Rayvin

Guilty.

I love all of you. We've stuck together through this shit for years and it's a genuine pleasure to be able to enjoy the reward with everyone here. Haven't even been drinking, just the fucking truth.

The worst that's about to happen to Steve Bruce is that he'll be given a couple of mill to fuck off. He's living the fucking dream compared to most of us.

I cannot believe it's finally over. Fucking hell man, the end of Ashley. What a day for the city, seriously.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/oct/07/the-fiver-newcastle-united-saudi-arabia Glendenning is fucking livid

Aye. "Ok Luke, since Newcastle have gone up in the world we'll need you to really step up your efforts with fan engagement, get us the details that other papers can't by using all your carefully nurtured relationships with the common man up there. What's that? Their kids are kicking burning effigies of you up and down Northumberland Street? Erm... let us get back to you on the direction we're going to take from here...

Fuck this seriously The journos clearly know about as much as we do and are just trying to keep people's attention.

Lawyers. Have to extract every last additional fee they can.

How is this not done yet man. And at the same time, how have we gotten to a point where it feels endless after only learning about it 24 hours ago

We're not entirely at peace with it ourselves for what its worth mate, but at the end of the day it's not like anyone liked us that much to begin with

And they're all grateful to Short for saving them from actual oblivion? Ashley did what he did for his benefit and no one else's. Short gave them an act of charity.

This is completely my view of it too.

Well on the last one, it's not been "our club" at any point over the last 10 years anyway.

You've long since convinced me of the merits of your knowledge of Sunderland mate, I'd even go so far as to say the board would miss it if you left

Have to say mind, the things the mackems are saying to each other about this are painful. If the Fish hadn't been over there I actually think a few of them would have ended it

Tbf I suspect your encyclopedic knowledge of their football club probably does the job as well. "He's been going on about the birthday of some player who made one appearance for us off the subs bench 30 years ago marra, he has to be legit like, why the fuck would he know that otherwise??"

I'm not passing comment on it either way since neither you nor I have any fucking clue at this point what their actual ambitions are, although you clearly have more faith in FFP than I do - I just thought it was amusing that you were talking Sunderland fans back from the edge while they were going on as if we were a new superpower. FWIW I also suspect that even if we did spend £1bn tomorrow it still wouldn't be enough to win us the league since things like winning require long term strategy and planning. But don't doubt for a second that they're capable of citying it and if they can find a sustainable way of doing it, quite possibly will city it.

Alan Pardew Had almost forgotten that happened. 8 year contract FFS. Just went over to RTG btw and can see the Fish is on there trying to manage the mackems' expectations and reassuring them that we won't really spend very much. This is the weird fucking world that he's made for himself over there tbh, he's talking them down from getting over excited about this takeover instead of the other way around.

Watch this drag on all day

Christ that's pathetic from the BBC. Not even trying to hide it. Sycophants.

Fair. No idea on the polls tbh - last week Labour were down but I'm struggling to see anyone rallying to Johnson at the moment, even the Mail is tearing him apart.

Yeah that's a fair cop tbh, HMHM has been correcting me on that for years. Thought I'd kicked it, but alas not. All my concentration spent on avoiding being told off for calling Johnson "Boris", clearly.

Had a quick scan around some of the forums for the big 6 - "it's the end of the game (Arsenal)", "money ruined the sport (Chelsea!)", "we'll never win the league again" (United). Some joker was concerned we might try to poach Solskjaer...

I'm fine with that as ever, but I do want to point out as a final note that had the 'bash the left' play worked, and the polls had reflected that, I think it would be much harder for Jones to make the argument he's making. It's an open goal because it was a poorly thought out strategy.

Charnley The hidden rebellion of the crushed man. He's another one I'd expect to be fired into the sun shortly as well tbh.