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Or he'd be fronting a low quality Dexy's Midnight Runners tribute band.

Is it the current use of Leazes Terrace rather than their architectural style the reason as to why it could be perceived to be expendable? It's a genuine question. I suppose there's an element of weight behind the idea that a building's use can have an impact on its value, although usage is temporary, they weren't always used for students and if it were gone then it can't be used for anything ever again.

T. Dan Smith gave no fucks. Thankfully, times have changed. The city would lose far more culturally than it could ever gain financially if similar things were allowed to happen again.

Yeah, I noticed that too! There was definitely a kind of restraint in how he was analysing the game.

At least our owners actually own the club, unlike our dear neighbours. It's been said countless times already but these guys are night and day compared to what we endured before. They may not be fully media savvy, maybe say more than they should or say it in a way that other chief executives maybe wouldn't but give me that each and every day of the week. I love the raw, open honesty of these interviews, same with Dan Burn and Matt Targett's interviews. Nowt flash, just them being them. If I wanted slick, rehearsed management bullshit bingo I'd tolerate more Brendan Rodgers than I need to. To deviate even further, Chris Whitty is excellent at his job, arguably one of the best in his field internationally but understandably is very much the rabbit in the headlights when the world's media is in his face. Poor guy just wants to see the four walls and maybe a window of his office.

What's never clarified is just exactly what his stuff actually is. It's never "Steve Bruce knows his football" or "Steve Bruce knows about defending" but it's "Steve Bruce knows his stuff". Aye, he knows Portuguese beaches like the back of his hand or how to never even endanger the working time directive but how's that going to get West Brom promoted?

Moving the Tyne is probably easier than relocating Leazes Terrace. Not even a Grade 1 listed river.

We're all understandably biased because this is a Newcastle United football forum after all and we do want what's best for the club but Leazes Terrace can never ever be demolished. It would be a cultural crime against Newcastle upon Tyne. Just as much as we care more about football, there'll be people (sadly) who don't like football. Even though I'm not religious, I'd still be against the idea of flattening St Paul's cathedral to make room for a new stadium for Chelsea. Extreme example, perhaps! Things like Leazes Park, Terrace and St Thomas' Crescent are what gives the ground such an iconic/legendary location. The city has lost a lot over the years in the name of "progress" - we need to be careful. I have faith though, we're ultimately owned by billionaire property developers with unlimited money and aspirations. If those plans from the mid 90s about the new stadium in Castle Leazes with a smaller arena where SJP is and an expanded park area can be dusted off and updated then that would be the ultimate for me personally. We've had worse problems.

Maybe I'm just a cynical NHS (and NUTH) employee but being given a protective boot would count towards his 18 week RTT pathway (it pauses the clock) because it counts as being offered treatment.

He'll be fine! He's done far more than Ali Dia ever did in midfield and in less than 10% of the minutes.

6' 7" + Blyth = does what we wants.

The thing I like about the Emirates Stadium is that mural they have of great former players on the outside going around it. I doubt we could do exactly the same but I think something along those lines outside the ground would be really good. At least the odd picture here and there would be welcome. A few years ago, I was at a work thing at SJP, they hired one of the function rooms, and on the way up and along the corridors there were loads of great images of this kind of thing but there's nowt in the public facing areas. We should be all over this kind of thing. Perhaps it's not too healthy to live in the past but our record in the Edwardian era was outrageous, seriously incredible and I think our heritage should be celebrated more.

I love that. You can tell he probably got a nose bleed or at least cold sweats when he somehow found himself in the murky world of the centre circle before returning to the familiar, safe, left hand side. Can never be further than ten yards from the touchline.

It was so good to see Amanda Staveley celebrating at the end with the other executives, she looked to be genuinely happy and excited. It was quite sweet to see her awkward exchange with someone who was slightly off camera, she wanted a handshake, he offered a fist (for a fist bump, I have to add), she offered a fist, he then a hand and this went on for a bit! Was quite a nice moment. As with the team and football management, it's just so amazing to have a whole hierarchy of genuine, extremely likeable people who all want the best for the club - especially in this happy moment. If/when we stay up, this summer is going to be incredible and I can't wait.

He even said he'd quite like to be a goalkeeper too.

We certainly didn't get Scandinavian for value.

Actually, it wasn't Cecil Irwin was it who ran the newsagents? I'm sure he had one back in Ashington on Woodhorn Road and my Grandad always said he had more. See, culture like this is why Bruno has signed.

Couldn't agree more! We're canny, like.

Yeah, perhaps I'm a wee bit strong in my comparison - I am from Ashington, after all! I think it's the expanse of the county where there's miles and miles of fields and hills and then all of a sudden a town/village that maybe doesn't quite fit the scenery. Again, I'm from south east Northumberland so we're all acutely aware of why our particular towns have maybe seen better days. I just like poking fun at our southern cousins, we're all cut from the same cloth and I wouldn't have it any other way. You can keep Sunderland though

County Durham is weird though. I once had to drive through Thornley and I was getting flashbacks to my time in Pripyat.

I think it's a way of injecting cash into a business, which is a separate legal entity to a person or other business. You're not allowed to just transfer money into the NUFC account because that's pretty much money laundering so issue a new share or shares in the company and sell those to yourself. Well, technically NUFC sold one new share to PIF for £40 million or whatever. A director loan would be another way, the Mike Ashley way, but that counts as debt and not equity (but can later be converted to be).

I think we've found abuse is only horrid if it's made-up and delivered online. Any remarks made towards Steve Bruce should have been spray painted on the walls of his home and/or club training ground or stadium, which would have made them legitimate because it's what Everton fans regularly get away with. He may have been born a winner but he's lived his life since then as a loser, his managerial record proves that.

Could be some sort of tax dodge for him, perhaps? Don't you get a tax deduction for charity work?

Some weapons grade horseshit being spouted by the brains trust on Sky Sports News about our transfer window, if you can believe that. We haven't signed a superstar, all our signings are safe and Paul Merson reckons there would be uproar if Steve Bruce had made any of these signings. Also, any of Watford's four forwards would walk into our team. Don't do drugs, kids. Just say no.

Can just imagine him chatting to Bruno at the training ground in full Pitmatic and Bruno's like . (Assuming Dan Burn retained his accent, never actually heard him speak.)