McFaul

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Spot on. 100% spot on very similar to what I've written in one or two posts.

http://www.nufc.co.uk/page/Club/History/StJamesPark/0,,10278~2109016,00.html The Sports Direct Arena story. I bet they can hardly keep a straight face. There's no positive slant none, people who think there is should be students, or should stop thinking they still are students, alternative view mugs.

I just hope these naming rights don't get bought by Tampax or Bodyform. Imagine that the Tampax Arena. Tell you what though it's full of bleedin fannies these days.

exactly I will add there are many others apart from me LM and PP who were against Ashley, wasn't thinking straight before anyone gets emotional.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_James'_Park Full Name: Sports Direct Arena already

about fucking time they stood up to ashley I'd like to know how they got that photo of Louise Taylor in a toon shirt. Looks like she's been to bums and tums mind.

Our city, our club, our St James Park - the cathedral on the hill. Fuck off Ashley and take your shite, pikey branding with you......

So Mike naming the stadium the 'Sports Direct Arena' will seal the Champions league coming back to Tyneside? If not, then its a poor point, like the many poor points you pick up on from all and sundry on here. Why don't they use a charity to 'showcase' this fantastic advertising opportunity instead of SportsDirect, a la Barcelona-Unicef? If this advertising opportunity is so good, why has nobody taken them up on it in over two years? Again, Are Sports Direct going to have a time limit imposed on them for their free advertising if nobody in the business world rushes to buy the package? TP and Chez, you can only play the devils advocate for so long before it just pisses people off and we question whether you're actually on the wind up or not. I sometimes think CT got his flak for not just his own posts but as a proxy for you as well. Just to clarify, my point about hating Ashley even if we won the Champions League is a consistent one I've made over a long time, and nothing to actually do with the renaming of the stadium, so there's a few people misread that.

Man City only got £400m over 10 years from Ethihad because they fucking own it. Not only that who the fuck is going to give us £100m for 10 years even in this climate? Even in good times? We finish in the bottom half more than we do in the top.

Exactly. It'll become the norm for kids. St James' Park is no more. Kids won't care they'll get used to every poisoned media vehicle ramming SDA down their throats, and for what 5 or 10m? 5-10m will make fuck all difference anyway, we're the 7th team in this country, and still £30m behind the 6th team. Desperately sad day for NUFC, not really much more to say apart from ignore the WUMs

It comes down to what is a football club though. Football clubs have more and more over the last 50 years become the key form of regional and local representation. Newcastle United in particular as SBR said here "It's the noise , the passion, the feeling of belonging, the pride in your city". Feeling of belonging to somewhere. Somewhere that's constant, somewhere that's you, somewhere you belong to, and it belongs to you. In tribal terms Newcastle United are our window to the world. You go anywhere in the world you mention Newcastle, they are quite likely to know the football team, that's a fact. The colours, the stadium, the history and the heritage are sacred, it's not up for debate. We are playing with our identity here, and the fact intelligent people are pulling their y fronts down, touching their toes and saying goo on big Mike do you worst utterly sickens me to the core.

They won't have had the opportunity.

Ridiculous hypothetical question. As long as we have 10% who are mugs like you, they won't stop. I've said 100 times I'll still hate him if we win the Champions League.

I don't think a hit of £1m or £2m matters too much to a man who thinks nothing of walking out of Aspers £1m down in four hours walking out with a smile on his face.

Course you can. Salzburg have had about five different names in twenty years. Red Bull Salzburg they're called now.

I honestly did believe you were brighter than this. By linking the shirt deal with the toxic naming rights and quoting £10m for the privilege he's basically minimising the chance of anyone actually taking up the deal. Which means in a years time we will be wandering round with SD on our tops. You're going to mock me here but I think there's worse to come. Nov 11 - stadium name change to "promote the advertising potential" Feb 12 - Llambias blames fans for lack of transfer purchases & sale of Colo "your protests against name change is putting sponsors off" Aug 12 - no new sponsors therefore SD on shirts to "further promote the advertising potential". Oct 12 - Llambias blames fans for lack of transfer purchases & sale of Tiote & Cabaye "protests against name change is putting sponsors off" Feb 13 - Llambias blames fans for lack of transfer purchases & sale of Ba, HBA & Krul "your protests against name change is putting sponsors off" Aug 13 - Club announce they've been forced to add to sponsorship benefits. "have the strips in your corporate colours with your name on the front "amazing chance to fully sponsor a major Championship club for only £50m per season". Sports Direct step in and graciously offer to let use use Blue & Red as a showcase. Aug 15 - "On Sky Sports 7 today we have the clash of the titans, our new First Division coverage starts with a trip to the Sports Direct Arena as Sports Direct FC take on Brighton" meanwhile Football Club United Newcastle play their inaugural game against Hebburn Labour Club in front of a 30k crowd. I've made the statement & I stand by it. I will never set foot inside the Sports Direct Arena unless it is to take part in some organised protest, this is our club and our stadium it is not a corporate brand. It is Newcastle United FC @ St James' Park So you will be giving them the very excuse you state they need for all those things you predict. It is and always will be SJP, ignore it. Oh, and you'll never get 30K in Hebburn, it's south of the river, Newcastle can't be based south of the water, nee fucker'd go. Fuck off you cunt. I hate cunts like you. You mean hate people who don't cry at the slightest thing ??? Slightest thing1?!?!??!?!?!?! 130 years of history consigned to memory in one sweep. You fucking arsehole! Will the renaming of NUFC be a slight thing too. As I said last night it will never happen at Celtic or Man Utd. Imagine this "the Champions League Quarter Final between AC Milan and Chelse is live arfter the break from the Dominos Pizza Arena", it's as bad as what he's done. The two of them could spit roast your wife, "well I'm all for sanctioning positive feelings at boardroom level". You're a tit mate a fuckin tit. Consigned to memory, get a grip man, who amongst supporters (who are all that matters tbh) anywhere (except Sunlun for the wind up factor) is going to call it SD Arena. No-one who matters will. It is and always shall be SJP. Do I think what he's done is right, no. But it makes no difference unless you let it. You got over SD @ SJP, you'll get over this. Do you think Sky Sports and the BBC and the newspapers will be referring to where a game has taken place as SJP? You must be off your trolley pal, the whole world will think we now play at the SD Arena. I'd rather it was called the STD Arena than this. Kids will grow up, impressionable kids 8-14 and it will just be normal to call it the Sports Direct Arena, they'll grow wondering what the fuss is about SJP. He's done everything else you can do to strip a club of it's dignity, this is the worst, and the only lower he can go now is changing our colours and actually renaming the club. So what. If it works on the pitch, who cares. Up here, where it matters, it will always be SJP. If the team’s doing well and impressionable kids in Timbuktu, or elsewhere, think we play at SDA but buy shirts etc it doesn’t matter, IF (Big IF) that’s reflected on the pitch. What if we’d moved to a new stadium SJP would really have been consigned to memory as Highbury has been and Anfield or WHL likely will be. It’s all about the commercial stuff things these days, and new revenue streams, Man U (as you mention) don’t need to do it, they get tens of millions a year for a brand badge on their training kit FFS. If their money was tight don’t believe for a second Old Trafford would be sacrosanct. If you do you are naive in the extreme. (The Glazers have previous, albeit in a new stadium). Chelsea are already (and have been) looking at similar for a while. Would you trade winning something(s) for the name of the ground ?? (I would btw) On the wider front, he’s evidently after France’s biggest sports retailer, we’re currently “flavour of the month” in France, he ain’t daft is he. BUT for him to really use NUFC as a vehicle to maximise SD, NUFC has to do well on the pitch, which is all anyone wants, surely. What would you really prefer a deserted SJP and a struggling (plummeting team) or a succesfull team which plays at the SDA. Team colours and name would fall into my sacrosanct category by the way. He owns every atom of the club, it is his, he can, and will do what he wants. No amount of protests can change that, what they can change is the performance of the team on the pitch, in “Toonpack world” the team on the pitch is what the game is about. I care. People like me from Newcastle care. Not some old arsehole who has recently found the club since we were briefly a force in English football. The majority of people in the City care. Should we rename all of the roads too, because some fat billionaire who won't even be here in then years, hopefully dead, thinks it's a good marketing ploy??? Up here where it matters? Well I'm sorry we live in a global society now, and how we are seen our heritage, our IDENTITY, is as important to geordies as any other club in the world that I can think of. Where do you draw the line, shall we change the name of the city too, and fucking the country?? Why are team colours more important than the actual cathedral of our football team and it's name. SJP has been part of Newcastle longer than we have been black and white. I just can't get my head round how the tiny minority, I may add can shed any positive light on a fat cockney barrow boy dismiss 130 years of Newcastle upon Tyne heritage. It beggars belief.

Every single one built since 1988 How many bricks at SJP were laid before then? What's that got to do with anything? It's the same land, the same place, the same history, the same Gallowgate burial land where hundreds of gypsies were hanged. Some people are clutching at straws here.

Every single one built since 1988

Knocking down Grainger town is completely unconnected with this, and the two things are incomparable. Knocking parts of Grainger town were of course a sacrilege, but it in no way has any relevance or indeed diminishes the bastardisation and murder of our heritage which has taken place in the last 12 hours. I'm astonished you can't see that.

Stuck with fucking PUMA too.

In the last 20 years. No club bigger than Newcastle United has changed the name of a ground which has been their home for over 100 years. Moving to a plastic bowl like the Emirates is a completely different matter. People can talk about revenues as much as they like, but where is the line drawn? It's almost fair game to change the name of the club if this is accepted which it never will be, thank god by people who value the heritage of Newcastle United Football Club. Shepherd was right last week NUFC is an institution and THE single most important thing in North East life. Would they rename the Tyne Bridge? The Red Bull Tyne Bridge, Pampers Buckingham Palace. It is a disgrace, and the financial value will be minimal and hopefully any potential people interested will be put off by the depth of feeling which will manifest itself over the coming months.

Yeah we were poor I thought, still you'll take a scruffy win. I think if we played that game another five times we wouldn't play that badly, and hopefully Cabaye wouldn't get injured.