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I was up at St James on thursday re-newing my season ticket and it looks like the old place is getting a paint job.

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I was up at St James on thursday re-newing my season ticket and it looks like the old place is getting a paint job.

Hope it looks splendid. All I remember when Pardew wss  in charge here was us upgrading the dugouts. In 2 summers that Rafa has been here, we've upgraded the training facilities and SJP has been slowly upgraded since this past season.

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I was up at St James on thursday re-newing my season ticket and it looks like the old place is getting a paint job.

 

Aye I was up there yesterday handing in my season ticket renewal and the car park underneath the Milburn/Leazes Corner was full of various different contractors fans. Looks like it's getting tarted up for our return to the Premier League.

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If anyone goes in or around SJP, please do take pics and upload it here if possible. I have a strange fascination of any upgrading works that happens at SJP since I was a kid. Started of with the when we rebuilt the Gallowgate and the Strawberry corner and it has gone on ever since. Even if its just the relaying of the pitch in the summer, makes me strangely excited looking forward to the new season.

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There was some mention of a 2nd screen going up a little time ago as well.  The only logical place can be beside the executive boxes in the Gallowgate/Milburn corner.  Obviously we'll find out although that smell of the steps after it's repaint last Summer never went away all season, so hopefully it's nowt as bold.

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I was up at St James on thursday re-newing my season ticket and it looks like the old place is getting a paint job.

 

Aye I was up there yesterday handing in my season ticket renewal and the car park underneath the Milburn/Leazes Corner was full of various different contractors fans. Looks like it's getting tarted up for our return to the Premier League.

 

Contractors have fans? ???

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The stadium as it is now is 20 years old, it definitely needs a revamp.  I've always thought it would look a lot better with more black instead of the dull grey that covers most of it. 

 

Has it really been 20 years since the expansion was finished? fuck I'm old :(

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The stadium as it is now is 20 years old, it definitely needs a revamp.  I've always thought it would look a lot better with more black instead of the dull grey that covers most of it. 

 

Has it really been 20 years since the expansion was finished? f*** I'm old :(

 

Aye i'm sure it was either started or finished in '97.  You're right it does make you feel old but it's even more scary when you think how many of those years the club have spent making shit decisions and under achieving.  :dave:

 

 

 

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The stadium as it is now is 20 years old, it definitely needs a revamp.  I've always thought it would look a lot better with more black instead of the dull grey that covers most of it. 

 

Has it really been 20 years since the expansion was finished? f*** I'm old :(

 

Aye i'm sure it was either started or finished in '97.  You're right it does make you feel old but it's even more scary when you think how many of those years the club have spent making shit decisions and under achieving.  :dave:

Think it started in 98, was complete in 2000/2001.
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'Singing section' coming back for next season. Imagine it'll be the Strawberry Corner which appears to be the unofficial singing section anyway but news to follow in the next few days :thup:

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'Singing section' coming back for next season. Imagine it'll be the Strawberry Corner which appears to be the unofficial singing section anyway but news to follow in the next few days :thup:

Announced after season ticket renewals start, nice.
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'Singing section' coming back for next season. Imagine it'll be the Strawberry Corner which appears to be the unofficial singing section anyway but news to follow in the next few days :thup:

Announced after season ticket renewals start, nice.

 

Is this meaning that the existing people in the area that may not want to be in a singing section, didn't get to know it was going to be a singing section, until after they renewed there tickets?

 

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Gallowgate Upper is the obvious choice for a singing section as there's a fairly small percentage of season ticket holders up there, maybe around 50% of the seats.

 

Should have announced it a while ago because I renewed last week and would have been interested in moving to it.

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'Singing section' coming back for next season. Imagine it'll be the Strawberry Corner which appears to be the unofficial singing section anyway but news to follow in the next few days :thup:

Announced after season ticket renewals start, nice.

 

Is this meaning that the existing people in the area that may not want to be in a singing section, didn't get to know it was going to be a singing section, until after they renewed there tickets?

Possibly, but more towards the fact that people who have put in renewals who would want to sit in that section now have the hassle of requesting a move, possibly to an area that has a different pricing structure.
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They should have announced it officially, well before the renewals were made available.

Very interested to get into the singing section, however think now, that my hopes of getting two together are slim to none.

 

By the gallowgate upper do you mean blocks s/r?, we went into s a couple of times last season and the amount of people giving it the boo's, wannabe managers, not getting behind the team in general was quite alarming to me, after returning after few year break, not as bad in r but was a bit there, also the singing in general in both areas was pretty poor to be honest.

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