Keegans Export Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 Just now, Stifler said: Yeah I know, but surely £2bn on 1 project, and another £200m+ on another project 4 miles up the road will just embarrass our government. Nah, they'll just spin it and try and take as much credit for it as they can get away with Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT24 Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 Biggest meeting in the clubs recent history? To be a fly on the wall. Hope they're recording it for a to-be-released documentary on the stadium build. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miggys First Goal Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 So close… Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miggys First Goal Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 Get those plans released after the meeting tomorrow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 (edited) 2 minutes ago, Miggys First Goal said: Get those plans released after the meeting tomorrow. They have got to go to the FAB meeting first. No one who attends the FAB meeting are saying how much they know of the plans or not, or if they have seen images etc. I actually don’t think that well here anything official from the club this side of the cup final. As it happens, the weekend after the cup final is an international break, so it might be a good idea to release the information then. That way people are able to focus on it, and the discussion and the media attention won’t be getting in the way of fixtures. Edited February 23 by Stifler Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sima Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 I wish he’d fuck off with the “Geordie Brexit” shit. Especially because the opposite result would be a catastrophe this time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pancrate1892 Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 Imminent Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
J7 Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 4 hours ago, Turnbull2000 said: Labour are proving just as bad as the Tories when it comes to neglecting the North East. Numerous schemes have been cancelled, and pretty much every new infrastructure promise has been to London, the South East and pretty much anywhere but our region. Latest example... https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/durham-transport-funding-cut-50-31044494 The only hope of any significant spending around Tyneside is currently dependent on the Saudi state. Without getting political as it’s not really the thread, but to say that the government ‘cancelled A1 upgrade’ when it was never funded in the first place isn’t really true. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danh1 Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 I’m just glad that whatever is decided tomorrow will be communicated to a Yank who only remotely cared about the club post takeover. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubaricho Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 3 minutes ago, Danh1 said: I’m just glad that whatever is decided tomorrow will be communicated to a Yank who only remotely cared about the club post takeover. Didn’t she switch from Man U to us after the takeover? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sima Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 She’ll be devastated we’re getting a new ground before Chelsea. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danh1 Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 5 minutes ago, cubaricho said: Didn’t she switch from Man U to us after the takeover? That was all photoshopped in fairness to her. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pokerprince2004 Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 3 hours ago, JT24 said: Biggest meeting in the clubs recent history? To be a fly on the wall. Hope they're recording it for a to-be-released documentary on the stadium build. I hope Adam Pearson is going to be hiding in the bushes to provide us with some pictures of the meeting Seriously though this is a monumental decision, praying we go all out with a new world class stadium. Would also hope Edwards info of the new stadium being under 70k is also slightly wrong Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slater582 Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 6 hours ago, Stifler said: It is the North East though. £2bn worth of investment up here? They’ll not want to be getting called out for why they can’t at least try and do something themselves. £2bn would 150% more than what the Metro system cost to open up in the 70’s-80’s, even accounting for inflation. I’d be surprised if our region has had a single project that has even came close to that price spent on it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 5 hours ago, Slater582 said: I’ll stand corrected if and when that happens. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tross Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 They need to do the right thing and stay at SJP. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slim Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 8 minutes ago, Tross said: They need to do the right thing and stay at SJP. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Tross said: They need to do the right thing and stay at SJP. Nah. We will never ever get this opportunity again. SJP can’t be converted into a world class venue that can be used for other events, can bring in a significant amount of more fans, and matchday revenue. We have people with the money and ability to do that, whilst still overlapping on SJP or moving only a couple of hundred yards away from SJP. As they have said, they are not going to be writing 2 cheques. Edited February 24 by Stifler Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keegans Export Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 13 minutes ago, Tross said: They need to do the right thing and stay at SJP. What makes it the right thing, in your opinion? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallsendmag Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 16 minutes ago, Tross said: They need to do the right thing and stay at SJP. With every passing match I go to, I realise more and more that this would be the wrong thing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tross Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 We don't need Taylor swift and the Kansas City Chiefs in the toon. We need a proper football stadium with history and heritage. Lose that, we lose a part of Newcastle United's identity and we become a Man City tourist club. IMO. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 Just now, Wallsendmag said: With every passing match I go to, I realise more and more that this would be the wrong thing. Correct me if I’m wrong, but weren't you originally in the camp of staying at SJP? I know pre-takeover and early days of the takeover, I was excited about the prospect of an expanded SJP. I just can’t see how it’s viable now. SJP has been left behind, and short of rebuilding it, which can’t happen for various reasons, it’s not going to give us what we want. More pressingly, as someone who has been to hundreds of games, and even when I had season tickets etc, I always tried to get to at least 1 match per season, if not more. I’m now in a position where I hardly get to go because of the demand, and there are others just like me. SJP does offer us what we thought it could in the pre-takeover and early days of the takeover. The club has missed chances on numerous things in the past, the Leazes Park stadium from the 90’s. The expanded SJP from the mid 2000’s, the takeovers that happened to Chelsea, and Man City. We eventually got our takeover, now we need the stadium. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
r0cafella Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 3 minutes ago, Tross said: We don't need Taylor swift and the Kansas City Chiefs in the toon. We need a proper football stadium with history and heritage. Lose that, we lose a part of Newcastle United's identity and we become a Man City tourist club. IMO. We need more revenue to compete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 Just now, Tross said: We don't need Taylor swift and the Kansas City Chiefs in the toon. We need a proper football stadium with history and heritage. Lose that, we lose a part of Newcastle United's identity and we become a Man City tourist club. IMO. We do like. We like to say that our clubs are part of the community. The thing is though, in reality it’s not. A community has grown around NUFC, but if you don’t like football (NUFC), then NUFC doesn’t offer you any benefit. Residents of our city and region be able to attend concerts and events that otherwise wouldn’t come here is a way of giving something to non-football fans. The stadium offering a good restaurant and café in Leazes Park making it so more people can enjoy the park gives something back to everyone in the city. Hosting these events and having local businesses thrive because of them would help create jobs and stimulate our economy. Right now, SJP is a venue that offers nothing to the community outside of NUFC supporters, even that a growing number are locked out, other than the food bank that is there on a matchday. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT24 Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 1 minute ago, r0cafella said: We need more revenue to compete. In a stadium that is largely on the same footprint. I don’t really understand the whole losing your identity argument over this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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