St James' Park

[LFEE]

1 hour ago, Danh1 said:

Stay at all costs. 
 

 

Losing our best players? Getting further and further from winning a trophy? Maybe even Howe…

 

Really don’t get your fascination about the ground it’s falling apart if you have a wander around when empty. The acoustics are terrible. Some of the views are woeful and we’ve a giant screen only the away fans can see.

 

Since my first game in 1983 all 4 stands have changed. The pitch has been dug up. The box office and club shop moved as have statues. What is it that you are clinging on to? 

[Holloway]

It's not that simple is it. It still is majestic enough to blow folk away, football people. As the Bromley mob, players and fans .

[Wallsendmag]

8 hours ago, Holloway said:

It's not that simple is it. It still is majestic enough to blow folk away, football people. As the Bromley mob, players and fans .

 

Tbf Bromley have always been a Non League team up until this season. Even in League 2 they'll be used to playing in small ramshackle type grounds.

 

Whether it was SJP, Old Trafford, Emirates, or Tottenham stadium, they would have been blown away as it's a world away from what they're used to.

[Paulinho]

8 hours ago, LFEE said:

Losing our best players? Getting further and further from winning a trophy? Maybe even Howe…

 

Really don’t get your fascination about the ground it’s falling apart if you have a wander around when empty. The acoustics are terrible. Some of the views are woeful and we’ve a giant screen only the away fans can see.

 

Since my first game in 1983 all 4 stands have changed. The pitch has been dug up. The box office and club shop moved as have statues. What is it that you are clinging on to? 

Is that what’s happening at Newcastle? We’re losing our best players while getting further and further away from winning a trophy?

 

Completely bizarre fantasy where people think moving to a 70k corporate bowl at the Silverlink would magically produce success. It wouldn’t, it’d just further neuter the match day experience while allowing gorms on the internet to brag about attendances like Top Trumps. 

[Unbelievable]

3 minutes ago, Paulinho said:

Is that what’s happening at Newcastle? We’re losing our best players while getting further and further away from winning a trophy?

 

Completely bizarre fantasy where people think moving to a 70k corporate bowl at the Silverlink would magically produce success. It wouldn’t, it’d just further neuter the match day experience while allowing gorms on the internet to brag about attendances like Top Trumps. 

 

 

 

Edited 8 hours ago by Unbelievable

[MagCA]

Oh god Newcastle just announce your plans and put us out of our misery. 

[Tross]

Need to stay at current site at all costs, we move then clubs deed.

[NG32]

2 minutes ago, Tross said:

Need to stay at current site at all costs, we move then clubs deed.

Even if its just round the corner?

[Tross]

1 minute ago, NG32 said:

Even if its just round the corner?

 

Aye, same site. 

[Wallsendmag]

38 minutes ago, Paulinho said:

Is that what’s happening at Newcastle? We’re losing our best players while getting further and further away from winning a trophy?

 

Completely bizarre fantasy where people think moving to a 70k corporate bowl at the Silverlink would magically produce success. It wouldn’t, it’d just further neuter the match day experience while allowing gorms on the internet to brag about attendances like Top Trumps. 

 

I'm yet to speak to a Newcastle fan who thinks that moving to somewhere like the Silverlink would be a good idea mind 

[NG32]

5 minutes ago, Wallsendmag said:

 

I'm yet to speak to a Newcastle fan who thinks that moving to somewhere like the Silverlink would be a good idea mind 

Silverlink, its the most dire soulless place on the planet, its just a massive car park surrounded by crap shops. 

[Slim]

[Wallsendmag]

35 minutes ago, NG32 said:

Silverlink, its the most dire soulless place on the planet, its just a massive car park surrounded by crap shops. 

 

It's just your generic out of town retail park, the likes of what have been popping up all over the Country these past 25 years or so. I live 5 minutes drive away, and it serves a purpose at times although I'm far from a regular visitor.

 

Couldn't think of a worse place to build a stadium, nor do I see where there's room to put a 70k ground there anyway.

[NG32]

18 minutes ago, Wallsendmag said:

 

It's just your generic out of town retail park, the likes of what have been popping up all over the Country these past 25 years or so. I live 5 minutes drive away, and it serves a purpose at times although I'm far from a regular visitor.

 

Couldn't think of a worse place to build a stadium, nor do I see where there's room to put a 70k ground there anyway.

Yeah same here, we only drop in if its the absolute last option. 

 

 

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Staying at the current capacity at SJP would be infinitely preferable to moving out of town. 
 

Nothing out of town should even be on the table. Hopefully it isn’t. 

[Choppy Chop Chop]

1 hour ago, NG32 said:

Silverlink, its the most dire soulless place on the planet, its just a massive car park surrounded by crap shops. 

Imagine trying to get anywhere near on a matchday! you would need to start queuing the day before 

[NE27]

2 minutes ago, Choppy Chop Chop said:

Imagine trying to get anywhere near on a matchday! you would need to start queuing the day before 

 

I'd never get home ffs.

 

Move to a larger site in and around Newcastle yeah, outside obviously No.

[NG32]

7 minutes ago, Choppy Chop Chop said:

Imagine trying to get anywhere near on a matchday! you would need to start queuing the day before 

It would be carnage coming off the A19 road and then all the shoppers. 

[LFEE]

1 hour ago, Paulinho said:

Is that what’s happening at Newcastle? We’re losing our best players while getting further and further away from winning a trophy?

 

Completely bizarre fantasy where people think moving to a 70k corporate bowl at the Silverlink would magically produce success. It wouldn’t, it’d just further neuter the match day experience while allowing gorms on the internet to brag about attendances like Top Trumps. 

It’s what’s GOING to happen…

 

Thats the problem with some people. They can’t look any further than their own noses at times. This is about the next 10-20-30-40 years and beyond when I’m long gone not about us sitting 5th and still in two cups this season.

 

The UEFA regulations are going to be stricter than than the EPL current ones which already now we are having to sell players we don’t want to and not able to buy anyone of progressive note in 2 possibly 3 transfer windows. Wages unfortunately is the main way to keep players without success and they are intrinsically tied to both sets of rules. Here’s a little heads up. Players wages rarely go down.

 

As it stands at the start of each season Man City can spend £260m more than us due to their turnover ratio alone never mind their ability to sell youth players unable to make the first team for £30-40m (or a backup striker for £85m) which are fees we see as a mainstay first teamers which makes their transfer pot even greater than £260m bigger. They are currently increasing their capacity to an already modern stadium.  
 

Arsenal have similar advantages and they’ve realised within 20years they were a bit shortsighted in their new ground capacity and now looking to increase and make the gap bigger.

 

Spurs are making something like £100m more despite tied to £25m per year interest payments on the new stadium which they’ll eventually pay off.

 

Chelsea are the closest to maybe trying to do things whilst staying at a small ground but the cheapest tickets that leads to is around £90 and have a completely different economical catchment area as well a 20 year head start on us.

 

Liverpool have expanded too and still have one eye in the future to move if they can’t keep up and they’ve a 20 year head start also.

 

Everton and Villa will challenge in the chasing pack despite where they currently lie in the table. Even Leeds and others not even in our division.

 

Look what Real Madrid have built and Barcelona are building amongst other clubs in Spain and Europe.

 

I think it’s you who’s living in fantasy land thinking remaining as we are will lead us to the top table of European football. We are only anywhere close because Howe is a miracle worker and we’ve had an almost perfect success rate in the transfer window. That will not always be the case and as the other clubs get bigger and bigger any thought of silverware will feel just as distant as it did under Ashley.

 

I think most agree the location needs to be as central as possible for a new stadium. Turning your nose up at a fully paid for new stadium that would bring multi generational change is nothing but shortsightedness.
 

 

[Joelinton7]

Don’t know how being in a league cup semi, 2-0 up in the second leg is “getting further and further away from a trophy”. 

[MagCA]

1 minute ago, Joelinton7 said:

Don’t know how being in a league cup semi, 2-0 up in the second leg is “getting further and further away from a trophy”. 

Congrats on completely missing LFEE's point. 

[Fenham Mag]

I'm absolutely begging them to extend Gallowgate, modernise all four stands to make it look somewhat all the same all the way around (like the Aviva in Dublin but to a lesser extreme). 

 

100 more executive boxes stretched around Gallowgate and Leazes. 

 

Completely refurbish the corporate. 

 

The stadium is the most perfectly positioned in the world IMO - don't want to lose that. 

 

[Joelinton7]

17 minutes ago, MagCA said:

Congrats on completely missing LFEE's point. 

What was the point?

[Shearergol]

4 minutes ago, Joelinton7 said:

What was the point?

 

It's pretty clear, just read what he's writing. Everyone's expanding/rebuilding. If we don't, we get left behind.

[Joelinton7]

4 minutes ago, Shearergol said:

 

It's pretty clear, just read what he's writing. Everyone's expanding/rebuilding. If we don't, we get left behind.

I agree