Rich

The drama

What is that defending!?

What a game.

Mullin could play in the Premier.

I do fucking love Paul Mullin though.

I know I’m the pettiest man alive but him turning us down months ago to then sign for these rankles a bit. He seems like a massive whopper an’ all, so I am finding it fucking hilarious.

Deserved lead, I’d say. Good decision by Foster to tell his wall not to jump.

Snowflakes, innit?

For now, aye. I think he's been our best midfielder over the last month or so and has made that left-sided CM slot his own. We've seen this season how fluid things can be in the wide positions and up front, I'd expect to see much more of that from next season when we've got more options and more need to juggle playing time. We ideally want two players in every position where we're not cringing when one gets selected, and we're not a million miles away from that now.

Proper tickles me how much Ando loves Isak, mind, he's defo got a poster of him on his wall.

Four points from the next two, however they come, and we are laughing.

You could just ignore the bait, like. Anyway, this Isak's canny good isn't he? Could do with a song (that people can grasp).

Have to say, it's a proper novelty looking at a 25-man squad list plus a couple of youngsters and not thinking >50% of it is absolutely rotten. I couldn't make a case to shift any of the names listed above, bar perhaps Lascelles, and even then I'd be pushing it based on how important he appears to be off the pitch. Krafth is an unknown quantity after an injury of this severity, but I hope he makes as full a recovery as possible and goes on to play a big part here in the squad for another season or two yet. His performances last year have probably earned him that. Trippier needs his snus mule, an' all.

This is where I've got us as it currently stands, coming into the summer: Pope Dúbravka Karius -- Trippier Krafth Schär XXXXX (centre-back capable of playing right-back if needed) Lascelles Botman Burn XXXXX (pure left-back) Targett -- Joelinton S. Longstaff Guimarães XXXXX (defensive-minded central midfielder) Willock XXXXX (offensive-minded central midfielder/number ten) Anderson [U21] -- XXXXX (goalscoring winger, ideally capable of playing up front) Almirón Murphy Saint-Maximin Gordon -- Isak Wilson Kuol [U21] ---- If we qualify for the Europa League/Conference League instead of the Champions League, I'd keep Ashby here and give him all of our cup games. If we qualify for the Champions League, which I think we will, we probably need to get him out on loan somewhere that he can play week-in, week-out. Probably top-end Championship, bottom-end Premier League. This would also mean I wouldn't bother signing another centre-back, as Ashby takes a squad place, unless it was an U21 that didn't need to be registered next season. Kuol obviously needs a better loan, and I suppose more depth would give Anderson the chance to get out to somewhere decent if we qualify for the CL. ---- Have I missed anything?

Mad how anyone can watch that and deduce that it’s acceptable behaviour in the circumstances.

Cost them a goal now as well

I disagree, he was a busted flush. This Kristiansen is foul.

Think sacking Vieira might’ve been the right move, you know?

I don’t have the greatest memory, but was Andy Hinchcliffe the best player in the world at one time?

Who said this?

Bruno playing through pain after twisting his ankle again in the warm-up and Big Jo having played fewer than 90 minutes in that position in a 4-2-3-1 in his career, an’ all. Madness.

Wilson talked about it on his pod last month: “We only do late at the minute at Newcastle. We have a wheel and you spin it and on the wheel, there are just figures and that's what you have to pay. The maximum is three figures and it's kept quite low-key." Also mentioned that has changed massively from Bournemouth, where they still used the wheel but it had much more varied consequences and they were penalised over a lot more than just being late for stuff.

Aye.