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Wallace

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  1. My boycott of SD has been easy to uphold because I refused to go in long before Ashley bought Newcastle and before I had ever heard of him. I just couldn’t stand the shop and the claustrophobic feel with everything crammed altogether and piled high. Expect it is better today but have no interest in finding out. Persuaded my Mam to boycott which she still does - much to the amusement of my brothers and their wives when she goes shopping with them and will stand outside waiting for them rather than enter the store.
  2. Total Sport have just said we have sold over 3000 tickets for Saturday..
  3. If we qualify for Europe, won’t we need to keep him to fulfil the homegrown criteria?
  4. Wallace

    England

    Had the same issue yesterday. Very confusing especially when there was already a delivery method pre-selected. Eventually realised as you did, that I needed to update my profile.
  5. Wallace

    St James' Park

    For me, if they have to move, it can only be to another city centre location. There will be additional problems to consider if they moved away from the centre. A stadium outside of the city would have major transport issues. The majority of traffic including public transport would be heading back to Newcastle for onward travel whilst currently the traffic goes in all different directions. Most can get away relatively quickly whether that is to the metro, bus, car park, pubs etc. An out of town stadium would need huge improvements to the public transport infrastructure. Build huge car parks and it will take forever to get away. They might want to keep the bars etc open after a game but with the increased journey time many will want to leave quickly promptly. Rearranged kick off times will be even more of a problem for those who travel to games from distance. I think being in the city has helped the club in bad times as people have continued to go. Easier to sack it if when it is a pain to get to. And of course there are the economic benefits to local businesses with being based in the city.
  6. I was introduced to the Busway when we played at Luton in December. It is a bus that comes off the road and then goes on to a tram line. Stops outside the ground. Once it is on the tramline, it is really quick and I think I paid £2.20 one way. If parking near the ground proves difficult as I was told it would be (albeit that was for a first team game) then parking near the busway might be an option. Got away pretty quickly after the game as well.
  7. This season’s points deduction should have happened last season but didn’t due to the protracted process of their hearing and if had done then Everton would have been relegated. They made changes this season so that these breaches are addressed more promptly hence this possible second points deduction hanging over them. They got lucky last season and now have plenty of time to win enough games to safely avoid relegation even if they get a further points deduction.
  8. Pretty sure Pearce is a Bristol City supporter.
  9. A Howe pre-season is said to be really tough. The US tour would have curtailed that to some extent and I wonder if that has also contributed to our shortcomings this season. Something else he will have to learn to adapt to as such tours will be the norm from now on.
  10. But if we qualify for Europe, would we then not have an issue with the number of homegrown players.
  11. De Bruyne and Doku both came on as subs today. De Bruyne has been out since August I think. No idea how long Doku has been out for.
  12. I was in the top tier too and thought the atmosphere was very good as well.
  13. Yes - 3 with us and 1 at Sunderland. Think it is the younger one (Mason) at Newcastle who is meant to be the best of the 3. He is a box to box midfielder. The youngest (Layton) is at Sunderland’s Academy and is a defensive midfielder.
  14. With injured players returning, you don’t know how long they need to get back up to speed. Some players come back and it is like they have never been away whilst others need a number of games before they start looking like their normal selves
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