TheBrownBottle

This is why I’d rather see a new ground with shitloads of corporate - to try and keep ST costs to a minimum. I wouldn’t want to see the average matchgoer in the NE being hammered to go to the football

Haha yep, somehow they were always a good night out - always went to a town or village which was just the right size depending on how many coaches were on. Great times

Yep. Top of my head I’ve done around 100 away days including Europe - of course, loads will have done far more than that. The win ratio would be terrible - but it’s not the football that necessarily sticks in the mind. Sometimes whichever small Yorkshire town Barrett’s coaches pulled into on the way back to Newcastle produced happier memories than the 90 mins of turgid football that preceded it

Anfield’s rebuilt Main Stand completely revamped and increased the corporate capacity & intake. Capacity isn’t the only way to catch up to Liverpool and Man Utd - loads of corporate is. SJP just doesn’t have that at the moment. Liverpool’s matchday revenue is more than £40m more than ours - though their cheapest ST is also £200 more expensive than ours. So to catch up, we’d need to hike the average ST price up by 50% and somehow add a load of corporate to a stadium that doesn’t currently have sufficient space for it. Man Utd’s matchday revenue is £100m more than ours.

Our match day income is currently one third of Spurs’. I doubt a potentially unfeasible Gallowgate extension to add 7,000 of the cheapest seats in the ground is going to claw that back by much. SJP as it stands isn’t fit for purpose

61% of Sunderland voted to leave Europe, but I bet a higher % of Europeans would have voted for them to leave

We’ve watched enough Howe press conferences at this point to know how media savvy he is - he gives nothing away unless he chooses too. I don’t get the impression that Howe is particularly cut up about it

Gan on Eddie lad

You’re right re his record, but a bottom half club would absolutely take a punt on him - he’s guaranteed goals during the half a season when he’s fit, which could be the difference between staying up or not. He’s been linked to big clubs, but I can’t see any of them picking him up because of the injury record

You do have a point - Andrea Riseborough is a hateful Tory cunt who’s embarrassed about her roots.

Said earlier that I love Wilson as a centre forward, but even I think his time here is up. Wonderful no.9, but nee use if he’s never going to play for more than a few games before breaking down. Absolute pisser because he’s a fantastic traditional centre forward.

Mick from Murton isn’t a gatekeeper to an industry which is infamous in its lack of northern working class representation. It’s almost as if people like her are stopping opportunities for NE actors …

When you’re saying Manchester is good because ‘it’s like London’, you’re just a wanker, plain and simple. Regional-based snobbery. She can get fucked, frankly. She’s talking about touring England like it’s a fucking trek, rather than a tiny country in which you can drive from top to bottom in less than a working day. It’s also easy for them to forget that plenty of us have actually been to London, too - and as appealing as 20 miles of suburbs in all directions is, plenty of us would rather cut off our bollocks than live there. Some of this feels like almost a family thing - I can take the piss out of my relative, but you can’t.

I’m from the west end - when I used to go to the match, if I wasn’t setting off early then most of the time it would be the bus us the west road, then up and past the Black Bull and down Barrack Road again. It was chocka in any case - it would just be moving from a congested West Road to a congested Scotswood Road

Its transport links as pretty much as good as SJP

No idea if it has tbh. I hate articles like that one generally - lots of hints from ‘sources’, without anything actually specific. Hope and his kin would make better palm readers than journalists.

Howe’s playing Ashworth LB as well. He needs the sack.

This is where there should be questions asked of the ownership, while being frustrated with Hope’s patter as a journalist (‘Sources say there are ‘blurred lines …’’. Blurred lines about what, Craig? What were the original plans? What are they now?). Why does it take weeks for PIF to respond? Surely the decisions they’re asked to resolve are re money. Why the continuing inefficiency? And if PIF need to sign everything off, why does the club lack an active PIF representative on the board? It’s a strange ownership model, this.

Ashworth isn’t a head scout, though.

Player wages + transfer amortisation for the current season is likely over £300m. Given UEFA’s changes to FSR, we’ll need to start getting that under control - yes, next season you’re allowed 90% of those items vs turnover, but the year after it drops to 70%. The usual PL rules also apply. At the moment, I don’t see how our income increases next season compared to this season. The adidas deals balances the loss of Champions League revenue. Basically, we might not have a huge amount of wriggle-room without money coming in. I don’t doubt we’ll make signings though.

21) stop referring to the PIF ownership as ‘the project’

Just about the only viable option in the city centre. Would’ve been perfect in all honesty.

I wasn’t aware of that - I quite like that as an idea

I love Wilson, second favourite NUFC no. 9 after Shearer, but fucking hell if he was made of candyfloss and cobwebs he’d be more robust

11) all musical instruments banned from football stadiums* (*South American exemption applies) 12) national teams at WCs to wear traditional kits. Bollocks to Brazil in white shorts and Spain in red shorts 13) all entrance music to be replaced by a marching band playing appropriate tune for club. Blaydon Races in our case, which should stop the Colosseum New Monkey ravers doing it at 150bpm 14) further to previous FA Cup points, and to point 13), Abide with Me at Wembley to be played by armed forces band and sang by crowd. I don’t want to hear some daft cunt warbling it like they’re on pop idol over a tinny sound system 15) applause in X minute stopped irrespective of sentiment 16) beer to be allowed within sight of the pitch. And I’m a teetotaller 17) Barry Davies to allow his voice to be used for AI commentary, so that it would be worth listening to again 18) safe standing available in at least 50% of all stadium capacities 19) under soil heating banned for FA Cup matches in winter. Snow only allowed to be brushed to show pitch markings. Complaints by managers about conditions to be punishable by points deduction 20) black pentagons and white hexagons are mandatory for all footballs used in professional football (WC ‘74 design). No other design allowed other than orange for snowy pitches (see 19))