bowlingcrofty

To be fair, we've come a long way. We're now complaining that our adidas-made third shit, featuring the old retro NUFC crest and a huge revenue-generating sponsor, has gone on sale too early on the JD Sports website in Australia. It's only a couple of years ago that our giant number 4 Castore shirt with falling off £2.50 per year gambling sponsorship was launched with a 'form an orderly queue' facepalm tweet and liked by 6 mouth breathers in Byker.

That's Newcastle United manager Eddie Howe.

All the ITKs and local journos who know everything going on inside the club. Not a fucking word from them.

Wouldn't mind it being something like the one on the Gallowgate tbh

Weirdly the white hoodie is only £48 on the official store but £55 on JD

https://twitter.com/NUFC/status/1145611879806582784 Only four years ago.

I'd like to think this is a joke, but even if it actually is, this sort of bullshit needs to stop. Trippier has been one of the most transformative signings in our recent history, and in 33 years of watching NUFC he's comfortably in the top 5 players I've seen play for us. A leader without even being club captain, a genuine bloke with ambition, he has epitomised everything the club wasn't under Ashley. Did he have a few games when he was below his usual standards? No doubt. Is he still a critical part of the club? Absolutely. He's de facto club captain and I love the guy.

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.

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.

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.