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Wilky

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  1. Don’t mind them to be fair. Every year everyone clambers for retro which are great when they come. But if we have retro every year we will never have new designs. I always think do the retro thing one year then experiment the next. Some years will be fail some will be new classics that will be clambered for in retro shirts 20 years down the line. As some have alluded to with the old NTL shorts, we now look back on them with fondness
  2. Wilky

    Sunderland

    If the don’t manage automatic promotion, Charlton look like they may be in the playoffs with them. Wouldn’t that be perfect. Just saying......
  3. In 3 weeks time it will be 10 years since I set foot in SJP for a football game where I supported NUFC (3 Rugby games and the Northumberland Senior Cup final doesn't count as I was in the Morpeth Town camp that day). Had cancelled my season ticket at the start of that season after Keegan left and Kinnear was installed. Was travelling up from Leeds for every home game and the box office amazingly swalloed a bull story about being moved further south allowing me to cancel a few games into the season. They must have been a bit suspicious as I initially explained the real reason for wanting to cancel.... Continued to buy the odd ticket when back in Toon and the 1-1 derby against the mackems (Taylor dying swan pen game) and the end of that awful transfer window I decided that was it. For me it was obvious at that point Ashley had no intention of investing the funds we as fans put into the club and I have vowed never to put money into the club whilst he owned it. Never thought he would still be here 10 years later. For something you devoted your life to previously it is heartbreaking but I've not missed it as much as I thought but I will still renew the season ticket when that odious man goes.
  4. Look he's saved 20 stores Altrincham, Greater Manchester Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire Birkenhead, Merseyside Camberley, Surrey Carlisle, Cumbria Darlington, County Durham Doncaster, South Yorkshire Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire Huddersfield, West Yorkshire Leeds; Lincoln; Maidstone, Kent Skipton and Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire Plymouth, Devon Solihull and Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands Telford, Shropshire The towns in bold i would have no idea why he would want to save though, seems very strange. Be a number of reasons. HoF might be main anchor tenant or have a lack of other anchor tenants to compete with. Those towns may have higher vacancy rates so landlords cut favourable deals to HoF so not having to deal with holding costs on a large asset in a town with little chance of reletting without substantial outlay in redevelopment minus an end user in the short to mid term. Also they may just be trading well in those locations
  5. Did they used to be Blyth Town? Barry Elliott was involved with them - local shithouse in Blyth (was involved with UKIP) Everything he touches turns to s****. Don't ask him how many times he's been made bankrupt, or he will have his solicitors on to you! I think so aye, they ended up having to ground share at Ashington. Shields were trying to sign coppen from Morpeth and while our useless b****** of s chairman stuttered he jumped in and paid £1500 for him. Hope shields get him and Dan Wilson back. That’s not a fair representation of the situation. Coppen fell out with our gaffer and the thick f***er thought there was a clause in his contract that allowed him to walk away for nowt. He even had a foul mouthed he’d verbal spat with Nick Grey on Twitter. Turns out Nick was right so he couldn’t walk out. Coppen announced he had signed for N Shields on Twitter after agreeing terms on a free but he read his contract wrong. Morpeth then sold to the highest bidder and the Blyth chairmen threw money at us and we accepted. Your chairman rightly didn’t get into a bidding war and the financial situation at Blyth shows he was right. I don’t know your chairman but I know those who volunteer in senior positions and by all means a top bloke.
  6. Or a handy excuse not to play a game they have no obligation to play as it’s a NL cup and they are now EPL. Or a bit of both. We’ve lost players that we would have otherwise kept, including first choice keeper. Promotion definitely a challenge beyond the obvious There will be teams in the NL playing to not get promoted next season. Yup. I’d visited a fair few NL grounds with Morpeth in recent years but realistically I’m not travelling to Goole and Belper where our first two fixtures are. Shame for the fans as well because we always took a decent away group.
  7. We'll have to agree to disagree on this one. I struggle to think of a worse CB that's played for us over the past 15-20 years. Worse than: Marcelino Frank Dumas David Beharall Titus Bramble Steve Caldwell Gary Caldwell Jean Alain Boumsong Oguchi Onyewu Paul Huntington David Rozenhal Cacapa Tamas Kadar Peter Ramage David Edgar Zurab Khizanishvilli Fitz Hall Sol Campbell Grant Hanley If you think he is the worst centre half than all of the above then yeah we will have to agree to disagree.
  8. I feel there is a bit of revisionist history here. He wasn't a terrible player and we have had loads worse than him. He was average, did well in spells, did poorly in others and was a decent squad player who had some useful runs in the team. Don't see the need to demonise the guy. The floated set piece debacle was a Pardew issue and unfair to blame Williamson for his poor tactics.
  9. Or a handy excuse not to play a game they have no obligation to play as it’s a NL cup and they are now EPL. Or a bit of both. We’ve lost players that we would have otherwise kept, including first choice keeper. Promotion definitely a challenge beyond the obvious
  10. hopefully enough to improve their floodlights
  11. I'm guessing the game plan was to hope to be in the tie in the final 10-15 minutes so we went with mostly attacking options on the bench with club captain Rasher and ex mackem striker Stephen Elliot. Curtis Coppen, signed from N-Shields and a very good central defender was the defensive option. Although Rash was called on early cos of injury it nearly worked. Mind, hell of a come down for Stephen Elliot, last time he was at SJP was scoring against NUFC in the derby (Emre freekick winner game) to now being on the bench for a team in the 9th tier of English football.
  12. A mate of mine will be playing for Morpeth - Chrissy McDonald - he played at SJP in the final for Whitley a few seasons ago! Aye not sure how much of a game he has been getting lately but he wasn't even on the bench for the final, instead going for a winger, Wayne Phillips at left back. Maybe they were worries about NUFCs pace - which was one of the reasons we got beat. Didn't disgrace ourselves though. Disappointing end to the season, Marske deserved winners. Onwards to promotion next season but will miss playing all the local sides for some Yorkshire pudding instead. Shame about the Roofing but was their gaffer/chairman was a gobby pain on the touchline so little sympathy. Always found it strange that Jarrow FC seemed to be climbing up the leagues - I'm guessing the good folk of Jarra weren't happy with the Roofing being based at Boldon.
  13. Northumberland Senior Final tonight at SJP. Always feels strange cheering the opposition to NUFC but Howay the Peth! Tonight is also probably the night Marske go above us in the league and that will be that. Fair play to them, been by far the best team in the NL this year and will see them next year as we are both promoted (forced or otherwise)
  14. Meanwhile in the Northern League Marske I think pretty much guaranteed to win the league now. 12 games in 20 days is insane for them but they are only 13 points behind with 8 games in hand now. I can't see them losing half of those sadly and we have done our best in recent weeks to drop points, including Markse hammering us down there. In truth they have been the best team in the division this season and if we had won it would have been due to fixture congestion. That said in recent seasons that same fixture congestion has worked against us but hey ho.
  15. well I guess we will find out but our chairman is very much against it on financial grounds. I'm assuming it is why that god awful fencing has been erected around the whole of Craik Park as an attempt to hold the ground not being up to scratch. But if it is as rosy as you say there will be no issues but I'm sceptical. Some of the players I understand have expressed concerns and I believe mid-table NL clubs are monitoring - the fact that these players could play at a higher level already but choose not to is suggestive enough that it will be a problem.
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