Mags embarrassing themselves yet again

TopCat. · Sep 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM

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Filming yourself with faux rage and passion. If you were THAT into the game, the last thing you'd think of was to switch your camera around and film your reaction. Bell end

smithy in nl · Sep 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM

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I’ve never seen a Newcastle match where Joe Linton hasn’t deserved at least a yellow card! He gets away with so much, it’s beyond ridiculous!
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And now hes allowed to do it after games too fabulous stuff

rowley · Sep 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM

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I've been saying for a while that i'll post my mates dad's theory that a lot of the current mag behaviour goes back to T Dan Smith in the 60s, so finally I've got round to do it now. I apologise now that it's a long read, it covers a few things, politics, history, economics and the media, but it makes sense as one of the building blocks to what they are now, attitude wise.

Basically, there wasn't much difference between Sunderland and Newcastle in the long past, both in terms of cities and football teams. Cities of similar sized populations, similar people living in them and a common enough local identity that "Geordie" was almost a generic term for someone from the north east. My dad was like many from up here that as a young un he'd go to Roker one week and the skunks the next. He even told me about an edition of Football Monthly in the 50s that had picture of Shack and Jackie Millburn on the cover under the heading "no means rivals", there wasn't any real hatred between the teams. But that began to change by the 1960s. And this is where my mate's dad's theory comes in.

Despite the term "the Newcastle blitz", Newcastle got off relatively lightly during the war. A lot of the bombing was the result of the Luftwaffe going after targets outside Newcastle, such as the Duston coal staithes or the Wallsend ship yards and missing their primary targets. Newcastle city wasn't that strategically important. Sunderland was. Sunderland accounted for a quarter of the UKs' merchant shipping, a major commercial port, the numerous coal mines in and surrounding the city, plus the Pyrex glassworks, which made amongst other things the lenses for searchlights. Sunderland accounted for the most civilian deaths and injuries due to bombing raids during the blitz in the north east and an estimated 90% of the cities housing suffered some form of damage. Sunderland also lost a large number of it's grand buildings, such as the old winter gardens and the Victoria Hall. I bet most people have seen the iconic picture of the train wheels that went through the roof of Joseph's toy shop after the old railway station was hit. As a result, after the war Sunderland needed massively rebuilding, especially housing, which is where estates like Farringdon were built. Newcastle needed rebuilding itself, but not as extensively and this is where T Dan Smith comes in. During the 50s he built himself a powerbase in Newcastle, eventually becoming the council leader. He has the ambition of making Newcastle the "capital of the north" and modelled the rebuilding of Newcastle on Brasilia. Because of the influence and control he had, he was able to push through stuff that others couldn't stop and even after leaving the council he still has massive influence on it because of his patronage. He became "Mr Newcastle" and there's even a BBC documentary called "Dan's Castle" from the mid 60s about him (on YouTube if anyone is interested). Because of his power and a pliant local media he began to push Newcastle as the best place in the country and the only place in the north east that mattered. He left the council in 1965 but still held a lot of influence through patronage until his downfall for corruption in the early 70's. But for a while under him, Newcastle was seen as a progressive and dynamic place, leading to the sense of Geordie superiority as other parts of the north east, Sunderland in particular, were struggling to pull themselves together. This got worse when the metropolitan council of Tyne and Wear was introduced. Pretty much everything was Newcastle orientated and if it didn't benefit Newcastle, it wouldn't go ahead. Sunderland didn't help itself at the same time, the council made some hideous mistakes, but it was very much "what Newcastle wants, Newcastle gets".

When shipbuilding and coal mining began to decline in Sunderland in the 1970s, it hit Sunderland hard and this also coincided with Tyne and Wear council coming into being, which drained even more money away from Sunderland towards Newcastle. The metro was actually supposed to have been in Sunderland by 1990, though it was dropped quietly a few years after it had as introduced. Other development schemes were either knocked back or scaled down in favour of Newcastle, such as the Quayside being redeveloped. Even after T&W council was abolished, it still carried on. Years ago I spoke to a frustrated businessman from Washington who said that the Tyne and Wear Development Corporation initials really stood for "The Wear Doesn't Count".

The result is a lot of people from Newcastle and north Tyneside who've been told for years that Newcastle is "special" the most important place in the north, the only place that matters. You see it in the media, when Nissan does well it's great for the north east and a north east success story. Nissan gets in trouble and it's "troubled Sunderland car plant". When Swan Hunters was doing well it was "Tyneside ship building giant", before it collapsed it was a "disaster for the region". It's an easy step when you're told that Newcastle city is so brilliant and important and everywhere else locally is the poor relation to slide across to have the same view about the football teams, especially in a one team city. And when the media is based there and has over 60 years of being pliant and not criticising the city, it's hard to hear a dissenting voice. So you get the basic building blocks if why mags are the way they are, the football club is an extension of the city, because they're told Newcastle is the best place in the country (certainly locally) and they don't travel far outside, they believe it and put other places and by extension football teams down and they've had over 60 years of hearing it, so it must be true.
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Great post. Smith was an appalling reptile, and when he was jailed it wasn't for long enough.

I hope he and Poulson, who were both as corrupt as hell, are suffering in the hell they must be in.

rowley · Sep 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM

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I agree mate, growing up in the 80s until probably the late 80s, being referred to as a Geordie didn't bother me. I knew technically I wasn't, but it would be a bit like calling someone from St Helens a Scouser, it just seemed a generic term for people from the Tyne and Wear/Durham/Northumberland area. I do think, though, that by the late 80s there started to be a bit of a push back against it. As my dad used to say, if it's not nailed down Newcastle will claim it and being treat as second class while Newcastle "prospered" probably got people fed up. People began being more vocal about Sunderland not being viewed and treat as a Newcastle suburb. Then Hall accelerated things with his "Geordie Nation" bullshit.

My mate, who's dad has the theory about T Dan Smith, said he was 17 doing his "A" levels when he first heard the term "Mackem" being used to refer to someone from Sunderland, on the TV show "Spender". Within no time "Mackem" was adopted by people from Sunderland to differentiate us from Newcastle, even ones not interested in football. It is sad that hundreds of years of shared history and culture has now been trashed.

I will say, though, that even though there's the magpie/Geordie superiority complex, I do think that they are jealous of us. As well as thinking that they're special and superior to us, they want to be loved and admired, so when something happens positively for us, they hate it. Winning the cup in 73, it's not just that we won it, but that it's one of the famous Wembley finals, Monty's save being voted the greatest all time at Wembley, the iconic Stokoe run. But also that we were BBC sport team of the year for it. They'd kill for all that. Add in that the 98 play off final was also voted one of the all time great Wembley matches, all the positive press the SOL got when it was built, Premier Passions and STID. Honestly, they love that, though they're thin skinned enough that the chants of "we've seen you cry on Netflix" would hurt them far more than it did us. But that jealousy and insecurity towards us eats at them, that's why they go on about airports , its petty and childish, but they need it to sooth their fragile egos.
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Yes. The whole hype has created a fragile and insular metality in many in the Newcastle area, particularly the football fans, many of whom are borderline disturbed.

But football gets a lot of publicity, way more than it should really. And this has had the effect of making people around the country at best laugh at them, and more commonly deride them. They really are not liked at all now and I always make when I'm elsewhere that people know I'm from Durham.

Arlyman · Sep 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM

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I agree mate, growing up in the 80s until probably the late 80s, being referred to as a Geordie didn't bother me. I knew technically I wasn't, but it would be a bit like calling someone from St Helens a Scouser, it just seemed a generic term for people from the Tyne and Wear/Durham/Northumberland area. I do think, though, that by the late 80s there started to be a bit of a push back against it. As my dad used to say, if it's not nailed down Newcastle will claim it and being treat as second class while Newcastle "prospered" probably got people fed up. People began being more vocal about Sunderland not being viewed and treat as a Newcastle suburb. Then Hall accelerated things with his "Geordie Nation" bullshit.

My mate, who's dad has the theory about T Dan Smith, said he was 17 doing his "A" levels when he first heard the term "Mackem" being used to refer to someone from Sunderland, on the TV show "Spender". Within no time "Mackem" was adopted by people from Sunderland to differentiate us from Newcastle, even ones not interested in football. It is sad that hundreds of years of shared history and culture has now been trashed.

I will say, though, that even though there's the magpie/Geordie superiority complex, I do think that they are jealous of us. As well as thinking that they're special and superior to us, they want to be loved and admired, so when something happens positively for us, they hate it. Winning the cup in 73, it's not just that we won it, but that it's one of the famous Wembley finals, Monty's save being voted the greatest all time at Wembley, the iconic Stokoe run. But also that we were BBC sport team of the year for it. They'd kill for all that. Add in that the 98 play off final was also voted one of the all time great Wembley matches, all the positive press the SOL got when it was built, Premier Passions and STID. Honestly, they love that, though they're thin skinned enough that the chants of "we've seen you cry on Netflix" would hurt them far more than it did us. But that jealousy and insecurity towards us eats at them, that's why they go on about airports , its petty and childish, but they need it to sooth their fragile egos.
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Right. This is the way I experienced it too. I always preferred Wearsider to Mackem (or Mackum when i first saw it), but it got to the point where we needed a common label to differentiate us from that lot. Agree this is sad and John Hall et al have some much to blame. I'd heard of T Dan Smith but didn't know much about him before your post.

The mag thing that made me smile the most was the 'forever in our shadow' thing. They really did and do seem to think they are better than us - and, bizarrely, as a 'people', not just as a football thing. I've always thought it was really the other way around. There are always exceptions, but people in Sunderland always struck me as more reasonable and realistic, not trying to 'one up on you' all the time and trying to prove they are better when its quite obvious that they're not. I know banter can be fun, but mags are a special breed and I tend just to leave them alone as much as I can.

rowley · Sep 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM

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I dont know about that. Looks like he got a toe end onto Saka's ball.
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That's routine for him. He gets away with that stuff every week. No idea how, he's probably the dirtiest player in that league.

E.T. Fairfax · Sep 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM

rowley said: ↑

Yes. The whole hype has created a fragile and insular metality in many in the Newcastle area, particularly the football fans, many of whom are borderline disturbed.

But football gets a lot of publicity, way more than it should really. And this has had the effect of making people around the country at best laugh at them, and more commonly deride them. They really are not liked at all now and I always make when I'm elsewhere that people know I'm from Durham.
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rowley · Sep 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM

Arlyman said: ↑

Right. This is the way I experienced it too. I always preferred Wearsider to Mackem (or Mackum when i first saw it), but it got to the point where we needed a common label to differentiate us from that lot. Agree this is sad and John Hall et al have some much to blame. I'd heard of T Dan Smith but didn't know much about him before your post.

The mag thing that made me smile the most was the 'forever in our shadow' thing. They really did and do seem to think they are better than us - and, bizarrely, as a 'people', not just as a football thing. I've always thought it was really the other way around. There are always exceptions, but people in Sunderland always struck me as more reasonable and realistic, not trying to 'one up on you' all the time and trying to prove they are better when its quite obvious that they're not. I know banter can be fun, but mags are a special breed and I tend just to leave them alone as much as I can.
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That's true. And that kind of behaviour always, always comes from an inferiority complex.

DH4 · Sep 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM

rowley said: ↑

Yes. The whole hype has created a fragile and insular metality in many in the Newcastle area, particularly the football fans, many of whom are borderline disturbed.

But football gets a lot of publicity, way more than it should really. And this has had the effect of making people around the country at best laugh at them, and more commonly deride them. They really are not liked at all now and I always make when I'm elsewhere that people know I'm from Durham.
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Aye but 92er Durham Mags call themselves "Southern Geordies" now and are even worse than someone from Warlsend who has probably never been South of the Tyne, so has an excuse to be ignorant about Wearside. The 92er Durham Mag is from Wearside, speaks with an accent far more Wear than Tyne and professes to hate Sunderland and Wearside, even though they are from Wearside.

Northumberland Rocks · Sep 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM

C Montgomery Burns said: ↑

I've been saying for a while that i'll post my mates dad's theory that a lot of the current mag behaviour goes back to T Dan Smith in the 60s, so finally I've got round to do it now. I apologise now that it's a long read, it covers a few things, politics, history, economics and the media, but it makes sense as one of the building blocks to what they are now, attitude wise.

Basically, there wasn't much difference between Sunderland and Newcastle in the long past, both in terms of cities and football teams. Cities of similar sized populations, similar people living in them and a common enough local identity that "Geordie" was almost a generic term for someone from the north east. My dad was like many from up here that as a young un he'd go to Roker one week and the skunks the next. He even told me about an edition of Football Monthly in the 50s that had picture of Shack and Jackie Millburn on the cover under the heading "no means rivals", there wasn't any real hatred between the teams. But that began to change by the 1960s. And this is where my mate's dad's theory comes in.

Despite the term "the Newcastle blitz", Newcastle got off relatively lightly during the war. A lot of the bombing was the result of the Luftwaffe going after targets outside Newcastle, such as the Duston coal staithes or the Wallsend ship yards and missing their primary targets. Newcastle city wasn't that strategically important. Sunderland was. Sunderland accounted for a quarter of the UKs' merchant shipping, a major commercial port, the numerous coal mines in and surrounding the city, plus the Pyrex glassworks, which made amongst other things the lenses for searchlights. Sunderland accounted for the most civilian deaths and injuries due to bombing raids during the blitz in the north east and an estimated 90% of the cities housing suffered some form of damage. Sunderland also lost a large number of it's grand buildings, such as the old winter gardens and the Victoria Hall. I bet most people have seen the iconic picture of the train wheels that went through the roof of Joseph's toy shop after the old railway station was hit. As a result, after the war Sunderland needed massively rebuilding, especially housing, which is where estates like Farringdon were built. Newcastle needed rebuilding itself, but not as extensively and this is where T Dan Smith comes in. During the 50s he built himself a powerbase in Newcastle, eventually becoming the council leader. He has the ambition of making Newcastle the "capital of the north" and modelled the rebuilding of Newcastle on Brasilia. Because of the influence and control he had, he was able to push through stuff that others couldn't stop and even after leaving the council he still has massive influence on it because of his patronage. He became "Mr Newcastle" and there's even a BBC documentary called "Dan's Castle" from the mid 60s about him (on YouTube if anyone is interested). Because of his power and a pliant local media he began to push Newcastle as the best place in the country and the only place in the north east that mattered. He left the council in 1965 but still held a lot of influence through patronage until his downfall for corruption in the early 70's. But for a while under him, Newcastle was seen as a progressive and dynamic place, leading to the sense of Geordie superiority as other parts of the north east, Sunderland in particular, were struggling to pull themselves together. This got worse when the metropolitan council of Tyne and Wear was introduced. Pretty much everything was Newcastle orientated and if it didn't benefit Newcastle, it wouldn't go ahead. Sunderland didn't help itself at the same time, the council made some hideous mistakes, but it was very much "what Newcastle wants, Newcastle gets".

When shipbuilding and coal mining began to decline in Sunderland in the 1970s, it hit Sunderland hard and this also coincided with Tyne and Wear council coming into being, which drained even more money away from Sunderland towards Newcastle. The metro was actually supposed to have been in Sunderland by 1990, though it was dropped quietly a few years after it had as introduced. Other development schemes were either knocked back or scaled down in favour of Newcastle, such as the Quayside being redeveloped. Even after T&W council was abolished, it still carried on. Years ago I spoke to a frustrated businessman from Washington who said that the Tyne and Wear Development Corporation initials really stood for "The Wear Doesn't Count".

The result is a lot of people from Newcastle and north Tyneside who've been told for years that Newcastle is "special" the most important place in the north, the only place that matters. You see it in the media, when Nissan does well it's great for the north east and a north east success story. Nissan gets in trouble and it's "troubled Sunderland car plant". When Swan Hunters was doing well it was "Tyneside ship building giant", before it collapsed it was a "disaster for the region". It's an easy step when you're told that Newcastle city is so brilliant and important and everywhere else locally is the poor relation to slide across to have the same view about the football teams, especially in a one team city. And when the media is based there and has over 60 years of being pliant and not criticising the city, it's hard to hear a dissenting voice. So you get the basic building blocks if why mags are the way they are, the football club is an extension of the city, because they're told Newcastle is the best place in the country (certainly locally) and they don't travel far outside, they believe it and put other places and by extension football teams down and they've had over 60 years of hearing it, so it must be true.
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Good post and I believe the local media have contributed greatly to their delusions

TeamOfTalents · Sep 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM

C Montgomery Burns said: ↑

I've been saying for a while that i'll post my mates dad's theory that a lot of the current mag behaviour goes back to T Dan Smith in the 60s, so finally I've got round to do it now. I apologise now that it's a long read, it covers a few things, politics, history, economics and the media, but it makes sense as one of the building blocks to what they are now, attitude wise.

Basically, there wasn't much difference between Sunderland and Newcastle in the long past, both in terms of cities and football teams. Cities of similar sized populations, similar people living in them and a common enough local identity that "Geordie" was almost a generic term for someone from the north east. My dad was like many from up here that as a young un he'd go to Roker one week and the skunks the next. He even told me about an edition of Football Monthly in the 50s that had picture of Shack and Jackie Millburn on the cover under the heading "no means rivals", there wasn't any real hatred between the teams. But that began to change by the 1960s. And this is where my mate's dad's theory comes in.

Despite the term "the Newcastle blitz", Newcastle got off relatively lightly during the war. A lot of the bombing was the result of the Luftwaffe going after targets outside Newcastle, such as the Duston coal staithes or the Wallsend ship yards and missing their primary targets. Newcastle city wasn't that strategically important. Sunderland was. Sunderland accounted for a quarter of the UKs' merchant shipping, a major commercial port, the numerous coal mines in and surrounding the city, plus the Pyrex glassworks, which made amongst other things the lenses for searchlights. Sunderland accounted for the most civilian deaths and injuries due to bombing raids during the blitz in the north east and an estimated 90% of the cities housing suffered some form of damage. Sunderland also lost a large number of it's grand buildings, such as the old winter gardens and the Victoria Hall. I bet most people have seen the iconic picture of the train wheels that went through the roof of Joseph's toy shop after the old railway station was hit. As a result, after the war Sunderland needed massively rebuilding, especially housing, which is where estates like Farringdon were built. Newcastle needed rebuilding itself, but not as extensively and this is where T Dan Smith comes in. During the 50s he built himself a powerbase in Newcastle, eventually becoming the council leader. He has the ambition of making Newcastle the "capital of the north" and modelled the rebuilding of Newcastle on Brasilia. Because of the influence and control he had, he was able to push through stuff that others couldn't stop and even after leaving the council he still has massive influence on it because of his patronage. He became "Mr Newcastle" and there's even a BBC documentary called "Dan's Castle" from the mid 60s about him (on YouTube if anyone is interested). Because of his power and a pliant local media he began to push Newcastle as the best place in the country and the only place in the north east that mattered. He left the council in 1965 but still held a lot of influence through patronage until his downfall for corruption in the early 70's. But for a while under him, Newcastle was seen as a progressive and dynamic place, leading to the sense of Geordie superiority as other parts of the north east, Sunderland in particular, were struggling to pull themselves together. This got worse when the metropolitan council of Tyne and Wear was introduced. Pretty much everything was Newcastle orientated and if it didn't benefit Newcastle, it wouldn't go ahead. Sunderland didn't help itself at the same time, the council made some hideous mistakes, but it was very much "what Newcastle wants, Newcastle gets".

When shipbuilding and coal mining began to decline in Sunderland in the 1970s, it hit Sunderland hard and this also coincided with Tyne and Wear council coming into being, which drained even more money away from Sunderland towards Newcastle. The metro was actually supposed to have been in Sunderland by 1990, though it was dropped quietly a few years after it had as introduced. Other development schemes were either knocked back or scaled down in favour of Newcastle, such as the Quayside being redeveloped. Even after T&W council was abolished, it still carried on. Years ago I spoke to a frustrated businessman from Washington who said that the Tyne and Wear Development Corporation initials really stood for "The Wear Doesn't Count".

The result is a lot of people from Newcastle and north Tyneside who've been told for years that Newcastle is "special" the most important place in the north, the only place that matters. You see it in the media, when Nissan does well it's great for the north east and a north east success story. Nissan gets in trouble and it's "troubled Sunderland car plant". When Swan Hunters was doing well it was "Tyneside ship building giant", before it collapsed it was a "disaster for the region". It's an easy step when you're told that Newcastle city is so brilliant and important and everywhere else locally is the poor relation to slide across to have the same view about the football teams, especially in a one team city. And when the media is based there and has over 60 years of being pliant and not criticising the city, it's hard to hear a dissenting voice. So you get the basic building blocks if why mags are the way they are, the football club is an extension of the city, because they're told Newcastle is the best place in the country (certainly locally) and they don't travel far outside, they believe it and put other places and by extension football teams down and they've had over 60 years of hearing it, so it must be true.
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Great post. Can I bookmark this somehow!?

Arlyman · Sep 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM

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Aye but 92er Durham Mags call themselves "Southern Geordies" now and are even worse than someone from Warlsend who has probably never been South of the Tyne, so has an excuse to be ignorant about Wearside. The 92er Durham Mag is from Wearside, speaks with an accent far more Wear than Tyne and professes to hate Sunderland and Wearside, even though they are from Wearside.
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The advent of the Durham Mag was just a disaster

C Montgomery Burns · Sep 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM

Northumberland Rocks said: ↑

Good post and I believe the local media have contributed greatly to their delusions
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Totally. The local media is predominantly based in Newcastle, through a combination of luck and geography for TV and radio. Tyne Tees studio at City Road was mainly due to it being a large warehouse near the telephone exchange because television signals to and from other ITV stations were relayed by land-line from the studios to the switching centre. The cost would have significantly increased if the connection was over a mile. It was good fortune that the site was available, if it wasn't Tyne Tees might have been based elsewhere, say Gateshead. The old BBC studios were similar in New Bridge Street. Both BBC and Tyne Tees, especially now, are twee and basically pliant to outside influences, including from people like Smith and Hall, just remember the clusterfuck Newcastle made of the Great North Exhibition in 2019, pushed extensively by local TV and radio, but barely mentioned after it flopped. And that's just one, small example. Then add in fat Dawn and her obvious bias reporting.

When you have people like Anal Lover, John Gibson, Neil Farrington and their obvious pro NUFC bias writing in local newspapers and the clear relish they take in knocking us, often with lies or backhanded compliments, any congratulations being given through gritted teeth, it's easy to see how it's contributed to the current state of things.

rowley · Sep 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM

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He might be right! Not a bad player, but seems like mental, panicky money. .

Mind, did Rumminigge and his mate Hoeness not both do time for some sort of money offences?

Queer mob that lot.

rowley · Sep 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM

C Montgomery Burns said: ↑

Totally. The local media is predominantly based in Newcastle, through a combination of luck and geography for TV and radio. Tyne Tees studio at City Road was mainly due to it being a large warehouse near the telephone exchange because television signals to and from other ITV stations were relayed by land-line from the studios to the switching centre. The cost would have significantly increased if the connection was over a mile. It was good fortune that the site was available, if it wasn't Tyne Tees might have been based elsewhere, say Gateshead. The old BBC studios were similar in New Bridge Street. Both BBC and Tyne Tees, especially now, are twee and basically pliant to outside influences, including from people like Smith and Hall, just remember the clusterfuck Newcastle made of the Great North Exhibition in 2019, pushed extensively by local TV and radio, but barely mentioned after it flopped. And that's just one, small example. Then add in fat Dawn and her obvious bias reporting.

When you have people like Anal Lover, John Gibson, Neil Farrington and their obvious pro NUFC bias writing in local newspapers and the clear relish they take in knocking us, often with lies or backhanded compliments, any congratulations being given through gritted teeth, it's easy to see how it's contributed to the current state of things.
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Luckily for me then, the last time I watched any of that garbage was a very long time ago.

I can say this though. Some years ago, I was all over the place. I would often see other regions versions of these two programmes. The two up here were in my opinion, wildly inferior to the others I saw.

Sounds like they still are.

Northumberland Rocks · Sep 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM

C Montgomery Burns said: ↑

Totally. The local media is predominantly based in Newcastle, through a combination of luck and geography for TV and radio. Tyne Tees studio at City Road was mainly due to it being a large warehouse near the telephone exchange because television signals to and from other ITV stations were relayed by land-line from the studios to the switching centre. The cost would have significantly increased if the connection was over a mile. It was good fortune that the site was available, if it wasn't Tyne Tees might have been based elsewhere, say Gateshead. The old BBC studios were similar in New Bridge Street. Both BBC and Tyne Tees, especially now, are twee and basically pliant to outside influences, including from people like Smith and Hall, just remember the clusterfuck Newcastle made of the Great North Exhibition in 2019, pushed extensively by local TV and radio, but barely mentioned after it flopped. And that's just one, small example. Then add in fat Dawn and her obvious bias reporting.

When you have people like Anal Lover, John Gibson, Neil Farrington and their obvious pro NUFC bias writing in local newspapers and the clear relish they take in knocking us, often with lies or backhanded compliments, any congratulations being given through gritted teeth, it's easy to see how it's contributed to the current state of things.
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Couldn’t agree more mate

marcusblackcat · Sep 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM

This lad is a bit thick. Slagging us off for “coming back after we snuck back into the prem through the back door”, and I pointed out that they got 10k free season tickets!

C Montgomery Burns · Sep 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM

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This lad is a bit thick. Slagging us off for “coming back after we snuck back into the prem through the back door”, and I pointed out that they got 10k free season tickets!

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An SR6 mag by his profile. A shallow knobhead by his life.

gelders pie · Sep 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM

Not like Newcastle where the planes land on Northumberland St

King Kareoke · Sep 30, 2025 at 10:39 PM

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View attachment 377962 Not like Newcastle where the planes land on Northumberland St
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Do you think he realises that's not Waterloo station

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