Newcastle United thread | 2025/26

Chris-NCL said:
It 3 different companies who own 100 bars between them.
The chamber of commerce have even said that there is no evidence to suggest that the Stack has took people away from the other bars, especially as it replaces another Stack location in the city centre.
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Newcastle is my favourite away game. Like the people, like the pub vibe, love the surrounding area of Northumberland generally. Even had my Stag weekend in Newcastle 24 yrs ago. One night on the Bigg Market and the next in Whitley Bay.
 
levets said:
Newcastle is my favourite away game. Like the people, like the pub vibe, love the surrounding area of Northumberland generally. Even had my Stag weekend in Newcastle 24 yrs ago. One night on the Bigg Market and the next in Whitley Bay.
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Whitley Bay is the next town over from me. I actually worked there for 7 years. It used to have a street full of bars. Now it’s full of independent stores, cafe’s Bistro’s, micro-breweries. It’s an amazing town. I’d love to live there but will very likely never be able to afford too.
 
levets said:
Newcastle is my favourite away game. Like the people, like the pub vibe, love the surrounding area of Northumberland generally. Even had my Stag weekend in Newcastle 24 yrs ago. One night on the Bigg Market and the next in Whitley Bay.
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My sister and B-I-L love it up there, too.

They said pretty much exactly what you did.
 
My god, Woltemade is some player. Many thought it was a desperation heave to sign him after how many targets, but he’s lighting it up!
 
Rodri’s ACL said:
My god, Woltemade is some player. Many thought it was a desperation heave to sign him after how many targets, but he’s lighting it up!
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Barcodes pissing themselves laughing at selling a crock and the German Peter Crouch has more than ably replaced him.
 
Rodri’s ACL said:
My god, Woltemade is some player. Many thought it was a desperation heave to sign him after how many targets, but he’s lighting it up!
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TinFoilHat said:
Barcodes pissing themselves laughing at selling a crock and the German Peter Crouch has more than ably replaced him.
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Sometimes, the luck is with you.

Things have fallen just right for Newcastle, so far with Woltemade.

Let’s hope for them that he can maintain his levels.
 
Newcastle are the elephant in the room of state ownership automatically buying titles. Just totally not true

In fact Newcastle are being hamstrung by the PL.

What they need is a top top manager, like we did.
 
Just saw that their new director thinks that they could be the biggest team in the world come 2030.
On Tuesday I was driving the bus round Newcastle. One of their fans said he thought they should concentrate on the CL as they had more chance of winning this but he expected them to win the league next season.
Had to help another guy onto the bus and asked him how he thought they would get on against Spurs. He replied that Newcastle would win by at least 3 goals.
 
Maybe it’s just my FOC mind, but I just can’t fathom how teams like Spurs and Newcastle can’t seem to get it right! They’re such big clubs, with long, positive histories, great stadiums and a strong fan base, yet they always seem to be “almost teams.” Then, when Spurs finally win a pot, they shove the manager out the door for his League position, which he clearly sacrificed for the European trophy, once he knew they were safe!

Both have wealthy ownership, and plenty of players that should help make them considerably more successful than they are, but can’t seem to find the formula!
 
ChicagoBlue said:
Maybe it’s just my FOC mind, but I just can’t fathom how teams like Spurs and Newcastle can’t seem to get it right! They’re such big clubs, with long, positive histories, great stadiums and a strong fan base, yet they always seem to be “almost teams.” Then, when Spurs finally win a pot, they shove the manager out the door for his League position, which he clearly sacrificed for the European trophy, once he knew they were safe!

Both have wealthy ownership, and plenty of players that should help make them considerably more successful than they are, but can’t seem to find the formula!
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English football is just, like that. The ‘funny old game’ rings truer here than anywhere else.

I’ve heard many Celtic and Rangers fans over the years say that if they ever came to the PL that it wouldn’t take them long to be up there winning the league, but English football is different to pretty much any other country and doesn’t follow the logic that other leagues do.

When a club the size of Liverpool can go three decades without winning the league (and barely challenging for it along the way) or Sheffield Wednesday can spend a quarter of a century outside the top flight, you realise that size of club, historical success and fanbase don’t really count for that much in English football.

How can little Nottingham Forest have more European Cups than City, Newcastle, Sunderland, Tottenham and Arsenal combined? How can Leeds never look like a solid Premier League club when even littler than Forest, Brentford and Bournemouth, can look like such solid, not out of place one bit, PL clubs?

It’s all about who owns the shares, who’s in the boardroom, who’s in the offices, and who they get in the dugout and on the pitch… and that can be ‘got right’ by any club at any time, big, small or anything in between.

Even when a team seems to get it right, have all the ingredients, there are so many other teams getting it right that it’s not always obvious who’s going to do what.
 
.db. said:
English football is just, like that. The ‘funny old game’ rings truer here than anywhere else.

I’ve heard many Celtic and Rangers fans over the years say that if they ever came to the PL that it wouldn’t take them long to be up there winning the league, but English football is different to pretty much any other country and doesn’t follow the logic that other leagues do.

When a club the size of Liverpool can go three decades without winning the league (and barely challenging for it along the way) or Sheffield Wednesday can spend a quarter of a century outside the top flight, you realise that size of club, historical success and fanbase don’t really count for that much in English football.

How can little Nottingham Forest have more European Cups than City, Newcastle, Sunderland, Tottenham and Arsenal combined? How can Leeds never look like a solid Premier League club when even littler than Forest, Brentford and Bournemouth, can look like such solid, not out of place one bit, PL clubs?

It’s all about who owns the shares, who’s in the boardroom, who’s in the offices, and who they get in the dugout and on the pitch… and that can be ‘got right’ by any club at any time, big, small or anything in between.

Even when a team seems to get it right, have all the ingredients, there are so many other teams getting it right that it’s not always obvious who’s going to do what.
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Nowadays, more than ever, for clubs to be continually successful, they need to get it right both on and off the pitch.

Look at us. Khaldoon is a brilliant chairman, but by his own admission, I'm sure, he knows very little about the football side of things, and that’s why he installed people such as Ferran Soriano into the hierarchy, and brought in business people to run the administration and financial parts of the club.

All that, along with having the greatest coach the game has ever seen, is why Manchester City has become such a powerhouse of world football.
 
In light of Newcastle's newly appointed chief executive aiming for them being the biggest club in the world by 2030, what do my fellow city fans hope to have accomplished on the next 4 years?

Personally I'm hoping to have Jennifer Lawrence hanging on my every word, contributed significantly to the UK's economic recovery, completed a full shop at Lidl without also coming home with a weed burner, Grinch hoodie or luxury cat bed (we have no cat), and be recognised as the key factor in getting Putin and Zelensky to shake hands and go back to farming and peace. All of which are more likely than CEO David Hopkinson's goal for the toon. I may also get my shovel out and fix the eternally moist A555 airport bypass/canal, but let's not get too ambitious, I'm not sure Jennifer would let me have the time away to fix that one.
 
Eddie Howe should be sacked from Newcastle Utd for his defensive tactics. They suit a promoted club, or a club the size of Bournemouth; they do not suit a club like Newcastle Utd who have quality players in almost every position. They are dropping points against sides in Europe and in the Premier League because of the coach's negative tactics.
 
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