TheBrownBottle

Being able to pass on loyalty points may be the stupidest thing I’ve heard in this type of thing - ever. And I know that cup final tickets used to be distributed based on having copies of programs from FA Cup matches.

This is precisely what the club moneymen are wanting as an outcome - ST holders are seen the worst thing for their matchday revenues. Happily for them , supporter groups are enabling precisely this.

100% - this summer is a massive one. If Howe is serious about changing style, I’d fully expect last year to be last one where we sign athletes.

I think the lad is a talented, gifted footballer. I also don’t see how he is going to fit into Howe’s system or potentially the PL.

Yep, his angles are a mess - and tbh that is something that can be coached into someone unless they’re a bit dense. His reactions, distribution and agility all look ok to me - but bugger me he makes it easy for the opposition with his positioning.

Haven’t seen anything which suggests there is a cap, doesn’t mean there isn’t one. But you’d need to be over by a lot to even hit 12 points - you’d have to be beyond the red threshold and then a further £39m over to hit that number.

Must’ve taken a while to root that version of Rothmans out of the British Museum

I’m taking that to mean that it was allegedly started by Keith, given that it is a fact that he’s a bald, border collies-shagging racist

Yaki da-di, we likes to party, we don’t cause trouble, we don’t bother nobody …

Damning with faint praise, mind. I saw Psycho was on talkSHITE saying Gordon should be Kane’s back-up at CF for England. I still love Pearce but he was talking complete bollocks there.

Isn’t the rule that it is net profits from non-football income that are included? If it’s just income then you’re right, the club would be best off attaching a supermarket the size of Kingston Park TESCO which would add huge sums to the revenue. I would definitely expect any new stadium for NUFC to incorporate a complex like the Gate in there with pubs, restaurants, a casino etc - you’d want as much coin coming in as possible. The numbers are much smaller but this model operates in Australia - here in NSW, rugby league is the no.1 sport but revenues from tickets, TV and sponsors has historically been dwarfed by what the clubs bring in with the ‘leagues clubs’ - effectively CIUs with added kitsch, Las Vegas meets Westerhope Comrades social club type operations. In terms of my view - if PSR is to exist, I don’t think any of those revenues should be counted - it really should be matchdays only. What is likely to happen is for football clubs to suck money out of the local community and it’ll pour into the pockets of ridiculously paid players and foreign-based owners - and will in all likelihood cause further damage to city centre economics and local pubs and businesses. The clubs owners aren’t daft - the rules are once again designed to minimise their need to invest while simultaneously making sure Joe Bloggs pays for their vanity asset.

Kelly’s Heroes went to Germany and came back with gold, of course - hopefully we didn’t come back with iron pyrite …

Unlike UEFA’s, the PL SCR rules are season-to-season. I was referring to the similarity of the calculations. So weirdly enough you could be fine in the calendar year and then breach the PL rules a couple of months later

Compliance test is on the 1 March but it’s still based on forecast against future cash flow for the remainder of the season - it’s not based on the 12 months up to the 1 March. One of the notable changes is that we now know the impact for breaches - with a ‘traffic lights’ system and fixed points deductions once you go past red - six points and then an additional point for every £6.5m you go over.

Not a case of writing him off, but he hasn’t been thrown into a role - he played most of last season as a centre forward, and the furthest back he ever played was as a deeper lying centre forward. He’s a centre forward. The worry is that we’ve had our pants absolutely pulled down on this one - Uli Hoeness is a cunt, but a cunt with a point. He’s not particularly young for a player, either - he’s 24. He needs time, but he also has to be showing a lot more than he has so far. He’s also not on a YTS salary.

Stinks of ‘final big payday’ at present

He was converting his one shot per match in a way that was never sustainable. Then his one shot per match stopped going in, and the lack of contribution or necessary hunger / aggression began to become a more and more apparent issue. Not sure I’d worry about any player’s performance in terms of tonight though, avoiding fitness and injury issues was the main thing.

Sportsmanship still alive and kicking on Tyneside

It’s a weirdly aggressive tone they take to a complete non-event. It’s not even that Stead doesn’t have a point in what he’s writing - but it’s coated in this oddly snarky tone. F365 used to be an attempt to promote ‘proper’ football writing, but it’s now filled with sub-par fanzine pish doing clickbait articles. The lad is probably being paid about £50 an article in fairness, in what must be a deeply unfulfilling way to earn a pittance.

Perfectly reasonable not to be happy being charged £70 for any game of football tbf - though I don’t think I’d have expected much performance- or atmosphere-wise after the first leg. Qarabag are as poor as any side I’ve seen us play in European competition over the years.

I was waiting for their support to start a Mexican wave …

I’d rather have Barcelona as it is a European competition, even if it will mean we’ll have played them as more times in the last 30 years as we’ve played Sunderland in the last 10.

Yes, I know that, but it is ultimately still based on that season’s accounts.

The money still counts in terms of regular P&L ledger, but the purposes of buying more players it has zero impact. The club decided not to roll the dice in January, which might prove to be sensible if we don’t qualify for Europe (not qualifying for Europe has a significant impact on SCR %), but there is an argument that we could have got a couple of expensive loan signings as the win vs Qarabag would likely have covered at least one.

It’s the same rules UEFA has. You won’t know until the season ends. I didn’t write the rulebook, I think it’s daft too.