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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 . . .

It will soon be even better than this, when we were the "5th richest club in the world" !!!!

You might enjoy these posts that I made a few years back then, over on the "Newcastle Forum of Skyscraper City" . . . https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threads/newcastle-as-it-might-have-been.1009531/post-54625251 https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threads/newcastle-as-it-might-have-been.1009531/post-53665235 https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threads/newcastle-as-it-might-have-been.1009531/post-53090947

Simply by the Saudi PIF being massively involved with us, there will be increased integration of Saudi Culture with UK culture. There will be huge numbers of opportunities for us to influence them (in this regard) rather more than the other way round. OK, they are already hugely active in the UK (as discussed many times) but the PIF and NUFC link will take it to another level, publicity-wise. This deal over the coming years will be very transformative (quietly perhaps at first) for the people of Saudi Arabia. It is a VERY good thing indeed, all round.

Over on Skyscraper City we are following the various proposals for that area closely, and we have a dedicated thread for it. There are certainly a lot of major plans and proposals in for the nearby "Forth Banks" area, the nearby "Heliport Site" area, and the nearby "Calders Yard" area. The current "Newcastle Arena" area is included within the remit for the thread, but while the City Council have expressed an opinion that the area could be used for housing in the future, there are no developments proposed for the site as yet. I think we will need to await the opening of the NewcastleGateshead Quays Arena before anything specific can be proposed for the current Arena Site. Of all the proposals for the (mentioned) adjacent development sites, the nearest one so far in Planning at the City Council is this one here, shown in a recent post on the above-mentioned thread . . . https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threads/quayside-west-ex-calders-yard-site-heliport-site-and-newcastle-arena-future-site-newcastle-various-approved.983200/post-168894560

Splendid stuff, spot on!

I remember well in the 1990s and early 2000s, I was working in Washington New Town (which is 'officially' part of the Sunderland Local Authority area) and that way more that half of those that were wearing football tops, were wearing Newcastle United Tops. I would imagine that it will become more and more like that again, over the coming years, and quite probably on a permanent basis !!

He will be gone long before then. They don't even have to panic-rush to appoint the new manager, though I'm sure they will act quickly, as they can just put Jones in charge for a match or two. They need to make the right appointment, not that any of us need to tell them that . . . or tell them anything . . . they know what they are doing, a weird concept that it will take a while for us all to get used to!

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