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Does the kit actually get announced today?

They have just been taken over by North Shields Athletic/North Shields Juniors. Rebecca O’Keefe was at the meeting at New Year and pulled the committee up at the time, both offered to help them, and also tried to hold them accountable. I don’t think she would have given these funds to the committee from that time, and will only be doing so to get North Shields up and going again under the new ownership structure. It’s not really common to happen, in theory you can give the funding to anything that could be classed as community related, or anything to help that particular ward. Councils and government in general never seem to have any will to help football clubs though. The people running the councils generally are not interested in football, dismissive of the community/economy benefits, and don’t want to risk it being used by the opposition to beat them with, or even constituents who support other clubs etc.

Yeah, it honestly looked like there was Adidas logo’s behind them to be honest.

I’m not sure if this is public knowledge yet or not, it must be because the news has found its way to me. One of the councillors for Chirton (Rebecca O’Keefe) has channeled the entire ward discretionary budget, believed to be £15,000 into North Shields to keep them going. As much as she is part of the Labour Party who my team of independents stood against (although none of us actually stood against her in the Chirton ward), Rebecca is actually a fan of North Shields FC, and what she has done is pretty much unprecedented. @Big Geordie @Disco @OpenC @BUJ

I’m going to guess it’s just that, a report. The club will use that to make a decision on what to do, then will give the information from the report onto architects, and engineers, who will then come up with proposed designs. A report won’t really satisfy supporter thirst, they want to see images of what it looks like, not technical speak, and potential figures.

Fake news, Footyheadlines even debunked it today. There are no rules to prevent people buying the shirts, and there is no reasonable and possibly lawful way you can check each shirt. That is also besides the fact that fakes are getting harder and harder to spot.

I and someone else touched on it yesterday. Adidas would need to sell 562,000 shirts of ours to break even on a £40m per year contract. When we were owned by Ashley we were still selling nearly 500,000 shirts per year. That is without all the other stuff we did well, and the stuff that we missed out on selling because Ashley never put it on sale. We now have ambitious owners, a team who are building well, and we are moving away from the tacky Wonga/Fun88 sponsors. It goes without saying that our merchandise is becoming more sought after, both here in Tyneside, the North East, and even internationally. Not many clubs can say that.

I actually liked that, but it suffered from the pattern sheet problem, where they make a sheet of pattern, then cut out from that sheet all the different sized tops, so you get shirts where the pattern isn’t located in the exact same place. It does my fucking head in to be honest, especially when the promo pictures come out, and they have got ones where the pattern looks good, then you go to buy it and the pattern is under the arm pits, and behind the sponsor etc.

Do Liverpool even need him, or is this a ‘Buy him so no one else can’ type of situation?

Nah, it was a rumoured 4th shirt for last season.

We’ll end up being spoon fed a shit load of Adidas stuff. I’ve just done a rough calculation based on price of our football shirts (£80), estimated production costs (£9), and estimated fee Adidas are paying (40m). Adidas need to sell 563,381 shirts per year just to break even.

You know what you can’t find anymore, a fucking schooner for Brown ale.

Would mean a throw in would be like having a freekick. An absolutely fucking stupid idea.

Anyone know if it’s pay on the day tomorrow? Wor lass is going to her sisters for the weekend, if I finish early enough I might go up.

Fucking clueless. They all know that there is rules preventing RB from doing what they have at other clubs and branding them. A few of them are even admitting that they wanted them to takeover them, I’m presuming in that case being rebranded as RB Sunderland, and RB arena etc. There has been no talk of RB investing in Sunderland outside of their own minds. They were actually linked with Southampton a few years back.

The FA changed the rules. You can’t change a clubs name, traditional home colours, and club badge without approval from the majority of fans.

It was only a matter of time before they bought into English football.

They are still a massive step up from traditional shit beers everyone drank. I do think generally their specials are best, but they do a really good AF version.

Not really. Business people like him can get very low interest rates. Man Utd as a brand will likely keep growing, new TV/streaming rights in the next few years, a new stadium etc. He’ll easily make his money back and more.

Be more like the Riverside wouldn’t it? Must be fucking unbearable to be a Panathinaikos, or AEK fan today.

He won’t have though. He will have loaned it, billionaires don’t spend their own money. He would have got it via Ineos somehow.

I think the shirt is reviewed on the 1st, but doesn’t go on sale until the 7th. No one knows about the other merchandise.

I’d be honest, I wouldn’t go for Rafa now. I love him for what he did for us, and I firmly believe he was the one who got Staveley interested in us. However since he left us, he hasn’t really done very well elsewhere. The China job went badly, the Everton one had disaster all over it, and he somehow managed to get sacked by Celta Vigo when he was leading them to safety and that was his only remit. He hasn’t set the world alight since, and it’s 5 years since he was here.

DCMK wants to change our club badge lads, get him!

A word of warning, next years Arsenal home shirt is £80, long sleeved version is £85.