THE 'ST JAMES' NAME WILL LIVE FOREVERMORE!

Posted '10:30 am bells Saturday 12th November 2011

ST JAMES' PARK 'ATTEMPTED' NAME CHANGE---LATEST FAN REACTION!

The general consensus of opinion amongst Toon fans aa met on Friday afternooon, (whilst oot 'on the hoy'!), was that the name 'St James' Park' will live forevermore, and aa couldn't find ANYBODY who will caall it anythin' else!

The City cooncil haz said that, "Some things are beyond profit!", and there iz NE WAY that they are gannin to change ANY road or footpath direction signs to St James' Park.
'St James' Boulevard', which iz the main thoroughfare to the groond, will remain the SAME NAME, az will 'St James' Street' where the groond took it's name from in 1880!

'Nexus', who run the 'Metro' undergroond trains have aallso hoyed a spanner into the works by declarin' that St James' Metro Station's name WILL STAY THE SAME! ("good on them aall!")

A 'veteran fan' in hiz mid seventies caalled Alfie, who haz followed The Toon since he was, "Knee high to a magpie!" in the 1940's, and haz a season ticket in 'The East Stand', summed every fans feelings up when he said, "'The Fat Controller' can caall it wot he likes!, but it will aalways be St James' Park to me!  A'v caalled it that for ower seventy years and a'm NOT! gannih change now!"

AND SO SAY AALL OF US, ALFIE!
(subject closed!)

THE BIRTH OF ST JAMES' PARK***SEPTEMBER 1880

Posted '2:10 pm bells' Friday 11th November 2011    

(Taken from the book: 'UNITED  THE  FIRST  100 YEARS')

Newcastle Rangers were formed in1878 and first played on 'The Drill Field', Alexandria Road in GATESHEAD because they couldn't find a pitch in their native town. (This is the site of Gateshead F.C.'s proposed new groond!)
They eventually moved across the Tyne taking over an enclosed ground close to Leazes Terrace in September 1880.
The pitch was immediately referred to as 'ST JAMES' PARK'. (St James Street is next to Leazes Terrace)

The following month the 'Newcastle Journal' noted that the Rangers club had, "Inaugurated their new ground close to Leazes Terrace on Saturday by a match between the first team and '15 of others'.
After a pleasant game of two hours it was found the captains team was victorious over his numerous but less experienced opponents to the extent of 6 goals to 1".

St James' Park was on the map!
The local press concluded, "The new ground is very nicely situated and is close to the centre of town. It is 120 yards by 60 yards broad and is completely level".
In spite of the latter statement the pitch in fact had a notorious slope, a drop of fully 18 feet from the north to the south goal!
          ST JAMES' PARK SINCE 1880****
               131 YEARS AND COONTIN'!

POSTED @ 11:11 on the 11th of the 11th, 11

ST JAMES' PARK PROTESTS REACHES CANADA!

Posted '10:30 am bells' Friday11th November 2011

Protesters remain in St James Park despite talk 'The City of Toronto' plans to end 'The Occupy Toronto Movements' stay in St James Park, tents remain staked in the ground and protesters vow to remain.

News of the attempted name change of St James' Park haz even reached Canada!, where protesters in the 'NUFC Canadian Branch' are campin' oot in their very own St James' Park in the centre of Toronto in a show of support! 
THANK YOO CANADA!
Gan to: www.insidetoronto.com  ('click' news)  

ST JAMES' PARK FOREVER! 1880--UNTIL ETERNITY!****131 YEARS AND COONTIN'!

Posted '2:35pm bells' Thorsday 10th November 2011

LIVE ON 'LOOK NORTH'---'THE 'RONNY GILL' SEZ IT AALL!

News of the decision to try and change the name of St James' Park for 'a few dollars more' haz sent shockwaves aroond Tyneside and beyond!

How CAN YOU change such an iconic name?---YOU CAN'T!

REMEMBER! it aalways HAZ BEEN!
St James Park!
it STILL IZ!
St James' Park!
and it aalways WILL BE!
St James' Park!

"WE ARE IN 'TOTAL' SHOCK!!!"

Posted '10:10 am bells' Thorsday 10th November 2011

"HOW DOES ---'THE FAT CONTROLLER ARENA' ---SOUND???"

Not content with plasterin' a certain 'red, white and blue' sports brand logo in EVERY SINGLE PART of 'ST JAMES' PARK', 'The Fat Controller' haz now decided to rename THE GROOND az well!---to be caalled!-----'THE S***** D***** ARENA' ('The Geordie Times' refuses point black to utter or print this GHASTLY name!)

It's been caalled 'ST JAMES' PARK'  for
131 YEARS (since 1880!) and az far az we are concorned it will be 'ST JAMES' PARK' 'FOREVER MORE!'----FULL  STOP.

THE TOON 2 THE TOFFEE NOSES 1

Posted '9:50 pm bells' 'Bonfire Neet' 2011

The unbeaten run just gans on! and on! and on! az we beat a very resiliant Everton 2-1 at St James' today.

A pin point cross from Danny Simpson in the 12th minute had the Toffees defence panickin' and John Heitinga vollied into his aan net @ The Gallowgate End to give us the lead!

Wor lead waz then doubled when Ryan Taylor hit a wonderous shot off the crossbar which reboonded into the visitors goal to send the 50,000 plus crowd into delerium (er!--apart from the Evertonion contingent-- that iz!)

The 'mickey mousers' then pulled one back, 'deed on half time' when Jack Rodwell levelled with a 'free heeder' at 'The Leazes End' in front of their near 3,000 fans in 'Level 7'

It was 'aall hands to the pump' in the second period az the visitors went aall oot for the equaliser, but The Toon managed to 'haad oot' and we secured wor seventh win of the season to move up (briefly!) to second place in the premya leegue table! ( Man U beat the SMB's 1-0 a couple of hours later to regain second spot!)
We are now THIRD (again!) and the 'party' continued well into the night with fireworks displays aall ower Tyneside to celebrate another win! (nothin' to de with 'Guy Fawkes' of course!)
Attendance: 50,671 (nearly 3,000 Evertonians)

The '100 pub crawl challenge' started off disastrously when the forst boozer we tried to visit wasn't open till '12 bells' (The Enigma!) and the second (Linekers) was aallso closed (permanently!) so we were telt!  
Wor thord on the list (Number 28 Bar) was aalso shut! (god help us!) so we had to 'slum it' in 'The Black Garter' to eventually de wor forst pub of the day @ '11:30 bells'!


The anly otha boozer we managed to visit before the match waz 'The Irish Club' where we bumped into a few aad scouse mates who were up from Morseyside for the game!
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'The 100 pub crawl challenge' continued after the game and several new 'waaterin' holes' were added to 'the list'! (will update 'the list' tomorrow!---or when aa sober up!)

THE TOON v THE TOFFEE NOSES

Posted '9:00 am bells' Saturday 5th November, 2011

"NO!---NOT THAT! ENIGMA!"

We face the toffee noses of Everton @ '12:45 bells' today in wot will be wor sixth, 'live on the telly' game, of the season.
We are lookin' to extend wor unbeaten record to FOURTEEN premya leegue games and 188 days and this bonfire day extraveganza iz sure to be a lively affair with plenty of 'fireworks' guaranteed @ St James'!
If? we win, we will gan up to SECOND PLACE! in the table for two hours at least! (Man U play the SMB's @ '3 bells', so second place cud be short lived!) 


'The Geordie Times 100 pub crawl challenge' starts off @ 'The Enigma' near to the old Worswick Street Bus Station today @ '11 bells' and yer aall  welcome to join us @ 'pub number 33'

Match and 'pub crawl' report to follow much later az per usual!

NUFC RECORD BREAKERS!

Posted '1:00 pm bells' Friday 4th November 2011

A'v been traalin' through the record books to see the best undefeated sequences in the clubs history, to match the six month sequence we have at the moment.
And I have to tell yooo!--- that the current unbeaten run in the league iz wor!----- LANGEST EVER! since we joined the Futbaall League way back in 1893!

The top three sequences are az follows:

1: May 2nd 2011 to date*****
187 days unbeaten in the league (and coontin'!)

2: May 1st 1994 to October 28th 1994****
181 days unbeaten in the league

3: April 16th 1950 to October 6th 1950***
174 days unbeaten in the league

FAIRS CLUB @ HOWDEN TONEET!

Posted '1:15 pm bells' Thorsday 3rd November 2011

The annual meetin' of the Fairs Cup winnin' team of 1969 takes place toneet @ The Howden Club near Waallsend.
'The Fairs Club' event iz a selloot as usual and haz been organised by Bill Gibbs (az usual!)
Iz it reeely 42 YEARS since we last won a major trophy!?