My Silent Face

They are incredible, I bet since 2000 SJP has been sold out well over 150 times. The SOL has been a sell out on barely a handful of occasions at most I bet Case closed

Right so if this happens let's have a bit of a break from guessing days etc. what would people's steps be if they had just taken over NUFC? Mine would be: 1) remove all sports direct branding off SJP 2) give SJP a good clean and spruce up 3) tell Bruce and charnley they are fired and bring in high level replacements 4) set about making plans to upgrade the training ground or find a location to build a new state of the art one 5) communicate the short to medium term plans and put measures in place for constant communication with fan groups 6) get adidas back as the kit manufacturer and design a better strip with more stripes like the 90s kits 7) revamp the whole scouting system and focus on getting all the best young talent in the north of England and Scotland into the academy at an early age 8) invest plenty of money into signing the best 16-18 year old players and fill the under 23 team with them 9)establish a link with a couple of clubs to loan out young players to develop or to sell for profit 10) keep the good core we have such as dubravka, Schar,Fernandez, longstaffs, ASM and Almiron 11) go all out to win the FA cup

Ball-E Baaaaaarly. Kicked anything that moved and despises the mags.

A white hatchet man hero is what they are missing to be fair

You laugh but let's wait and see. I bet I'm proven right in time Suppose you did turn out to be correct having goaded us for weeks.....what will you get out of it.....the rest of us will be gutted....how will you feel? Devastated. Sickened. I haven't goaded anyone I'm just offering some balance to the hysteria. People are getting far too carried away over the tiniest of things and looking for messages that aren't there. I'm just saying people need to be prepared for the possibility that this won't happen.

Well, the takeover actually happened almost two months ago now, and all we have been waiting for is the Premier League's 'Fit & Proper Test' results. The Reubens, Staveley and Saudi PIF are serious players in the business world, despite all this 'noise' around the deal, there is no way that any sports body will tell these people that they cannot buy the investment they want to buy. So, I cannot understand why you would say "can anyone actually picture it happening?" when it is absolutely certain to happen, and in reality. has already happened. Absolutely certain Again, give it a few weeks and re visit that comment

Yes, once the Premier League figures out how to re-start. We're absolutely on the back burner right now and have been for weeks. I did say that about 3 weeks ago too and got laughed at saying it had nothing to do with that

You laugh but let's wait and see. I bet I'm proven right in time

So 24 hours after yesterday's hysteria we are still no further forward and heading into another long weekend of silence. I will be genuinely shocked if this ever happens like. I'm already preparing myself for Ashley and Bruce next season. Just feels like this takeover isn't meant to be. I mean can anyone actually picture it happening!? Cold harsh truth is if this was going to happen it would have by now.

Yep. Then nothing tomorrow then it's a long weekend. Before we know it we will be in this same stalemate next weekend. I'm 100% out like i just can't picture it happening, I really can't. Hope I'm wrong like but that's the strong feeling I have. Stop f***ing lying, you're all in like the rest of us. You're sniffing around this thread like a broke sailor outside a whorehouse. This, this is my favourite quote of the week

Yep. Then nothing tomorrow then it's a long weekend. Before we know it we will be in this same stalemate next weekend. I'm 100% out like i just can't picture it happening, I really can't. Hope I'm wrong like but that's the strong feeling I have. Wait and see. I bet time proves me right. You were adamant it was all done last summer man. Learn your lessons!

Yep. Then nothing tomorrow then it's a long weekend. Before we know it we will be in this same stalemate next weekend. I'm 100% out like i just can't picture it happening, I really can't. Hope I'm wrong like but that's the strong feeling I have.

Study the words George has chosen to use . . . "They haven’t had official, formal word from the PL yet. That’s the bit when the money starts to move". That is about as clear as it could possibly be !!! It means . . . We haven't had the announcement yet because the money hasn't been paid and it will be paid when the "official" and "formal" approval (ie, the official/formal letter) has been received, but (and this is the important bit) it means that "unofficial" approval (phonecall probably) HAS been given. It's all there. IT IS DONE PEOPLE . . . DONE !!!! No it isn't though is it. People forget about the past very easily. We have been here about 4 times already on this takeover alone. This gets people's hopes up then causes more dissapointment and exhaustion with it all when inevitably we are still in this exact situation in a weeks time

The Geordie dentist . I'm getting bad flashbacks to last summer and we all know how that ended. I know it's hard but I wish people would temper their expectations as I would still be surprised if this even ever happens.

I'd be shocked if we weren't in this position 2 weeks today still.

Have we gone back to late April all over again!?

Who's the lad on here who absolutely detest him? Gallowgate End[/member]

Are you trying to get me banned

I don't know what Rose problem is like. He's in a very priveleged position and football is one of the safest things to get back to due the amount of testing. Also he will be training and playing against everyone who has tested negative. I really don't see his issue or feel any sympathy for him.

Mid June. Early June if we are lucky. I wouldn't even be surprised if we don't even get an announcement at all to be honest.

If it weren’t for the producers being MLFs, you could be forgiven for thinking the goalkeepers were a plant to send Sunderland down, they were shocking. They featured heavily in the first 2 episodes too. Yep, I am adamant that was the case with Steele. I know for a fact he used to get a bus up to Newcastle home games

I reckon this will fizzle out and by the time it gets to the last page of the thread there will be a different prospective buyer.

Very decent I would say. 1 player/coaching member out of every 3 clubs has to isolate and the rest are all negative and can start to crack on.

Watching STID the other day one of the main things that stands out is their keepers in the championship season. Jason Steele man my word. Even the commentator at that Celtic friendly said " oh no everything on target is going in!". How they went through most the season with him is incredible. Sure he was/is a mag an all! If they spent 1m on a half decent keeper they would still be in the championship now. I don't get why Short just let them fall like that either, surely it would have been worth him spending even 5m of the Pickford money and that would have at least kept them from going to league 1