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As a minimum it is, yeah. If not reaching that minimum gets the manager sacked. We're competing with those clubs, if we end up finishing behind them then fair do's though. Say you get your wish and Howe is sacked and we're a clown show again. The plan is to have the 8th highest resources in the country but tell Howe's replacement and everyone else thereafter that they must finish at least 1 or 2 above that or they're sacked? That's setting people up to fail and is far too reliant on other clubs' fucking up massively.

Cheers, makes sense. 2 legs of a semi being a month apart feels wrong though mind.

No it's nonsense you saying the manager needs sacked if he doesn't make Europe 2 seasons running, since that's actually above par. Wage bills are a good indicator of where a club should be finishing. If you don't like that then try revenue since that affects the amount a club can spend on transfer fees. And we are streets behind Spurs and Man Utd on revenue.

Look at the teams that pay more than us and how much more they pay. If we outperform any of the top 6 wage payers we're over-achieving. More of a marginal thing versus the likes of Villa.

We have the 8th highest wage bill in the country. Getting into Europe is over-achieving.

They seem to have messed with the dates a fair bit. March 16th final is at least 2 weeks later than usual but even more strangely there's a whole month between the first and second legs of the semis.

Funny cos every time I watch Arsenal lately I think "why would any of our players want to play for this lot?"

3 excellent presenters, especially like Gabby Logan for the rapport she always manages to build with guests. Rotating across 3 different presenters seems a bit weird though. Lineker will be a big miss regardless.

Froggy, think of a wheel right...

Make the playing surface transparent and build a new stand underneath the ground, although the new stand will need beds instead of seats which will lower the capacity of it.

In the context at the time, that banner was spot on. The context being we were still being mocked as deluded geordies while witnessing all ambition being systematically stripped from the club over the course of 14 years. It still holds water, in the sense we want the club to be striving to improve within whatever constraints they're forced to operate in. To call it "desperately pathetic" is unbelievable stuff @TheBrownBottle What would be on your banner? What were you doing at the time to get Ashley out?

Should probs stop selecting "your" team by committee, "champ".

Oh is the full price £55? I'd assumed they were £30! Even better then.

no worries man, hope Adidas honour them!

https://www.adidas.co.uk/newcastle-united-fc-24-25-home-jersey-kids/JX6515.html Newcastle 1st and 3rd kids shirts £15. Looks like a glitch, no idea how long it'll be there or if it'll be honoured.

I'm on about having birthdays. I don't think Slot has them.

The richest club in the world needing a plan B to beat the champions of Norway at home is ideal aye.

Needs to be concentrating on the next game rather than having birthdays tbh.

Tbf we had hundreds of kids who were ready for PL football waiting in the wings. Criminal they were never used, is he stupid?

Gonna be a wild ride seeing us make up that 1 point deficit.

If you mean PL players then that wouldn't be an issue if the new service was bringing more money into the league than the deals with Sky etc. Which it should even at a lower price point because of increased scale, cutting out the middlemen and their profit margins, getting revenue from advertisers and sponsors direct etc. It would undoubtedly have a knock-on effect on the lower leagues and their TV deals so there should be filtering down of funds to compensate them for that (lol).

And also if they want to eliminate piracy, which they desperately do. At some point they need to realise that the only route to that is a price point that appeals to everyone. It doesn't need to be as cheap as IPTV if the UI is slick enough and the experience convenient enough, but it needs to be fairly cheap.

It's true but it's not really relevant here I don't think? In terms of changing behaviour (rampant piracy) it has worked and it can work for the PL as well if they price it correctly. The PL isn't a complex landscape of thousands of artists, it's one organisation that could make a killing by cutting out the middleman and selling direct to consumer at a sensible price and at huge scale, all but killing piracy.