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I don’t agree with it, the beauty of the cups, are the randomness of it. Hopefully this season they will stop pre-heating our ball. Maybe it benefits us in the years to come, or maybe they’ll introduce another rule tweak which only affects teams North of Washington.

He will be first choice for England if he signs for us. Or he can be a rotation option somewhere else. His choice, and potentially his loss if England win the World Cup once they get a competent manager.

It’s probably a smokescreen, but I’m cool with whatever they do… as long as it also involves an all out assault to sign Olise.

This sounds harsh, but I’d genuinely highlight he has been pretty poor for us in about half his games. Whether that’s due to the style of the team, the demands on him without a suitable understudy, or the time it takes for him to get up to speed, I don’t know. If we can get him to stay injury free and to play consistently to his strengths, I really think the sky is the limit. We have a couple of potentially world class players for the team to grow with. It’s frightening what we can become, and even more frightening that with Man City around, trophies are far from guaranteed even keeping our superstars.

Pretty sure I remember Peter the great in goal for us. Pioneers!

Howard Webb is a Manure fan. That is all.

The way coefficients work is quite corrupt, another example of the old rich staying rich. Old rich relative to us, as I accept PSG are also new rich. rules bought in to stop another Chelsea, Man City or PSG… basically to stop us.

Our amortisation and intangibles charge for 22/23 last set of accounts is known, and the projection for future yrs based on player acquisitions is clearly shown. Of course we add on Tonali, Livra and Barnes to those figures and hall from 24/25 onwards, but get ffp profit back on Maxi and Chris Wood, and any sales we make this summer. It’s common knowledge we are close to limits for 23/24 but we are growing commercial revenue, and salary’s appear to be sensible. The key is continuing to grow our revenue, and staggering when we make signings. We benefit from the 21/22 ffp overspend falling off when next years accounts are published. We can’t throw it around like the Manchester clubs and Liverpool, but we have a quality management team and owners who know what they are doing. I can’t tell this forum what we have to spend as a lot of the financials are confidential at this stage, but we will have some money to spend, and I am confident they will continue to grow the club. It is important we qualify for Europe, otherwise an Olise type signing could be a struggle. A good deep run in either competition to semis or beyond would likely bring in similar money to this years champions league group stage. Then we have to stay in the top 6 continually, otherwise it could get tight. The key to really competing is probably regular top 6 finishes, a revamped stadium (or ticket price including season tickets increases) continually increasing our commercial deals and clever player trading, unless the rules change again.

I wish opposition fans didn’t want to come. We give up our seats for their support to have a nice weekend away. Let them enjoy Liverpool instead and encroach on the Kop. Who on here really gives a toss about what away supporters want. We can fill their allocation 15times over with passionate supporters who are locked out.

We are a club that want to compete, not a shell outfit like under the fcb. We will spend what we are permitted to do within the rules, I see no reason we wouldn’t have a relatively big summer. We will invest in youth / potential, make smart signings and if the opportunity arises will go big for a long term target / game changer. Fear not happy clappers in the East stand, and early leavers, you will have an improved team to (not properly) support next season.

It’s pretty likely we play with a league gk and a cup gk, especially if we qualify for Europe. Given the number of cup games, it should keep both keepers relatively happy and allow us to establish a playing style and definite number one for the business end of the season and beyond. missing out on Europe, and I tend to agree with you a bit more.

3 games in a weeks now, hopefully we will have learned some lessons from the winter, use our squad and see some rotation in the Manure game. First things first, put Brighton to the sword.

Newcastle Specific Player of the Season: Bruno Young player of the season (21 or lower): Tino Season to forget: Tonali Most Improved: Jacob Murphy Unsung Hero: Fabian Schar Signing of the Season: Tino Goal of the season: Barnes vs West Ham Moment of the season: Schar wrapping it up against PSG. Low point of the season: Forest on Boxing Day Manager rating (Out of 10): 9 considering the hand he was dealt Premier League Specific Player of the Season: Declan Rice Young player of the season (21 or lower): Cole Palmer Manager of the Season: Gary O’Neil Season to forget: Casemiro

I’ve been rating the team every game and tracked it through the season, and have Bruno as player of the year. BUT I have absolutely no problem with Anthony winning it, he has been immense and I feel it is richly deserved.

Either will do for me, I’m sure that whoever the club appoint will be the best candidate available and the right fit for us based on where we currently are and where we are going.

If it’s a simple 8,000 increase in capacity, that’s going to be swallowed up by new corporate and hospitality offerings so the membership base and new fans are going to benefit much. Whilst the club can only spend what it generates I would be worried if I was a season ticket holder too, the costs of which may well skyrocket in the coming years. Irrespective of which camp I was in, I genuinely think a capacity below 75,000 will have an adverse impact on all current matchgoing fans as demand will outstrip supply and the only leveller will be price increases. Legacy fans won’t hold much sway if they can’t pay. I’m not yet convinced this expansion is the true outcome of the feasibility study, and will only believe it when reported through numerous reputable media outlets, and the club themselves. I wouldn’t be surprised if a story was leaked to gather more feedback on fan opinion. fwiw, I favour a small move to Leazes Park or Castle Leazes, and a World Class stadium as a true marker of intent. With a massive capacity this may provide some cheaper seats, though probably in the gods.

Guess that’s what happened with West Ham last season.

I’d be surprised if there is any team in the world who doesn’t want him.

Even not in Europe we need a third Striker. This season has proved it and Cal is a year older. We need to be smarter at picking up loans while we build the squad, fringe and young players from elite clubs. Whilst we may develop them and not see the benefits, there is also a possible opportunity to build rapport pick them up long term down the road.

Sorry about the second half of the season, that must hurt. Me and mine have won tickets through the ballot for 3 games this season. 3 games out of 23 applications I think. I feel ripped off. Maybe it’s karma as last year and before it was attainable to get tickets on a match by match basis, for fans without the luxury of a season ticket. I don’t believe demand is any higher now than it was when I saw us vs Southampton, Spurs, Arsenal and Brighton at the back end of last season, it’s just an inept system which is nothing more than a game of chance, and which could be rigged. At this point NUST aren’t really representing Members, so I hope the club will be transparent about how many tickets were applied for in a category by category basis, and let us know how many tickets were available in each category. I want to go to every game next season and have more than enough money set aside for tickets, refreshments etc. At the very least I want to be able to apply for tickets in every category next season, not be limited to a ballot for one area like NUST forced when the initial system was changed in August. Fair, my arse.

The cartel clubs, ffp and fmv and the long term consequences of the Ashley era, coupled with a crippling and ongoing injury list really have us hamstrung. It’s tricky to see a short term way out of this predicament, and it increasingly looks like it may continue into next season. I was extremely frustrated last night, and now have reluctant acceptance that we sow what we reap, and having to rely on championship standard cloggers for so long is going to be debilitating over time. If the relationship between salary and finishing position is accurate we are broadly performing to standard this season, and when the injury list and lack of squad depth is considered we are probably overachieving. Doesn’t bring much joy or satisfaction though. Suck it up, it’s pretty much all we can do.

Ketsbaia stripping off and kicking the crap out of the advertising boards after scoring.

Maybe he should have it surgically removed. Be worth 6 points a season.

In many ways it’s amazing Eddie has maintained our effectiveness going forwards given the injuries to Barnes, Wilson, Isak, Big Jow, and the loss of form of Miggy. Perhaps we recruited poorly not buying pacy defenders, but for everytime Gordon rinses his full back for pace and scores or creates a goal the same happens to our defence. That’s football. I’m as pissed off about it as anyone, continually gifting the opposition a goal start but in elite sport you have to accept that it isn’t all in the managers gift to resolve. We lost 4 players to injury again yesterday, and a suspension. Sometimes what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, and I can’t wait to see the phoenix rise.

Some cracking to and from comments this afternoon. I think we all need to remember we aren’t the only team trying to win every time we play. Our opposition also have a squad of 25 and who knows how many coaches, sports scientists, physios, analysts etc. Our opponents might be richer than us, they might have less injuries ans they might have a stronger bench. They might have a player who has a season defining performance, and they may have worked out how to exploit a weakness in our system caused by a savage injury list. There players might be good at game management, cheating and off the ball fouls. They might play for Luton on a relatively low wage fighting for their financial future. We have no right to beat anyone on any given day, we have to work our socks off and take our moments. As the club progresses so will the squad and we will have a stronger first team, bench and more experienced coaching g set up. in spite of all of the above, the injury and fixture list this year have been crippling, and we are probably overachieving based on every metric except net spend over the past 5 transfer windows.