TheBrownBottle

I’d much rather sell towards the end of the window, when we know what we have

Hope going full Edwards with the £70m budget. I still think it’ll be just over £100m. I would say that he’s part of the club’s tactical game when it comes to pretending we have less to spend - but he’s the one who broke the Fraser story before a cup final, so just like the rest he’s not acting in the club’s interests. The local press are dumber than a bag of hammers - so they’ll sell whatever line comes out of the club.

I agree re the unnecessary downgrading of competitions, but it’s a bit harsh on Ujpest tbf. They knocked out Don Revie’s Leeds in the semi (the same Leeds side which won the English league title that season) and Revie described them as the best team in Europe. On winning the Fairs Cup NUFC had to knock out some big sides - including Rangers (at a time when Rangers and Celtic were the equal of any English side) and Feyenoord - who won the European Cup the year after.

And you know which 'philosopher' said that? Allan Saint-Maximin. And people say he's just a one-trick pony with no end product.

Silvera is fun to watch tbf - he tore Wanderers back line apart when I watched him play against them in Parramatta late last year. CCM were fun to watch generally last season.

I remember these 'Ask A Silly Question' columns. From memory, the magazine 'Total Football' used to ask those daft questions. It was like FourFourTwo with sensibility of Loaded. Yes, I used to buy it. We didn't have t'internet or VDs to keep us entertained back then. My mind isn't what it was, though. It might have actually been FourFourTwo. Or Loaded. Or FHM. But I definitely remember them. We didn't have t'internet. Edit: it's from the Grauniad. FFS.

Keegan never met a bright blue / green / red suit jacket that he wouldn't wear Though at least his taste was better than Venison's

My ST was in the 'A' Paddock in '94-95 - the paddock closed that summer and I was moved to the Leazes. I still miss proper standing at matches

NB The tweet he makes before the rant is from Luke Edwards linking us to Maddison. edit: and a few tweets down he comments about how he ‘likes’ the approach outlined by a different Edwards tweet re targets. Some of our lot are frighteningly fucking stupid.

I’m not sure which is stupider; believing everything that Edwards writes, or thinking that NUFC wouldn’t have a potential transfer target list going comfortably into double-figures. It’s not the ‘gotcha’ the Twitter gadgie thinks it is

He got done well and truly by your lads last week mind Coastie!

Both clubs have won European trophies before last night tbf

Well, for most clubs anyway

Winning the European Cup puts you on a very small, very select list of clubs. Pretty much every English club of any significance has one league title in the bag in their history.

Maybe have Milburn, Keegan and Shearer on three of them, then a fourth plinth like Trafalgar Square with new statues every so often. Voted on by the supporters. There is a danger that my dad and his mates vote for Tony Green every year, mind.

We play the ‘big boys’ in England twice a season, and it’s a domestic pot. The only reason the FA Cup registers so high for me is the history and prestige of it - European competitions generally hold greater value. The UEFA Cup would be the bigger trophy to win - just - but if you ask me on another day I might put it below the FA Cup (though only for emotive reasons). If I wasn’t an English NUFC supporter, I wonder if I’d actually put it below the Conference League.

Conference League 100% trumps League Cup for me. Not sure why beating Fiorentina in a final is less prestigious.

Nope European Cup Premier League UEFA Cup FA Cup Conference League League Cup The traditionalist in me wants to place the FA Cup much higher, but it’s been damaged badly over previous decades. I’m astonished by the numbers on here who’d take a PL win over the European Cup. I would swap five league titles for one European Cup

Another consideration re a new stadium is naming rights. Much to Mike Ashley’s chagrin, SJP is SJP regardless of any attempt to have a stadium sponsor. A brand new stadium opens up real naming rights benefits. Don’t get me wrong, I’m as romantic as they come when it comes to football - I don’t like the commercialism the game now attracts. But I’m also aware that the real world operates in a different way from the one in my head. A new ground in five or six years time would allow the owners to get maximum value in the market - likely with a KSA company splashed all over it.

It’s got character because it’s been around for a while. Character builds with time. The 90s era stands didn’t have much character when they were built.

Sorry to hear that - that’s a pisser. Huge error by the club. This is the sort of thing a supporters trust is there to call out - but ours’ has its nose so firmly up the board’s arse I wouldn’t hold my breath.

Land costs are one of the key factors, as are in ground conditions. Everton’s new ground is on reclaimed dock land - a potentially expensive site location, and the site purchase may have been expensive. If NUFC offered to effectively rebuild Leazes Park on the site of the current SJP the purchase costs would be minimal. Land purchase is what often is forgotten when comparing to London stadiums (along with space constrictions which often bloats construction programs). Have a look at land prices in London and you’ll get a sense of how expensive building a stadium there would be.

Pretty much mate - it really depends on what the end outcome they’re seeking is. KSA construction is heavily built around outcomes-driven scope; the cost can often go hang. But in our case, they’re liable to find that a shiny new ground in the city might be as cost effective and they can fill it with revenue-driving exec facilities.

Vanity projects like NEOM expose that they don’t have a clue about construction costs - just that they have a shitload of cash. I’ve got mates who’ve worked in the construction industry in KSA - believe me, I wouldn’t be looking in that direction for the sharpest minds when it comes to controlling construction costs.

Yep, she’s one of those people who ooze competence in their work. She has a way of speaking which is both friendly and forceful - not a combination which you come across regularly.