St James' Park

[Hank Marvin]

1 minute ago, Hovagod said:

Fuck off you stupid cunt

 

 

 

Nah, don't think so.

 

Talking shit about an old man who's done so much for this club and this region and thinking we're all just going to nod along in agreement while he gets slandered. Not having it.

 

It's usually indicative of some arrested development, adolescent outlook that is basically shared by a small cadre of loudmouthed cretins. 

[TheBrownBottle]

14 minutes ago, Hank Marvin said:

 

Ooh lads, we're in the presence of some millennial, university undergrad level political theory here.

 

Go start mouthing off like that about a club legend, on a matchday in the Percy or on the concourse or anywhere else you're likely to encounter working class fans, and you'll be lucky not to get your collar felt bairn.

 

 

 

As a former regular in The Percy, I can confidently say that no collar would be felt for saying that John Hall is a cunt.  Not sure where all this working class army ready to spring to defend the honour of a rich old man - who financially supported the govt which shut down working class jobs in the area - comes from other than a complete figment of your imagination.

 

Mind you, in the post-match Toon Disco upstairs in the Percy you’d hardly be able to hear any say anything.

 

And RIP Leo Sayer - Percy legend. 

[Holloway]

Are those Percy discos still a thing like 

[TheBrownBottle]

Just now, Holloway said:

Are those Percy discos still a thing like 

I hope so, but if not they will forever live in my memory.

 

Actually, I don’t remember them all that well …

[Hank Marvin]

Let's get ITV Tyne Tees to do a evening report on it. A roving reporter up and down the streets, "Excuse me sir, do you think Sir John Hall is a cunt?"

 

 

He's a giant of man, despite his flaws.

[TheBrownBottle]

4 minutes ago, Hank Marvin said:

Let's get ITV Tyne Tees to do a evening report on it. A roving reporter up and down the streets, "Excuse me sir, do you think Sir John Hall is a cunt?"

 

 

He's a giant of man, despite his flaws.

Tbf I’d watch local news if that was what they did for vox pops. 

[Holloway]

8 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

I hope so, but if not they will forever live in my memory.

 

Actually, I don’t remember them all that well …

Often have a pint in there pre match but never afterwards, I'm all for early evening discos 

[El Prontonise]

I see the black garter got done out recently.

[TheBrownBottle]

3 minutes ago, Holloway said:

Often have a pint in there pre match but never afterwards, I'm all for early evening discos 

Yeah, The Percy and The Three Bulls were always on my route on a matchday

3 minutes ago, El Prontonise said:

I see the black garter got done out recently.

Try not to call someone’s pint a John Hall when you’re in there, mind

[Holloway]

2 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

Yeah, The Percy and The Three Bulls were always on my route on a matchday

Try not to call someone’s pint a John Hall when you’re in there, mind

I mean how do you get a pint after the match at the Percy, must be 200 at the bar for half an hour 

[Hank Marvin]

3 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

Yeah, The Percy and The Three Bulls were always on my route on a matchday

Try not to call someone’s pint a John Hall when you’re in there, mind

 

Ahh yeh the Black Garter, I'm sure they'll love your post graduate analysis in there.

 

You should take your soap box to the Clock whilst you're at it.

[TheBrownBottle]

Just now, Holloway said:

I mean how do you get a pint after the match at the Percy, must be 200 at the bar for half an hour 

I used to head to the Quayside post match - to get as far away from the crowd as possible to avoid exactly this

[Dr.Spaceman]

1 hour ago, El Prontonise said:

Going to be fantastic to get rid of the Sir John Hall stand.

 

Tory, racist cunt.

 

Yes, hadn't thought of this 

[Holloway]

Just now, TheBrownBottle said:

I used to head to the Quayside post match - to get as far away from the crowd as possible to avoid exactly this

Union rooms when it was Spoons for me, easy pint and a seat

[TheBrownBottle]

Just now, Hank Marvin said:

 

Ahh yeh the Black Garter, I'm sure they'll love your post graduate analysis in there.

 

You should take your soap box to the Clock whilst you're at it.

Used to drink in the Garter with my uncle sometimes post match.  
 

For several years I drank in the Adelphi pre and post match when Tess Mann ran it.  I never had my post graduate analysis in there lead to getting me a slap, either. 
 

In all honesty, you just seem desperate to think that casual violence for overhearing people say something negative is par for the course in Newcastle’s less shiny pubs.  In two decades drinking in those places I can honestly say I saw less pagga and aggro than in the shit plastic Bigg Market bars of my yoof.  Listing ‘hard bars’ in Newcastle and fantasising that a bloke you’ve never met will get beaten up in it for saying that John Hall is a cunt is an interesting use of imaginative thought, even if it is borderline ‘my dad is harder than your dad’ crack. 

[Hank Marvin]

1 minute ago, TheBrownBottle said:

Used to drink in the Garter with my uncle sometimes post match.  
 

For several years I drank in the Adelphi pre and post match when Tess Mann ran it.  I never had my post graduate analysis in there lead to getting me a slap, either. 
 

In all honesty, you just seem desperate to think that casual violence for overhearing people say something negative is par for the course in Newcastle’s less shiny pubs.  In two decades drinking in those places I can honestly say I saw less pagga and aggro than in the shit plastic Bigg Market bars of my yoof.  Listing ‘hard bars’ in Newcastle and fantasising that a bloke you’ve never met will get beaten up in it for saying that John Hall is a cunt is an interesting use of imaginative thought, even if it is borderline ‘my dad is harder than your dad’ crack. 

 

I clicked the wrong quote, it wasn't yours I was after 

[TheBrownBottle]

Just now, Hank Marvin said:

 

I clicked the wrong quote, it wasn't yours I was after 

Fair enough Hank  - but I’d still advise being more careful in one of those wank bars on Collingwood St than in the Garter  

[TheBrownBottle]

3 minutes ago, Holloway said:

Union rooms when it was Spoons for me, easy pint and a seat

Plenty of room, too.  I had a few ‘routes’ over the years  - don’t know how that happens, but groups of mates seem to have regular routes then somehow it all changes.

 

Pre-match it was the Empress - Beehive - Vault - Idols when I first started.  Then that changed to Union Rooms - the Pink Lane pubs.  Then the Adelphi - Bar Oz - Percy - Three Bulls.  And I have no idea when or how the routes changed!

[TBG]

God things were so much simpler under Ashley. Instead of expanding or moving to a new ground, we could've just continued selling of the land we owned.

 

65,000? What a joke.

[Hank Marvin]

10 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

Used to drink in the Garter with my uncle sometimes post match.  
 

For several years I drank in the Adelphi pre and post match when Tess Mann ran it.  I never had my post graduate analysis in there lead to getting me a slap, either. 
 

In all honesty, you just seem desperate to think that casual violence for overhearing people say something negative is par for the course in Newcastle’s less shiny pubs.  In two decades drinking in those places I can honestly say I saw less pagga and aggro than in the shit plastic Bigg Market bars of my yoof.  Listing ‘hard bars’ in Newcastle and fantasising that a bloke you’ve never met will get beaten up in it for saying that John Hall is a cunt is an interesting use of imaginative thought, even if it is borderline ‘my dad is harder than your dad’ crack. 

 

Just to take you up on that though.

 

That isn't my point really. I'm not saying that there is casual violence in some of the more...infamous drinking holes in the city.

 

What I was trying to get at is that I think there's a difference between some of the opinions people have on here, to what most people hear out in town rubbing shoulders with normal people.

 

It's weird because I don't think I'm trying to defend the indefensible - I didn't realize that there was such disdain for him on here (to be fair I'm not on that much) - But I was always of the mind that fans and people of the area respected him for what he did at the club and what he did regenerate the area with the Metro Centre and the like.

 

Perhaps I'm wrong and the majority opinion is now that he's an evil old bloodsucker and must be burned at the steak of public opinion because he was a businessman, who, shock horror, had ties to people who favoured the wealthy.

 

If you want to call him cunt go for it, I'll not be joining in.

 

Cheers.

 

 

Edited March 14 by Hank Marvin

[Holloway]

2 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

Plenty of room, too.  I had a few ‘routes’ over the years  - don’t know how that happens, but groups of mates seem to have regular routes then somehow it all changes.

 

Pre-match it was the Empress - Beehive - Vault - Idols when I first started.  Then that changed to Union Rooms - the Pink Lane pubs.  Then the Adelphi - Bar Oz - Percy - Three Bulls.  And I have no idea when or how the routes changed!

Monkey bar and Bacchus for me early doors, then head for the Farmers and Percy/ Hotspur. Sometimes squeeze one in in the ground 

[Whitley mag]

10 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

Used to drink in the Garter with my uncle sometimes post match.  
 

For several years I drank in the Adelphi pre and post match when Tess Mann ran it.  I never had my post graduate analysis in there lead to getting me a slap, either. 
 

In all honesty, you just seem desperate to think that casual violence for overhearing people say something negative is par for the course in Newcastle’s less shiny pubs.  In two decades drinking in those places I can honestly say I saw less pagga and aggro than in the shit plastic Bigg Market bars of my yoof.  Listing ‘hard bars’ in Newcastle and fantasising that a bloke you’ve never met will get beaten up in it for saying that John Hall is a cunt is an interesting use of imaginative thought, even if it is borderline ‘my dad is harder than your dad’ crack. 

Worst beer ever in the Adelphi but sad loss to the pre match route, does Tess still go to the games ?

[TheBrownBottle]

4 minutes ago, Holloway said:

Monkey bar and Bacchus for me early doors, then head for the Farmers and Percy/ Hotspur. Sometimes squeeze one in in the ground 

Always drank in the Hotspur, just not on a matchday.

 

I liked going into the Monkey Bar after work sometimes (I worked at the PPA in my younger days).  
 

4 minutes ago, Whitley mag said:

Worst beer ever in the Adelphi but sad loss to the pre match route, does Tess still go to the games ?

Haven’t seen or heard anything about him in years, couldn’t say.  The lines weren’t exactly sparkling clean in there, mind. 

[TheBrownBottle]

8 minutes ago, Hank Marvin said:

 

Just to take you up on that though.

 

That isn't my point really. I'm not saying that there is casual violence in some of the more...infamous drinking holes in the city.

 

What I was trying to get at is that I think there's a difference between some of the opinions people have on here, to what most people hear out in town rubbing shoulders with normal people.

 

It's weird because I don't think I'm trying to defend the indefensible - I didn't realize that there was such disdain for him on here (to be fair I'm not on that much) - But I was always of the mind that fans and people of the area respected him for what he did at the club and what he did regenerate the area with the Metro Centre and the like.

 

Perhaps I'm wrong and the majority opinion is now that he's an evil old bloodsucker and must be burned at the steak of public opinion because he was a businessman, who, shock horror, had ties to people who favoured the wealthy.

 

If you want to call him cunt go for it, I'll not be joining in.

 

Cheers.

 

 

 

I doubt that calling him a cunt is a majority view, though I’ve no idea.  He was always a cunt for me.  He put very little of his own money in - a couple of million - and his family stripped an awful lot back out (£100m+).  He fucked off as soon as the float went through, though he continued creaming off the top, before selling us down the river to Ashley (who he constantly defended). 
 

The Metro Centre was always proof to me that business much of the time is luck and not talent.  Hall and his backers’ plans for that area was for a small shopping centre with a large play area, and all on the cheap (land previously owned by the NCB being sold off cheaply after the destruction of the coal industry by the woman he funded and who knighted him in return).  It was the likes of M&S coming in and asking for more floor area that saw it grow and grow.  

[Holloway]

8 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

Always drank in the Hotspur, just not on a matchday.

 

I liked going into the Monkey Bar after work sometimes (I worked at the PPA in my younger days).  
 

Haven’t seen or heard anything about him in years, couldn’t say.  The lines weren’t exactly sparkling clean in there, mind. 

Just getting off the train, off to the Bodega to try some real ale 👍