Rich

Aye. That was him rusty and he was absolutely fine. Marshalling people, orchestrating things, defending cleanly.

Early days but in-game management a bit suspect so far. Brave to go two up top after the red, so swings and roundabouts there, but subs have got to be better. If you’d offered me 1-1 after 10 minutes I’d have taken it, mind. Few Brucey bonus days off in order I reckon.

Absolute wank this lad.

Lewis in particular, he can’t defend the whole flank himself for the whole game though surely? Bit mad that we’ve gone 4-3-2 instead of 4-4-1 when ASM started wide left.

It was easier when I didn’t care. Fuuuuuck me.

Cannot believe he’s started again tonight, he’s a parody of his former very average self. Fernandez must be absolute dog in training.

Anyway, pick the team I put out and we'll not keep a clean sheet but we'll probably still win. I don't want to see Hayden anywhere near the XI, barely imposes himself on the game and is a poor footballer.

Most of it is ego IMO, if you can't be the 9 you want to be the 10.

HBA always said 10 was his best position as well, in this league it definitely wasn't.

Fuck the defence.

You've posted some shite in your time, like, but that might just take the biscuit.

Dubravka Manquillo Schar Fernandez Lewis Joelinton Shelvey Willock Saint-Max Almiron Wilson

Was going to ask if anyone knew how many he’d been responsible for, was thinking about 8 or 9.

Nowt wrong with that question like, just surprising that the club content bloke asks more pressing questions of the players than journalists do.

Reckon it'll be: Dubravka Manquillo Schar Lascelles Fernandez Ritchie Joelinton Shelvey Willock Saint-Maximin Wilson SUBS: Darlow, Clark, Murphy, Lewis, Hayden, Longstaff, Fraser, Almiron, Gayle. Head says narrow loss, heart says narrow win. Will bet on a goal-laden draw If I was picking it, I'd go: Dubravka Manquillo Schar Fernandez Lewis Joelinton Shelvey Willock Saint-Maximin Almiron Wilson The beauty of this is that you could have Almiron dropping in/rotating with ASM to better protect Lewis down the left at times, and Wilson doing the same with Joelinton (like they were against Brentford) to rotate being the first presser.

Am I blind or was there no Shelvey or Clark there?

Aye, no issues with the charitable donation element. It should've been 5-10x the size, though.

Nah, given the size of the captive audience and the depth of feeling against Ashley's ownership/general desperation amongst a decent chunk of the fanbase to do something to have an impact it's not a big amount. Hearts was the inspiration, apparently, and they were doing £1.5M a year at the beginning of the pandemic with an aim to get that to £2M. Hearts have raised £12.6M in total in 11 years and 1 month, it seems. At the rate the Trust was going at, we'd be looking at £3.6M in total in that timeframe (and it had already slowed significantly before the takeover). That's between 1/3 and 1/4 of what Hearts have managed. Awful measurement, but Hearts has 98.7K followers on Twitter, NUFC has 1.9M. Slightly more relevant, they average about 17,000 per home game, a third of what we do. The scope and scale of the two clubs is night and day, even pre-takeover. It just wasn't thought out, executed, or communicated well enough and the people involved clearly weren't deemed to be trustworthy enough by your average match-going fan (as well as the likes of me, eventually). I pledged for a good few months to feel like I was doing the something I mentioned above, but lost faith fairly quickly.

End of season. Bruce in until then.

Can we start keeping track of this stuff somewhere so we can rinse people when it doesn't happen the way they tell us it will?

£180,000 in how long? That's not impressive.

Eh? Absolute nonsense. If nowt else, I'm sure they're happy whenever the club they've invested £350M in scores a goal.

Away win. Loads of goals.

He says, posting anonymously to a Newcastle fan forum on a Monday morning.