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It would be hard not to get excited by what Niall had to say upon meeting fans to entice them back to the SoL.
I got goose pimples just reading it.
Quinn started with a message to all fans "I know you've been hurt, I know there's pain, but we want you back."
"It's phenomenal that we get 36,000 coming to matches in the Championship and other chairmen will think I'm mad for trying to get more," he said. "But I wouldn't be giving Sunderland the respect it deserves if I settled for what we have."
Quinn also went on to flex the his financial muscles in regards to investment saying "If we weren't to make it to the Premiership, we would have an extra £5 million from our parachute payment," Quinn said. "Drumaville have already agreed a share issue worth in excess of that which would be added to a kitty for Roy to dip into. We will have an eight-figure sum to go to war with this summer, irrespective of what division we are in. If we were to go up, the figures would be quite a bit different."
He also spoke or Roy Keanes appointment telling the 300 fans "Roy has thrown the kitchen sink into this. When he first came in, he said it didn't feel like a football club because there was no sense of history. Now people sense it and they feel better. He had other offers [last summer], but he has said that this club feels like his destiny." While Keane deliberated over the position at the start of the season, Quinn presided over four consecutive defeats, including one to Bury, of League Two, in the Carling Cup. "A member of Roy's family was watching on television and told him, 'You'd better take that job because Niall is going to have a heart attack,' " Quinn recalled. "Roy's response was, 'Ah, we'll give it another week.' " The audience guffawed; hope and humour are stirring in Sunderland.
It seems Niall Quinns magic carpet even has Aladdin looking over with envy!
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