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No9 was always a centre forward but Steve Heighway put paid to that.

When Botman became no.4.

Sell them Longstaff and Almiron for 50mill.

Pleeeeeeeeeeease please please please please please

70s Carlsile strip. Needs white collar though

It's like when I was little, "we beat Everton, Everton beat Ipswich, Ipswich beat Liverpool, Liverpool won the European Cup so really we are the best team in Europe".

I get that. When you watch them they don't seem to have a cohesiveness, that's Tuchels job to bring. From New year on we were greater than the sum of our parts while they have been weaker than the sum of their parts for a while.

Could we have loaned him for say £15mill until Friday and then buy him then for the balance thus splitting the fee?

Fair point

And knowing its only going to get worse.

I'm sure they said pre Ashley it wasn't cost effective.

If the right players can be brought in we can't wait while we shift others out as we may well lose out.

With "Inch" scrawled all over the hulls.

That would make sense (I hope).

They weren't OK with it. They never thought that,long term, Spurs would be able to compete with both Manchester teams, Liverpool and Chelsea. They probably even thought its nice to someone else in there for a little bit. All these new restrictions wouldn't have came in if our owners were looking to be a Spurs.

It won't be backdated man. It'll only start from whenever we look to do it.

They've been done at the Nuffield before.

Paul Smith is from down that way but he studied up here and the band were formed up here.

Me and a mate were his backing singers doing the horn and the bell to the Double Deckers theme in a pub in Peterborough.

Can we count Jake Burns ? Toon fan and lived in Jesmond for a long while.

Baz Warne of the Stranglers is a Mackem anarl. Ex of The Toy Dolls but not an original.

Only heard of Riton from that list and had no idea he/she/they were from up here.

Not forgetting Mercury prize nominees Lanterns on the Lake. (Not quite my cup of cha mind)

Beth Jean's Houghton also. (Du blonde).

Sunderland has the more recent scen through Field music and the Future heads etc, However You can put Maximo Park down as a Newcastle band though not many of them hail from here they were largely based here, the Newcastle influence on Dire Straits was there, Brian Johnson, Eno and Roxy Music, Prefab Sprout and Martin Stephenson and the Daintees through Kitchenware, even such local faves as Arthur 2stroke and the Chart Commandoes and the Eastside Torpedoes.