I'm hoping to narrow down discussion time on Monday so thought I'd raise this stuff now. Any questions let me know, please please read!!! 🙂

Saturday - Westerhope need to decide what they're wearing during the day. We've had years where people wear kit, years where people wear ravens branded stuff but not kit and then change. Piccadilly obviously have to wear kit! We haven't had the info yet but, if there is time, we may well be able to swing past the hotel to grab kit if that was helpful.

** we need videos and photos from the day, otherwise we sometimes have very little to show for the day depending on what they have at each venue, I've not heard anything about filming. If you have a phone, or even camera and would like to do this that'd be great, the more people who do it the better!

**please support the dancers during the day. Ravens has always been amazing at this, looking out at excited ravens watching the team dance and responding can really lift your mood and make you smile (I have a very fond memory of looking out and seeing Emma stood on a chair clapping last year to make sure we could see her!). On the other hand, don't go too wild, it's not intended as a rent-a-crowd.

**Drinking rules: as always I'm going to implement my have one drink before we start to calm nerves. Laura obviously you do whatever you feel necessary at this point! I will probably also suggest another drink in the afternoon, but I want to avoid drinking too much until we're done! Westerhopers obviously you can drink a bit during the day but please be sensible, it'd be awful to have worked so hard only to go wrong due to a drink too many during the day. During the evening we can go wild! Again, hoping a schedule appears soon so that we can judge when we will be dancing both the trad and the showcase.

**Lunch: the area doesn't have anywhere we can go specifically, although the venues generally do food and snacks. Depending where we are at lunch (near the Cumberland) we're near Byker where there is a big morrisons, greggs and more. If we're not there I might suggest picking something up on route to make sure there is something we want and that we can get it in time.

**Post-lunch and pre-trad dancing. Newcastle has many pubs that are happy to have rapper but it's a match day so we might really struggle, especially at lunch time. Again it all depends on location and timings as what will be available, but we'll try!