If by "the bloke from sage" you mean Graham Wylie then I would say it's unlikely. He's a Newcastle fan, he has also had nothing to do with sage for the past 15 years. One of Wylie's great personal friends and colleagues is David Stonehouse who is also CEO of TSG (Wylie is majority shareholder), David was FD/MD at SAFC for 7 years coterminous with the Reid era. He is a dyed in the wool black n whiter also and was eventually head hunted by NUFC to his dream job, he didn't stay up the road long, no doubt due to the bent goings on of Hall and Shepherd (that is my personal speculation btw). Whilst great blokes they are both mags and I couldn't see either of them wanting to get involved at SAFC.