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Genuinely baffled - just can’t see how this won’t be a complete disaster. Really hope the domestic leagues don’t cave on this.

This. Or Little Tommy any more oxygen.

That's why I hate fan based podcasts - they genuinely don't know any more than you and me and I have no interest in assisting them making money from airing their bullshit opinions. It's all so fucking desperate.

NUFC twitter is just abysmal. Just a bunch of nobodies arguing with each other.

Yep - both are shit. But I always found the joy of winning regularly in the Championship quite hollow and overrated to be honest. This was even the case under a manager like Rafa.

No - being in the Championship is shit. Vaguely interesting the first time round, less so the second time, would be absolutely terrible third time round and we probably wouldn't come straight back up.

Think people are underestimating Wilder. Wouldn’t be my first choice but he’s a hell of a lot better than Bruce.

Wish we’d gone for Tuchel when he was Mainz. Clearly a very impressive manager.

Such a good player - real shame he left. Our midfield looked immeasurably better with him in it.

I don't think it read that badly re Rafa. It sounded like even his current coach has a different approach to Rafa and Woodman's dad. I think he was merely acknowledging there are different goalkeeping styles.

I met Keegan at one of his book signings in London. For all the cliches about never meeting your hero - the guy is everything you'd hope he would be. So generous with his time and makes you feel like he's genuinely interested in you. He insisted on having numerous photos with my family and made a big joke about standing on chair for a photo with me and my brother as we're both quite tall. He's just got such amazing charisma. Feel so lucky to have seen his team play (and Bobby's as well). We might have been shit for years, but you can't take away those memories.

I remember being strangely fascinated by that season, it was Ardiles as manager right? It was weird because he was not only trying to bring that diamond formation to Newcastle but he was doing it with kids. I actually really admired what he was trying to do, but it was suicidal to do it with YTS kids and unheard of signings....who were also kids. Yeah it was. To be fair to Ardiles, Smith had spent a fair bit before him and failed, Aediles didnt have a lot to play with. Alan Thompson came through that season, I think there was one or two others who were canny as well. He also signed a couple of forwards who were quite pacy but crap but can't for the life of me remember the names. Gary Brazil maybe, although not sure if that was a Smith signing, but there was another one who's name escapes me. Yeah he did, along with Clark, Watson and Elliott if I remember correctly. Brazil was under Smith, 89ish. Played about 40 games and scored 2-3 goals Ardiles signed a tall rangy kid who Oliver kept talking up because of his pace ( pace was a real luxury asset for a Newcastle forward in those days!) but can't remember his name. Will have to do a bit of googling. EDIT: found it, Andy Hunt. What a no mark he was. Didn't he go on to have an ok-ish career?

Genuinely think I wouldn't watch a single match of any proposed Super League out of principle, but also because I'm not sure I'd care enough. The CL has already lost much of its appeal for me, so can't see myself being particularly excited by it. Might even call my actions a boycoutt.

Gutted that Tuchel is going to Chelsea. Think he got a raw deal at PSG.

Don’t really get the point of making up ITK stuff? It’s not amusing and just a bit weird. Not sure I quite get the upside.

Her rage at wasting MP time during a pandemic is a bit rich aswell, she openly admits she sent a letter the 1st time round. I’m quite sure they have enough spare time to deal with multiple issues, and likewise govt ministers. She's on there for the sole purpose of boosting her social media profile, pure and simple and shes succeeded there I'll give her that. She's a solicitor (calls her lself a lawyer to make it sound more interesting even though Lawyer is just an American term for Solicitior). My wife is a Solicitor as well. She's been qualified in excess of 20 years now and owns her own practice. Her main specialist areas are Family, probate and to a lesser extent, criminal. If you were unfairly dismissed from your job or you wanted to claim for an accident you'd had she would politely direct you to a specialist in that field as, in her words, she wouldn't necessarily know a great deal more than you do as it's not a part of Law she practices in. Similarly the red Michelle lass won't necessarily know a great deal more than your average, but fairly well educated person in the street, about legal matters in this takeover (which is why she got mostly everything wrong from March-August and tried to compensate for that by using fairly raunchy Profile photos to make up for her lack of and real expertise to keep people hanging onto her words). There’s literally nothing weird at all about a solicitor calling themselves a lawyer. The US term for a lawyer is usually attorney. You are incorrect. In America a Lawyer is trained in the field of general law and will offer advice in accordance with the law and an Attorney is qualified and also licensed to represent a client in court. It's not simply a case of them being two different terms. Happy to agree to disagree on this one! I am lawyer in England and I work for a US law firm. In England a solicitor can still call themselves a lawyer - this is 100% not an issue at all. In the US, the terms lawyer and attorney are used interchangeably - no distinction is generally made between the terms. But let’s leave it there - this is even more of a waste of time than the takeover debate.

Her rage at wasting MP time during a pandemic is a bit rich aswell, she openly admits she sent a letter the 1st time round. I’m quite sure they have enough spare time to deal with multiple issues, and likewise govt ministers. She's on there for the sole purpose of boosting her social media profile, pure and simple and shes succeeded there I'll give her that. She's a solicitor (calls her lself a lawyer to make it sound more interesting even though Lawyer is just an American term for Solicitior). My wife is a Solicitor as well. She's been qualified in excess of 20 years now and owns her own practice. Her main specialist areas are Family, probate and to a lesser extent, criminal. If you were unfairly dismissed from your job or you wanted to claim for an accident you'd had she would politely direct you to a specialist in that field as, in her words, she wouldn't necessarily know a great deal more than you do as it's not a part of Law she practices in. Similarly the red Michelle lass won't necessarily know a great deal more than your average, but fairly well educated person in the street, about legal matters in this takeover (which is why she got mostly everything wrong from March-August and tried to compensate for that by using fairly raunchy Profile photos to make up for her lack of and real expertise to keep people hanging onto her words). There’s literally nothing weird at all about a solicitor calling themselves a lawyer. The US term for a lawyer is usually attorney.

A lot of it isn’t well meaning tho. That lawyer lass has said he & Kennedy are misleading fans etc from day one and she’s not let it go since. What Keith is essentially saying is if you don’t believe or agree with what he’s doing then let him get on with it and we’ll see what happens. To be honest, from what I saw there was little that the lawyer said that was incorrect and she was bringing a dose of reality to proceedings. I don’t know if she’s self-promoting or not - I can’t see much upside for her if she is. But I don’t see an issue with her offering fans her informed opinion on the information that NCSL or Kennedy are putting out. She doesn’t need to agree with NCSL and that’s her right to offer her view in a public forum without abuse.

I haven’t followed enough of it to be honest, but as long as the links with the crowdfunding thing are above board and there’s no move to request any money whatsoever from fans in the future, then I can see your point. It’s up to him as to whether he engages with fans or not, but if he has a public presence people will ask questions (and should be allowed to) and you can’t stop that. But he shouldn’t get offended by questions and start abusing people - it’s embarrassing and really unprofessional. If he doesn’t want to engage and offer answers to questions, then ignore them.

Hold on - just because Keith has put an indeterminate amount of money into a project that may or may not have any bearing whatsoever on the takeover, it doesn’t mean he is totally immune from any well meaning questions or criticism at all. I don’t think he’s doing any harm and, quite frankly, he can crack on as far as I’m concerned but blindly following him and expecting him to not be asked any questions is a bit strange.

No one is actually trolling though - they’re asking valid questions about NSCL.

Jesus - Everton have done well to get that for him. I'd have thought he was partially damaged goods at this point tbf. Yeah that's great business for them. Hasn't he done really well at PSG? Seems like a good deal for PSG to be honest.

Absolutely want this takeover to go ahead, but there's something very strange about the NCSL group. I'm also not sure I 100% trust Kennedy as a reporter - especially given these connections to Wraith. Having said that, I don't really get what NCSL are getting out of this arrangement if they are just on a grift. As long as they don't start asking for money, they might as well crack on.

Always wanted someone like Tuchel here when he was at Mainz. I mean he would clearly never come here now, but would love to see a manager who could actually coach players.

I know the answer to this, but I'll ask it anyway - I'll never get why Ashley hasn't worked out that the most cost effective way to increase the value of the club is to hire a really good manager. Cheaper than having to keep buying players for large amounts of money and, if you hire someone who can actually coach as well, your players might improve and you can then sell them for loads of money. And you won't get relegated.