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"The hat is tainted with bloodmoney!! Sportswashing marras. FTM and Fuck Bruno with his tyrannical, murderous hat!"

I reckon Potter tbh. And he'd be a decent call for them since they need a full rebuild.

It's not really mentioned much on this either but tbf I'm not sure this is the speech for it. This seems to be more about getting the UK back to some sort of productive economic position, the social impacts of which aren't touched so much in the piece. You would hope that would be part of it but they're shying away from tax rises so it's hard to tell.

Fair - I hope a lot of this becomes clearer as we move forward, it's tedious having to sift out key details from opinion pieces.

What is it Maguire is meant to do well

And the fourth is that all this must happen within effective national fiscal rules – and not by allowing debt to balloon. That's how I'm interpreting this sentence.

The Guardian is terrible for patronising the North East IMO. Whenever there's any article about anything up here it comes across in that sort of forced 'oh they'll feel really special that we're paying attention to them' sort of way. It's one of the reasons NUFC becoming strong again is so important in some ways - now they have to talk about us on equal terms because we've insisted upon it, it would make them unserious professionals not to do so. I'm not a fan of LT as I actually think her entire role in the Guardian is a personification of that patronising position. She's a weaker journalist who writes pieces of very little substance beyond stating the obvious - but she's from 'up here' and they give her a bit of space to write about us and Sunderland, so that's all ok. We should be grateful. It's the reason I picked up a subscription to the Athletic tbh, at least you feel like the people writing about us in there care about proper analysis of the club.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/24/rachel-reeves-economic-thinking-social-democracy#comments Rachel Reeves apparently going for Bidenomics - Neoliberal leanings, and an Osbornian take on austerity. Admittedly I'm struggling a little to place her positions on this exactly but that's my reading of it based on the cues in the article. She looks like the centrist's centrist to me - worked for a bank, PPE degree, wants to do Tory economic policy but more competently. Even with the polls narrowing there's little doubt in my mind that Labour are going to win, so it'll be interesting to see how all of this plays out.

Yep, so growth is going to be modest and sustainable. That's always been how it looked tbh so no great surprise. It does mean though that this is less about sportswashing and more about genuine development of an asset - which, again, it always looked more like being. I actually think this could end up looking like a very well backed but ultimately fairly run of the mill takeover - and that the success we gain from it will ultimately be reflective of what this club was always capable of at the upper end of realistic.

Yes. And good luck with it mate.

Burn will never get picked but he deserves to be.

Fair enough.

You're talking policy positions mind, I can clearly remember people on here harping on about sixth form politics and how you need to win power and so on as a general strategic consideration - not really calling people out on policy. This is what it looks like to abandon principle and go all in on power, that's all I'm saying. I despair at it, but it's the play that many people called for post-Corbyn.

It's power at any cost, which tbf is what many of you have asked for. So he's doing exactly what I'd understood Labour had to do. Nothing is sacred but power itself. The direction of travel is very clear now so let's see where we end up.

Lots of ours in the comments pointing out that no one cared about 'fair market value' when Ashley was whoring the club around dressed up in sports direct junk. Surely that should actually work both ways though, Ashley should have had to pay fair price too.

They've gone past 3 pages on it already. They don't care about us at all though as almost all of them in there are at pains to point out. https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/more-saudi-sportswashing.1608143/

I honestly believe that 90% of the fan based drama on this stuff comes from the displaced big 6 clubs - raised on a steady diet of trophies and success, they're simply struggling to find football as enjoyable as an also-ran. That's the deal for most other club though, so they're going to have to get used to it.

Have to say mind, there really does seem to be a huge amount of fuss about City all of a sudden. Have these financial irregularities only shown up this year, or is it just that since they're about the win the CL, they've transformed from being an entity whose existence is built around trolling Man Utd, into an entity who are somehow threatening Liverpool's legacy as the greatest team in the world?

While Squires aimed his strip this week at Man City, we got a look in within the final panel He's sticking to the 'Death Star FC' theme which I have to admit I do get some amusement from: https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2023/may/23/david-squires-on-manchester-city-winning-the-premier-league-again Obviously he's gone for the simplest characterisation of the issue but he's a cartoonist after all..

They will never manage to get to even this. This is the lowest bar for our measure of success, and even if it never goes beyond this, Sunderland will never manage to even equal where we are. Their insignificance is forever.

It's a Monday and I'm drinking like it's a Friday, Love you all lads, this place has made the whole thing all the more fucking amazing. Kudos gents.

Incidentally lads, now that it's done, when you find yourself looking for something to do over the coming few days, maybe have a read through RAWK's top 4 prediction thread over the course of the season. It's delightful. Even right to the end they didn't think we were going to manage this https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=352755.0

He had one play, it was to suckerpunch us at the end. I respect the endeavour, he almost got it, wasn't to be. Who gives a fuck, we're on the way up as Leicester tailspin in flames beneath us. Man the fucking Champions League though...

Aye Pope was huge there. Maybe not the toughest save but he'd had nothing to do all game and still managed to keep it out when it mattered.

FUCKING GET IN!!! Never been so happy to draw 0-0. What a fucking team, well in lads.