Ok, so....I;m putting this up just so we can discuss something else while we're waiting for news on the takeover-not knowing either way has killed most other topics.

If we had to move, where would be a good/suitable place to build a new stadium? (let's not worry about the fact that it would only happen if the takeover happened).

I know we were talking previously about either extending the ground with that massive corner by the Milburn/Leazes or using the scrub land by the Leazes student flats but I don't think either of those would be chosen ahead of, say, a new build somewhere else. I think the logisitcs of extending the ground would prove too problematical and I don;t think we'd ever get planning permission for developing that part of the 'Moor'.

I've been using the Hadrian's Way cycle path a lot recently and that runs past Segedunum and Swan Hunter on one side and on the other is a huge derelict plot and, actually, all along the river there seem to be large, empty plots. When the Metro Arena shuts, is that a viable location (would have to incorporate some surrounding land, too). Any other locations?

For me, it has to be north of the Tyne regardless of the fact that Gateshead is black and white (or the Heed).

Thoughts?