(Yesterday, 8:00 am)L469 YVK wrote Should they not have ended up in Northumbria in the first place given Northumbria is way more profitable than Durham & Tees?
Sorry, but who told you that? Seriously, for years, Durham County was the most profitable side of the division - indeed there was years about a decade ago where due to various long-standing payments on sites etc, Northumbria was actually a loss-making division. Northumbria have only had a significant amount of investment in recent years due to the CAZ in Newcastle.