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When you watch the highlights of their games on SSN he seems to be to blame for a very large proportion of the goals they concede, usually because he flaps at crosses so badly. In this day and age of strict FFP and PSR rules etc it would be a bold chairman who writes a cheque for £12m for him I'd think.

Fair play to them if they can get £12m for Patterson. Makes the £10m we paid for Nick Pope seem like daylight robbery!

I don't think they have got a particularly saleable squad. If those 7 players you've quoted are worth that claimed £76m there's no way they're finishing 16th in the Championship, 6 points clear of relegation. I think it's more likely the usual case of mackems bigging up bang average players and some people falling for the hype. Pritchard was their best player by an absolute mile against us. He was their only player who didn't look completely out of his depth against PL players. They sold him for £100k.

Different lights for a senior mate.

Heaton Stan 1-0 Birtley. Attendance: 1,235 Stan play West Auckland at home in the Final on Monday for a place in the Northern Premier League East.

It's OK marras. Grumpy old man has just started a thread telling them everything will be alright

Can probably add another 3 or 4 quid onto that for this season as will with the ticket price increases and the Champions League tickets being £60 a pop for adults.

Was £26 during Ashley's last full season. Haven't seen anything more recent but I'd reckon around £34/£35 now.

Shame it's not as simple as being able to whip the top tier of their ground and bolt it onto our East Stand/Gallowgate. Win, win situation for all.

Pewer financial results released today?

That's pretty quick from planning permission being granted to completion then.

Trying to think back to how long the level 7 expansion took. I had a season ticket in the Leazes End at the time and remember we spent the entire 99/00 season without a roof over our heads but can't remember what the full timescale was.

145 there. Superb crowd for a Monday night Northern Alliance fixture!

You're right it is good news. The way I see it is that will it be good if we can fit another 8,000 fans into SJP? Yes of course it is. Secondly, would a mere Level 7 extension to the Gallowgate feel a bit underwhelming after all the speculation and different stadium mock ups we've been looking at these past 2 years? The answer to that would also be yes though.

Also if they simply stuck a Level 7 onto the Gallowgate West Corner and Gallowgate Upper that would only add 6,500 seats. To get to 8,000 they'd have to create a Gallowgate Level 4 West Corner, like they did in the Leazes in 2000 (those seats directly below the TV studios) which would add another 1,500 and take capacity to a fraction over 60,000. However, currently the Gallowgate West Corner houses quite a bit of hospitality and I can't see them taking that out and replacing them with standard seats so I'd assume they'd have to rip out all the current hospitality suites in that area and place them on the same level as the TV studios are on in the Leazes.