My annual old man reminder: Please, please, for love of all that is good and holy, for better or worse, don’t read ANYTHING into pre-season results. A glorified training session is never, ever your most important game of the season.

The voice of the Lions, for me. And a top bloke, too…

I will repeat for the hard of hearing. Alexander Isak is not for sale this summer. Not to Liverpool. Not to Saudi Arabia. Not to anyone. No amount of fake news, fraudulent in the know chancers or selective quote using aggregator accounts will alter that stance from Newcastle

🏖️ Lovely bit of holiday reading from me old oppo gary sherrard . Great piece of work, mate 👏 🛒 amazon.co.uk/Wilderness-Yea…

Building nicely…

The last time the British & Irish Lions won a test in which they had scored NO first half points was at the SCG in 1966, 0-5 down at the break to win 11-8.

Brick by brick 🧱

🏝️ Awful news about the weather for the Lions game. It’s dropped down to 33c here in Egypt! 🥶 📻 Got Andrew McKenna keeping us up to speed 👌

Got zero time for this sort of caper. Surely as a sport we are now beyond this.

Genuinely, in the last five years I’ve gone from hearing from our director of rugby: “Why’s there a camera at training?” To… “Why are there no cameras at training?”

Get involved, guys! This is a season nobody will want to miss!

A superb first day of season ticket sales, I’m told. Thank you to everyone who’s on board! 👊

This could be one of the signings of the season. And hello to all our new Japanese supporters! 🙏🏽

👏👏👏 Quite right, too!

This is going to be fun! 🚀

Genuinely the first time since Jonny Wilkinson I’ve seen a Newcastle player mobbed outside the club shop on a non-match day. Big group of Japanese tourists diverted their holiday to get some photos and autographs with ‘Wor Naki.’ The big man was very obliging with his time 🙏🏽

Many thanks, Jonesy. And even a few hardy journos who stuck with us during some pretty lean years! 😉 Hopefully greener pastures to come, though clearly nothing being taken for granted up here…

Nice work Gary Gold 👏

🏉 Back page banner on a tabloid paper in the week the Premier League football starts. 📈 We’re getting there…

Lots of you asking when the new club logo and social media branding will be on display. It's being worked on as we speak, and within the next few weeks you should start to see it across all our channels. In the interim the 'old' branding remains on show, but we ARE on the case!