TheBrownBottle

Christ - mind I’m not surprised. Probably need an income above £70k or something daft to afford it as well

Average ST age in PL is mid-40s. You need to have a good income to go. The older lads would have been in the East / West stands upper tier - they will have been sitting to watch the game. Ageing crowds and all-ticket matches has killed atmospheres more than anything else - all-seater stadiums are an offshoot of higher ticket prices (Lord Taylor advised going all-seater, but said clubs should hike prices as a result. We got the former but not the latter).

0-0 after 17 mins was a treat that season pre-KK …

Alright I’m sold on that one - balls to it all; it’s our year.

I agree with everything other than the last sentence

It’s not either / or tbf

100% agreed mate

The foodbank bet was the worst. None of the ‘optics’ look right for me with these. Even borrowing off Ashley before slating him isn’t exactly great crack (even if we’re likely to agree due to a loathing of Ashley).

Of fucking course it is hahah fuck me ragged

It’s not a surprise - it’s more that it’s improper.

Nee bother

The ‘chancer’ line might be a bit far, but the rest was perfectly fine to me. But perhaps you like the club’s money being used to bail an owner out of their own self-created mess.

Then she doesn’t need to buy them back. Be interesting to see when the money gets repaid - and if she loses, she wouldn’t be able to repay, so the club takes the risk

‘Hahaha look at them Geordies and their cup runs. Amahrite? Lads?’

Getting one of them in the QF increases the chances of playing both - it doesn’t decrease it. You’d want them to play each other Coventry (H) for me, thanks

It’s a misappropriation of club funds for her own personal use. It’s completely inappropriate, as it would be with any shareholder. It would be nice to one day not have this type of thing going on at the club

I knocked my own head and decided that I wouldn’t make anymore of it, though other heads should receive a good knocking to hopefully put a stop to it

It’s a probably not a great game to stick in the memory, but the one which always sticks in my mind is the 1-4 home loss in 89/90. As a kid I loved Steve Bull as an England player, and was excited to see him at SJP. Wasn’t quite as happy when he absolutely annihilated us and scored all four for them. Phenomenal centre forward at that level though.

Apologies mate, I should’ve known better tbf. It’s one of those phrases that I don’t like seeing - no need to explain it. This is a ‘it was me, not you’ one

I’d think that the SF allocation would be roughly 50:50 - there aren’t all that many who go to SF who don’t support either team. The FA Cup Final would be massively different from the LC in terms of allocation - from memory we got somewhere around 20k for the late ‘90s finals; new Wembley holds more, but I’d be surprised if our allocation would exceed 30k.

I’ve probably overreacted, but I always felt that the ‘deluded Geordie’ shit we’d get off the London press was flavoured with regional prejudice. I always hated it - the implication of ‘who do they think they are?’

You know, I’m sick to fucking death of the number of people who think it’s alright to insult Geordies like this. I’m a Geordie and I’d like you to knock this bollocks on the head.

Depends. Traditionally it was based on attendance at cup matches + ST

I’ve watched enough of our away games to think that ten men back has been a regular tactic this season. And what I just witnessed wasn’t dissimilar to a ‘Steve Bruce’ NUFC performance. Bruce is a vastly inferior manager to Howe, so the comparison is ultimately moot - but I can’t be arsed with head-patting for good performances and excuse-making for repeatedly shite ones.

You know, ‘better than Steve Bruce’ isn’t exactly a mark of quality. And Ashley’s running of NUFC was a shambles, not a benchmark. Those of us who supported the club in the ‘80s and ‘90s didn’t spend half our days wanking on about ‘remember how shit 90-91 was’ everytime KK’s side had a bad run and drew some criticism. Howe deservedly got plenty of credit in the previous year and a half. What’s being put on at the moment isn’t acceptable. It doesn’t make you a superfan to put the blinkers on