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That’s today, last week it was just a loan!

The groups demanding he sell the club, rather than demanding decent recruitment and investment in January, were at best ill-advised and at worst plain stupid. For SD to respond in the way he has is either childish or disingenuous

He was trying to leave in Summer mind

That’s fans right enough

The pressure came on Donald because we were losing too many and playing badly. People are backing off "SD Out!" now that we appear to be improving on the pitch Failure to sell to the Americans just added fuel to the flames

So no proof he was trying to get them to buy us then? You mentioned 18-24mnths .You posted that he could repay the loan after 18-24 mnths - which seems very short term in that he'd be expecting to finance the club improving and generate £10m on top of that. Is it a fact of the loan that if he...

If this happens SD won't just get nasty open letters, he will be vilified at a level he wouldn't have thought possible. It would look very much as though he'd used the fans letter as an excuse, which I think is what he's doing anyway.

None of the rumours suggested that SD was trying hard to get FPP to buy us. Everything suggested that they were keen so not sure where your probable reality comes from. Also the 18-24 month loan seems very short term for so much effort.

The power of social media.

The interest might not be a problem but there could well be some early repayment penalties. Also if it's halfway between loan and investment it's unlikely that SD will be able to just repay it and walk away without some quid pro quo, otherwise they've effectively just given him a low rate loan...

Wiki, the fount of all (suspect)knowledge seems to agree with just about every detail of that and it fits with my understanding of the situation so I shall treat it as gospel henceforth.

But our form was awful and we were going backwards. Lincoln had just given us a football lesson before JR left

Special mention to Maguire for the one man press that led to our 2nd

Problem atm is that he doesn't fit anywhere in our most effective set up which relies on a battering ram and mobile "assistants". He certainly can't play Wyke's role, although neither can anyone else on our books

Perhaps makes sense that if it started on Tyneside as derogatory it would take a while to be used in Sunderland. Pretty sure none of my older relations had ever heard the term

Full marks for amusing title marra

Back in training and expected to play in U23s later this month - there's a thread over the road that should be on the 1st page atm If you plough through the "clever" stuff there's a bit of info

Looks like he knows his best team. Must be a while since we had the same team for 3 in a row

Are they going to award us the 4 points? What a difference that would have made

It always does but then you think about it carefully and a lot doesn't add up. Then you look at what he actually does and that doesn't always fit his narrative