League Cup Trophy Celebration: Saturday 29th March

[Miggys First Goal]

Is this another Sela production then? Guessing a simple open top bus parade would have been too small time for them. All about the experience with them. 

[Scoreboard82]

43 minutes ago, Hovagod said:

We don’t half have some knackers support us like. The bus parade is now, deep down, what we all dreamt of when we won a trophy- and if we don’t have one we might as well not have bothered winning it.

 

Of course this is an acceptable thing to attack the club’s owners for, not that other stuff that they get defensive about. 

Wouldn't go that far Hovagod. All some are saying is that they feel the club/council/police have got it wrong. It feels like the celebrations are being dampened to me. Some aren't even physically able to attend and therefore the event is open to some and not all. 

[Coffee_Johnny]

1 hour ago, David Edgar said:

I'm 8000th in the queue. 

 

My partner is 13000th. 

 

Won't be able to stay in the queue as we need to head out soon. 

 

Merde.

I joined the queue forgot about it and logged back about an hour later and found I could still proceed. So the ‘you’ll have ten minute’ thing maybe isn’t strictly accurate. 

[astraguy]

Took me an hour n half 

[David Edgar]

Just now, Coffee_Johnny said:

I joined the queue forgot about it and logged back about an hour later and found I could still proceed. So the ‘you’ll have ten minute’ thing maybe isn’t strictly accurate. 

 

Thanks. We joined on our phones and we are now ten minutes away.

[RodneyCisse]

Got my interest registered, need further details now to see if it’s worth going to.

[GeordieDazzler]

My sources are telling me there will be parade of some description 

[bigfella]

The obvious way out for the club (and the council) is to have the Town Moor thing on Saturday, but have an open top bus parade in the City Centre at the end of the season. Especially if we have Champions League qualification to celebrate as well.

[The Prophet]

 

[Turnbull2000]

Just want to hop off the Metro at Manors, walk into town, applaud them on a bus tour, and head home.

[TBG]

 

 

[Dr Venkman]

4 hours ago, Paully said:

Keith Barrett on FB;

 

Looks like they have rained on the parade, turning a celebratory day into another ‘experience’

The ballot road to enjoyment 

Telling folk how to celebrate the love of their team 

An enjoyment advisory service organised by people who wear suits and false smiles and have never been to Exeter or Shrewsbury 

Strangling self expression and spontaneity of Geordie folk who have have promoted enjoyment in the face of adversity for a football life time, just look in any Newcastle Upon Tyne pub on a match day, despite the result on the pitch, Geordie’s are the masters of enjoyment, we probably bloody invented it, but now, we need to be instructed on how to behave celebrating our teams cup triumph

I dunno about you, but I don’t need to be listening to a DJ to enthuse me, telling me ‘to make some noise’ I don’t need modern day ‘tunes’ to fire up my vocal chords, I just need my fellow Geordies to be as one, a few choruses of The Blaydon Races, sang at a proper speed, I need smiles and appreciation of the teams achievement

Just a natural reaction 
Just be normal 

I don’t want to see Darren Eales cheesy grin pretending he’s been waiting a life time for this day, telling us this is only the beginning 
Promising global domination and support from all over the world 

It’s now, that’s what it is, and if we never win another trophy again let us enjoy this one, this time, our time, now

Let the Geordie people line the streets with bed sheets and flags and songs, local songs that lift the Geordie heart in celebration of our team, the kids, the not so wealthy, the Grannies and Grandads that can no longer get into the match let alone get their hands on a Wembley ticket, just let the people say thanks to the team that have given us at long last something that we all just dreamed of

The only stage needed is an open top bus rolling slowly through the streets up to St James’s Park amidst a sea of black and white 

Don’t give tradition another kick in the bollocks and turn a celebration into a circus or an American style contrived extravaganza 

We are not anybody else 
We are us 
A people with our own identity 

We don’t need to be told how to celebrate, we have just realised a lifetimes dream

Leave us alone, we have been alone most of our football lives
And through that trophy less loneliness we have built a togetherness comparable to nothing else like it 

Let us get on with our celebration in our own imitable way

Just keep it simple, keep it real, and most of all keep it Geordie

Let the wheels on the bus go around and around ….

Was totally with Keith until he tried to use the word ‘inimitable’.

[Joelinton7]

Shirley the team and trophy can just fit on BDB and we can have an open top piggy back parade 

[LFEE]

2 hours ago, Scoreboard82 said:

Wouldn't go that far Hovagod. All some are saying is that they feel the club/council/police have got it wrong. It feels like the celebrations are being dampened to me. Some aren't even physically able to attend and therefore the event is open to some and not all. 

Who’s not able to attend?

[Wolfcastle]

Hilton > Swing Bridge > Grey Street > Eldon > Gallowgate > SJP with crowd and Sir Bobby's your uncle.

*Iconic imagery. Good business for the town establishments prior. People able to have a celebratory drink.

Was so easy.

 

 

Edited Saturday at 13:49 by Wolfcastle

[Hovagod]

The thing is. People like the Facebook poster got back on board (excuse the pun) when we were taken over. At the time, the dilemma was, ‘do you want to be owned by scumbags who will spend lots?’ The secondary dilemma though, which nobody considered because they were either preoccupied by the primary one or otherwise excited about the money and trophies, was, ‘do you want your club to be a hyper-commercial entity that makes decisions with little to zero regard for its core fanbase in order to build its international one?’ 
 

I am sorry but as somebody that wrestled with the implications of our ownership and was frankly disgusted by the fact that a big percentage of fanbase did not, I’m not going to join in now with those who were perfectly happy until it meant we didn’t get a bus parade though the city.

 

This is our bed. Sunday was the best day of our lives. 

 

 

Edited Saturday at 13:59 by Hovagod

[Dr Venkman]

4 minutes ago, Hovagod said:

as somebody that wrestled with the implications of our ownership and was frankly disgusting with a big percentage of those that did not

How disgusting are we talking here?

[GeordieDazzler]

[Hovagod]

2 minutes ago, Dr Venkman said:

How disgusting are we talking here?

Haha, edited!

[TBG]

What about those confined to the rest of the UK? They can do it with the Olympic Torch.

[Holloway]

I've yet to meet anyone who thinks it's a good idea

[Abacus]

 

26 minutes ago, Holloway said:

I've yet to meet anyone who thinks it's a good idea

 

Likewise.

 

Never mind, still too happy, I've already said I wouldn't go earlier so therefore I'll just butt out of this thread now and genuinely hope everyone who does go has a great time.

[Holloway]

22 minutes ago, Abacus said:

 

 

Likewise.

 

Never mind, still too happy, I've already said I wouldn't go earlier so therefore I'll just butt out of this thread now and genuinely hope everyone who does go has a great time.

Aye same, I'm not coming up for it, my attention span doesn't stretch that far. A parade through the city would have done 

[Whitley mag]

2 hours ago, Hovagod said:

The thing is. People like the Facebook poster got back on board (excuse the pun) when we were taken over. At the time, the dilemma was, ‘do you want to be owned by scumbags who will spend lots?’ The secondary dilemma though, which nobody considered because they were either preoccupied by the primary one or otherwise excited about the money and trophies, was, ‘do you want your club to be a hyper-commercial entity that makes decisions with little to zero regard for its core fanbase in order to build its international one?’ 
 

I am sorry but as somebody that wrestled with the implications of our ownership and was frankly disgusted by the fact that a big percentage of fanbase did not, I’m not going to join in now with those who were perfectly happy until it meant we didn’t get a bus parade though the city.

 

This is our bed. Sunday was the best day of our lives. 

 

 

 

Keith never got off board like many of us he bleeds Black and White, but like many didn’t want to help prolong Ashley’s stay by funding Sports Direct, probably a lot to do with being banned by the club and being completely fucking disillusioned by the whole episode as well.

[LFEE]

22 hours ago, JT24 said:

That isn’t people though, it’s devices. A lot of people are likely to be logged in on multiple. 

Yes but taking into account a lot of people will be queuing on behalf of others between 2-6 people the numbers aren’t that far off kilter and balance up.

 

For example a family of four one of the parents might queue the once on a couple of devices but want four tickets once at front of queue.

Not as many people as you think use multiple devices.