St James' Park

[Ben]

  On 10/06/2023 at 15:32, Dr Venkman said:

Terrible place to put a gig on unfortunately, access is bad, can’t park the trucks anywhere. Production costs much higher than other venues.

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Strange take

[Rafalove]

Chris Eubank is a Newcastle fan?

[Wallsendmag]

  On 10/06/2023 at 18:47, Rafalove said:

Chris Eubank is a Newcastle fan?

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Aye. Came to do a talk in at SJP many years ago and confirmed it.

[Stifler]

  On 10/06/2023 at 13:38, BoSelecta said:

Haha as if they say a lad from shields supporting Newcastle isn’t supporting his local club. Fucking melons. 

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Aye, pisses me off. One of my mackem mates says this, yet he’s Washington born & bred and supports them. It’s a fucking similar distance from his to the SOL as it is for me to SJP.

Honestly man, they say people from Gateshead or Byker are not from Newcastle, even saying the airport isn’t in Newcastle, yet expect everyone in Spennymoor to be a season ticket holder for them. Fucking hell man lads, Spennymoor is closer to Barnard Castle than it is to Sunderland.

[BGRM]

  On 10/06/2023 at 13:38, BoSelecta said:

Haha as if they say a lad from shields supporting Newcastle isn’t supporting his local club. Fucking melons. 

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Oh no I'm from Shields as well. These mackems telling me I should have been supporting the Robins instead of the Magpies for the last 40 odd years. Aye aleet!

[madras]

  On 10/06/2023 at 22:05, Caleb70 said:

Oh no I'm from Shields as well. These mackems telling me I should have been supporting the Robins instead of the Magpies for the last 40 odd years. Aye aleet!

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And they should support South Shields, Hebburn Town ,Jarrow etc ?

[et tu brute]

They try and use every excuse to try and justify not getting the crowds we do. There is only 14 miles between the two clubs and yet you still get the daft fuckers spouting shite like this:

 

Newcastle have a huge catchment area from Berwick to North Yorkshire and west to Carlisle. 
We are right in the middle of it .

[UncleBingo]

  On 10/06/2023 at 08:10, Miggys First Goal said:

Is is just Mackem myth or was Fender really not a fan until the takeover? I ask this as somebody who doesn’t have a clue about him. 

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A complete and utter myth.

 

His Uncle was a Skunkers regular who I used to drink with before the match, and the whole family were NUFC daft.

 

They tell themselves these things as some sort of coping mechanism.

[Stifler]

This is going to be controversial, but the thing is, Sunderland isn’t really, and should never have been classed as a city or large town that has it’s own council etc.

Sunderland in reality is the same to Durham as what South Shields is to Newcastle. A large town down stream from the river that makes up the conurbation area.

I don’t know where it went wrong and where it got separated, but Durham was the major and authoritative area of Wearside. It should have been Durham who had the professional football team, and Durham should have always maintained the authority of the area and the catchment area should have stayed as being centred around Durham.

Now you have a town sized area trying to make up its own population centre and being its own city etc. It’s a bit like if South Shields started taking the likes of Jarrow and Hebburn, and calling them South Shields suburbs.

This is why Sunderland struggles to keep a large attachments area. Places like Washington are equally as close to Tyneside as they are to Sunderland, Boldon etc are Tyneside but house Sunderland’s dog racing track, golfing range, and their BMW car shop.

You have places Spennymoor which they try to claim as their own, which is closer to Durham & Darlington. Rainton, which is Sunderland council controlled is pretty much a part of Chester-Le-Street, which is Durham, and that alongside places like Hetton and Houghton actually all have Durham postcodes.

Durham should have been the kept as the major city of Wearside, and if it was then maybe in every way possible, it would have been a big rival to Newcastle for being the dominant city and de facto capitol of the North East.

[Ben]

  On 11/06/2023 at 05:35, et tu brute said:

They try and use every excuse to try and justify not getting the crowds we do. There is only 14 miles between the two clubs and yet you still get the daft fuckers spouting shite like this:

 

Newcastle have a huge catchment area from Berwick to North Yorkshire and west to Carlisle. 
We are right in the middle of it .

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There must be about 14 people live between Berwick and Carlisle 

[Groundhog63]

  On 11/06/2023 at 06:22, Ben said:

There must be about 14 people live between Berwick and Carlisle 

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All related to eachother

[RS]

Sunderland isn’t a “real” city. The queen gifted them that status in 1992, her quote at the time : “I hereby give this disgusting little backwater city status, to

soften the blow of nufc emerging as a dominant force in football again, oh and Andrew, leave that schoolgirl alone” 

[Dr Venkman]

  On 10/06/2023 at 18:42, Ben said:

Strange take

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It’s an informed take.

[Ben]

  On 11/06/2023 at 07:02, Dr Venkman said:

It’s an informed take.

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I was there on Friday and I thought it was a great venue, the two taller stands create an amphitheatre style and as for lack of parking for trucks, that's just not true. 

[jack j]

  On 11/06/2023 at 06:11, UncleBingo said:

A complete and utter myth.

 

His Uncle was a Skunkers regular who I used to drink with before the match, and the whole family were NUFC daft.

 

They tell themselves these things as some sort of coping mechanism.

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How is Winchester mag thesedays. Assume still traumatised after the whole toonlass shambles travel carry on

[mattypnufc]

Corking gig and atmosphere yesterday. 

[Dr Venkman]

  On 11/06/2023 at 07:08, Ben said:

I was there on Friday and I thought it was a great venue, the two taller stands create an amphitheatre style and as for lack of parking for trucks, that's just not true. 

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I didn’t mention shape of the stands 

 

You can choose to believe whatever you like. SJP is a pain to put a gig on for various reasons which amount to further costs when compared to other similar venues, which is why it rarely happens.

[Guest]

  On 11/06/2023 at 07:08, Ben said:

I was there on Friday and I thought it was a great venue, the two taller stands create an amphitheatre style and as for lack of parking for trucks, that's just not true. 

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We should knock down leazes terrace OR move it brick by brick so we can find space for more parking trucks. Only then can we get Springsteen or JayZs boiler 

 

[Ben]

  On 11/06/2023 at 07:16, Dr Venkman said:

I didn’t mention shape of the stands 

 

You can choose to believe whatever you like. SJP is a pain to put a gig on for various reasons which amount to further costs when compared to other similar venues, which is why it rarely happens.

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OK, is that your opinion or are you involved in the logistics of putting on shows ? 

[Dr Venkman]

  On 11/06/2023 at 07:21, Ben said:

OK, is that your opinion or are you involved in the logistics of putting on shows ? 

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As I told you, it’s an informed opinion

[madras]

  On 11/06/2023 at 07:16, Dr Venkman said:

I didn’t mention shape of the stands 

 

You can choose to believe whatever you like. SJP is a pain to put a gig on for various reasons which amount to further costs when compared to other similar venues, which is why it rarely happens.

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You'll have to expand on that.

[Interpolic]

Bet he's not even a real doctor. 

[Ben]

  On 11/06/2023 at 07:23, Dr Venkman said:

As I told you, it’s an informed opinion

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Nee bother, in my informed opinion your full of shit.

[Guest]

So anyway....it looks like with the link up with sela as an events organiser and the intention to create a fanzone within strawberry place could mean in the time frame that any potential expansion of SJP would have to wait till after 2028? 

[Dr Venkman]

  On 11/06/2023 at 07:26, Ben said:

Nee bother, in my informed opinion your full of shit.

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That's a bit uncalled for, don't you think?

 

I'm glad you had a fantastic night. All of the production equipment that facilitated your lovely time had to be loaded in to the stadium. All of it arrives on articulated lorries which are cumbersome to get around city centres and difficult to find places to hold while they're being unloaded and to park over the weekend. The lorries are packed with large boxes, which hold the equipment, the boxes have wheels on them so they can be pushed to their final destination for setting up. The simplest version of this is that you park the trucks right next to where they're needed (stage, front of house desk, etc). Here I'm going to encourage you to think a little. You can't get a truck on to the SJP pitch, or anywhere near. How do you think those boxes got to where they need to be? Just take the equipment that was needed for the strawberry corner stage position. Where would you park the trucks to unload them and how far would you need to push the boxes? Where is there an access way big enough to load in really large items?