They will be sitting together at a round table just inside the door of the Moncur Suite brought together once again to witness a special opener to a new season.
Forty-eight years ago this trio of ex-Magpies took part in the most famous match between Newcastle United and Nottingham Forest ever staged at St James Park.
It went down in history as The Game That Never Was because the Football Association decreed that it should be wiped from the record books and played again.
