Serious takeover talk

Yeah saw it, best left alone

 

Ahem just men

 

I do hope Gum In Boots catches on for you @Smug in Boots

 

Surprisingly there hasn't been an announcement overnight.

A 44 year old man checking here and RTG as soon as he wakes up just in case they decided to announce it while I was asleep

 

Hi all. I have also just joined the ranks of not606 having been an occasional poster on RTG. East Stand SC holder and member of Newcastle branch.

I also got sick of argumentative nature and just stopped posting. Not convinced most of them even go to matches to be honest. I know I can’t get a signal inside the stadium during a game to post to the RTG match thread.

 

I’m 68 years old and check both sites, why wouldn’t you ?

 

If only he wasn't 'the other Steve'

 

If you mean me N it was not to confront you it was cos I like you.

 

I can't even get the thing to load up and just about get Whatsapp messages!

 

Well, nothing ground breaking at all came of this but this is what was said:

I decided to pretend to be a Charlton fan. Winkelman was back in the bar as promised after the game and I said well done on the win. He said thanks and I asked how their season was going. He said it's been a decent start but said they were disappointed to lose up at Sunderland and need to get back to picking up points in the league.

I took that as my opportunity to say I was a Charlton fan and that "we'd" beaten Sunderland in the play off and that a defeat there wasn't too bad because they'd be targeting promotion. I then said I'd even heard mention of some big takeover but said I didn't think it would happen. His reply was "oh no I get the impression it will happen, but yeah you'd fancy them to get up anyway". I tried pushing by saying "oh right, I'd just heard about it quite a while ago so assumed it must have stalled" and he said "you'd be amazed at how long these things can take if they're done properly". Then someone else started talking to him and I thought it would look suspicious if I tried banging on about Sunderland again.

So nowt exciting, and considering they'd have been there the day after the talk in with Donald it wasn't a surprise that he said it was still ongoing since that's what Donald said. Certainly didn't sound like it was in the balance or anything though, I presume it'll have been mentioned when he was up for the match with us so for him to be saying he thinks it'll happen is a bit of a positive. I deliberately said I didn't think it would happen just to see if he'd just go along with it but he didn't. So not much to report, but at least he didn't say "I was up there and Donald said it was ****ed" I suppose

 

I'm 53 mate and do exactly the same thing

 

Important to add mind, at no point did he say that anyone at Sunderland had spoken to him about it, he might have got the impression it'll happen from reading about it or from hearing about Donald's talk in or anything. It's purely my opinion that if you were there as a visiting director you'd be likely to ask.

 

Sitting here having breakie and watching American pickers, they’re at a cinema (somewhere) and right next to it is a building with “Furmans” written on it in massive letters. It’s a sign I tell you.

 

I'm just happy to wait and see now, when it first came out, I was checking every forum for news. Not now. Nothing really...apart from the odd snippet..has come out of the club, so until that does, it will happen when it happens. I mentioned and someone else did...the Consett talk in was a huge error, should never have happened. Just fingers crossed something happens in the next 2 weeks as per SD statement.

 

The fact that there are so many fake goal posters (I mean honestly, why bother) suggests to me it is full of people who don't attend the matches. And a high percentage of said posters just want to wind people up, or argue about who is s***e and who is more s***e whilst watching the stream.

Hard to believe it's full of folks bickering I know...

 

Likewise at 67

 

I share your concern there. There seems to be an understanding that Donald would stay on after any takeover. I do wonder how his level of openness with fanzines and fans on twitter would be sustained with a new regime presumably looking to take the club beyond its current level.

 

Well done mate, football thrives on gossip so you've done nowt different to Donald at Consett.

One thing I will say is that, in reality, all we've really heard are positives.

The Americans have done due diligence, gone to the EFL, appeared at the SOL, registered at Companies House using the SOL address and even started following the club on social media.

I can see absolutely no basis for the pessimism displayed by some ...

... if this was newcastle I'm sure some people would be accepting that it was already done.

 

I do exactly the same, find out there's no news then get on with my day.

 

Remeber that they've also registered a company in the US too. This was always going to be slower than Donalds and Shorts takeovers as they were both already set up in the UK.