The new away strip
So NUFC Blog has teamed up with price comparison website idealo.co.uk to give you the chance to win the new away shirt, with your choice of name and lettering on the back.
Entering the competition couldn’t be any easier and all you have to do is e-mail us the answer to a rather simple question. Below you will see a picture of Paul Huntington celebrating a goal against Tottenham in the last season that Newcastle wore a maroon coloured away shirt, but what I want to know is what season it was?
Answers should be sent shirtcompetition@nufcblog.co.uk with your registered username in the subject line of the e-mail.
The competition will run until the end of the May and entrants received after 23:59 on 31st of May will not be counted.
Once again the competition will only be open to registered users of the site, so if you haven’t already registered you won’t be able to win, although there is nothing to stop you from registering right now!
A winner will be picked at random after the closing date and will be contacted via e-mail soon after to arrange sizes, lettering and delivery.
Get entering!
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Lovely job, I actually really like this shirt.
It’s actrually growing on me….
you won’t need to win one then MDS
Getting me coat…
Can Oversea ppl join in this fun?
Though i am not rather lucky with Lucky draws.
AOD – Anyone can join as long as they are registered
Good,i just send my answer.Wish my luck.
Toonsy – I’m sure you will have had a hand in organising this competion. Excellent work mate.
entered
wait, toonsy does it have to be the season i.e. 1987/88? or could you just put 1988?
Was at that game!!
Bollocks I put Andymag as my username instead of Scottoon
I’m shit at this 
LST
must have decades ago then
Will the same competition be done for the home strip
jokes 
Andymag – Don’t worry. I can see all usernames that people have used anyway so it’ll work out.
Andymag – Cheeky fecker!
Was fantastic game!
Anyone heard the rumour that marvin martin is on way to toon?
LST
lol
Whats this about Martin? Where did you here this?
You’d think that you’d study more on study leave then you would whilst at school, apparently not
It’s weird having to wait so long for your 1st exam (17th of may) then having the rest within 8 days, finishing on the 25th, then waiting 10days to go back to school again, sleeping in and FIFA over those ten days, tis the life 
Liam, where did you see that about Martin mate?
Loving this shirt. Wonder if we are keeping the same home shirt?
On a separate note. Don’t know if any one has heard this yet but it’s a really interesting podcast, shame about the presenters.
http://www.talksport.co.uk/radio/richard-keys-and-andy-gray/120510/damien-comolli-liverpool-andy-carroll-and-moneyball-method-171751
I think this tactic called ‘moneyball’ really applies to our current structure in recruiting new players and that’s why when we think a player is distinctly average Pardew comes out with the stats to prove people wrong (ala Simpson).
There’s an interesting article in this somewhere. Enjoy the podcast.
Dan / Andy – was on talksport but cant find it on the website. May be another one of there obscure french connection links as we seem to be with everyone in france!
Could be garbage but the lads in a team that is being relegated he is probably going euros and I reckon he could be the one that pards has referred to before about signing up before the euros
There’s been rumours about Martin for awhile now…
I read an article that Sochaux has told him they will let him leave in the summer, but apparently a lot of clubs, including Arsenal, are going in for him. He won’t be cheap at that rate
Couldn’t you have made the question a teeny-weeny bit harder fella, I mean what are the chances of getting drawn to win this from 50,000+ answers, cause imo I can’t see anyone getting it wrong
As for the shirt, I’ll defo be getting one this summer as well as the new home short when its finally released
Liam…they’re not in the relegation zone anymore, 2 tough games to go though
Regarding Martin, one of the rags (Sun maybe?) claims we have been scouting him. Still, everything I’ve read has him heading to Arsenal
Could be garbage but the lads in a team that is being relegated he is probably going euros and I reckon he could be the one that pards has referred to before about signing up before the euros
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I still think that he was referring to Pieters. He was set to joing us last year apparently until he got injured. Plus his constant tweets about Newcastle.
Toon69…he has to make the question easy to give the likes of Aussie and JJ a reasonable chance
Richie i stand corrected
He could be a real steal marvin martin seen him alot and he is superb on the ball. Time will tell with all our proposed signings but what a summer ahead potentially.
Fantastic times
Yeah I suppose so Richie
Liam – I heard that Arse-nil are in advance talks with Marvin Martins over s proposed move, not sure how true that was tho
Liam
aye i win took the from the bottom to 4th bottom, think just about every team in the bottom half is still in with a chance of relegation 
*1 win
Note on Pieters…
He was named to the Dutch squad for the Euros last week, but pulled out after failing a fitness test on his injured foot….
Toon69 – that would be a shame but doesnt suprise me he is an arsenal type player. Boudebouz is a similar player aswell and would possibly be available.
Lets be honest some top players could come in the summer; europe in any form is an attraction but newcastle 52,000 fans and europe even more so
MDS..aye he aggravated the previous injury in a league game apparently.
Shame richie- I know people didn’t rate him in the England match but a 23 year old with 15 caps that plays LB or CB seemed like a perfect signing for us. But there has to be concerns about that injury at this point since it pretty much cost him the entire season.
Im not sure about pieters seems far to injury prone and it was ony one game but didnt look anything special against england.
it seems as though we will land someone dutch though in the summer as pards has spent a lot of time over there.
Luuk de jong anyone?
LST- Agree on Pieters. de jong would be good but his suitor list is apparently growing due to a very good season. He won’t be cheap but looks a fantastic talent
Belter99@18- Just had a gander at that talksport ,interesting stuff ,I agree that it seems we are applying the Moneyball concept ,but as Comolli said a lot of clubs are now. Did you see the Shearer interview as well with them ?. He was talking about Blackburn ,Toon Sir Bobby and England and Andy Carroll too. It was a good chat ,about half hour long .
MDS@23-Everyones linked to Arsenal
It’s a pity about Pieters as I reckon he was nailed on to come to Toon but that foot of his looks to be a major worry ,it’s just not healing right . We need a fit defender in because Saylor is also injury prone and we don’t want two defensive positions being potentially compromised all the time. Gutted actually as quite liked the look of the lad ,would of helped him knowing Krul so well too.
Toonsy- Great competition by the way
Agreed Kimtoon- as much as i lke the thought of Pieters I think we need to me on this summer.
I think it just seems that everyone’s linked with Arsenal since we are now doing our shopping in France/Holland where Wegner has made his money over the years. (I still think he’s bothered by the fact that we found Tiote and Cabeye and he didn’t). Plus, it sounds like, for once, they plan on spending big this summer.
^^^I think we need to move on this summer.^^^
Sweet! Another item for me to win. It will go nicely with the scarf I won earlier this season.
Next, add in a hat, perhaps a jacket and a pair of pants, and I can win a whole outfit here.
Eden Hazard has told French media that he would love to play with Cabaye at Newcastle but will only play for them in champions league.
MDS- Every year every man and his dog are linked to the gunners but they ain’t got the cash to buy too many and arsene is a tightwad as well
They won’t make more than 1 or two expensive signings imo. Reckon your right though he must be proper gutted we spotted Cabs and Tiote, he already knew all about Benny but still never took the chance on him 
Eden Hazard has been linked with every club in the world I think. Take that with a pinch of salt
Hitman@40 -Feck we best get 3rd or 4th then !
Interesting on Hazard but no way could we afford him without selling somebody big.
Happy to hear he likes us but still think he’s off to Man U
Lets be honest here, how many players that we’ve recently been linked to just before a trasnfer window have actually arrived at the Toon…….
We’re normaly more stealthy than that & don’t know who’s comin until they’ve already sign most of the time, so I’m quiet happy to keep it that way & be surprised when they do
MDS@44 Well they may as well rack up a bit more debt
Hitman – remember the rumours hazard was in the toon for medical?
Didnt hazard say he was playing in blue next year?
Could our third kit be blue?
just register to test my luck…
Hitman – not that I believe it to be true but if that was the case I wouldn’t want those kind of conditional players in anyway. What if we make CL this season and miss out next – will he hand in a transfer request or something like that?
I know he’s a quality player and would defo improve the team quality wise but if he’s only a CL player we can’t afford to guarantee that, and he can’t guarantee he’ll get us there. Nice thought but never gonna happen.
Anyone seen the new Manure top ,yuk vile ,wouldn’t wanna wear that if I was a fan, looks a bit itchy like
More of the same in the transfer market please.
Pieters wont be coming its been in the Dutch pressat least 9 weeks before he can that he needs an operation on his ankle and the recuperation is at least 9 weeks . He will never pass a medical in time for the new season . As for Luuk De Jong i would love him too come to us but if we miss out on him then his brother Siem De Jong who plays for Ajax would be a good second choice .
That should read
Pieters wont be coming its been reported in the Dutch press that he needs an operation on his ankle and the recuperation is at least 9 weeks .
Axel -What do you make of Toby Alderweireld?
@ Axel.
re luuk de jong, i wish mate could replace best and loven but hes suppost to be valued at £13.5 million with bindippers and benfica after his signature. Can’t see us paying that for a back up unfortunately
KIMTOON would be a good signing ,he is a very promising young defender good in the tackle , good on the ball playing out of defence and has good positional sense . Slight doubt about heading at premiership level but he has time on his side too learn , i would much rather have him in than Douglas . Douglas will be a nightmare waiting to happen in the premiership ala Boumsong .
FLOYDY
with us in Europe next season and the African lads away in the ACON next season as well , i think De Jong would get plenty of games . He can also play as an attacking Midfielder and would give us options . With Lovenkrands and seemingly Best on their way we need backup and are at the stage where the bench sitters need to be as good as those they would replace .
@KIMTOON:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2142059/Manchester-Uniteds-new-kit-looks-like-tea-towel-say-horrified-fans.html
Axel @57 -Thanks ,I did wonder if that’s who we were watching when we were over there as he’d be the cheaper option .Glad you think he looks good , and I ‘m with you on the Douglas issue too ,I’m not too keen on the look of him ,that temper worries me ,dont want anyone upsetting the apple cart.
Angel @59 God its really gash isn’t it.
AOD thats just what wor lass said
Axel, yea i see your point, i hope we go after him, did some dennis wise scouting, and looks class, would easily replace ba and cisse when they go acon.
That manure shirt……..well it suits their players!!!!
Has anyone else noticed that if your using a mobile when u click on the picture it gives the players name. Lol
AXEL i agree not douglas,ive watched him on the box a few times imo hes crap,maybe the powers to be see something i dont,surely we wont make that mistake
ICEDOG the worrying thing is a lot of the Dutch press keep claiming we have a big interest in him and some even claim talks have been held and a bid put in .
AXEL one saveing grace if rags are to be beilived A/VILLA have offered more than us,please let it be true
Dont see any big signings for Manure in the summer if they are forced too wear that . The woman 2 doors up has a poodle that wears a dog coat thingy in that pattern .
Toon1892….it does on a normal PC but the players name is mentioned in an article
*in the article*
Wish I was going to Everton game, I have a feeling the season is going to finish on the mother of all high’s. Its written in the stars I reckon
Lads don’t worry about cb. We have mariappa in the bag. Hell have messi in his pocket next year
young fergie sent off tonight
Ice what was it for ? do you know, and any sign of that fuker getting outta the slammer
Dave – Just says an “off the ball incident”
DAVE
http://www.nufc.co.uk/articles/20120510/a-night-to-ferget_2281670_2767436
kna ive heard nowt from the rat bag,richie says hes planning a break-oot
TOONSY where you “off”to for hols,guess its not brussells
Man U’s kit looks well shit, not like our pedrigree change strip
agree with those about Douglas, something not quite right with him, he kind of scares me, I live on the philosophy of ‘Don’t trust a man who’s last name is a first name’ it hasn’t failed me to this day 
Ice
whats this aboot a break out and ‘the slammer’?
ANDY shhhhhhhhhhhhh mums the word,me and dave want nee bother with batty he has a long reach
ice
aye
Another trialist at the toon Victor Tsado, academy is like a revolving door at the moment. The lad’s created a video of himself on youtube, and is replying to viewers comments which is nice.
Yeah I ce don’t be telling anyone that Batts is locked up, we don’t want that getting out it will be all over twitter and FB
as for Toonsy I bet he is going to Spain
dave
like the great escape
Andy your switched on lad
Did you hear owt about that Tsado guy 
dave
Heard about it/him on eds blog, someone commented it, so I might not be definate, but then why would you lie about that.
Andy there is some strange people on there
I often think Richie has multiple names on there 
dave
aye but that scottishtoon95 has got some class banter
http://theexecutionersbong.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/everton-v-newcastle-5-point-tactical-betting-preview/
This is quite a thorough and impressive review of us. At one stage he notes..
‘Like us with Baines, Santon (3) will get forward and provide width whilst Perch (14) balances this by providing defensive balance on the right enabling Ben Arfa to roam. The X shows the area where Santon can often leave open on his forward forays and which Gibson (if fit) will look to exploit by feeding Osman.’
Yes Santon could leave space there but at the same time I recon Hibbert and (formerly P.Neville) is their weak link and it would be good to see Jonas and Santon attacking down that left hand side. Ben Arfa could also be on the right to exploit Baines leaving gaps.
Was on ‘Truelad’ the other day looking at the pictures and saw a great one of Cisse as he was about to hit the shot against chelsea (2nd goal) and on it someone had drawn an arrow straight on with the words next to it saying ‘Where gravity should have taken the ball’, and another arrow which led the path of the ball into the area of the net where it landed with the words ‘Where the laws of Cisse took the ball’
DJG
Very thorough and gives us a lot of respect which I’ve often not seen on similar blogs from teams we’re about to face.
DJG
Baines likes to go forward, so what we want is for perch and tiote to shield them out, get the ball to Ben Arfa and allow him to take on Haitinja and jagielka, or pass to cisse.
No else is here
Oh well I’ll talk to myself
Just went on facebook and saw my brother had posted the picture of Cisse shooting I was talking about. lol
was a good lad for the toon good luck kidda
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2142623/Former-Newcastle-winger-Nobby-Solano-retires.html
Welcome to another session of Andymag crappy news
Just saw that Prince Charles was the weaherman for reporting Scotland today
Ice
YOU RUINED MY FUN!!! 
Good old nobby, thought he’d already retired, was he at Hartlepool?
Yeah Hartlepool, wonder what his testimonial will consist of, everyone that he used to play with are in there 40s now
My Dream team for next season (excluding messi, ronaldo…ect)
————————-Krul———————-
-Debuchy–S.Taylor–Coloccini–Santon-
————————Tiote———————-
——-Cabaye—————–Martin/Jonas-
—Ben Arfa——–Cisse———Hazard—-
Bench: Al Habsi, M’biwa, R.Taylor/Ferguson, Butterfield/Abeid/Sammy Ameobi, Jonas/Martin, Vuckic/Marveauw, Rhodes/Shola Ameobi
oh no I forgot Perch!!!
I realise that I’m talking to myself(
) but I see that Villa fans aren’t happy with the idea of signing Guthrie and Best, ungrateful buggers, they’d be lucky to have them, Villa is shit, who did they expect to come? Rooney and David Silva? 
To “testify” was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made, by swearing on their testicles.
Any more gems there, Andy? Though…good to know about testify…next time in court I will harken back to the days of Rome…
Norcal
My friend’s call them ‘Andrew’s pointless factoids’ 
thought I was on my own tonight
Oh I’ve got a fair few
Hey lads! Got a funny story for y’all.
Just met a girl from Sunderland over here. She was HOT too. I instantly recognized her accent as Northeast English, so I asked her where she was from. She said Sunderland. I replied, “Oh cool! So… I’ve done my share of traveling and I’ve met many an English folk in many an interesting place. Why is it that I’ve never met a mackem in Milan?”
She cussed me and walked away
OH. Fair play man but you should have saved the insult until after the sex.
A few months ago i met a very good looking women from brighton in pub. I chatted her up a bit and she asked me if i liked football. When i told her who i supported she made a face and”ugh, geordies!”. I got all offended and her to fck off. Thats when i realized i spend too much time on these sites. I essentially passed up a likely hookup with a very good looking stranger to defend the honor of a place ive never visitef
Ive got a cracking hangover today
I am never drinking again 
death would be a good option right now
Nice competition though Toonsy… good stuff…
It’s fair to say Andy Carroll hasn’t exactly worked out as well as hoped in terms of being the big man up top at Liverpool.
So, rather than splash out another record transfer fee for an alternative to the striker, the club have developed a kit to make even the smallest member of their team feel 7ft tall.
At least, that’s what they claim.
In a mean and moody midnight release – symptomatic of the dark clouds that have circled around the club this season – Liverpool have unveiled the strip.
They hope it will bring them better luck in the Premier League than that which they experienced in a decidedly mediocre campaign this time around.
The all red garb certainly harks back to a grander day when the Anfield outfit ruled English football, drawing on the tradition of time’s past.
Steven Gerrard and Luis Suarez have been called upon to model the new kit, appearing alongside the words: ‘It’s inspired by greatness. It’s modern tradition. It’s unapologetically Liverpool FC. It will make you feel 7ft tall.’
Lol.:eek::eek:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/05/11/article-2142705-13084016000005DC-146_306x409.jpg
What a change from liverpool.
It’s either my phone or it’s almost maroon.
It looks canny tho IMO
@aussie
Too many Fosters ?!
All Aussies love Fosters…especially Aussie
OH… Don’t believe ya, there’re no hot mackems…unless you mean she was sweating like a pig?
Aussie says it’s wine colour…or whine would be a more apt spelling
Richie
5 cans of Fosters and Aussies anyone!
Telegraph reporting
Newcastle United right-back Danny Simpson rejects offer; Leon Best and Danny Guthrie set join Aston Villa.
Danny Simpson must be mad! Offered £25k per week and at this stage could be in the CL next season and he rejects the offer. ? Cheeses!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2140334/Chelsea-weigh-possible-Danny-Simpson.html
Don’t kick a man when he is down…. bastards
Agree with Troy, the liverpool kit looks pretty cool. Nice Retro look..
Two words for you Danny.. Habib Beye
Troy
Aussie…Surely that would mean we can never kick you?
Agree with you 2, I think that strip looks canny, who makes it? I can’t make out the manufacturer.
…and Danny S is about to make one huge mistake me thinks(football wise).
Passport Red!!!!
I’m sure you will slip a boot in when you can Rich
the shirts are made by a mob called Warrior.
Moi?
cheers, never heard of them 
fook – late for work and a banging hangover, interview at 11 – the demon drink!!!
Feeling your pain Steve
SteveP…4 pints an a packet of Xtra strongs, you’ll be sound…and good luck
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