweeties and blue pop on matchday.

I was there. Sedibeh looked handy second half in particular, I think Alfie Harrison coming on lifted him a bit (he might also have had a chewing from the coach). They took their foot off the gas to spare a tiring Alnwick though I reckon, there was a lot of needless passing around the 18 yard box that went nowhere.

5 in the end, and the bairns were classy and just played around the 18 yards rather than humiliating Alnwick. Properly enjoyed it though

Now 4-1

NUFC Bairns 1 Alnwick 1 at half time. Noisy away section as ever Suspect the fitness of the pro's will tell second half but canny from the provincials so far

NUFC Bairns vs Alnwick Town in the senior cup at Blue Flames this evening, assuming the pitch survives an inspection. Conditions looking like they'll be pretty wintry, although dry at least. Anybody know what the parking is like at Four Lane Ends into the evening? I'm assuming it'll be ok.

I heard that Norwich has fallen since then mind, people openly wearing black and white on the streets with no mackem enforcers to give them the eyeball or just burst out laughing

It's a tenner to get in at Berwick anyway, so the hospitality is a great deal if that's your thing loved my day up there and I'll definitely go again as well, but while everybody I spoke to was individually lovely, as a collective the guys on the terrace were pretty ill-tempered and frankly fairly unpleasant (although very funny) even by non league standards Alnwick sliding down Northern League division 2 and looking pretty bereft of ideas and confidence. The two or three worse teams that might save them are looking less fragile all of a sudden only one guaranteed relegation though, and although they'd be a miss I'm told West Allotment would take that spot in division 2 if they folded, even from division 1.

Will just be desperate for England to lose as a direct result of mag shitness, I should imagine

I don't know who I would pick as the two most famous young players on the planet in all honesty, but I'm not sure Jowab would be in there

never Who got it?

I know a few of them, they certainly don't

Ange can't last much longer surely

Honestly means nowt to me, I can always admire a talented but humble man/woman wherever they're from. English as a first language helps him express himself better, that's all for me and obviously not unique to an English manager.

That's my guess also, aye; probably Pep can't find the gear either

No, but I got the best pint I've ever had at a football ground. Will definitely go back, it was great.

Scottish football an extremely sweary experience. Amount of appalling grief being directed absolutely everywhere is staggering

Same principle I reckon. Arsenal doesn't need an article, there's only one of them. That said I reckon it was originally used to fill the meter in songs by making it four syllables, so maybe it's not the same principle.

"this group of players". Don't even know what they'd say instead, probably just "this team" might do like

Fixture gods are against me today, I think I might go and watch Berwick Rangers just for a change