Kits 23/24

[PaulTheVillan]

My mate had Sensible Soccer on his Megadrive at uni, and they subtley changed the names of the players. Paul Ince became P.Once, which was nice.

Wonder what they'd have done if his name were Neil.

[AV84]

It's Football Insider, so take it with a shovel of salt, but they're saying the Adidas deal is worth 3 times the Castore one. The Castore one was only about 4mil a season, so that would put the Adidas one at 12mil a season. If true that's an improvement but it doesn't scream "elite" club to me.

[Risso]

It's Football Insider, so they won't have the smallest inkling of what the deal's worth.

[pablo_picasso]

My mate had Sensible Soccer on his Megadrive at uni, and they subtley changed the names of the players. Paul Ince became P.Once, which was nice.

I had mine on Amiga. I was a demon with that curl... 😂

[Risso]

My mate had Sensible Soccer on his Megadrive at uni, and they subtley changed the names of the players. Paul Ince became P.Once, which was nice.

I had mine on Amiga. I was a demon with that curl... 😂

Yep same here. Huge lob with curl, straight from kick off, rarely failed. I'm convinced that game took two grades off our degrees for everybody in our student house.

[pablo_picasso]

My mate had Sensible Soccer on his Megadrive at uni, and they subtley changed the names of the players. Paul Ince became P.Once, which was nice.

I had mine on Amiga. I was a demon with that curl... 😂

Yep same here. Huge lob with curl, straight from kick off, rarely failed. I'm convinced that game took two grades off our degrees for everybody in our student house.

GCSE's for me, lol.

My favourite couple of moves were just outside the centre circle on the right hand side of the pitch, lob, curl to the right & top bins.

Or, out on the wing, a curling cross away from the keeper & you could either diving header or slide tackle it into the bottom corner of the goal...

[paul_e]

My mate had Sensible Soccer on his Megadrive at uni, and they subtley changed the names of the players. Paul Ince became P.Once, which was nice.

I had mine on Amiga. I was a demon with that curl... 😂

Yep same here. Huge lob with curl, straight from kick off, rarely failed. I'm convinced that game took two grades off our degrees for everybody in our student house.

GCSE's for me, lol.

My favourite couple of moves were just outside the centre circle on the right hand side of the pitch, lob, curl to the right & top bins.

Or, out on the wing, a curling cross away from the keeper & you could either diving header or slide tackle it into the bottom corner of the goal...

The big lob was good but the other trick was to play a diamond midfield and have the quickest player in the team at the tip of the diamond, the AI had no idea how to handle him and he'd score a hatful. On Sensible World of Soccer I turned that into a goldmine, generate youth players until you got one that worked, use him for a while and then sell him for big money as soon as you had the next one ready. After a few years you were basically a full on Man City.

[pablo_picasso]

My mate had Sensible Soccer on his Megadrive at uni, and they subtley changed the names of the players. Paul Ince became P.Once, which was nice.

I had mine on Amiga. I was a demon with that curl... 😂

Yep same here. Huge lob with curl, straight from kick off, rarely failed. I'm convinced that game took two grades off our degrees for everybody in our student house.

GCSE's for me, lol.

My favourite couple of moves were just outside the centre circle on the right hand side of the pitch, lob, curl to the right & top bins.

Or, out on the wing, a curling cross away from the keeper & you could either diving header or slide tackle it into the bottom corner of the goal...

The big lob was good but the other trick was to play a diamond midfield and have the quickest player in the team at the tip of the diamond, the AI had no idea how to handle him and he'd score a hatful. On Sensible World of Soccer I turned that into a goldmine, generate youth players until you got one that worked, use him for a while and then sell him for big money as soon as you had the next one ready. After a few years you were basically a full on Man City.

I never got the hang of the youth players in sensible.

They were always really shit in my career modes.

I was clearly doing something wrong, lol.

I always tended to pick up players with S & C in their ability labels all across the pitch.

I loved that game...

[paul_e]

I never got the hang of the youth players in sensible.

They were always really shit in my career modes.

I was clearly doing something wrong, lol.

I always tended to pick up players with S & C in their ability labels all across the pitch.

I loved that game...

The player development was based on successful touches so to turn a youth player into a first teamer you just had to take a few games where you scored a goal or 2 early on and then spend the rest of the match passing the ball to and from the kid. As the player stats were based on their value they'd quickly become as good as your first teamers if you got it right.

[Toronto Villa]

[chrisw1]

If Newcastle are elite, we will be.

Not necessarily. They negotiated their deal last summer, when they were top 4 and in the CL. We've negotiated ours from Conference League and nothing else guaranteed. They also sell twice as many jerseys as us.

Part of the problem with an Adidas deal is that it can be benchmarked directly with Newcastle.  Would Heck and our commercial team want to put their names to a deal significantly worse than that secured by Newcastle when we're currently sitting second in the league and one of our owners is a shareholder? 

I think tacitly acknowledging that we are miles behind Newcastle in the hierarchy would be nuts and you'd think if we couldn't get close to parity with them we would have gone elsewhere?

[AV84]

I would think what Newcastle are getting is irrelevant to our negotiating. Obviously I've never had to negotiate something like this, but what would seem important is getting something better than what we have. There's usually clauses with these deals anyway, so it's entirely possible we've got a 12mil a year deal that raises to 20mil if we qualify for CL, and then based off the first full season of sales, it goes up another bit if we shift a certain amount. Likewise Newcastle's deal could be lowered if they don't make CL this season.

Also, not to put on my tinfoil hat, but Adidas have just announced some big sponsorship deal with the Saudi Pro League, so who knows what kind of agreement Newcastle's owners actually negotiated there.

[pablo_picasso]

I never got the hang of the youth players in sensible.

They were always really shit in my career modes.

I was clearly doing something wrong, lol.

I always tended to pick up players with S & C in their ability labels all across the pitch.

I loved that game...

The player development was based on successful touches so to turn a youth player into a first teamer you just had to take a few games where you scored a goal or 2 early on and then spend the rest of the match passing the ball to and from the kid. As the player stats were based on their value they'd quickly become as good as your first teamers if you got it right.

I played that game to death, every year it was out, including magazine cover discs that replaced the football with bananas or bombs & I never knew that, lol...

[VinnieChase84]

The deal will be structured based on Europe competition and different trigger values

[nigel]

Like both of those, but, as someone else mentioned, collar and cuffs need to match