Allowing development on a listed park isn’t just down to the council, think both Historic England (and Sports England) need to be onboard.

We all know away from the official process there’s an off the record process, they’re hardly going to be giving updates on what happens over a round of golf.

They probably won’t say until they are confident what is achievable.

EG. No point saying they have chosen to build a new stadium on Leazes Park before they have established it would be allowed.

Four years since the takeover, not necessarily since they started to look at a new stadium.

Would imagine they were more focused on keeping NUFC up and gauging demand before they turned to big and complex infrastructure projects.

We have conceded 14 goals, eight other teams have conceded less.

The Xg figure tells us the team is good at limiting chances but the defence is bad at stopping them?

Or our opponents have been excellent at converting half chances?

Perhaps @editkev.football can explain.

Good to see him net a couple of ‘bread and butter’ goals.

And (in the second half) on the half turn, not with his back to goal all the time.

SBR famously rekindled Shearer’s career by telling him to stop playing with his back to goal.

Todd Boehly recently suggested it could take 15-20 years to get Chelsea’s new stadium sorted.

Everton first started looking to build a new ground in 1996.

This kind of stuff takes a long time, unless there is loads of space to redevelop on the current site or a new stadium is built out of town.

The confusion comes from the word alarm being to describe two different things.

An alarm clock is a device that creates an alert/alarm at a specified time, it’s the alert going off not the clock.

You have to switch the alarm (clock) on before the alarm can go off.

Possible but unlikely.

Having both 1st choice FBs missing is a problem, but doubt the cause of NUFC struggles this season go much beyond taking a £130m centre forward out of the side and the player we bought to fulfil his role being injured.

Think we may be missing Schär’s offensive contribution

20% of game time is about 18 minutes a game.

More inclined to believe that without the threat of a CF running onto through balls, our opponents can push up and squeeze the space NUFC have to play in.

Hence the much higher medium block figure?

Precisely.

We can’t pay the wages required to keep quality players getting limited game time happy.

When it comes to squad depth, adding depth in other areas was more pressing.

Not many clubs can lose two England full backs and carry on as if nothing has happened.

What do the fans see that Howe can’t?

Be fine.

They’re a hustle and bustle side so won’t be able to raise their game for the occasion.

Runs where things go your way tend come to end with a bump.

Aye, some pessimism is understandable but doom mongering perhaps premature.

We (apparently) have the PSR headroom to be active in January if need be.

Wish the media would just STFU sometimes, instead of turning molehills into never ending mountains of shit.

Nice bit of rushed out PR, good to see the club reacting.

Think it was Downie that asked the question that has promoted the media shit stirring this week.

Always a bit sneaky, asking somebody still learning English that kind of question - much harder for them to provide a politicians answer.

Doubt it…. he would have said I asked, not was asked.

There appears to be no reason to ask him about his future other than to stir up negativity around the club.

Do we know which reporter asked Sandro about his NUFC future?

Yup.

Running fast in a straight line doesn’t require much skill.