TheBrownBottle

If he signs if we finish top 15, then the decisions not to play him despite at times not having a fit first team XI available become even more marked. Watching our midfield being bypassed with young Miley in it week after week, or BDB having a horrendous spell of form at LB, and Hall not getting a single minute looks like either poor management or that the lad isn’t close to being good enough at this point, in which case he’s a complete waste of the £30m we’re about to spend on him. He might become the world’s best LB in five years, but for now this looks like bad business.

Pickford is definitely the better keeper for me, despite being a Mackem charva. I don’t think Southgate has been wrong on that one.

Let’s start with the goalkeepers. Pickford is better than Pope or Dubravka. So that’s that one knackered.

Yeah, it’s fucking awful. There are some really creepy, scary fuckers on there

The replies to that post are grim. A lot of men on the internet who think that convicted rapists aren’t rapists, or that it isn’t really rape to rape someone If I was a woman, I don’t think I’d want to leave the house if I was on Twitter

That he’d killed himself

So glad we knocked their wheels off. They haven’t been the same since that cup game.

He’s past the ten season mark already - so in the traditional sense, he should have had one

We could take Spurs’ stadium apart brick by brick and relocate it to Beamish

I’m all-thinking, nee dancing these days

How about if we demolish London, throw the bricks in the Thames, and then move the Theatre Royal to Beamish

Rogan Taylor advocated for this in Total Football about 25 years ago, suggesting that clubs would make far more money if they did. Not sure if that would be true today, when the value to an adidas or Nike is even more in advertising than it was then (much bigger worldwide market etc)

True, but we normally walked in from Haymarket for match days (once he had moved to Cramlington) - we only travelled from Central to get to the Arena. When we used to travel in from the west end, we’d sometimes head to the Black Bull first

Yep, it’s daft really. When I do tender analysis at work, I want to see at least three contractor or subcontractor quotes for the works, as well as my own estimate - that’s how I test market value. But they’re doing the same thing with the same outcome - that’s not how sponsorship works.

I spent several years accompanying my uncle with severe MD to SJP on a match day - believe me, getting to the Leazes end was no picnic for him. He struggled with that. Walking from central station to the arena (as we did for boxing one night) was a shitload easier.

Agreed re the centre - but that’s not what matters on a match day. What matters is where the bars & restaurants are. And SJP is no better placed than the arena in that regard (with apologies to those who spend pre-match in Fenwicks ) I agree, there’s a gap from Time Square to the arena. It’s ripe for redevelopment in fairness I don’t think the elevation counts for much tbf. It’s not on a steep gradient - not sure who would be affected by it. We’re unlikely to move there, so it is moot

You could say that about Newcastle College tbf - it wouldn’t make it any more true. Newgate & Percy Streets are the effective end of the part of the city centre where shoppers and people out for the day go. Of course the arena site is dead too - there’s nowt there at the moment. That’s sort of the point. But it’s hardly a difficult trek to get there from the city centre.

Looks 17 to me I’d ID him if he wanted 20 Bensons

Watching the man try to say ‘Leazes’ is like watching a cyborg trying to mimic a Geordie accent in order to become a better YouTube content creator, but just failing to do so.

Aye, we’re both guessing really (not trying to be disrespectful in saying that; just that we don’t know what the owners think). I hope you’re right, believe me - I’d be more than happy if you are

Yep. Newcastle has never felt like a city - the centre feels like a large town. You can walk from one end to the other and back on a single lunch break.

I still think Castle Leazes is probably the more likely site if we were to build a new ground, which be a right pisser as it is an extra five mins walk minimum. Ten mins if you normally are in the Gallowgate.

It depends tbf - it definitely is if you’re drinking in the Haymarket or the top of the Bigg Market. It’s not from Central station way or the quayside

All capitalists are socialists when it comes to bail-outs …

19 of the 20 clubs just supported the changes being put through. They’re not exactly queueing up to knock it on the head - probably because it suits most of them down to the ground.