Big River

 not a fucking chance he'd leave us to manage England

if anyone is seriously worried about this, you don't know enough about Eddie Howe.

just need to get him in front of Howe for a few weeks. chances are, he'll make the right call.

17 hours ago, LFEE said:

For no other reason than I have a blind spot for him but if we picked this guy up on an incentive based contract I think he could be ideal for our midfield. Times I saw him play (not loads  admittedly) I thought he oozed quality. Much better player than Maddison. Guessing he’s a lazy sod…

 

he'd be ideal for the new canteen, not the fucking midfield

14 minutes ago, Joelinton7 said:

I got the fan version. On the website this is down as “regular fit”. The player version is “slim fit”. But I’ve been sent a fan version with the fit of the player shirt. Have they goofed up? Sending it straight back anyway, thing is far too tight when everyone was saying they were much looser than Castore’s.

pretty sure all versions say "slim fit" on the inside.

some leaked Arsenal gear. same designs as our leaked stuff, which would suggest they're legit (not sure the designs were ever disputed, just the exclusive link with END)

8 minutes ago, duo said:

Isn't the fit the same? dimensions are identical

wey I dunno that’s why I’m asking

brave man going for the authentic! how is the fit?

Southgate would be almost too perfect. he's been outmanaged by any half decent manager he's come up against

3 minutes ago, LFEE said:

Disagree. They finished above us. In Europe. Friends with a few key team mates. Has worked with the new manager already.

I guess time will tell. recent history suggests it not a good footballing move.

1 minute ago, LFEE said:

The more the details seep out the clearer it is we had very little chance of signing this lad. The move makes perfect sense for him on many levels.

except on a footballing level, the most important of all the levels

holy smokes this is getting ACQUIRED

2 minutes ago, Geordie Boyo said:

well ones embroidered and ones not  hardly fair.

the advert wasn't produced in-house btw, took multiple production companies hired by adidas. club did shoot a ton of footage though, so a behind the scenes/making of video will be out soon.

I couldn't enjoy the PSG win simply because of the white patch

state of that  moment fkn ruined lads

1 hour ago, South-Cheshire-Toon said:

If you put it as £6 for the year - one off payment, then this sounds better than the £3 per month - but you'd need 120 people to sign up - which sounds a lot - but think is achievable. 

you can put in whatever you like, that was just an example as £3 is the minimum amount we can accept

the French know what they're doing

1 minute ago, ExiledGeordie said:

How much is the new top likely to cost?

£80 adult

£55 bairns

£110 authentic (player version)

aye don't get your hopes up. it's the leaked one with a few tweaks. it's going to look belter on the pitch, which is what matters!

might pop down to the thing on Saturday, does anyone know what is actually going on? is it a drone/light show? Shola turning up?

3 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

Aye, I was thinking it needs to have tons of photos for news and the squad so there's no way to optimise all that to the point of getting better performance.

they're doing what they can in that regard, webp's served from a cdn.

like I said earlier, it's a decent foundation. it's pretty clear they need an in-house product designer/design engineer. at the minute, it looks like a modified theme. I'm sure it'll all come in good time!

all that being said, it's completely irrelevant  they could be scoring in the 10s and it'd still rank for every relevant search term due to domain authority.

1 minute ago, Kid Icarus said:

Sorry, it's a bit late for work talk like.

I love it man  having a little look now.

SEO

• add a robots.txt file
• increase tap targets on the main carousel (make the navigation buttons bigger)

Best Practices

• sort the console errors
  • ga is not defined (issue with the google analytics implementation)
  • some react errors

Accessibility

• order the h tags correctly
• wrong value assigned to aria role

sort those few things out and they've got three 100s!

performance score is a little trickier as there's a lot of factors out of their control. for starters they're loading quite a few 3rd party scripts for tracking etc, so you're fighting from behind already because some jobsworth in marketing needs them. and a lot of the features are js dependant. maybe swapping out those shite carousels would help!

11 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

Thank fuck, I thought you were going to say '100 for SEO is easy' or something  although I guess it is when Newcastle content writes itself.

oh right. well, 100 for SEO on Lighthouse is easy  scoring 100 on technical SEO means very little for actual SEO these days.

3 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

No, go on

 sake. okay, I'll try and be constructive though... and it's not me being negative for the sake of it. I just actually care about this stuff.

the main navigation on desktop is a horrible user experience, try and scroll down when your cursor is hovering anywhere near those links. it'll automatically open up a dropdown on hover. for accessibility alone, they should probably add some arrow indicators and activate on click, not hover. there's no shadow or sense of depth on the actual dropdown either, so you can't see where it ends and the page underneath begins.

2 different accent colours (blue/emerald) is a bit confusing and just feels unintentional.

the main carousel is buggy when you start a swipe (text fades out then back in.

news and shop carousels are buggy too. start and cancel a swipe, your focus gets stuck in the element and you can't scroll down until you can free it.

that's just shit I've found on the homepage in less than 5 minutes it's basic stuff (imo) that shouldn't be getting overlooked. especially not for how much it's probably cost the club.

it's mainly just ui/ux issues, things that are easily sorted with a bit of care and attention to detail. it looks fairly well built beyond that and a decent foundation to work from. I assume it's been rushed out and it'll get a lot better!