manorpark

Well, I have not 'heard a lot of this' I usually just hear (and read) the opposite ! I'm afraid that I have lost my 'workings' at the same time as I lost my workings that show that night follows day, and the world is round !!!

Saudi Arabia is a country that is very much moving in a civilising and western direction to consolidate their future, post-oil. An important part of that is their acquisition of us.We (us in Newcastle and the UK) will have an excellent civilising influence, medium-term and long-term, on their country and how they treat their people. This is the amazingly positive aspect of our Takeover by the Saudi P I F, that is so "enthusiastically ignored" by anti-Saudi people and the anti-Saudi Media . . . because it's reality does not fit in with their pre-conceptions and their tunnel vision agendas. So, to answer your point above, I am not dreaming, but it will not happen to us, quite the reverse for the reasons stated !!!

Chris Wood is doing an effective job, but others are scoring the goals, and I feel that he really needs to get one or two himself, very soon. I have no doubt that he will start scoring soon, and it would seem logical that the game against Southampton would be a very good place to start. Watch this space . . .

Bruno for Willock. I know the positions are not exactly the same, but I think Willock is currently the weakest of our middle three. I agree the other two changes, and I think they WILL happen.

Not sure if you were asking me, or HTT II, but to answer your question, I do not love ALL architecture as so much of it (old and new) is sub-standard, but I do love all "High Quality Architecture Old and New", and we have a lot of that in our elegant City Centre.

Bland? What a weird thing to even think, let alone to actually write . . .

It would be a difficult problem, but definitely not impossible to solve with the Reuben Bros expertise in this type of thing, and their financial clout, as well as P I F and their financial clout - in conjunction with a favourable City Council.

WHAT? Demolish our "beautiful new" East Stand?? SEE ALSO . . . https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threads/newcastle-as-it-might-have-been.1009531/post-53665235 (YES - I actually agree that the best thing to do would be to replace the "old" East Stand !!!!!!)

Nowhere on the outskirts, eg next to Newcastle Racecourse at Gosforth Park, or near Newcastle Falcons at Kingston Park etc, has been mentioned. The only places so far mentioned are in the City Centre at Castle Leazes or Newcastle Arena.

Probably the space for them, but the developer is building 'riverside apartments' and already has planning approval for that location. Unlikely to want to 'swap', and then wait for goodness knows how many years before he can eventually start building. Nothing is impossible, but . . .

If that gets built, there would not be enough room for a football stadium, as the only space left would be the footprint of the actual current Arena. The 1,100 homes would have been built on the site to the right of the Arena in this photo . . .

The empty site shown in my earlier post, next to (to the south of) the current Arena, has just had planning approval for these 1,100 homes and a hotel . . .

Gosh !!! London football club over-praised by the London Media . . . shock !

This photo shows how much space there is in and around the Newcastle Arena Site, which will become available after the Arena moves to the new NewcastleGateshead Quays Arena Site . . . Here is what a new NUFC Stadium could look like after construction on the above site . . .

It is bad grammar as written like that it does not reflect reality as we know it now to be. If you wished to be accurate, rather than making 'a point' for some reason, instead of writing "TBF we are a regular relegation candidate" you would have automatically written "TBF we have been a regular relegation candidate". That's all I'm saying - accuracy.

Good grief, how wrong does that sound, using the 'present tense' in that way.

That is my reply to Scoot, who was talking about Stanley, which is the UK town located at the highest point above sea level of any sizeable UK settlement. Consequently it gets a very different climate, particularly in winter, to other 'towns' in the UK.

Yes, a 'unique' high place, I think it is the highest town in the UK. A VERY different climate!!

Snow? What is that? Snow is so very rare in Newcastle these days, been the same for many years.

This statement does not seem to 'fit' with my understanding of our new owners - at all !

If your criteria is "within the city boundaries" then that is a very large area that gives them a lot of scope. Somewhere near Newcastle Racecourse at Gosforth Park (for example) would be a relatively easy one to sort out, I would imagine. Myself, I still prefer the City Centre.

The so-called "Big Six" is a Sky-TV invention - that has now gained hold generally. Sky care mainly about their viewing figures, and so - of course - they had to include a number of London-based clubs within their invented list, even if (like Spurs particularly) they do not win trophies. It is a meaningless grouping, and the sooner its use is consigned to history, the better.

It's interesting to speculate about the stadium, but however they alter and extend it, the one thing I think they will definitely do is to put a retractable roof on it. It would be a big job, but I am certain that idea will appeal to them. It opens up quite a few other year-round uses for the stadium as well. This is just my personal thoughts on this!

. . and the day after . . and the day after !!! Perpetual 'happy times' ahead for us, it'll take a while to get there, but after that !