Wallsend Mag

Just heard Danny Graham is out, pissin mesel if its true like! Whos left up front?

nothing wrong with pogoing. when else are the young uns meant start going and getting match experience, we've all done it

More people stood last night than PL games. More loyalty to a boozer? Nar! Cant be arsed go to the match. At least the ones that turned up got off thier arses. Exactly the same thing happend the season we got PSV in the Quarters, Marsialles in the semis, round of 16 was good numbers but shit atmosphere then quarters and semis were absolutley rockin. same this season i suspect

Given that we are club with European ambitions the the ‘rail seat’ model would most appropraite for us. This facilitates the inclusion of up to 80% more supporters than a seated area of similar size. The 'rail seat' model places 2 supporters per seat while in standing mode, the reason the upllift will only give 80 and not 100% of a similar sized seated area is because it has to incorperate wider rows and wider ailses and therefore less seats. Exits for access and egress may prove to be harder to resolve but considering its a reletively new built stand i can't see why a club of our size couldn't rectify these problems. This may not be double the capacity as I hopefully predicted but it's certainly not negligible. As I said though, there are numerous issues the aurthorities could point out to stop this happening, as you've just proved.

For exactly that reason, the authorities blamed the fans for the Hillsborough disaster and hid behind it for 20+ years, now the truth has finally emerged (even though the vast majority of football fans always knew the truth) to still use that as an excuse not to intergrate safe standing areas would be admitting the autorities, police and stewarding have not improved at all, in that time. However, I do see why you're pessimistic about the chances of safe standing areas actually comming to fruition. The authorities could just hide behind any number of health and safety issues (justified or not) and drag the whole proccess out for years and years! Nice to think one day we could all be standing in the Gallowgate with double the capacity it is now though

Safe standing areas are a no brainer for me. They give people the choice, increase capacity of the stadium and create a better atmosphere. The cost of installing them would easily be out weighed by increased ticket sales. If SJP had one it would the first area sold out for every match. Look at how well it works in Germany, they can easily convert them back to a seated area for European matchs where standing is prohibited. Its all win, win as far as I can see.

Apparently Cabaye's out with a tooth injury!

Sam jacks will defo have it on and possibly Rosie's and the Labour Clurb