manorpark

Yes, behind the scenes, which is the best way (no leaks).

Some very illogical comparisons there, just grasping at the Saudi Arabia connection. How and why would you arrive at the last part of your post I cannot fathom?

Says who, where? If I was them I would ask for football advice from huge numbers of people across the game, as wide a range of people as possible, that is the very best way to arrive at your OWN 'best judgement' on anything, but whether I would actually take any 'specific individual bit' of advice from any one individual is a very different thing altogether!

Everybody gets things wrong from time to time (I never "delude" myself, life is too short for that) but what we all have to get used to - and I know it is difficult - is that from now on NUFC decisions are very, very likely to be made that are usually the right/best ones, and that the end results are likely to be usually very good. The ratio of "good to bad outcomes" is now going to be so completely different from previously that it is genuinly difficult to assimilate it . . . but I am trying to !!

We DO know this, of course we do. I have been saying for more than 18 months that the absolute certainty of the eventual success of the Takeover was down to the "Calibre" of the people wanting to buy us. They were 'winners' and successful in Business in getting what they wanted. That applied to the Reubens, P I F, and PCP. They know how to do things, and they are now our owners. They will (again) succeed.

I just think it is great that none of these names, or any other news at all about a D o F or Manager/Head Coach, has come from our new owners. No leaks - deliberate or otherwise - have come out at all. Everything we have been told by journalists is (at best) 100% guesswork, or (at worst) 100% malicious rumour-mongering. We are now in high calibre and safe hands . . . so different it is hard to get used to it !!!

Interviews do take a long time to be planned, held, and analysed afterwards, and I would imagine each serious candidate is being interviwed more than once, and perhaps in 'foreign parts', so yes, you are right, we (once again) just have to . . . W A I T !!!!!!!!!!!!

F*** me . . 6 am !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Agreed, and especially if it was just ONE word added to the front of the St James' Park name, like (say) Aramco St James' Park or whatever . . .

Yes, that's how I used to think too, when the Takeover first went through. However, I now realise that what we want is a Director of Football and a Manager (Head Coach) who can "see the project now" and wants to be in it from the beginning to make it all happen - his way.

If he doesn't have the basic brainpower to see which club (us or MU) will become the very best place to be in the footballing world in the forseeable future, with our new owners allied to our club and fans - then we don't want him !!

I have a lot of material about our 1969 Fairs Cup win . . .

Nothing is, and nothing will be ever again "far fetched" for us .

Yeah . . but they are G R E A T times, are they not?

Ah, I see, though I can only see it once!

I can just imagine how more determined all of this is making the Saudis to succeed with us. We are under all types of attack from all sorts of areas. These people will undoubtedly live to regret their very stupid actions. (Can't wait !!! )

Explain?

Why? I have made my point!

Jamie Reuben, who is responsible for huge amounts of great development of our City Centre, is nothing like you describe. OK, him and Staveley may have different opinions about this, as I am sure they will have many times in the future, but they are both clever people who care about our football club. We are lucky to have both of them as Directors at NUFC.

You don't need to have such a 'long' re-name as that, just Aramco St James' Park would do the job (for them, AND for us).

A short almost-no-change name like Aramco St James' Park, would suit me I think, if it brings in a lot of sponsorship money. We would just still call it St James' Park anyway !

Thanks Rod, I honestly do not think apologies are in any way needed. It was a 'difficult' period that we all went through, and now we can all enjoy together so many fantastic experiences (both major ones and minor 'everyday' ones) in our permanently B I G future together. We are indeed now Newcastle UNITED

P O S I T I V E is the 'way to be', and I have a feeling that most of us are going to feel that way about most aspects of NUFC for a very long time into the future! We have earned it.

Done that, throughout my "Skyscraper City" world