bowlingcrofty

That’s Company number 05981582 which I don't believe is the proper holding company for NUFC - I think it's the pre-takeover one. Company number 00031014 (NEWCASTLE UNITED FOOTBALL COMPANY LIMITED) - she’s still a director: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00031014/officers -

How can you improve your revenue dramatically with Paul Dummett and Jeff Hendrick on the pitch? There has to be a way for clubs to accelerate the on-field so that the off-field can then catch it up. The clubs who had massive revenue before these rules have been essentially unaffected by them, whereas those who are trying to make up the gap, can't. It's not 'fair play' at that point. It's skewed towards those who already benefitted from the rules not being there who already have the massive revenue to then be able to continue spending once the rules are in place.

How can the starting base be irrelevant when you had two centre halves alone who were worth more than our entire squad on the day of the takeover? We're not just needing to match the big spenders to catch them, we need to significantly outspend them to make up the gap - but we can't, because arbitrary reasons.

Bit different spending £400m on a starting base of nothing v spending £400m on a starting base of a £1bn squad - and then being told if you want to spend any more you need to sell players, while the squad now worth £1.4bn can continue to spend...

Is this the picture round? If so it's a bit easy.

Would imagine there's a Sam Fender (that adidas jacket) colab in the works like.

Definitely believe this is a big part of the problem. Dubravka's starting position is much deeper than Pope's, so our defense drops deeper and suddenly there's a big gap between them and the midfield that is being repeatedly exploited. We are setup with a sweeper keeper type defensive line but we don't have the keeper to do the job. You almost never see Dubs heading clear or making interceptions outside the area.

Late kick off makes all the difference I think. Plenty time for a few beers and for the nervous excitement to kick in. The early games just don’t allow that.

Haha touché.

Are you aware of what Stack actually is?!

These were legit NUFC/adidas ads. The ones above are evidently just adidas-sponsored NUFC players, note the lack of NUFC crests on show or anything. Obviously a deliberate choice to use NUFC players but there's non-NUFC ones out there too, Bellingham has done one for example.

You realise they're adidas ads, not NUFC ones?

First time the teams have met when in different divisions?

Brilliant response @Heron and exactly the type of answer I was looking for. Genuinely wasn't in it to criticise their SO37 tbh because they are clearly just volunteers trying to do something positive and the amount of shit they've received seems very out of kilter. They've also seemingly had little to no support from SAFC aside from them appearing to veto everything they wanted to do (and with reason, tbf, on their original design). From a design perspective I couldn't agree more with your comments about it just looking rushed and some poor decisions on the appearance. The exclamation mark was just odd, and I guess without it they'd have more space to add extra width to the letters to make them more legible. And - at this opportunity - I'd like to say another thanks for all that you and the team do for NUFC because I think the evidence shows that if these things aren't done meticulously, they can look cheap and tacky, and that's one thing that can never be levelled at the work you all do.

Does anyone from WorFlags have any knowledge of whether £17k for the Mackem display yesterday is in line with expectations from a cost perspective? Rivalries aside, because the lads doing it have been getting some serious abuse and I’m genuinely intrigued.

Bez wasn't average, I loved him! Shows the paucity of decent left backs we've had over the years though admittedly. And yeah - when I say it changes every day...it changes multiple times per day. Beardsley over HBA, even though I loved that mad bastard as much for standing against everything I hated about NUFC at the time as I did for his abilities, numerous though they were. I'd say people like Colo, Jose, Cole, Ferdinand, Gillespie, Ginola, Pope, Robert are all unlucky not to feature. As an aside, it's fair to say literally every single player mentioned here would be Sunderland's greatest ever player, by quite a distance? (Aside Cole and Given who both played for them at the wrong times in their career)

I always thought Tiote was limited as fuck, decent when he had a ball player alongside him but ask him to do anything other than tackle and pass 5 yards and he was exposed. Cabaye was excellent at his peak but was a moody bastard and turned up when he felt like it. I wouldn't have either anywhere near a favourite XI - but maybe they're just tarnished by being Pardew players. Given; Tripper, Woodgate, Botman, Beresford; Lee, Speed; Nobby, HBA, Bruno; Shearer. Probably changes on a daily basis though.

He said himself in that video that he'd deliberately gone a bit wild with the designs because they were mock-ups. The video is geniunely pretty interesting I think.

Yeah the Wor Flags doing nowt is definitely the way to fix a shit atmosphere after their displays. What a weird statement.

Good for FFP and amortisation, these new contracts: https://priceoffootball.com/football-transfers-and-creative-accounting-protect-me-from-what-i-want/

But we have won fuck all. Stupid shit.

How the hell is it not a question? Whether you know the answer or it's rhetorical or whatever, it's still a question...

Wish they'd put the fucking question mark on these flags if they insist on making them

Not on that one it wasn't. First stitched one was the 1999-2001 one I believe