Trai Hume cost #SAFC 'peanuts' and now, says Mike Dodds, is 'one of the best full-backs in the league'. Started every game this season, only missed 26 mins

🗣️ Dodds: 'He's a huge asset & one the club needs to do everything to keep for as long as possible'
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🔴 Isaiah Jones' three-year target after signing a new deal with #Boro - and thoughts on an 'up and down season'...

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🏉 RUGBY: Newcastle Falcons (Newcastle Falcons) sign flanker Cameron Neild from Sale Sharks as squad-building drive continues...

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Mike Dodds explains #SAFC 's different plans for Corry Evans and Dennis Cirkin in the last few weeks of the season - and provides Nazariy Rusyn update ⬇️
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📢 A few other things - apart from scrapping FA Cup replays - in today's announcement...

⚽️ All FA Cup rounds on weekends

⚽️ FA Cup final on penultimate weekend of season - with final round of PL matches on following weekend

⚽️ No mid-season PL break

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📢 What do #NUFC have to do to qualify for Europe?

⚫️ How things currently stand
⚪️ UEFA coefficient conundrum
⚫️ Why outcome of FA Cup could well be crucial
⚪️ Prospect of England getting 'extra' spots

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Don't like this, but can just about understand the fixture pressure from the third round onwards given constant expansion of European competitions. But first and second round too? Surely lower-league and non-league clubs would welcome any chance of more income?

🏏 ICYMI: #Durham are one of eight counties awarded tier-one status as part of a radical overhaul of professional women's cricket. Massive boost for women's sport in the NE. Yorkshire set to be elevated to top-tier status in 2027...

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Sunderland make their transfer stance known to Premier League clubs who are lining up summer bids for their stars | #SAFC ⬇️
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🚨 The latest We Are Sunderland briefing is available

🔺 Should #SAFC experiment with U21s talent?
🔺 Can they break into the first team?
🔺 How good is Chris Rigg
🔺 Contract decisions

🎙️ Joe Ramage / Dominic Shaw / Scott Wilson

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🔴 Isaiah Jones' new three-year deal is a massive part of #Boro 's squad building. He was due to enter final year of previous deal this summer, so removes any uncertainty over his future. The winger is clearly a huge part of Michael Carrick's plans...

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🔴 BREAKING: Isaiah Jones commits his future to #Boro by signing a new long-term deal...

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⚫️⚪️ Callum Wilson back in full training with #NUFC and in contention for the Palace game - as Amanda Staveley 'resignation' is explained...

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#Boro defender Tommy Smith opens up on the 'hardest part of his career' and provides an update on where he's at with his injury in wide-ranging chat with The Boro Breakdown Podcast ⬇️
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📹🔴⚪️ 𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝘼𝙍𝙀 𝙈𝙔 𝘽𝙊𝙍𝙊!

✍️ An increasingly inevitable #Boro summer transfer...
👏 Rav van den Berg delight and relief
⚽️ What to expect in the final weeks of the season
🟥 Academy hope after derby win for U21s

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🔴⚪️ From Dominic Shaw - #SAFC ’s plan for exciting youngster’s future - as ‘next Jack Clarke’ talk is ignored…

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🔴 Michael Carrick’s challenge to Isaiah Jones - and thoughts on the #Boro winger’s future…

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⚫️⚪️ #NUFC ready to kick off their summer recruitment drive with a move for Bournemouth’s Lloyd Kelly, who is set to become a free agent at the end of the season…

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🚨SEASON TICKET COMPETITION🚨

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🔴⚪️ Love this from Matty Hewitt over at We Are Sunderland - a long read on the development of and potential future for Chris Rigg. Some great insights from some of the key people who have shaped the #SAFC teenager's career so far...

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