TheBrownBottle

It was as much about hearing that he was obsessed with breaking the record for me. It’s such a weird, arbitrary record. I hate the ‘football started in 1992’ bollocks.

Bill Hicks had a point re marketing types

I had thought the Longbenton site was earmarked for housing. HMRC is of course moving to a site in the city centre owned by the Reubens. Because why wouldn’t the Revenue want to work in office owned by tax-avoiders? Makes sense to me.

It has - both sides have basically missed open goals at this point. Hasn’t been the worst entertainment-wise, for me

It was an absolute rocket like. As good a penalty as you’ll ever see - that mad little hop clearly does something. Like Mr Miyagi’s crane technique being applied to football

France absolutely dominant here - still think the French keeper is iffy though, which leaves it open.

‘The Quayside Stadium’ has a good feel to it to me

Ooh - Shearer’s record with pens at decisive moments really wasn’t great.

You can 100% see why the arena site would appeal. It’s still in the city centre (just), it takes roughly the same length of time to walk there as SJP does in terms of most of Newcastle’s pubs (I’m sure a key consideration for owners …), it’s much closer to the train station, and dramatic aerial shots above the ground on match days would have the city’s bridges lined up behind it. It’s actually a more visually appealing location if done right. Not saying we will move there. But it wouldn’t be the worst idea.

Both of which are actually in KSA

Normally reserved for ambassadors that one

It was 11th August here in Australia before anywhere else - well, apart from NZ and a few Pacific Islands. So I was expecting we’d get it first.

I’d be perfectly happy if the window shut tomorrow. Anyone else in would be great, but I’ve zero expectations

And being a right ugly cunt …

God, that documentary was great. ‘I don’t know what you’re laughing at son, you were fucking shit’. Magic.

Not available outside the UK, RoI and Scandinavia apparently. That’ll grow the club worldwide, then.

Jesus Gil?

Levy is such a cunt. He’s hung Kane out to dry. Kane should go back, feign injury and piss off on a free next year.

Not sure about that mind

There are two elements to this I can think of: 1 - the positive one - a stadium is a fixed asset. Once built, the club reaps the benefits - this is particularly the case if the cost is met upfront 2 - the cynical one - all the current big clubs are the ones who are truly protected by FFP. However, facilities are expensive and required - so they won't want their FFP to be hit by building a billion-pound stadium

There used to be a good atmosphere at Maine Road / CoM stadium. I suspect that success flattens atmospheres in the long run - expectation means that wins are expected, and anything else is failure. I'm happy for us to take part in a social experiment to see if this thesis is correct - if NUFC would oblige and win a lot of trophies that would help this research. In the name of social science NUFC, get some trophies.

Yep, I don't get misty-eyed when I see what T Dan Smith wrought. It was cultural vandalism.

No, I'm with you on the four-sided grounds. Football is about the only area of life where I'm deeply conservative. I don't like the bowl-style stadia - they're characterless. If we stay at SJP in its current guise, I will add my name to the list of those who think the East Stand needs knocking down though - even if the number of additional seats is extremely small

As fun as it is to do, we've got no solid evidence at all that PIF even want to pour in the sort of money required to build a super new stadium where money is no object. This is an investment vehicle - cold, hard numbers will come into play. This will also apply to any redevelopment of SJP.

Tbf one of the biggest reasons we top that list is the same as the one every NUFC away fan wanted to know when Blackpool away was in 2009/10