Exiled in Texas

Fab just ruined their day of making hilarious jokes about Young Boys and the Wankdorf  stadium.

Must be in melt down on RTG seeing RedBull buying into Leeds instead of the team with the most amazingly dedicated fans in football.  
They were convinced that if RB ever came to England for a football club it would be them.

At least now they can take the high road and say they never would have accepted being RB Sunlun or the Roker Red Bulls.

Or someone has leverage on you/folks back home for this “little favour”

Sounds just like how Eddie stepped in to praise Lascelles as Captain even when not getting much game time.

Public praise  goes a long way

1 minute ago, NE27 said:

 

It's beggars belief honestly 

The small time jabs are all that they have left in this. They just haven’t realised that part yet.

They're still writing things like “Newcastle only paid £2m for him so why should we pay more”.

They are trying not to mention the law suits for breach of confidence in Slippery Dan passing over his Brighton-Newcastle compensation details.

I bet they think their work browser history is private too ??

SMH at people believing that emails sent to/from a company email account are not the property of the company. Makes you wonder what companies they work for  that they haven’t been advised of this.

oh, this is going to be good!!

Weird how all three teams have to play Brighton. A real equalizer in the fixtures. 

17 minutes ago, McDog said:

 

 

Loan or move?

Permanent move 

Was watching their game vs Bayern and they announced it was made permanent.

https://www.getfootballnewsfrance.com/2024/official-psg-striker-hugo-ekitike-secures-permanent-transfer-to-eintracht-frankfurt/

Ekitike joined Eintracht in January as part of a season-long loan with an option to buy for a reported €16.5m fee, according to L’Equipe.

Transfer to Eintracht has been made official. 

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We get 40,000 every home game, get a grip OP.

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Didn’t get many minutes when he first started with Frankfurt (due to fitness), but has been playing more minutes recently, and playing a bigger role. Frankfurt probably happy with his development and then it just comes down to a price,

Asking if they’ve ever had a new manager bounce

https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/new-manager-bounce.1628328/

The’ve had so many managers recently they forgot about all the pre-derby changes 

I’d establish the level of the fee using “Lingards”.

6 months loan, £2m plus survival bonus of £12m 

So to get Dan earlier than his 2 1/2 years remaining… that’s 5x£2m plus 2 1/2 times the bonus $30m. 

 

1 hour ago, Adam said:

Refs writing names on cards: Does my head in when someone is fouled and the ref takes 40 seconds to pull out a card and book someone. Don't stop the game flowing you can write it down or book them later. 

Nah, you gotta take time to write down the number and reason code for the yellow. No way does a referee remember everything.

plus the extra time to write things down gives the players a litle more time to cool their emotions etc.

I once sent off a player for two yellows (thought I had miss-written his number) when he made a second yellow card foul, only to have the his identical twin brother come back off the bench saying he got the first yellow (and I had the number right the first time).

10 hours ago, Kanji said:

I’ll have a go:

 

7. VAR is used but fully transparent while live. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Definitely this…. Make the decision/thought process open so everyone can hear the discussion and see the same images that the VAR team are reviewing. Knowing that your discussion is public (and therefore open to review) wil force more accountability.

Advance the free kick 10 yards closer to goal (non offending team discretion) for back chat, failure to retreat. Repeat as needed.

Return to Penalty kick taker having to make a continuous motion - no stutter. You never see stutter in an open play 1:1 so don’t see why it’s allowed in PK. Or allow GK to move as soon as runup starts.

Would trial blue cards… and/or would trial automatic 5/10 min Sin bin for all physical fouls. Need something punishing to offender but less drastic/severe than Red Card. Might even add a limit (5 fouls=ejection etc). 
 

(And yes, I am fully aware that I’m replicating rugby and ice hockey rules… they just seem to work.

1 hour ago, RodneyCisse said:

Is it not from the season before this season which is being released?

Yeah, it’s from last season.

i was just wishing that they continue into this season and feature the derby day fewm

Imagine the episode covering the derby. 
The fewm over the number of tickets, the North Stand end, the Black Cats bar would be amazing TV.

please please please make this an episode ?

And as a schoolboy in the early 80s…. The name “rush goalies” always confused me as Ian Rush never played goalie

Being pedantic…

goalies are not restricted from playing out /up field. They are just the only ones permitted to use their hands which is why their shirt is a different color. But they can go anywhere on the field they want.

So by definition then rush-goalies has to be first-man-back. Else it’s just the keeper playing up/back

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3 hours ago, McDog said:

 

 

Commentator on ESPN which may be the same feed in England, no idea, said and I am paraphrasing: "I know they like to play from the back which is fine against a Championship side but when the big boys come to town, that won't work".

 

 

ESPN commentators were Ian Darke and Steve McManaman

7 hours ago, Ben said:

 

Why are we always gravy stained ? 

It goes back 20ish years and a photo of two “large” Newcastle fans wearing their b/w striped shirts and they have food stains down the front.

I’ve tried to find this photo or the first mention of Gravy on RTG but their history doesn’t go back that far.

Middlesbrough has always been our true Derby marra . The head choppers up the road don’t understand what real NE folk are like. Boro understand us and we understand them.

It’s always been like this … Newcastle have never really been true NE folk marra.

Canna wait to beat Boro and then chase the smoggie gits across town and smack them back onto their train home. FTM

 One thing I like about the NFL version of VAR is that the referee announces that either the “call is confirmed” or they say “the decision remains as called”.

And that’s what happened for the Gordon goal,

- in play - confirmed 

- foul - as called on field (no evidence of error)

- offside - as called (no evidence of error)

it puts the focus back on the referee’s on-field decision, and reconfirms that VAR is there to check for errors not make their own decision