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Takeover Rumours

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Reiver said:
Same here mate, I've just been watching the Burnley highlights and thinking it's a shame how it's been overlooked. Three different scorers, another glorious comeback, a training ground corner scored in front of our supporters and Grigg scoring. We've had 5 wins on the bounce, great result at Burnley and a massive new era dawning ...

... but that's not good enough for some people.

The resident miseries both predicted Sunderland would be battered at Burnley.

Now they were proved wrong they're looking for more ways to attack the club.
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Cup games are nothing but a distraction this season. We won't win any cups, barring possibly that joke one we nearly won last year.

If we had a huge squad it would matter less. We need to get out of this awful league and everything else is a distraction.
 
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Scootsie said:
I don’t know Riv at all so have no reason to take what he says as gospel, but I also have no reason to believe he’s lying.

This is gonna absolutely kill some people when it’s confirmed.
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I am going to go and shout at one of Ashleys shops....THANK YOU
 
janey said:
I know lots of people on here know @Reiver personally or at least have had dealings with him and been helped by him. Personally I’ve never had anything to do with him, but I’ve been on here long enough to have no doubt in my mind that he just wouldn’t wind Sunderland supporters up or tell lies about something so important to us all for a bit of attention.
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This!
 
Just spent about half an hour catching up on this thread, no new information but at least it has been a laugh. Hopefully the takeover goes through and this thread gets made Gold.
 
Dougy16 said:
For me it just doesn't sit right. Absolutely no new information about this deal has been released since Saturday its just completely dried up.
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What do you want people to say like? These deals take a while and with the Bolton and Bury situations may lead to the EFL not prioritizing the paperwork involving Sunderland. It does seem to be all but complete by the info on here.
 
Charmless Man said:
Its open to a lot of debate but I've always understood it to refer to anyone from large parts of Country Durham (inclusive of Sunderland) and Newcastle up into the Southern parts of Northumberland.
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Back in the dim and distant past (the 50s) 'Geordie' refered to anybody from north of the Tees and south of the Border. So all of Northumberland and Durham, including all the yackers, woolybacks and townies. This term wasn't invented by locals, it was a label used by the rest of the world to identify anyone with a 'Geordie' accent. In the days when regional accents were not mainstream, our dialect was as recognisable as Welsh or Scottish, but nobody outside the region would recognise the subtle differences between, say, Ashington, Bishop, Blaydon and Chester-le-Street.
As many have pointed out, the sea-change came with the execrable John Hall, who came up with the 'Geordie Nation' bullshit. Those days are over (I hope). They are Mags and Barcodes. WE are ALL Geordies to the rest of the world, and if the hopes and dreams expressed in this thread come to fruition, the whole world is going to know about it.
 
MickeyV said:
Back in the dim and distant past (the 50s) 'Geordie' refered to anybody from north of the Tees and south of the Border. So all of Northumberland and Durham, including all the yackers, woolybacks and townies. This term wasn't invented by locals, it was a label used by the rest of the world to identify anyone with a 'Geordie' accent. In the days when regional accents were not mainstream, our dialect was as recognisable as Welsh or Scottish, but nobody outside the region would recognise the subtle differences between, say, Ashington, Bishop, Blaydon and Chester-le-Street.
As many have pointed out, the sea-change came with the execrable John Hall, who came up with the 'Geordie Nation' bullshit. Those days are over (I hope). They are Mags and Barcodes. WE are ALL Geordies to the rest of the world, and if the hopes and dreams expressed in this thread come to fruition, the whole world is going to know about it.
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Nice bit of cotting spooling there, MV, marra. I enjoyed both your diction & your syntax. Nice work.
 
Get Into Em said:
You're talking out your arse.

I'm very much a glass half full person, so that's complete bullshit. Nothing that I've posted on this thread is even depressive, I've just said I don't think we should expand.

The only slightly negative thing I've put on here: I don't think we'd need to expand the stadium.
Reason(s):
-Look at Man City. They average(d) similar crowds to us, both in PL and L1 before their takeover and it took them years of success to start selling out the Etihad, and even now you see empty seats in a 55,000 capacity stadium.
-When getting higher attendances in the prem (after the original 'new stadium excitement'), a lot of the tickets were either given away by the club or sold at a cheap in packages, as most of us already know. SD has said he won't be doing any of this as it means the club runs at a loss. I'm sure he said something in his last podcast about the club earning more matchday income from tickets now than we were when we were in the Premier League, despite crowds being 10-15k bigger. I'm not being pessimistic, it's the reality.
-I'd much prefer to have guaranteed sell-out crowds than empty seats knocking about the stadium, we could quite easily fall back down the leagues and have a stadium too big for the position we are in (see 2018/2019). It could become a huge financial problem if we happen to fall back down the leagues with an even bigger ground.

Are you capable of making an argument in favour of expanding the ground or are you just going to comment that anyone against it is posting negative drivel and a glass half empty person?
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I am sorry but I don't understand why you are comparing our attendances in the Premier with Man City without raling into account our performances ? We have had two 7th place finishes plus one 10th place finish in the last 25 years, plus two record low points relegations in that time, compared to Man City filling their team with stats and winning silverware. During the early Peter Reid years, we were filling the stadium yet we never even qualified for Europe.

And then you say we have similar crowds to them ? How on earth can you think we would see no increase in our crowd size if we had 10% of the success Man City have enjoyed ?

In my lifetime I have been in 56k crowds at Roker Park, at a time when women and children attended in MUCH smaller numbers than nowadays due to the facilities and match-day experience. If we can inspire the fanbase again and provide it with a team of real quality to get behind, then I gave no doubt based upon our history that we would be able to hit massive crowds in the 60's on a regular basis (not all the time of course).

So I think the stadium should be extended IF the takeover team intend to compete at the top of the Premier and try to qualify for Europe. If they are happy to make up the numbers, then I would agree it probably would not happen.
 
steve30000 said:
Did the timer start as soon as the newspapers got hold of it?
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Why are you so negative and angry? If the takeover happens then it's the best news in years! If it doesn't we are still in a good position to keep up the momentum and hopefully win the league. It won't change the fact that I support SAFC... I think you need to take some time out before you have a heart attack with the stress..
 
janey said:
He’s shared information he has, in my opinion, good faith, really positive information. Some are determined to not believe him and insinuate he’s fibbing
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If its about the deal I was told Saturday morning that the new investors would be at the match, had agreed the deal and Deloittes had been all over the books and signed them off - only waiting for the EFL who because of a Bank Holiday and Bolton/Bury we have not been their priority.
 
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