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Heard a few mackems going on about how the red flag at the top of our badge represents the mackems bailing us out (in a charity game?) sometime at the start of our history as a football club. Was just wondering if anyone knew anything about it?

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Heard a few mackems going on about how the red flag at the top of our badge represents the mackems bailing us out (in a charity game?) sometime at the start of our history as a football club. Was just wondering if anyone knew anything about it?

 

It's blue for a start

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It's just taken from the city of Newcastle crest but they've slightly changed the colours for some reason.

The club has used the City of Newcastle upon Tyne coat-of-arms during their history, specifically for FA Cup finals.  The three ‘new castles’ in the shield denote the connection with the stronghold erected by Robert, William I’s eldest son, on the site of which Henry II raised the castle which remains to-day. In Saxon times the place was called Monkchester, the latter part of the name indicating it’s Roman origin as the site of one of the mile castles on Hadrian’s Wall.

 

The sea-horses refer to the town’s situation on a tidal river, to which it owes its prosperity. The royal lion and pennon of St George in the crest are appropriate to a town which, on several occasions during the fourteenth century, resisted attacked by the Scots, and stood a siege in the Royalist cause during the Civil War. The Latin inscription ‘Fortiter defendit triumphans’ translates as ‘She bravely defends and triumphs.'

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Heard a few mackems going on about how the red flag at the top of our badge represents the mackems bailing us out (in a charity game?) sometime at the start of our history as a football club. Was just wondering if anyone knew anything about it?

 

Haha daft cunts.

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Heard a few mackems going on about how the red flag at the top of our badge represents the mackems bailing us out (in a charity game?) sometime at the start of our history as a football club. Was just wondering if anyone knew anything about it?

It's red and blue for a start. It's taken from the city coat of arms and the flag on that is red and white, but the white was changed to blue because mackems.
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She Bravely defends and triumphs.

 

Sounds like Rafa is the man.

 

Is that the actual correct translation? Always just knew it as triumphing by brave defence, which I know is much of a muchness like.

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Good mix of goals so far - free kicks, penalty, tap in, header from a set piece, through ball on the break. Pleased that the midfield and defence are starting to chip in as well. Been our main problem previously, too predictable and too reliant on Mitro and Cisse putting too much pressure on them.

 

With the pacy full backs just added, target man and probable pace of Atsu we'll look a lot more dangerous on the break too. Been a long time since we looked so threatening going forward with different options to score.

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Seen it mentioned on Twitter before that the away game against Rotherham this Saturday has been chosen for broadcast in the US (apparently they have one 3pm Championship game every week).

 

Looks like it'll be available for our US followers and maybe others too :shifty:

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Guest neesy111

Seen it mentioned on Twitter before that the away game against Rotherham this Saturday has been chosen for broadcast in the US (apparently they have one 3pm Championship game every week).

 

Looks like it'll be available for our US followers and maybe others too :shifty:

 

Cheers.

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Seen it mentioned on Twitter before that the away game against Rotherham this Saturday has been chosen for broadcast in the US (apparently they have one 3pm Championship game every week).

 

Looks like it'll be available for our US followers and maybe others too :shifty:

 

Cheers.

 

Cool! Selfish reasons, but I'm in Japan and it's great to have televised early or 3pm games, especially before the clocks go back. 5:30 kick offs start at 1:30 or 2:30 am here.

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