Here is an interesting video of Lewis Hall signing for Newcastle yesterday.
It goes behind the scenes and shows how Lweis meets the manager Eddie Howe and some of his future teammates.
Comments welcome.
Here is an interesting video of Lewis Hall signing for Newcastle yesterday.
It goes behind the scenes and shows how Lweis meets the manager Eddie Howe and some of his future teammates.
Comments welcome.
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An update on my health situation - we have terminated the PluVicto treatment halfway through, because of the severity of the side effects - diarrhea, vomiting, and acid reflux.
And there was no evidence the treatment was having any positive effect in stopping the prostate cancer from spreading in the bones.
There are no treatments left for me to go on.I will go into home hospice care now and will have a hospice nurse visit me at home regularly to ensure I am as comfortable as possible and we will treat the side effects of the treatments I have had.
It's down the final stretch now, and I have run out of treatments, and nature will now take its course.
I hope Newcastle can get many wins this season from now on, and I am at peace with all of this.
Thanks for all your help through the years - it's very much appreciated
Ed Harrison
570 comments so far
magicmac54
Aug 23, 2023 at 7:43 PM
Comment #161Coming Home
Cream always comes to the top mate, no stopping you when you awake from your slumber in the meadows 🙂 And in anycase TDS is heading straight for the iceberg 🙂 🙂 🙂
Essex Geordie Bill
Aug 23, 2023 at 7:44 PM
Comment #162Just watched a youtube video by my Granddaughters boyfriend, he goes to boot fairs and buys toys and he is one smart lad.
Probably be a millionaire by the time he is 21! 🙂
Flurzinho
Aug 23, 2023 at 7:45 PM
Comment #163Mund,
You could well be spot on.
New money from Adidas and Sportbet.
We are also into a new financial year(club accounts wise).
Ashingtoon62
Aug 23, 2023 at 7:47 PM
Comment #164I think PIF’s next acquisition, should be to hire the entire Aston Villa medical guy’s.
Matty Cash running aroond like a spring chicken the neet,remarkable…
Ashingtoon62
Aug 23, 2023 at 7:52 PM
Comment #165The only way we can catch up fast,is if the Saudi yoof start buying sharts..
Doesn’t matter how many sponsors you have,nowt beats selling a few million sharts worldwide..
We will never match Manures income and I mean never,well probably not in the next forty years,in which time I will be dead… 😀
Raj of Hailsley
Aug 23, 2023 at 7:53 PM
Comment #166I see that BHA (A) is down to 10 points, that’s how it should be, if they go down to zero it gives those with no points the chance to build theirs up.
Mund
Aug 23, 2023 at 7:56 PM
Comment #167Flur
Time will tell buddy. If not now there will definitely be money in January.
Ashingtoon62
Aug 23, 2023 at 7:58 PM
Comment #168EGB
I must stop scanning posts,my dog.
I thought you were going to say,he’s a canny left back!
I saw Granddaughters boyfriend and millionaire and with it being a footy blog 😆
onmeedsun
Aug 23, 2023 at 7:58 PM
Comment #169For the golfers and those whose heads are messed up by playing the game. My last 2 rounds I shot 101, 31 over par. Today shot 86, 15 shots better. Just bonkers! Probably as good as it gets for me. Feel like retiring on the up! The secret? Reduced the number of duff shots.
Essex Geordie Bill
Aug 23, 2023 at 7:58 PM
Comment #170In some local Southend news, cos they have failed to pay HMRC money they owe, Southend United have been docked ten point and go to the bottom of the Conference League on -4 points.
One contender less for The Heed!
Essex Geordie Bill
Aug 23, 2023 at 8:01 PM
Comment #171AshingToon
It’s sometimes a football blog! 🙂
onmeedsun
Aug 23, 2023 at 8:03 PM
Comment #172Mund
I think our annual costs have increased by about £100m. Transfer fees over 5 years, player and staff wages. To comply with FFP we need turnover to increase by £100m, and at least maintain that level going forward. That would just maintain what we have now. We’d need a further increase in turnover before we buy any more players. I’d love to see the accounts and then we’d know for sure. So it’s pure guesswork. But the club will know. I’m sure the new CFO walks around the office with the FFP spreadsheet embedded in his head in case Amanda collars him.
The Taco Taker
Aug 23, 2023 at 8:07 PM
Comment #173Raj,
Yeah I think it is better this way as it is not a closed shop with the same people guaranteed to get tickets and with no way from other to build up points.
Also I didn’t notice anyone in the media saying our away support was rubbish at Citeh, just cos some different people will have gone.
simon376
Aug 23, 2023 at 8:15 PM
Comment #174Just checking, heard all rumours about Adidas, is it happening now and scrapping Castore, another new shirt for this season or is it from next season?
Ashingtoon62
Aug 23, 2023 at 8:16 PM
Comment #175onmeedsun
take off the sensible accountant glasses immediately,and put the black’n’white ones on.
Seriously though,there is loads more scope for sponsorship..
Have we got a sponsor for our pre match warm up bib’s?
I noticed last Saturday that City have.
One thing about the Amazon documentary that shocked me,was the fact that, they had approached something like 1900 companies for our (front of shirt) sponsorship.
Does anyone else think, that it was only one phone call from Yasser to..Well himself.. 😆
Ashingtoon62
Aug 23, 2023 at 8:28 PM
Comment #176TTT
Behave man!
Everyman and their dog know’s it was shit..
I’m seriously thinking of cancelling my Trust membership on the back of this,why don’t they provide the minutes, of the meetings they had with the club..
The club keep hoying out the line,that they held fans forums,who with ffs?
We all know it was with the Trust..
“Toon Army” to me,means travelling thousands of miles every fortnight,even though we have been shite for more than a decade..
All of a sudden we become good,then the season ticket holders (home birds) want to go to away games anarrl..
The Taco Taker
Aug 23, 2023 at 8:30 PM
Comment #177As I have mentioned before, the main FFP limitation is the UEFA rule which started this season which limits your spend of transfers + agent fees + wages (players and senior coaches) to 90% of your revenue. Next season that become 80% and the season after that it becomes 70% and then stays there.
Our revenue is growing and this is great but as Onmeedsun says so are our costs and we don’t have the same get-outs as other teams do in that we don’t have fringe players to sell for big money and having players like Fraser on our books is literally holding us back:
Fraser £63,000 p/w (£3,276,000 p/y)
Hayden £51,000 p/w (£2,652,000 p/y)
Hendrick £50,000 p/w (£2,600,000 p/y)
Dubravka £44,000 p/w (£2,288,000 p/y)
Manquillo £40,000 p/w (£2,080,000 p/y)
That is £248k per week being drained out of our bank account!
Also, the problem we have coming this season is the number of players out of contract next summer. If several players (I am thinking specifically of Wilson, Schar and Lascelles but there are 11 players that will be out of contract) all leave for free then it will cost a lot to replace them before even addressing any other needs the team will have next summer.
There is still a long way to go to financially, but we will get there.
The Taco Taker
Aug 23, 2023 at 8:34 PM
Comment #178Ashingtoon, you are literally the only person I have seen that has said the atmosphere was sh*t. No one else on here has said that, no-one in media remarked on it (as you predicted would happen), just you.
Fenham to Chalfont
Aug 23, 2023 at 8:37 PM
Comment #179I see the little aggressive man Ashingtoon62 is calling out the owners again…
Ashingtoon62 Wind ye scrawny little neck in man, people like you don’t deserve our owners. Such short memories idiots like you have.
Raj of Hailsley
Aug 23, 2023 at 8:39 PM
Comment #180Ashingtoon,
I think you’re misunderstanding the situation, for years only a select few have been able buy tickets and you could only go if you had mates in the right places, now everyone with an ST gets to go, the fact that BHA has gone down to as low as 10 points shows that those buying the tickets weren’t going anyway.
The Taco Taker
Aug 23, 2023 at 8:46 PM
Comment #181Exactly Raj, and that “select few” still have the first option of some of the tickets anyway. The old system was a closed shop and gave no hope to fans who did not have tons of loyalty points, or know a bloke who did.
Ashingtoon62
Aug 23, 2023 at 8:49 PM
Comment #182Fenners @ 179
Grow up man! ye sychophantic creepy person…
Where did I mention the owners ffs?
Somebody signed off on it,probably the same incompetent person that signed off on the last debacle and look how quickly they backtracked on that one..
I’ve got a sneaky suspicion it could be (these views are my own,by the way) that spivvy looking cockney Eales..
My suspicions were further aroused,when I saw his graph on the Amazon docu..
Ashingtoon62
Aug 23, 2023 at 8:56 PM
Comment #183Raj
Trust me that I’m not.
A few years ago,Ashley gave 10k tickets away cos we were we were shit..
The people that went to City on Saturday,couldn’t have given a flying hoot that they couldn’t get a ticket two seasons ago…
Season ticket plastics if you like?
TTT
I take it you’re not on twitter then,if you think I’m the only person that thinks that our away support was shit..
Hang on,did you not watch the match?
Raj of Hailsley
Aug 23, 2023 at 8:57 PM
Comment #184Ashingtoon,
Where’s the problem here, those with the required amount of points still get to go, I was getting tickets off lads with 100+ points, that was denying fans with those ten points or like simon376 with his 30 points, not everyone knows someone to get tickets off. We’ll still sell out and still have a travelling toon army.
Raj of Hailsley
Aug 23, 2023 at 9:03 PM
Comment #185Ashingtoon,
Did Man City not go down to 30 points, that’s a full section who’ve been to 30 away games at least, that is not newbie support, possibly people who couldn’t get a chance to go previously because they’ve been selling out on 80 points allowing someone with zero points to go, this is totally fair imo.
The Taco Taker
Aug 23, 2023 at 9:03 PM
Comment #186Ashingtoon,
I did watch the match.
As for twitter I can find people who say all sort of ludicrous bollox on there. Doesn’t make it true though does it.
Ashingtoon62
Aug 23, 2023 at 9:08 PM
Comment #187Aye Jail,that’s my whole point.
That for some reason Taco won’t acknowledge.
We will still have the numbers but we will have an away fanbase of strangers,hardly an army but more like a bunch of conscripts..
I never said it was fair or unfair but TTT was pretty adamant that it wouldn’t make a difference.
Whereas I said it would make a huge difference ,and it would take a blind man on a galloping horse. to not notice the difference on Saturday..
I bet Amanda, Merhdad and Jamie are footing kicking themselves… IMO Of course..
JohnJ
Aug 23, 2023 at 9:09 PM
Comment #188The post below is from a couple of friends of mine who sing under the name of “Box o Frogs” I couldn’t resist reposing this from their page it made me laugh out very loud!
Brilliant!
Ok so Andrew has just had another fishing call. Voice on the other end says hello I understand you’ve been involved in a car accident.
Andrew says oh yes I have
Voice says oh have you? Sounding surprised – strange as they allegedly already knew and that’s why they were calling – not!
Andrew says yes I had my arm chopped off
Voice on the other end after a long silent pause then said ok bye and hung up ha ha ha bless. Obviously didn’t know who they were dealing with Mr Box o’ Frogs
Lol Result
Ashingtoon62
Aug 23, 2023 at 9:18 PM
Comment #189OK TTT
If you’re not prepared to yield on our away support.
How about your Todd Boehly story and the sponsorship malarkey..
By the way I realise how much work you have put into the CL qualifiers and FFP and find your posts very informative..
So imagine my surprise when you are doing a flat earth/fake moon landings conspiracy job on Boehly.
The Taco Taker
Aug 23, 2023 at 9:18 PM
Comment #190Ashingtoon,
My point is simple. Different fans going to away games does not automatically mean worse fans, I don’t know why you cant see that. Do regularly go to away games? If you do have you now been prevented from doing so? If not but you went to an away game this season would you consider yourself unworthy of being there and sit in silence?
In general are you personally affected by this somehow in some way that you are not describing to us?
I am finding it increasing difficult to understand what your issue really is.
Ace50
Aug 23, 2023 at 9:18 PM
Comment #191Quite a few high level players picking up injuries. Apparently Mason Mount out for 4-6 weeks and Enciso from Brighton out for a bit…maybe misses our game?
The Taco Taker
Aug 23, 2023 at 9:22 PM
Comment #192Ashingtoon,
What exactly are you referring to with Boehly?
I recently said that the reason they don’t have a sponsor is cos he tried to agree two deals with companies that would not work (Paramount+ and then some betting company). That is true – you can easily check this.
I have said many other things about Boehly – usually that he is useless, can you be more specific please?
Raj of Hailsley
Aug 23, 2023 at 9:24 PM
Comment #193Ashingtoon,
I can’t comment on the atmosphere but time will tell if it has an adverse affect.
Raj of Hailsley
Aug 23, 2023 at 9:27 PM
Comment #194I’m definitely affected in a negative way with the new system but I fully agree with it, why should I get a ticket with no ST and 0 loyalty points while simon376 with 30 never gets a chance to buy one and top his points up.
Raj of Hailsley
Aug 23, 2023 at 9:38 PM
Comment #195Ace50,
Aye, there’s been quite a few, Man U played a sheet load of friendlies in the summer.
Ace50
Aug 23, 2023 at 9:44 PM
Comment #196It’s way above average and many are knee related…weird! It makes you (or me anyway) think whether the S&C team are pushing the players too much to try and match us 🙂 can’t just increase workload without appropriate base load in place. Remember it took Gordon half a season to catch up to our fitness levels.
Ashingtoon62
Aug 23, 2023 at 9:54 PM
Comment #197TTT
All I said was, that the demographics of the away support has shifted so dramatically,that it had to take away from the atmosphere.
You begged to differ,which is your right but please be man enough to admit.when you are wrong..
Thousands of strangers turning up to a shindig say,could it possibly be the same as thousands of regulars?
The Boehly thing,you said he was all ready to sign with Paramount+ but it fell foul of the EPL rules.Isn’t that a sleight on the CEO’s at Paramount,surely they know that Amazon own them and that Amazon are EPL stakeholders..
I agree that he’s Ted Lasso on steroids but I can’t believe that he was ready to sign off on te Paramount+ sponsorship.
What I find more likely is, that last season he thought “we are shit” lets pour a £Bn in,get CL next season and then secure a sponsor,similar to what Forest did last year..
Ooooo........it's Nicky the ball tosser
Aug 23, 2023 at 10:09 PM
Comment #198Some suggestion in the press, that we could have easily got Tierney for the same money, but didn’t go in for him. That is interesting, if true, because, Tierney is 26, proven and ready to go, while Hall is a fine prospect no doubt, but 18 and with only a handful of EPL appearances under his belt. My best guess would be we liked Tierney, but Arsenal wanted a permanent deal, so we ultimately went with Hall, initiallly on loan, for FFP reasons, and perhaps injury concerns, but as I said, press suggesting we didn’t enquire. I’m not unhappy at all, but I do admit to liking Tierney.
The Taco Taker
Aug 23, 2023 at 10:09 PM
Comment #199Ashintoon I agree to disgree.
You did not simply say that “the demographics would change” you basically said the atmosphere would be significant worse and that the media would call us out on this – it is not proven that you are correct about that and there is nothing in the actual media saying this.
On Boehly and Paramount+ of course the EPL would have an issue with it. They do not sell the rights to Sky and other across the globe without their being things in contracts that prevent teams from having rival TV companies on their shirts. Why do you think the Paramount + deal did not go through? There has to be a reason why it was blocked, so what is your theory?
The Taco Taker
Aug 23, 2023 at 10:13 PM
Comment #200Sorry Ashingtoon,
I did not read the last paragraph – so your theory is that there was no deal with Paramount or Stake.com, that the media just made all that up (try googling it) and that Boehly thought it is better to have no sponsor at all for a year and see what happens.
OK.