I think something was announced recently for housing on the Forth Banks site, multi multi million development
fair enough...i get confused when trying to remember all these 'perfect sites' but i do remember the arena and the land below the arena getting rubbished, at this rate they will be the first team with a floating stadium ower the watta.
You did and a new footbridge has been mentioned. It’s earmarked for new housing I believe - a big investment by the government as well as a couple of other areas in the NE so I would guess this is now a non starter for them. The mags have footbridge jealousy though
It's well documented that Granit Xhaka had shortfalls at Arsenal, however he's grown at a player and quite frankly I feel we'll see the best out of him, he's the man here. Not one real life mag I know and work with have said a single bad thing about him because they all know he walks into Newcastles starting 11. Any mag thar thinks differently are deluded. Xhaka at 33 walks into any top four club that's playing in the champions league, I still can't believe he plays for us in all honesty.
Clip of it man. Looks like something of an episode of Abandoned engineering on Quest where they gave up half way through.
Me either mate. I mean, we made amazing signings over the summer, but when he was announced I honestly think everyone (not just our fans) said “wow”. He is the next level! There is absolutely no doubting that
Jeremy Clarkson has more chance of getting planning permission to build a knocking shop on his farm than Newcastle building a new stadium. Its all been pie in the sky from day one, all of it.
I keep saying something that a mag mate told me at the time that Sid James park was a mess up because of egos. When they were originally redeveloping it in the early 90s Freddie Fletcher, the CEO at the time delayed redeveloping Gallowgate and to get plans for a new design for it and the Millburn stand, so the capacity of the ground would have been between 45-50k. But Hall blocked it, not sure why though I've heard a few possible reasons. One involved it being smaller to put pressure on fans to buy season tickets rather than chance going game by game. Another was costs and timescales. Either way Hall blocked it and they ended up with the design they got. When the SOL was proposed after the failure to build near Nissan, the original capacity was only going to be 34k, Sid James would be the largest ground in the north east (Boro was only 30k when it first opened). But we modified our design and build the SOL initially as 42k and Hall and Shepherd couldn't tolerate us having a bigger ground, especially with all the good publicity the SOL was getting. So they rushed in the lop sided extension, which is the bit that's supposed to be worse affected by concrete cancer.
spot on, they hated the fact we had the third highest support (i think man utd and liverpool were first two) and fat freddie failed to get the 'jordy nashun' to bow down to his new stadium. i also believe that there was a wee bit of 'hatred' in fat freddie, i heard he originally wanted to buy sunderland but was knocked back and he went and got the mags, could probably be where the nasrtiness and absession began. disclaimer: my memory may be playing tricks on the last part but i like to believe it
It has, but the thing is prior to that it was land that they could have looked at as a new ground dite. And as the housing hasn't started to be built. They could still look at it if they desperately wanted another location and I bet the city council would support it. But to me they've trapped themselves at the current site with no easy way to redevelop it.
I don't know about fat Freddie, but Hall was a SAFC season ticket holder for years in the 70s and early 80s. I did hear a rumour years ago that he tried to get involved with us in the early or mid 80s and was knocked back by Cowie. He only joined that magpie take over group as a minor member in the late 80s, though he then made it about himself.
So… here we have someone trying his hand at banter, highlighting that Ballard only got a 5.8 for Northern Ireland. I pointed out that he cost 2m, got sent off, and still almost managed a 6, but Gordon and Walterwhatever cost over £ppm, didn’t get sent off, and got much lower marks in a game against easier opponents, this is his response:
If they really wanted to spend very big cash, they could sort out the issue. An out of town site could be found and built on. Even bringing the much vaunted, but as yet invisible "benefit" to the region". It would take a serious team only a couple of months to sort out the genuine possibilities. Then a few months of feasibility studies if you paid well enough and pushed hared enough. Then action after that They've been here for nudging five years now. And nothing.
