Big River

bit bland, that. I quite like the teal/green as an accent colour. it reminds me of a jacket I used to wear to school:

1 minute ago, Dr.Spaceman said:

That would be a nightmare logistically. Shocking transport links, few parking spaces, no amenities nearby other than the Fog on the Tyne and McDonald's. Gateshead struggle with 1.5k, you'd have to do a lot more than simply spruce up the GIS.

 what about strategically placed pneumatic tubes around town that shoot people directly to the stadium? imagine just finishing your pint in the Crows and zzzdumph you're in Gateshead

we're working with unlimited resources here (apparently, tight bastards need to pull their finger out), we can think big

11 minutes ago, madras said:

How big will this wicked little stadium be ?

dunno... Stadium 974 had a 44k capacity and that was built out of shipping containers. if they tried hard enough, PIF could get it up to 50k, even if it's "temporary", then reduce it down to something a bit more sensible/feasible once our first team is done with it.

9 minutes ago, Monters said:

You may think it's daft but it's cool to have somewhere with the history it has... shame it's been left to rot somewhat but there are good indoor facilities next door as well, would you bulldoze that?

 

I love football, made a living playing it a lifetime ago but the attitude that every other sport doesn't matter really pisses me off to be honest.

I'd bulldoze it myself and make you watch

On 12/11/2022 at 09:59, Big River said:

buy Gateshead stadium, do it up real nice. share it with them and play there for a year or two while SJP is getting revamped. then leave it for Gateshead and our lasses/development teams to share. easy peasy!

still yet to hear a better solution than this

I'll take it a step further... buy the club and the stadium. we'll have a proper feeder team, it solves their ownership/stadium issues, and we can have a wicked little temporary stadium after demolishing the daft running track nobody cares about*

*PIF can build a super athletic stadium somewhere else local if anyones that arsed

do you get in the shop every day @Harry 209 ?

just took delivery of the originals collection. the quality is top drawer, the hoodie in particular. embroidery of the badge is the best it's ever been

12 minutes ago, Harry 209 said:

What's the difference between the fake ones and the real ones?

different material mainly, the original was like a felt. it wasn't vinyl.

2 minutes ago, NUFC_Chris said:

I certainly don’t remember being outsung by Manure fans in the cup final. Their fans were embarrassingly bad that day, most of them fucked off twenty minutes before and they’d won the bloody thing. 

we absolutely were. you could hear a pin drop in our end, I was in the standing bit as well, it was embarrassing.

if it was an Adidas initiative, you'd think they would use the proper Adidas nameset, that's a cheap imitation one you can buy off eBay

there isn't a single player in this man poo team that get in ours

at least Ugarte looks good

3 minutes ago, Froggy said:

It's obviously a disgrace of a decision, but Fernandes has been atrocious for weeks so it wouldn't have mattered. 

 

Spurs should be out of sight. 

 

Van Nistelrooy 11/4 for next manager. Put the house on it. 

c'mon, have a meltdown...

harsh but hilarious

they are absolutely dreadful this lot. I think Erik is doing an incredible job. give the man a lifetime contract.

Werner is so shit

 he’s made Carlos look a right mug.

big fan of Delap. he’d be perfect for us

8 minutes ago, hakka said:

 

I missed 3 of the goals of the 4 - 1 PSG game from getting it's date wrong. Agreed to watch Expendables 4 with my girlfriend for her dad's Birthday. 

 

I at least got to see Schar's banger!

jesus  not sure I would ever recover from that

13 minutes ago, hakka said:

I've made arrangements to take my daughter out tomorrow and to be back for 3pm... and I realised this morning it's an early kick off....fumed, then remembered it's against City. Probably done myself a massive favour missing out watching it.

you won't be saying that when we win 1-1

early kick offs should be banned

Just now, gdm said:

what’s worse it’s people disliking one coz it’s castore and forcing themselves to like the adidas stuff just coz it’s adidas. The adidas stuff is nothing more than alright. A nod to the 90s but a weak nod at that 

who is doing that like?

Just now, Harry 209 said:

yes, that design just reminds me of scrufters in the 90s. 

 scrufters

class. haven't heard that in years!

direct correlation between people who don't like this collection and those who think these are acceptable to wear in public:

1 minute ago, Harry 209 said:

Just been to club shop - small queue formed outside the door now. Stowed off inside. 

Lots of lads in Stack wearing it.
They seemed to have everything in stock from what I could gather.

This range is proving to be a big hit which is great but I'm not sure why it's so popular. 

It doesn't seem to relate to any specific period of the club, the retro shirt has a late 80s adidas aesthetic and the other stuff looks like early 90s stuff from the adidas EQT era (a year or two before adidas partnered with NUFC for the first time), but using the trefoil which was phased out by then. I'm a football kit nerd so that combination of trefoil badge and EQT design is just wrong for me.
And none of it seems to have any historical or nostalgia element for NUFC fans.

It seems I'm in the minority here tho.

people like the trefoil, and the stuff looks nice. I think that's the long and short of it

1 hour ago, Big River said:

forgot to add my 10% discount didn't I? fuck sake

just a heads up for anyone else who done the same thing - I replied to the order email with a screenshot of my code and they've retroactively applied the discount. great customer service!

they've got stock in JD on Northumberland St

1 minute ago, TBG said:

 

 

buying for your nephew?