Willow

As always, I won't get my hopes up until the deal is done. We had all of this last year, with a lot of "its almost done" deals being announced almost weekly. Sounds good tho...

Oh for fuck sake, I thought you lot were winding me up fucking hell, they've even put their Yahoo Messenger ID on it too!

I look forward to it but I'm not optomisitic until I know the managerial and owner situation. We can't move forward until thats sorted so we're kind of in limbo..

Lets hope this is the start of the club being sold until I see quotes I ignore all of these stories

Its a sad day... I've just updated my football news bookmarks to the correct Championship pages

The good news just keeps on coming!

But linking to the BBC pages which has the clips won't be of course. As in highlight clips? do they typically get posted the following day?

I'm guessing there'll still be a blanket ban on posting football clips on the forum? Damn nazi FA

To be honest, I don't even want to think about it...

Kosovo upon Wear Excellent article! After the past 4 or 5 years of pure mediocrity, at least we'll have the chance to fight for something and win a whole bunch of games. I'm genuinely excited for a change, it seems very strange and all but thats honestly how I feel. I guess we can look upwards for a change rather than sideways and below. "Yazz! - The only way is up!" is our new theme song

Yep, well Harpers going to get injured plenty during the season I'm sure, so I think we'll see a whole lot more from krul

This guy is a legend, I really hope he goes far with us and gets some games in the champ' Tozer was another who was doing well wasn't he?

Just realised I better update my bookmarks to championship pages instead of the prem Also, I think a lot of players will join this summer as we'll need a large squad to cope with the constant games this season. How many more games do we play in the champ?

You know, sometimes I just wanna kiss wor Habib What a legend!

Honestly, I think this is the best route we can go and I really hopes he signs the deal. We all know alan inside out and hes also able to attract names to the club too, which will be vital in the championship. We just need Ashley to make some kind of statement now, we need to know where the club is heading so we can all pull together.

Well said. One of things I'm hopeful about it being able to blood lots of youngsters, such as ranger, carrol, krul, kadar etc in a league thats tough but not so uhely different from reserve football. I want hungry players back, I want an exciting group of younger players playing their hearts out for their and the club's futures. Its a setback yes, but we have to look at the positives of our situation. We just need clarification from Ashley about his intentions, then we can try our best to move forward and get back where we know we belong!

Got to say I agree at the moment. Yes they messed him around but the way he just quit so easily has tainted my view of him forever. Hes a quitter and hes hid ever since he left us. I'll never welcome him anywhere near this club again. The rest of you can of course, but hes a bottler and a coward in my eyes. I'm so sick of our past, I just want this club to move in the right direction for a change. Why not just blame Ashley and Wise? Oh I do, I really do but even Keegan has a lot to answer for too. Anyway, I'm angry about a lot of things right now but my main gripe has always been with Ashley and Llambias. Keegan just isn't exactly a saint in my eyes anymore, lets put it that way..

Got to say I agree at the moment. Yes they messed him around but the way he just quit so easily has tainted my view of him forever. Hes a quitter and hes hid ever since he left us. I'll never welcome him anywhere near this club again. The rest of you can of course, but hes a bottler and a coward in my eyes. I'm so sick of our past, I just want this club to move in the right direction for a change.

None of my mates have but I see it on other people's facebook pages and the like.. Tend to be from girls and utter tosspots who know fuck all about football. I'm sure a punch to the nose would put them in their place or possibly laugh at them when they experience a family tragedy for example.

What do we watch now? will we be able to watch live games or highlights anywhere? I have no clue about this stuff..

Off to my mates to watch it after telling myself all week I wasn't going to.. This will probably be the most torturous game I've watched in years but fuck it, we've deserved to go down all season so I might as well watch it with a glimmer of hope in my soul C'MON LADS!!! http://www.comenplay.com/images/members/mid_15865/Large_20070815_112456_Newcastle-United.jpg

This is how I see it going. We'll work hard but with zero creativity and rusty strikers, we'll fall short, run out of steam and bow out of the league. Hull will manage a draw to rub it in.

Simple poll to guess if we'll win, lose or draw against Aston Villa - regardless of what happens

Bassong was in my dream last night, he was sat with a reporter right next to a huge map of London - he was laughing and joking about how hes exciting to be moving there and can't wait to join a new club...

Our player of the season you'd be daft to think he's staying anyway, so I expect him gone in the summer. So many questions will be answered come sunday.....