Benwell Lad

Expect a, failed Tory, Reform MP as one of the pundits then.....

Sundlund till the bus comes.

Centre forwards (as was) were always told and coached to play on the shoulder of the last defender. Not sure how that works out anymore but it is how football was intended to be.

Over the recent bumpy patch the re-emergence of Willock and Ramsey as serious midfield options has been a huge positive for us.

In principle VAR has to be a good thing, correcting wrong decisions which could theoretically change victory to defeat and vice versa and ultimately cost tens of millions at the highest end of football. Changing the offside rule to make it clear (daylight please) would take a lot of the time consuming, opaque decision making out of the process and hopefully get them back to clear and obvious errors. Would also eliminate a lot of the perceived bias towards towards the darlings of the PL.

Sometimes think that when opposition teams have injury crises that some people think they've had to go in the pub opposite the ground and drag a few Sunday league players in to play Injuries impact all teams but they have 25 very highly paid top level professionals to call on. Spurs are on a woeful run and missing key players but they've never actually looked that bad when I've seen them, albeit by no means all their games.

So let's get this right, less than 1 in 10 of a decent sized, fairly representative group of supporters on here want him to go now but it's still being seized on by the media and others as the biggest story around the club right now ? I guess it's like when a couple of hundred people out of a 50,000 crowd boo the team off but the narrative becomes "they were booed off the pitch" ?

Must be me I guess in that case. Just say it man As it happens my post was tongue in cheek based on some things our CEO has been saying and not really criticism as such. Tottenham are just the best example given what's happened since increasing your capacity to get tens of thousands more prawn sandwich eaters into the ground. I can however understand your touchiness given the state you're in

Is he the new Bruno ? I.E. we don't win when he doesn't play

On that part, sadly, there is no longer any choice At least three of London's seven PL clubs (assuming we can class Croydon as London) still remain in their spiritual homes. Well done to them. For now.

Where to start. We've become the opposite of what Sunderland are and what we were under Benitez and Bruce. I.E a team of limited players and resources who didn't go out to win games but made a very good fist of trying not to lose games and be difficult to beat. Now we have much better players, go out to win games but are often easy to beat. We're evolving and somehow we have to see that as a positive. It wasn't a shockingly bad performance, though it was very concerning. We could easily have won it and probably should have. I feel really sorry for the management team, they're crying out for time to breathe, regroup and work properly with the players but they just aren't going to get it. One team playing five games in five weeks and one team playing nine in five weeks was so evident on Saturday.

I've been told that if we leave our spiritual home, sell our soul to the money gods of football and price the working classes out of the stadium, that one day we can aspire to be another Tottenham.

Interesting. I'd heard it's a crossbar challenge and less than 3 out of 5 he gets fired.

Most iconic overcoat in our history ? Impossible to think of Tino and not think of that coat, amongst other things. Wonder if he's still got it ?

See it's the corrupt, incompetent younger Madley again today. After the bias he showed against Chelsea, Liverpool and other games should never be allowed near a Newcastle fixture.

It can happen, even against a side as good as City. BUT for it to happen the stars really need to align for us. Top performance for the full 90, shots go in off the post instead of out, we get the VAR calls instead of the other way round, we connect with the good crosses etc etc etc. One good thing is think their fans will be flat as a fart and ours will get right up for it given the slightest encouragement.

Things change very quickly for managers on Wearside. A lot of them wanted rid of him before, during and after their surprise play off success. Unsurprisingly that's no longer the case, with a lot of positive feeling around the place, but he's only ever going to be a few bad results away from the pitch forks being back out for him. It is difficult to pin point exactly what he has done for them, as their intended style of play is so difficult to grasp. But as the earlier post said they do work hard at it, whatever it is. Is it sustainable? Probably not.

That confounds a lot of the popular whinging. Mind every team's supporters whinge about set piece success. It's almost there was a goal for every two corners awarded back in some mythical bygone era The rule makers are really going to have to come up with something though, there's more grappling at set pieces in Premier League football right now than there is in a rugby scrum.

Zed's dead. Xhaka's knackered.

I'm old enough to remember when this would have been a big game.

Keegan mania the Chronicle called it, and it really was

Me too. Got a non refundable room in the Hotel de Paris and a Heli Air ticket from Nice airport going cheap if anybody wants them

I remember his first game, albeit a home cup defeat to Cambridge but his quality just stood out like a beacon and I thought that we just hadn't signed players like that in a long time. From La Liga champions to rock bottom Newcastle as well. What him, the new management team and Bruno did to keep us up that season was phenomenal and still arguably our biggest achievement to date in the new era.

There's very few I'd swap him for and, even if that was a possibility, what they'd cost would be an inappropriate use of our PSR budget.

Should know better but feeling better about this than I have done in decades thinking this could be our time. Then reality kicks in, it's Liverpool, there's VAR, there's added on minutes and I get deflated again. Wouldn't be averse to lining up in the same way as we did last night.