St James' Park

[Dr.Spaceman]

46 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

I’ll go one week in singing and one week in the abusing Longstaff area.  

 

Be nails to get seats in either area!

[KetsbaiaIsBald]

1 hour ago, geordie john said:

It's been a very long time since I last posted on here. Time to break my silence.

I'm 72 now and first went to St James's in the '60's. I went pretty much every other week and saw all the Fairs Cup games. 

It was a completely different ground then, in every way possible. For league games the atmosphere was pretty poor, only a few - and the Fairs Cup games - was the crowd rocking. 60000 Geordies shouting their hearts out. 

Going to the present day St James's, it's a totally different ground. 

A complete refurbishment will make it a completely different ground again. Capacity won't allow a new generation of fans to experience what I experienced.

For heavens sake, move to a new 'state of the art' ground with an 80000 capacity and let everyone experience the thrills of watching our team, and let the world look on in awe! 

I've lived in many houses in my life and loved them all. We all move on in life and learn to love new things. 

I, for one, ache to see the new ground in all it's majestic splendour. 

 

I’m near 50 and have not experienced as many iterations of the ground as you but 100% agree.  This is exactly how I feel. 

[Stifler]

5 hours ago, Dr Venkman said:

To avoid going around in circles I’ll just say thanks for the response. Totally understand where those who are cautious about a move are coming from.

 

Ultimately I think most of this comes down to your final question. Is it worth losing SJP for? IMO, SJP is in a fantastic location, and that’s all I’d be concerned about losing. Providing any new build is city centre, IMO, any loss would be negligible.

Yeah. I honestly wish that they used the event to put forward more details, like the two full plans, location, time scales, renders etc. If they did, then we would now have a clear view of what’s on the table.

Those who have reservations about moving may have their concerns eased.

Similarly, those of us open to a move may now not be willing if theirs compromises.

 

We would know where we stand, and what’s on the table, instead of this constant discussion about what it may or may not entail.

 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Stifler

[Tiresias]

While on record wishing  to explore every possible  avenue to stay in the location (doesn't have to be renovation, completely knocked down and rebuild if we could somehow edge out some more room somehow would be completely fine by me) if we have to move, I hope it's just a short hop to Leazes. I think the current site should be turned into parkland to replace that which is gone but would be nice to have something impressive there, to have something in that place in the city skyline (massive statue of Joelinton???), I would hate for it to be replaced with just more generic student flat buildings.