Hi I’m launching a new blog focussed on The Championship for this season. For my season preview, I’m keen to profile a kind of ‘insider’s view’ on the prospects of each 24 clubs for the next season. So, with that being said, I’d really appreciate a bit of an overview of how you think your season is likely to go? How’s it shaping up/where do you need to strengthen/who do you need to keep hold of/where do you think you’ll finish, etc. Any and all feedback would be much appreciated. I’ll let you know once the blog is live, and hopefully you’ll have a spare few minutes to have a read and let me know your thoughts. Thanks in advance, any help you can give me will be massively appreciated.
Think we will start slowly but improve as the season progresses and surprise a few towards the end with a late push for the playoffs. I feel Atkins is the right man for the job and was pleased when we got him. He will correct the misfires of reading and Sheffield Utd and is used to ****storms at clubs. Like the transfer policy we currently have and could do with an additional forward. Spent a lot on the youth system and this will bring us a couple of first teasers this season. Overall an improvement on last year.
We need to strengthen in the ‘owners’ part of the club Unfortunately the contract they’re on means it’s unlikely they’ll move, but until they do the club will remain a toxic and unpleasant place and the stadium will remain much more empty than it should be.
We're going to go up as Champions. We'll get concessions back at some point. We probably won't get new owners. Doesn't matter what happens, not everyone will be happy.
We will continue to stumble along, rudderless, with no one at the helm. The momentum built up from 2002 to 2016 will ebb away on a daily basis as the club runs on a 'sustainable' basis. (Sustainable= the owners drain all the funds they can out of the club, cut spending to the bone, focus entirely on the money side rather than being custodians of a much loved 114 year old institution and community asset, and attempt to hoodwink the media they have a plan and it's a benevolent one.) No tangible ambition from the club to mount a serious challenge on the pitch, nor engage with the fanbase and local community to build momentum. The fanbase continues to shrink and argue amongst itself, egged on online a handful of pro Allam trolls. Buying a ticket/ gaining access or admission to the ground continues to be a challenge even for dedicated fans.
Probably. With a few minor tweaks. Does anyone think that Ehab Allam spent more hours on negotiating the sale of Andy Robertson than he wasted on persecuting two groundsmen in court? Half a century since I first went to BP for the first time. 49 years ago I saw City play NUFC in a preseason friendly. Quick ask around with mates of a similar vintage & mindset about the NUFC game next Tuesday to see who's attending. Only one . The others can't be arsed with the the ticketing hassle or going and buying one in person. All have I think thrown away last season's pass in the expectation that a new card would be issued. The Villa game, on that basis, should be fun at the turnstiles.
To be fair regarding the passes , I was surprised that new ones were issued last season . One of the so called benefits of the new system was it saved on Admin etc , sending new passes out every year.
What he said with knobs on. The team (despite the honest efforts of several mangers) continues to get worse. We'll again flirt and maybe consummate relegation. RIP -- The glory years. **** of Allams.
One thing remains the same, more Newcastle fans here for a friendly than we take away. Think that was the first " All we are saying is give us a goal", Give Peace A Chance had only come out the month before, when the Geordies started singing it with only a few minutes played. Impatient lot.
A Newcastle fan I worked with in the 80s told me "There is literally nothing else up there. It's the only show in town." Like Norwich without the tractors.
They can hate him all they want.... He allowed them to have the biggest wage bill in Championship history. He allowed them to reinvest money gained from selling players in buying multiple players over 10 million. They kept hold of a Champions League manager, a former manager of Madrid, Inter Milan and Liverpool. He took the long term sensible business decision to invest in the club, knowing that if he put investment in it greatly increased their chances of getting promoted and him making a significant profit from his investment. What did ours do? He didn't even fight to keep a manager who is now in charge of Everton. He obliterated our squad and brought in inadequate replacements. He pocketed a significant proportion of the money from selling players. He slashed our wage budget. He didn't even build a squad he built a random group of players without any thought. He promised to take care of our transfer business nice and early... he did it in August. Newcastle may their chairman (I have no opinion it is their club not mine) but the attitudes of the two chairman in the Championship are completely different. Now look at the two clubs....
Funny? No, not really. Both have enjoyed more success over the years than Hull City but perhaps more significantly their fans are respected, appreciated and (generally) well treated by their owners whilst we still have the Allams.
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I was referring to how many go for nights out. The suggestion, which Cityman made, that the only reason Newcastle bring more fans for a preseason friendly than we take to league games is that there is nothing at all to do there compared to Hull is laughable.as anyone who has been there for a night out in Newcastle will know.
