Greg

Got to save that.

Use the match thread now please: http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,99950.0.html

Should my match choice chocolate be Toblerone or Chocolate Orange?

NUFC: Darlow; Yedlin, Lejeune, Clark ©, Manquillo; Hayden, Merino, Ritchie, Murphy; Gayle, Joselu. Subs: Elliot, Lascelles, Shelvey, Diame, Atsu, Perez, Mitrovic. LCFC: Schmeichel, Simpson, Maguire, Morgan ©, Chilwell, Mahrez, Iborra, Ndidi, Albrighton, Gray, Vardy. Subs: Hamer, Fuchs, Dragovic, King, Ulloa, King, Iheanacho Referee: Neil Swarbrick (Lancashire) Attendance: 52,117 Final score: 2-3 5' Joselu 20' Mahrez 60' Gray 73' Gayle 87' Perez (og) Booked: Gray Hayden Lejeune Sent off: Television coverage: BT Sport Radio coverage: BBC Radio Newcastle. Online radio coverage in the UK: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/bbc_radio_five_live/. Online radio coverage outside the UK: https://www.nufc.co.uk/liveaudio.html PLEASE DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES DISCUSS, REQUEST OR PROVIDE LINKS TO ILLEGAL MATCH STREAMS. IF YOU DO, YOU WILL BE BANNED. See www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php?topic=19161.0 for more information.

It's on BT so plenty of pubs will have it on. There's a Slug and Lettuce about 30 seconds walk from the London Eye, not a great pub but will probably have it on.

Gameweek 16 West Ham 0-2 Chelsea Burnley 1-1 Watford Crystal Palace 1-0 Bournemouth Huddersfield 2-2 Brighton Swansea 1-1 West Brom Spurs 2-0 Stoke Newcastle 2-1 Leicester Southampton 0-2 Arsenal Liverpool 3-1 Everton Man Utd 0-1 Man City Gameweek 17 Burnley 2-1 Stoke Crystal Palace 1-2 Watford Huddersfield 0-2 Chelsea Newcastle 2-0 Everton Southampton 1-1 Leicester Swansea 0-1 Man City Liverpool 4-0 West Brom Man Utd 3-1 Bournemouth Spurs 2-1 Brighton West Ham 1-2 Arsenal

Just checked. £105 for the season: http://www.ignitionsportsmedia.com/product/newcastle-united-annual-subscription-20172018/ And per game for £3: http://www.ignitionsportsmedia.com/product-category/football/premier-league/newcastle-united/

You used to be able to get a subscription and have them delivered for the season but not sure if you can do that anymore.

Nope. Offside can only be called against the attacking team, so it would be a (Indirect) Free Kick coming out for the defense. Cannot be a Penalty. All penal fouls that would be awarded a Direct Free Kick, if they occur within the Penalty Area, would be a Penalty kick. However, a technical foul that's not a penal foul, such as obstruction or playing the ball in a dangerous manner (high feet without contact on opponent preventing a fair challenfe) that would be awarded an Indirect Free Kick, would still be an indirect Free kick from the spot of the foul even within the penalty area (as long as its not within the goal area) Whoosh!

This is wrong. He bought and built really well with us, and also at Napoli where the team he built is the one doing so well now. I thought he bought well for you for last season. Maybe not so much for this, but he wasn't given loads and he found you a bargain in Merino. Yes, he buys a few players at lower prices who don't work out, but then that applies to all who rummage at the bottom end of the market. The problem is when you only have a few quid, nearly every buy has to work out. No it's not. His record with us is rank average really: Good Merino (though still very early days) Clark (Did a great job in the Champo but jury very much out on PL ability) Ritchie (Same as Clark, outside the Brom game he's been downright awful during this run) Gayle (as Clark again) Yedlin D. Murphy (short term, low risk that worked but hardly the single reason for us getting back up) Atsu (could still go either way, but cheap and done OK job) Bad Sels Lazaar Diame Gamez Manquillo LeJuene J Murphy(still early days and may turn out great but not the player we needed to blow half our budget on) Joselu (we overpaid at 5 million !!) The biggest issue we've had this summer with his dealings is he's wasted the bulk of our budget on trying to enhance areas of the team that weren't the most pressing need, instead of wasting 20 million or so on Murphy and LeJeuene he should have spent that money on a number 10, a striker or whatever. I also still think the GK situation was poorly handled, I still refuse to believe Krul wasn't our best option at the start of the season. Yet he makes easily our worst keeper our number one. His original solution to the GK situation was atrocious and is out on loan back in Belgium. Like I said he does uncover the odd gem, but there is a lot of crap too to wade through, that's why I said he needs a buffer, 20 million in today's market is nowhere near enough as he would have to guarantee to hit on the one or two players you could get for that and his record is 50% hit at best with most of those hits still having huge question marks against them. So much nonsense in here. Sels - agreed. Lazaar - agreed. Diame - did a job to get us out of the Championship, now a back up. You need more than 11 players. His legs have gone but not a failure signing. Gamez - back up, Rafa's lieutenant, cost very little. Not a total failure. Manquillo - is back up, not a great player, but is back up, in many years we've not had backup at all and been totally fucked. Does a job. Need more than 11 players. LeJuene - too early to call. J Murphy- too early to call, has looked promising in last few games. Joselu - does a job for Rafa, can't finish to save his life. Not yet a total failure. It's not Football Manager either, and working for Mike Ashley with Justin Barnes putting blockers in the way, he was pretty much working with his hands tired behind his back and with a blindfold on, so you can't just say should have spent this money on that, when he's working in the uncertainty and madness of Ashley's NUFC. Tim Krul can't get in the Brighton team, so it's not just Rafa that sees it, and bear in mind he was pretty crap before his injuries and on a very high salary. Clearly Rafa wanted Pepe Reina or Willy Caballero and from what's been said it seems like deal for both were pretty much in place but Charnley and Barnes wouldn't sanction and in the case of Reina became too late in window and in case of Caballero he took the offer he had on the table. He's got some wrong, but he's working with fucking nothing man.

Had a decent go in the League Cup last season, but much easier to do early in the season before players get tired etc. Didn't we rest players for a league cup game and get turned over by Blackburn?

Not sure throwing a very young keeper in when we're shipping loads of goals due to a leaky defence is the best idea. Could be worth a try I guess Worked for Pickford. Pickford was a year older but I am inclined to agree. Either that or we need to get him out on loan second half of the season in the Championship. That may be difficult as most clubs will have a settled number 1 - plenty of teams wanted him in the summer but Rafa blocked a loan move saying he wanted him to work with the first team squad and reassess loan options in January but to do this we would probably need to bring in another back up keeper.

Eh? There's clearly someone in every seat in the photo other than those in McClaren's row.

Please don’t take anything I say on here too seriously!

Greg will tell you off for spelling his name incorrectly mind. He’s not a fan boy so gets a pass.

He's conceded 3 goals in 2 games from crosses into his 6 yard box though. Of which only one he was at fault for - West Brom’s first where his positioning was awful.

Because Elliot spent a lot of last season injured perhaps? They are both poor "technically" as you put it so I don't know how you can say one is much better than the other in that respect. In fact both of them have very few strengths to their game and several weaknesses. He was fit from January (made his comeback in December) and couldn't displace Darlow. Darlow really is far, far better than Elliot. Darlow is comfortably a decent Championship standard 'keeper. You'll find better 'keepers than Elliot at most clubs in League 1, which ironically is where we got him from, funny that. He isn't far better at all, hence the reason that when both have been fit and available for selection they've made a similar amount of appearances for us under Rafa. If he was "far, far better" as you wrongly put it, Elliot wouldn't have had a look in. Both mediocre with very few strengths and many weaknesses. Well they haven't. Darlow has made considerably more. Elliot got into the side last season because Darlow's mental side of the game had gone. If you asked Elliot himself he would tell you that Darlow is far better than he is. 24 v 16 is hardly considerably more for a goalkeeper who is "far, far better" than his rival. Darlow couldn't even make the bench for most of this season. Well yes, it's nearly double. The only time Darlow hasn't made the bench this season is when he's been injured (obviously discounting the games he's started) - 3 games when Woodman was on the bench due to Darlow being injury.

Because Elliot spent a lot of last season injured perhaps? They are both poor "technically" as you put it so I don't know how you can say one is much better than the other in that respect. In fact both of them have very few strengths to their game and several weaknesses. He was fit from January (made his comeback in December) and couldn't displace Darlow. Darlow really is far, far better than Elliot. Darlow is comfortably a decent Championship standard 'keeper. You'll find better 'keepers than Elliot at most clubs in League 1, which ironically is where we got him from, funny that. He isn't far better at all, hence the reason that when both have been fit and available for selection they've made a similar amount of appearances for us under Rafa. If he was "far, far better" as you wrongly put it, Elliot wouldn't have had a look in. Both mediocre with very few strengths and many weaknesses. Well they haven't. Darlow has made considerably more. Elliot got into the side last season because Darlow's mental side of the game had gone. If you asked Elliot himself he would tell you that Darlow is far better than he is.

Because Elliot spent a lot of last season injured perhaps? They are both poor "technically" as you put it so I don't know how you can say one is much better than the other in that respect. In fact both of them have very few strengths to their game and several weaknesses. He was fit from January (made his comeback in December) and couldn't displace Darlow. Darlow really is far, far better than Elliot. Darlow is comfortably a decent Championship standard 'keeper. You'll find better 'keepers than Elliot at most clubs in League 1, which ironically is where we got him from, funny that.

Also didn't Darlow get put in by Rafa when he first came here? I think Rafa expected us to get a better Keeper and was trying to sell Darlow as he was the most desirable of the two to potential buyers. When Ashley f***ed him, he was in a strange situation as presumably he'd told Darlow he could leave and Elliott that he was staying No that was due a bad injury. Darlow? We did try and sell him tho iirc No to Elliot which is why Rafa played Darlow from his 3rd game here.

Also didn't Darlow get put in by Rafa when he first came here? I think Rafa expected us to get a better Keeper and was trying to sell Darlow as he was the most desirable of the two to potential buyers. When Ashley f***ed him, he was in a strange situation as presumably he'd told Darlow he could leave and Elliott that he was staying No that was due a bad injury.

He's a much better 'keeper than Elliot technically but is mentally fragile and sometimes struggles to concentrate. Your argument is weak. If he wasn't better than Elliot why did Darlow have 34 appearances to Elliot's 3 last season? Given you are Elliot's number one fan on here you might want to start spelling his name correctly.