Chris_R

Fucking hell, but every single second is dragging. Wasn't it Albert Einstein who explained the theory of relativity thusly: "An hour in the company of a beautiful woman will feel like a minute, but a minute waiting for the PL director's test will feel like an hour".

They literally haven't got a clue. Of course it could be done in the next 10 days, you absolute whollopers. Anyone could have said that. It's been said for ages that the documents went in on 9th April and could take 3-4 weeks. Fucking clickbait chancers.

That sounds a bit creepy and sexual She is a bit cute Dated PrinceAndrew in 2003 apparently. Obviously a poor judge of character She was 13, young, impressionable Guess we now know why it didn't work out. She was too old for him.

Were they waiting on a PL directors' test? It's not Newcastle or the Saudis who we're waiting on.

I'm more and more convinced that there's not a hope in hell this goes through. I ALMOST allowed myself to get excited, but clearly it's just not happening.

Keys is trying to turn the Newcastle fans against the Saudis, it's probably his last roll of the dice and he knows it. If we think there's another bid somewhere, we might clamour for this one not to go through. Problem is, he's an absolute helmet and everyone knows he's just making shit up.

I'll need that gif as my avatar then, to cope with the horror.

Thanks for agreeing with me.

Important point but I'm seeing something quite disgusting in this and other threads relating to the takeover. Can people PLEASE stop putting an apostrophe in "Saudis" when talking about multiple Saudi people? "Saudi's", with an apostrophe, indicates something belongs to a single person or entity called Saudi, for example "This is Saudi's pen", where the pen belongs to Saudi. Writing "We're being taken over by Saudi's" is nonsensical and offensive to my eyes. Thanks.

That's a fair point. That's enough wine on a school night for me, I think....

So we held a 2 hour call with Poch today, starting at 6pm, and the broke the news about it on a tweet before 7pm. Are we supposed to believe that half-way through the actual call, Poch thought "Fucking hell, better text Indykaila!"

I must admit, when there's something I don't care about I also take the time to record a video saying how little I care about it, and then upload it to YouTube. I always feel that's one of the best ways to demonstrate my indifference for a subject.

Am I alone in not getting the Charnley hate? I mean, he's clearly overpromoted and clearly a yes man, but I don't get people hating him for saying yes to the job. I mean, imagine you're working in the box office and by a series of lucky happenings you find yourself offered the chairman's job of the club I assume he supports. Doesn't matter how shit the salary is, you're qualified to sell tickets in the box office, that's it. You're still being offered a massive payrise over your old job and it's not as if you're turning this down so you can go be Arsenal's chairman. I think the massive majority of people would, if in the same position, have also taken the job. And when your condition of continued employment is to do what Ashley says, then you do it. Maybe we'd have thought we could wield some positive influence, make the best of the situation, whatever. But most of us, coming from his background and with his prospects, would have taken the job. Fucking brilliant thing for a box office ticket seller to put "Chairman of NUFC" on his CV when you go for his next job, that's for certain. He's set himself up for life, let's put it this way I seriously doubt his next job will be ticket seller at Whitley Bay Ice Rink. Charnley as chairman symbolises everything which is wrong with Newcastle United. He's a symbol of our underinvestment in key positions, our continued cutting of corners and our quest for mediocrity. I detest everything about what he represents, but I really can't hate him for taking the role or for not standing up to Ashley because it's hard to imagine anyone in his position really doing anything else. It's also hard to judge his competence as a chairman, because he is just a mouthpiece. He's not done what we've wanted, but he's done exactly what his boss asked of him for what, 6 or 7 years? Probably come out of it with some cracking stories to tell, too....

I get that, but it's not done until it's done. We've all seen the youtube "Early celebration fail" compilations, and I refuse to add myself to that list.

Even if it fell through for completely legitimate non-Ashley reasons, I'd still be utterly done. Now I watch the matches without caring about the score. If this fell through I doubt I could even watch another match, knowing what might have been.

If you're not interested in anything that's not a big development, I suggest you just F5 the main forum page and wait for a thread title change. Because everything until then is going to be speculation and nothing new.

I mean yeah the original poster of Arabic tweets could clearly do more, but are others really so incapable of copy and pasting something into Google translate? Takes like 3 seconds.

This was a new keyboard at the start of the month.

I mean, you understand we're not allowed nice things, don't you? You do know how the world works?

Yes. I’m not buying into anything before it is official. But I do like the excitement. This for me too. I refuse to get excited until it's sealed. Been bitten too many times before.

He's just a member.

None of them will have the slightest clue who he is. Except maybe Mandy, if she was writing letters to Stifler, I suppose it's possible she might swap convivial texts with Wraith. This is my worry, that they'll have no idea who he is and therefore assume from his large online presence that he holds any kind of value or insight at all, rather seeing him as the weapons-grade, vacuous, bullshit merchant he actually is. And that they'll grant him far more credibility (ie any) than he actually warrants.

Wraith dismissing the meeting happening is surely the greatest proof necessary that it's actually happening. Honestly, if the new owners give him any time of day I'll instantly lose respect for them. Utter bellwhiff of a man.

I get the sentiment, I'm in a similar camp to you, but I don't think you quite understand what Stockholm syndrome is Fair point re Stockholm. I know it's not that, and I even looked online to see if there's a similar thing which does describe how I feel but couldn't find anything. So for some reason chose to stick with Stockholm syndrome even though I knew it was wrong. Maybe when I come off a 3-hour video call I should grab a coffee before I start typing on internet forums.