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Benwell Lad

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  1. Don't think it will be Phil Parkinson. I just read the article below so it could well be they'll be going for Pep or Kloppy, pretty much as alluded to by Hit here and a few other posters a couple of weeks ago, along with winning the Premier League, Champions League etc etc. https://www.a-love-supreme.com/single-post/2019/08/22/Takeover-Confirmed
  2. Looks like it's Bally time again, as it has been at some point during virtually every season for the last three decades down on Wearyside.
  3. Yeah I’m a bit confused by that. There’ll be some money put in but I think they’re underestimating the amount to get them competing at a decent PL level. They’ll never be a man city etc so it’ll be interesting whether they could sustain PL mid table with their s*** revenue Leicester managed, and are a smaller club. A set of stars aligned that season in regard to all the "big" clubs being in some form of transition or upheaval that is unlikely to happen again anytime soon. You mackems really are a blindly optimistic bunch and always go a bit silly whenever anyone from the outside world takes an interest in you but just to dampen your excitement and dreams of imminent glory for a moment, ask yourselves why these billionaire investors have chosen to spend coppers on a cheap purchase rather than a ready made top club ? The investment needed to get from a squad of players and coaches who wouldn't make Championship reserves to being a successful premier league club is several hundred million so why not just spend it now ? There's a reason why these people have never invested in sports franchises before and why they've bought a corner shop rather than a top brand. You're a strangely excitable bunch and moving on from the Don should be viewed as some kind of progress, even if it's little different to the numerous other lower league clubs who have seen investment from various "gazillionaires", but realistically you should probably be concerning yourselves more with what your going to do with your increasingly unpopular manager and a squad who can't put a run together in the third division rather than dreaming about winning the Premier League.
  4. Minimal effort. Pretty much any big city in Europe there'll be an Irish bar with Sky/other sports channels. Hey presto, literally a 10-second Google search - https://www.delaneys.be/ You do realise he’s doing it to get bites? Never seen someone post so much in my life about anything then tries to claim they don’t care Those who claim to no longer be interested continually posting to tell us how disinterested they are is getting a bit weird like
  5. On radio last night local pundits predicted their finishing position and all went for straight promotion or play offs but nothing really supports that. In recent years local press give all things Sunderland a very gentle ride probably because of the state of the place, not wishing to run it down further, and these radio pundits are probably reluctant to call them out as an average 3rd tier side, but since January they've been nothing more than that. Their present squad also looks weaker than last season. Even in such a poor league top six may be beyond them.
  6. The ridiculous attempts to demonise decent people like Shola, Lascelles and now Ritchie for making what most normal people would deem to be innocuous statements does nothing to help the anti Ashley cause.
  7. Anyone else read that in a Nigel Farage Brexit (Nexit ) rant voice ? "Before Ashley Newcastle were Man Utd's football rivals" could also be Boris's kipper thing and wasn't there someone else shouting "We will be GREAT again"
  8. I haven't heard a single fan criticise any aspect of his game, finishing included. Quite the opposite in fact. I think we've already seen the quality he possesses and what he brings to the team and know that goals will inevitably follow.
  9. So this strange bunch who once referred to the Championship as a "pub league" - a league they can only dream of operating in right now - are currently struggling in a league where the season started with some teams not allowed to play fixtures because of financial sanctions, others having to field a team of schoolkids because they've got no players and one who don't even have a ground Ah well, just another 99 points and they'll reach that easy target posh boy has set them
  10. Just another hysterical shop shouting fanny, venting his spleen on match attending sheep scum. Oh happy days
  11. Are there any platforms where sane people can discuss the club's ownership?
  12. It has been for ages man, but you're right it will get worse. Eventually it may just be you and Fitzy left to bang on to each other 24 hours a day about how you don't care anymore Maybe there'll still be one other left who will tell us how disinterested they are but still be kind enough to post an update every time a new kit or a season ticket is sold
  13. :lol: Fuck me what happened to this once decent forum? Is Fitzgerald Dangermarrows off RTG masquerading as one of our new self flagellating fans? Similar posting style and seemed to appear about the same time as Brucey.
  14. 2-1 Newcastle. Almiron and Rondon for Newcastle, Ayoze for Arsenal. 52,000 sell out attendance, with 20,000 screaming jawdees, from the new waiting list, locked oot.
  15. Back then it was a bloke who sat in his office and looked at the ceiling and tried come up with good ideas for investment etc. Bit of a piss take really, always found plumbers and electricians much more useful
  16. Added strength and physical presence to our midfield and not without a measure of skill too. Generally seemed to be one of those who was often more appreciated by management than fans. Good luck Mo!
  17. As far goes Pinsent yes, I moonlight as a recruiter for high level positions. Legal is one of the areas I dabble in along with Localization and Digital. I’ve pinched a few for them (Pinsent Masons) in the last 2 years. Especially when they were setting up a new Dublin office. I didn’t post all day yesterday as am on holidays in Italy right now but when I saw all the news yesterday evening I reached out to my guy and he was aware of it so I didn’t need to fish too much for the info. The takeover is a formality at this stage I’ve been told. Pinsent have a big team working on this, I assume Ashley does too with his lawyers so it’ll get trashed out in due course. The main thing now is for BZG to move funds into a holding account controlled by the law firm. He doesn’t know for sure as he’s not working directly on this but he says deals of this size are usually done in instalments over the course of a few weeks and if the club has been broken up into smaller pieces like it has, each transaction will be a tranch of parts of the club, until it’s all transferred over in full. Well one things for sure you’re definitely moving in corporate circles, with the ‘reaching out’ stuff Want to punch people at work when they say that. Corporate terminology is so cringe-worthy. "Blue sky thinking" is another that makes me I worked with Americans for quite a few years and the bullshitty corporate expressions they use seem to cross the Atlantic a few years later. We hired a "Blue Sky Thinker" about 25 years ago, that was his actual fucking job. Only lasted about six months though
  18. He's played them like a fiddle from day one and how on earth they were gullible enough to take Methven at face value simply beggars belief. I guess it's just their desperation to be wanted and loved by someone, anyone.....
  19. Perhaps we should be patient a little while longer though and wait for an "end of" as it conveys a slightly more smug level of arrogant certainty.
  20. Today's the day the club break their silence surrounding the recent speculation. They make a statement denying any knowledge of supposed middle eastern buyers but reiterate that the club remains for sale. Nah, it really is going to happen this time
  21. The main tower of "wor cathedral" in Durham reopens to the public today. Looking forward to seeing loads of black and white flags hanging from the top of it.
  22. In their truly inimitable style there now seems to be a growing consensus that it was best not to get promoted after all, the RTG politburo are whipping the prols back into line, they're going to get 100 points next season and their fans are once again the best in the world despite not turning up for the play off games This despite, they will still have the owners who, amongst other things, thought that bringing in Will Grigg for Mata was a good decision from both a football and financial perspective and their squad will be largely the same as this season's who were 14th (Fourteenth) in the league one form table over the last ten games when it really started to matter. Of course one of the excuses for last season's failure is that they had a lot of new squad players and it takes time for them to settle in Good luck with getting those 100 points on board, does any sane mackem still believe the lines that they're being spun ?
  23. So after 10 years of having the biggest budget in non-league football but failing to get promoted season after season The Don has carried on in pretty much the same vein at lower league Sunderland
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