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spiritual home? there's fuck all left of the ground as it was when I was a kid, even the patch of grass in the middle has been altered. used to love the smell from the brewery me, its been replaced by the stench of ashley and sports direct and it still fucking reeks of him, along with the odour of decades and decades of failure. half the cunts that inhabit the place can't stand the other half and both feel justified in doing so. not only that, in the vast, vast majority of games all but a handful don't even bother supporting the fucking team, it's not even like they don't know the words to the songs, they do, as shown in games against psg and arsenal, they just literally can't usually be arsed. the sooner they raze the fucking place to the ground the better.

Let's face it lads, their biggest match of the season is coming up on Sunday

I thought you’d be right in to seeing thousands of strangers hanging out of this…

It'll personally be amazing for him to get a cap. All that hard work he has put in after starting from the bottom would have paid off.

Probably dreaming of the day they have a stadium with a capacity of 65,001.

What's the general sentiment? Positive?

I hate how for some reason the positivity has gone up over the last few days Players making right noises, the displays from wor flags and Sela, most neutrals saying they'd like Newcastle to win etc. Bastards the lot of them

The daft cunts would probably turn up with their screwdrivers to fit the seats.

Aye but you always lost.

Our gracious and humble LGBTQ+ activists down the road have now added environmental concerns to their woke agenda. So now they care about: 1) "The gays" getting thrown from roofs 2) Lasses that get stoned for flashing ankle 3) Journalists - so long as they aren't Keith Downie or anyone from Look North (who they pray get beheaded in an embassy) 4) Leazes park - a park in Newcastle, a city they hate. I wish our fan base could be so socially aware tbh.

I accidentally took a deep and meaningful arty farty pic of my nippers at Thievpal- they’d gone quiet ( which is ALWAYS a sign of impending embuggerances with nippers), and I found them just stood totally silent looking out at all the graves. When I’ve had a few too many Pimm’s and Hors d’oevres I refer to it as “The Folly of Youth” shot, then break down in tears and shout “WWHHHYYY???”

He’s been shit on Twitter

At least big Joe should be able to score with those posts.

This is just the kind of crap that will have Joelinton sent off after 5 minutes

The point is, it's a permanent Manchester United perspective or a Liverpool one. Good or bad the focus and attention is all on them.

Well done, Craig!

the galliwgate end has never come anywhere even remotely close to replicating the 70s leazes as a home end. I suppose the potential it may have had to match the leazes was fucked by a lack of roof in the 80s and all seater stadium from the 90s onwards. I'd bet my house that huge swathes of the middle tier gallowgate season ticket holders (of which I used to be one) would whinge and cry like babies at the idea of being sat anywhere other than in an almost identical place in a new ground, they'd probably demand that they're able to take 'their' bit of plastic with them that they've had their arses parked on for 30 years, even when a penalty is taken. nah, a new leazes end needs to be reborn, with as much as possible of it safe standing and a strict understanding that if you go there to live, you'll support the fucking team..... loudly.

The camber is still obvious to the naked eye. I like it, it adds character to the ground. It used to be 5 metres in Toonpack days but is now 2 metres. I was curious to what the implications were on goals scored so (yes) I used ChatGPT (deep research mode) to have a look. This is seriously impressive btw, takes about 15 minutes and it tells you its thinking as it does it. This is the conclusion: "Bottom Line: Exact goal tallies by end are hard to come by, but both historical custom and modern evidence point to the Gallowgate End being Newcastle’s most fruitful scoring end. Over all time, the Gallowgate has seen a greater share of goals at St. James’ Park (thanks to the downhill slope and second-half push) – a trend continuing into the Premier League era. The Leazes End certainly has its moments (especially when Newcastle are forced to attack that way late on), but St. James’ Park lore and statistics alike indicate that the Gallowgate End is where Newcastle score the bulk of their home goals. This enduring pattern underlines the psychological and tactical importance of shooting towards a raucous Gallowgate in front of the home faithful." My take away from this is the new stadium MUST incorporate a Gallowgate kop end. I'd have the whole pitch floating on a hydraulic ramp and change the camber to suit us depending on which half we are attacking.

Speaking of corporate hospitality, I have in the last 5 minutes been offered a corporate hospitality ticket for Sunday as one of my colleagues can no longer go!! Happy days.

The main thing, the location, is the correct choice, so I am happy overall. I think the capacity is needlessly low, won't effect me personally but I want as many cheaper seats as possible. I don't like the wrap design at all. Seems like a fad that will probably look shit in 20 years. Would prefer a classic stadium design more akin to the Emirates, Spurs, or even Everton's new ground. But this part of the story might be bullshit anyway. I don't think transport links etc is an issue all (re: Gemmill's point). We have a rail station on a main line and an international airport, we have a metro system most cities don't have. And the new location is still a stone's throw away from literally hundreds of pubs, restaurants, and hotels. I'd say we are better placed than 90% of clubs.

Also, totally unrelated @Kid Dynamite, Japan has vending machines selling used knickers. Take an extra suitcase and stock up mate.

I couldn't give a shit about England but Burn's too old to get a debut cap, pleased for him but it doesn't make sense, Jordan Henderson is a joke.

We've gone from Ashley treating SJP like a tip to the announcement that we're getting a brand spanker of a new stadium in the space of 3.5 years. The response: "not enough seats. I'm not happy."

Fuck yes, rayVin Diesel. For the family!

Right, fuck it, if we don't go into this behind the team then what is the fucking point. We absolutely can win this. It'll be stressful beyond belief, we'll all lose years off the end of our lives, but in the end that's what this club is all about. Sending everyone who loves it to an early grave. Our midfield is better than theirs. Our forward is better at least in all around play. Our defense is capable of being really damn good. We can win this, and I choose to believe we will.

if hope doesn’t get you Craig Hope will

I dread to think what they’d have to charge to fill a 68k capacity stadium. They’d probably have to start paying people to go

Why marra, the new Lewk Onion stand looks mint lyke.

I give sky some stick but that Brazilian lass gets no complaints here, not only a little cutie but a lovely sing song voice. Also helps she doesn't seem to have any preconceived ideas on who's who in the sky eco system. (Bruno's lass needs to keep an eye on el capitano iyam)

Aye but marra, there's advantages to having your stadium made out of Mecanno.

Leave it, Oz. Just leave it.

We can only dream of living in an egalitarian eutopia like Sun'land. Breeds a higher standard of social conscience.

They have posted a thread on our new stadium thread. Started at 6pm last night and at 14 pages and counting

My IBS is kicking in tbh. I've just followed through on what I thought was a fart. Thankfully, I'm in the office on my own and I'm wearing brown pants.

That used underwear reference remains the eternal warning in my head against saying anything flippant on the internet It can and will be used against you forever.

See PSG away, fucking disgrace.

Jordan Henderson recalled.

Until 2023 the age of consent in Japan was 13 so there isn't really an equivalent word for paedo, whatever paedo like behaviour you exhibit in an arcade.

Not sure there is much point in calling up a 33 year old with no international experience but I would love for BDB to get a cap.

You can take your Carragher commentating on Liverpool and your Gary Neville doing Man Utd but you’ll never hear anything as eye wateringly biased in your entire lives as Ally Mcoist on co comms for a Rangers match

Got my my new seat sorted already via an email from the club about an hour ago, you can pick it via an interactive web page....

Aramco Arena will do me.................for £100m per season.

Does it say at the bottom in copperplate script, 12:00-3:30pm. - pre match cocktails 3:30- 12:00am - Gan fuckin’ radge 12:30am - Carriages (and cans)?

I think most of them have anyway

No one's ever fucking happy are they. You need ONE fucking seat man. What do you care whether there's another 64,999 or 69,999. This is just moaning for the sake of it.

I go to Belgium in a couple of weeks to watch the cycling. It will be my 19th year (I think) going out there to watch various races. Only cut because of Covid. Over the last 6 years we have stayed in Ypres. Such a beautiful place. We have done a lot of the big cemeteries when out riding just looking, paying our respects etc. I am the one in charge of route planning for the rides and last night I was planning a route and looking at the map. Its just scary how there is so many cemeteries scattered about everywhere. I was listening to the podcast 'Not so quiet on the western front' and they said during WW1 the British Government made a decision not to have any repatriation of the fallen. Anyways I can't wait. Need a break from work, have a good drink and ride and watch men in lycra get dirty.