manorpark

There are some University buildings amongst all of the buildings, but Helix is by no means a 'campus' !!

This?

Knowledge.

The Newcastle Arena site is no longer available. Our current City Centre location is the BEST one we could ever have. Just 'watch this space' for the very first real evidence of our hugely wealthy owners spending M A S S I V E amounts on our club as SJP is extended and transformed. Just remember who we now are and sit back and enjoy the ride.

What about when it is -3 in January on the Thames? It is like that there more often than it is here.

The long-standing "Quayside West" housing proposed for this location always made it an unlikely option, even when enlarged after the Newcastle Arena moves out . . .

The basic plan is that there will eventually be NO bigger club than Newcastle United. It seems inevitable to me that this will happen, but we face many (often deliberate and specific) obstacles put in our way, so it will take a long time. We will get there.

Yes, the equivalent of the "EFL Trophy" in the mens game, that Sunderland played in.

Yes indeed, for example in 1998 . . .

Might be six, might be ten, might be three. For OUR Dof (no other clubs) we just do not know - so it really is a waste of our time to speculate so soon!

Fact of life, that is (probably) how long it will take to achieve what he and our owners have in mind for him. We do NOT know what individual items of work he is responsible for so far, we may "choose" to speculate but we do not know and probably never will. Long term thinking/planning/achieving is so different from current/short term thinking, I know that personally.

His job is to achieve over a very long period of time, it has barely started at all I have no 'questions or mild criticisms' about him, perhaps I potentially might by (say) 2027, depending on our medium to long term progress.

He said exactly the same thing again today, I think someone on there should just tell him to shut up!

The Royal Arcade was built in 1831 by those giant figures of Newcastle history, Richard Grainger and John Dobson. Constructed in a classical Greek style, the poet Sir John Betjeman, over 100 years later, described the Arcade as “a highlight of classical town planning” - and one of the 36 most famous vanished monuments in Britain. Originally a Corn Exchange, it would soon become a home to shops, as well as banks, offices, a post office, an auction room, and steam and vapour baths. With its domes and stone columns, It was hailed as the finest example of its kind in the country. However, over time it was destined to become Grainger’s least successful venture. While Newcastle’s retail trade continued to grow around the Grey’s Monument area, many shoppers just didn’t fancy trudging down to the bottom of Pilgrim Street. The Royal Arcade was considered for demolition as early as the 1880s, and that decision was finally rubber-stamped decades later in the early 1960s after a long period of decline. When they dismantled the Royal Arcade they decided that they could reassemble it within Swan House which stood on the roundabout. All of the ornate stone work was taken to a Council site in Shieldfield and every piece was numbered to make re-assembly easy. Unfortunately the paint they used was water based and when they came to rebuild it the numbers had washed off. It was considered too problematic to sort it out and in their wisdom the City Council decided to make a pastiche “new arcade" utilising fibreglass moulds taken of the original stones but made with new cheaper materials. That is still there today inside the latest restaurant beneath 55 Degrees North; The Swan House Roundabout with the new pastiche Royal Arcade inside Swan House and the car park beneath was initially completed with the Employment exchange inside and Australia House attached to it. The remaining original stones are laid all through Armstrong Park and Heaton Park as are some stones saved from the old Town Hall from the foot of Bigg Market and Cloth Market. When it was conceded that it would be impossible to re-assemble these stones in their original formation, the City Council agreed to distribute them in the mentioned Parks, at least preserving some remnant of our heritage. The stones are still there today and can be seen if you look for them.

Yes, everything we hear about and read about transfer rumours is almost certainly nearly always 100% the opposite of the truth.

Did you mean to say "under 9m", I assume?

Weird comment, and factually impossible.

You just don't hear it said "this way round" very often though - do you! A bit of their own endless spewed medicine thrown back at them. They don't like it !!!!!

Pretty much the case. Even worse in the cockney-esq wilds of Essex.

No, I was just saying it how it is, having lived there for years.

Are you saying she did not tell the truth ?????

I lived in Cockneyland for quite a few years and they just do not understand English down there. They think that they 'talk' in English down there, but they can only be understood fully by eachother !!

I realise that.

Yes, and I told her that too, regularly, most weeks. And if you believe me and/or TalkSport, then you are just a lost cause . . .