Gawalls

Bit of context?

That’ll wyke the smile off their faces.

Sunderland gradually slipping down the league now. 1 - 0 down.

One of their old players as well, that’ll wyke the smile off their faces.

Fulham looking more and more dog shit every week as well.

Let’s go with that

Sounds about right - definitely had “39 since Sunderland last scored” in it, thought I heard a hundred but couldn’t have done.

239 shots since Sunderland last scored I think bbc just said.

It’s a very nice article and in an ideal world great but imo its not achievable. You talk of 1999 financial achievements as if “let’s just do that again then” but back then there was no £400m Man City stadium sponsorships or 62,000 attendance grounds like their is now. The game has changed and at some point we’ll hit a ceiling in my opinion and if we don’t break through then what happens? Don’t get me wrong - I’d love to be wrong and totally understand people wanting to keep the name but for me, if they were to ever say “look trust us - changing the name would help us considerably” they’d get my backing.

Thing is everybody having a pop at us for this no ceiling bullshit - nobody spoke up for us when we were getting bled dry for 14 years, if it was financial fair play then they’d protect those clubs as well. It’s a financial capping system.

They have always said the fans would be consulted and I’ve never argued against that but they’ve acknowledged on more than one accasion that spending like we have in every window with our current setup isn’t going to work and we need to create more revenue streams. Shirt and stadium sponsors is always going to be top of that list I feel https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/23043954.newcastle-united-willing-sell-naming-rights-st-james-park/

So when the new owners say we have to if we want to compete you believe their wrong and you’re right or they’re just simply lying? if it wasn’t necessary they wouldn’t be considering it.

100% agree with you on Perez and everything you said but not Toney. When a goal scorer comes up from the championship in a bang average team and bags 22 goals in first 48 games I believe he deserves being accepted as a premiere league standard goal scorer.

They should just open up a shopping centre or something and call it at James’s park then pay us for advertising ?

Villa and Everton don’t compete at the level we’re aiming for and remain at our current level, the level we’re trying to break out from where Liverpool and Man U sell massive amounts of franchise world wide compared to us. a quick Google has just told me Liverpool are 4th and Man U 5th in world wide marchendise sales.

The fact you don’t know it was called this even though it was over 3 months ago when renamed speaks volumes. It will bring money in but the name change won’t really buy widely acknowledged.

Good job you’re not in charge of driving the club on then.

If the money brought in for a name change wasn’t worth it then nobody would have changed their names ffs, the proof is in the pudding. They’re better business men than any of us and haven’t done evening to earn our distrust so as far as I’m concerned then if they say we need to change the name to progress then that’s good enough for me. The same people that are saying “you better not change the name” are probably a lot of the same people saying “why didn’t you buy more players last window - moneys not an issue”. Can’t have it both ways

100% - the other option is a new ground or not complete. Either way we get left behind and never compete at the top or we get a new ground and it’s renamed anyway.

It really isn’t, it’s just a name and shouldn’t stand in the way of progress imo.

Please stop now otherwise I’m gonna be ravaging my wife and she’s currently making bacon sandwiches so I don’t want to interrupt.

Reading things like this - still can’t believe it’s about our team to be honest. Sometimes I pinch myself to make sure it’s real.

You guys are also doing the same - a Man U fan I work with said to me “your away form is terrible so we’ll be fine” when I told him it wasn’t and this season away games we’ve won 1, drawn 2 and only lost 1 (controversially to a 97th minute goal at anfield) - he replied that I was wrong and “he knows better because he study’s man u’s opponents form”.

One knock in training and this is three games now - scary.

Not sure he’ll get in the team at the moment, can’t drop Wilson or almiron and maxi must start