Obviously we don't have a name to go on here, hence why we're all speculating like mad once again!!
But if our new prospective head coach is currently in employment somewhere and we then make an announcement of his impending arrival here for next year, then would that bring a certain conflict of interest into play?

Again, we don't know if it's a domestic or overseas coaching appointment, but dependent on certain circumstances will his current club feel compromised and feel it will be in their best interests to sever ties now and move forward. Would that then alter the scenario for ourselves, in that our choice suddenly becomes available with immediate effect.

Let's face it, if the situation was reversed and we knew our head coach (or DOR) was spending half his time scouting players for his new employers, I don't think any of us would be particularly chuffed with events.
It may all depend on who he is and what his role is at his current club, but as I said, think there is potential for a conflict of interest to emerge here.

It would just be like us to find ourselves with a coach who has been placed on 'garden-leave' and he can't do anything at the moment!

I've just read Blake Solly's comments on Demetriou's departure . Seems one of the reasons he got sacked was his refusal to play younger players . This should be a red flag for us with the club focusing on promoting our own players .

Think it's O'Meley...

Maybe we should use the same tactic. There's plenty to choose from.

Mcdermott keen to stay in Newcastle according to the local press

Anyone else's positivity starting to fade a bit, thought we would have more news by now.

As it stands our squad is weaker than when Smith was in charge, we have no coach (having again been turned down by our first choice).

Players leaving, as mentioned, no massively bothered about the players who are leaving, but can we replace them with better from small domestic pool?

Probably need to replace the following players

Litten
Scott
Carlos
F Brown
J Brown
Houghton
Hoy
Balmforth
Mitch

Plus possible Sao and Okunbor, that's potentially 11 players, 5 quota spots which would help and
maybe the likes of Litten and Balmforth can be played internally, but going to be hard to replace the ones leaving with better.

What I find strange is even last season we were linked with players like Trout, Wood etc but our names doesn't seem to come play when players like Storton, King, Broadbent (who would all add something to our side) are been linked with teams.

Really hope have some kind of positive news, as so far the main things that have happened is talk about positive things happening, but without too much action.