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This is the new thing to W A I T for, it really is! We will need a sensible period with Jones as Caretaker Manager to find the very "best Director of Football" in the world (the best name is already being regularly mentioned for this) THEN, between him and the Board, to find the "best Manager in the world". Our new owners will only ever want 'worlds best' (or as near as they can get to that) for everything, and this takes T I M E, I would imagine, quite a lot of very careful time!

This is a view of the 1997 proposed new stadium, thowing the walk to it through open space and landscaped extension to Leazes Park . . .

Our main City Centre Park is the Town Moor, it is huge and stretches from the City Centre to various parts of Newcastle (from West to East) Fenham, Kenton, Gosforth and Jesmond. Some areas of Town Moor have been landscaped into defined 'Victorian Style' City Centre parkland, namely Exhibition Park and Leazes Park (all 'Town Moor' land). So, we are very well off for green spacwithing the City Centre, though we could do with more Public Squares, like Old Eldon Square. The Reuben Brothers are planning some of these withing their EPS ('East Pilgrim Street') proposals.

Unlikely to be true.

As I understand it, the freehold of the stadium site belongs to Newcastle City Council.

T O D A Y (Thursday 14th October 2021) is exactly one week after the Takeover, and it is also "BYE-BYE BRUCIE DAY"

This is how the proposals were illustrated in 1997 . . .

This 1997 proposal is explained in my post about two posts above from your post.

This is how Leazes Park opposite Leazes Terrace (with the East Stand gone) was going to look like with the half-sized St James' Park Arena plans . . .

Yes, the City Council had approved it, and (amazingly) the Freemen had agreed to support it. They liked the plans for an enlarged Leazes Park encroaching into part of the land that had been occupied by the football stadium. That (St James' Park) was going to be reduced in size by about 50% of land area, and would have been converted into an indoor arena. Local protest groups had gained support though and would have taken it to a public enquiry. It would all have taken far too long SJH said, so they opted to expand St James' Park instead.

E X C U S E M E !!!!!!

Yes, I posted this link about that earlier in the week . . . https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threads/quayside-west-ex-calders-yard-site-heliport-site-and-newcastle-arena-future-site-newcastle-various-approved.983200/post-168894560

The Newcastle Green Belt is about five miles to the North, so I assume you mean "Town Moor Land" like Castle Leazes and Leazes Park. It will be difficult to obtain permissions from the Freemen . . . http://freemenofnewcastle.org/

Amazing how quickly (some) people look on the down-side of everything, even things that have not happened, automatically 'imagining' an unlikely worst-case scenario.

It will be today or tomorrow (Thursday). It will be no later than Thursday, in my opinion.

The "children" are being allowed to have their say before they are told to brush their teeth and go up to bed. Great stuff!

No, I have always felt that our 'considered and sensible' new owners would never rush in and sack him the very next day they took over. I felt they would definitely sack him before the Spurs match, and that Wednesday or Thursday would be the logical times (one or the other) to do it. There is no problem with it being too close to the Spurs game, because Jones is already there, no doubt having more useful input than Bruce already, and so he can just continue that as Caretaker Manager, at the weekend and probably for a week or two thereafter. That's what I think anyway!

When you know you are going to sack someone you do it as pleasantly as you can. It is never a 'happy procedure' but it is best all round to try to minimise the harshness, even if only by thanking the person for their past work. You don't have to mean it.

The most accurate way to describe them is as "local competitors" but never (in my lifetime) genuine "rivals" at any stage. They could also be described as "local annoyances" because they constantly talk about us - as their rivals - and their talk usually implies that the feeling as mutual, which it is not. They are obsessed with us - fine - but it should be clear (and "made clear to them") that we are not even remotely obsessed with them. (this is the most I have ever thought and written about them, in a very long time).

I have been attending NUFC matches for nearly ** years !! In all that time, hardly anyone who I knew has ever considered them as 'rivals'. We always said that they were geographically close, but if it hadn't been for that we would never have known anything about them, and we certainly never felt challenged by them, as you would be by a real rival. Towards the end of many seasons a number of us would pop over to Joker Park to watch them be relegated or to fail to be promoted, but that was about the extent of it.

If the London Metropolitan Area was carved up into 4 or 5 different cities the way the Newcastle Metropolitan Area is, then it would never be included in the rankings of the worlds biggest cities. That is the trouble here, we are one big conurbation, there is no break in it, yet we are 'split up' for Local Authority purposes into Newcastle, North Tyneside, South East Northumberland, Gateshead, South Tyneside. Random 'Local Authority Boundaries' cutting through streets and between peoples houses. These artificial 'boundaries' are only there for shared out provision of Local Authority Services etc, it is such a self-defeating anomoly, which (sadly) also encourages ultra-local parochiality. Within the official share of the population inside the current City Boundary, there are indeed circa 300,000 people, a large number but not really reflective of reality. Most national and international businesses (eg retailers) always use more realistic and accurate City figures such as those at the link I quoted above, in making their decisions about whether to open here, or not.

Our main City Centre Park is the Town Moor. A lot of the Town Moor is simply open fields, but some parts of it have been landscaped (since Victorian times) into traditional parks. Two of those landscaped areas of Town Moor are 'Exhibition Park' and 'Leazes Park'. The Freemen of the City control all of the Town Moor, and are dedicated to keeping it as an open space, including the two mentioned parks. http://freemenofnewcastle.org/the-moor/

Yes, it was the "Fairs Club" (fans group) that raised the money for the plaque.

We are a very large City, the centre of the 7th largest conurbation in the entire UK. The oft-mentioned "myth" about us being a small City was originaly said to describe our "City Centre", which is a 'compact' centre for such a large City, but over time the word 'centre' often got omitted. Population of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

They decided on a Joe Harvey 'plaque' instead . . .