bowlingcrofty

Have all the people whinging a) Seen what Stack is and ever been and b) taken into account it's literally a temporary thing until they can do something better with it?

I've been to Stack a few times and the whole idea is that it's a reclaiming of shipping containers turned into a drinks place - the one at the bottom of Northumberland St was great. I don't get the hate.

3 minutes ago, Decky said:

94 was 30 years ago. I seem to remember about 20 years ago you could get a long sleeve (which was always more expensive) with a name and number on the back for about 50 odd quid. 

Fair point, yes. My maths has failed me spectacularly today.

£55 in 2004 with inflation is £95.60 in 2024 money though...so point still stands.

£30 in 1994 money relates to about £61 in today's money with inflation. I know it seems ridiculous the prices, and I am absolutely not defending them here by any stretch, but they're not as far out of step with everything else, inflation-wise, as it appears.

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.

7 minutes ago, Froggy said:

 

It's not different at all. The starting base is irrelevant since the takeover. We couldn't sign anyone in January because of FFP and our revenue is triple what yours is. I don't know why you think these rules only apply to your club.

 

I'm sure you'll drop another £100-150m in the summer, same as us.

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...

On 13/03/2024 at 12:39, Interpolic said:

@South-Cheshire-Toon to host the pre-match quiz pls and I'm in.  First few rows of the Gallowgate like:

 

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.

20 hours ago, Shearergol said:

We’ve 100% played deeper without pope though. 

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. 

30 minutes ago, Big River said:

 

are you aware of what TBG actually is?

Haha touché. 

44 minutes ago, TBG said:

Absolute state of the shipping containers being used at the fan zone. Has the club and or Ashworth commented on this?

 

 

 

Are you aware of what Stack actually is?! 

7 minutes ago, TK-421 said:

For people calling it cringe, as above, its no different to the ones produced in 1995/96 for the launch of the 'entertainers' kits.
 

 

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.

4 minutes ago, Miggys First Goal said:

If them lot down the road did something like this, we’d be absolutely mocking them to bits. 

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

3 hours ago, bowlingcrofty said:

First time the teams have met when in different divisions?

57 minutes ago, Magpie said:

The Tyne Wear derby at the weekend was the 157th meeting between the two teams. But something happened for the first ever time. What was it?

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. 

42 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

You were around to see Beresford (a thoroughly average left back) et al yet no Beardsley?  Sacrilege, sir  

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.

25 minutes ago, jack j said:

Wasn't having a go at yous lads just seem contrived as fuck. The bloke gets on my tits to start with.

 

And aye I wouldn't be wasting your times in future.

There's far too many go get their picture of the displays for Instagram and Facebook then sit and say fuck all

 

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:

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Contract extensions

Amortisation is the registration fee spread over the contract period, so if you extend the contract you reduce the annual cost.

Example: Sign a player for £20m on 1 January 2019 on a four year contract. At the end of 2019 give him a two year contract extension.

Amortisation charge in 2019 = £5m (£20m/4)

Amortisation charge 2020 onwards £3m ((20-5m)/(3+2))

This reduces FFP losses by £2m a year.

Therefore by extending a contract a club can reduce costs in a single year.

https://priceoffootball.com/football-transfers-and-creative-accounting-protect-me-from-what-i-want/

22 hours ago, Comegetasample said:

If you’ve just landed back in the country from Mars, Newcastle haven’t won fuck all

But we have won fuck all. Stupid shit.