Dr Gloom

Yeah, I noticed that too. An old mate of mine from Gateshead used to always say it. I grew up in Washington and people used to say it there too but Washington is kind of no man’s land with a pretty even mix of Geordies and mackems so fuck knows

We put the soon in soonlan

Newcastle legend Steven Taylor, said no one. Ever

Darras Hall, so bound to be well tasteful

The mediators need to step in now and tell both sides to chill the fuck out. Though this response looks to be a response in inverted commas - just as Iran's was when they telegraphed their launch of 300 missiles against Israel. Sounds like it was limited face-saving strike, designed to not piss off Biden too much. The Iranians seemingly using media to take the piss out of how feeble it was and the hardliners in Israel up in arms that it wasn't a more destructive strike

defence and oil stocks have generally been doing brilliantly since russia invaded ukraine.

it's shocking what has become of the FA cup. it used to be as big a deal as winning the league. better in some ways because the finals were such memorable occasions.

touch of class

guaranteed this is what's happening now

I wouldn’t mind a crack at the Europa league next season. Probably got a better chance of going deep in that tournament.

The English teams have fucked our chances of a fifth champions league spot. Germany will probably get it now

Washington Campanile?

it's got to be the city centre. the youtuber NJS mentioned ruled out the arena site, because the brownfield land down there that is big enough is owned by three different people - the company that owns the arena site, some helicopter business and a site where work has already started for new residential buildings. so it won't be big enough were they to acquire the arena land. i'd love them to knock sjp and rebuild a world class stadium on the existing site but i don't know where you play while that work is carried out so i suspect it's a non-starter. castle leazes seems the most obvious solution to me if you want a city centre location. failing that, the town moor maybe? again, our youtuber mate thinks not because of the cattle that is allowed to graze there. would take a lot of work with the freemen of newcastle and local environmental groups, apparently. but money talks so fuck knows if it's a nonstarter

yeah, i watched that series. he's one of the better newcastle youtubers tbf to him. you'd think a student housing redevelopment would be an easier obstacle to navigate than listed buildings or parks - partiularly as the work hasn't started yet.

Whose books is he even on now? Everton or that Turkish side?

Why not resurrect SJH’s plan to move on to castle Leazes? It’s not much further out of town and unlike Leazes park, it isn’t listed. Would just need to get it past the dog walking committee. You could build a state of the art 70k seater stadium there with all the corporate hospitality needed to compete with the big boys on match day revenue. We’d also be able to continue playing in sjp while the work was going ahead. The video animation, as exciting as it looks, appears to be the work of a fantasist, not an architect.

I think they’ll eventually build a new stadium. Fuck knows where. Hopefully not out of town

Yeah, I don’t see how option B or C work. The new expanded east stand looks great in that animation but goes almost flush against Leazes terrace. There are obvious planning and access issues stopping that from ever happening

I don’t think we can host major finals due to the lack of 5 star hotels