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I think this kinda proves we could easily fill a 100,000 stadium every week, surely?

Fuck me. Sacrelige! Local Hero?

It's a massacre.

Well behaved too. See if that was scousers, you'd have riots.

Thanks @nemtizz !! 😊

Prob cos I'm watching sky sports via YouTube I'm guessing ITV won't be showing it outside the north east region?

Is there any coverage/feed showing the actual stage show or is it just the crowd?

Probably the safest option for anyone to choose. But I'd imagine it will be an utterly soulless experience unless you right in the middle if it all.

Thanks man.

Everyone else is so elated and I feel like I'm emotionally abnormal in so much as I've yet to wet my pants or cry with joy about the one thing we've most yearned for all these long, long years. But instead I feel somewhat mute inside. Feels a bit like taking drugs for the first time with your mates, and waiting for the hit but nothing or very little actually happens. Losing my virginity was much the same - massive anticlimax when I was expecting it to be earth shattering, but it was little more than a wet wank inside an old skank. Maybe I'm dead and I'm actually experiencing all this from the after life?

What are the odds on 10,000 Geordie heart attacks in the next 30 minutes?!

I feel sick

Isn't that Nile Ranger?

I see the WUMs are out

Yup. You can guess how much I now really, really wish I'd kept my season ticket in the Gallowgate End rather than letting Mike Ashley kill my passion. "Fairweather fans" all regretting walking away now, no doubt. ?

Sadly not. I think Chez's probably deep undercover for the French secret service by now. Miss him. Parky, not so much.

With Chez, it was only really a matter of time, tbf. Not blind, just replied on the basis of only reading the first couple of pages of this thread in between meetings. Lo and behold, you reared you head up within the next few pages. That'll teach me for pitching in to a N-O thread without having read it in its entirety first. Anyway, nice seeing you and the TT chaps once again.

Sad to hear of TT's demise even though it was as dead as a dodo last few times I went in for a skulk. Wonder if this means we'll end up seeing the return of ChezGiven, Parky, Alex and Gemmill? It won't happen. We all know what happened when Grange Hill merged with Brookdale and Rodney Bennett.

The transfer 'strategy' so far has seemed a bit bemusing to me. Trippier is a decent signing but Wood is a bit of a nobody to me. I'd have thought a shrewd strategy should and would have focused on pushing for survival and seen us scouring Europe for loan deals capable of being us out of our current mess, rather than shelling out big bucks for decidedly average 30yo players like Wood? He seems more like a purchase with championship football in mind? Is that due to Howe or do we have a similar scenario now as we had under Ashley where someone else is vetoing transfer bids etc?

You knows it.

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That's my thinking too. I don't feel that I can really trust this lot yet. Folk assume that the moneybags will just keep replenishing but if something more appetising than Newcastle United comes along, they could easily decide to ditch us. Yes it's a pessimistic outlook, but as I say, I've not seen enough from them to make me really feel confident.

It's an interesting notion, being that supremely confident in our new owners and their motivations and willingness to invest, let alone the underlying presumption that they wouldn't perhaps look to sell the club off if we got relegated, especially if it looked like we'd not get back up at the first attempt. A lot of pretty big assumptions bouncing around at the moment, based on the size of the owner's wallets. We still know next to nothing about their real views of their new investment, its potential and the sorts of returns they want out of it.