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I think this season we have on to many occassions hold the ball for to long. Its like we need to wait till a player presses before we can pass the ball. Hope for more one/two touches play.

We should put gps trackers on our players, maybe they can find each other with a pass then

A couple of things I have seen this season is that we often uses to many touches on the ball(which slow down the tempo). When we miss pass or miss a tackle we dont work to get it back, but the player just stands ball watching and hoping someone else picking it up..

I didnt read the comment as negative as you did. It all depends what you put in the words "good" and "great" managers. I read it like Howe is a good manager who just had a great season with us on all aspects, he is in the making of a great manager but not there yet. ie he is a good manager. If he continues the progress and win things with us or the next club he manage he might be considered a great manager. In my opinion there are 4 categories: Shit/terrible, average, good, and great managers. We had a bad game against Man City, we normally are able to upset teams but this game we just couldnt get it to work, and a really bad result against Liverpool. People will react especially with our history against Liverpool, and the way Klopp has been talking about us. I do hope Howe have learned something and that we bounce back the next game. Also I do hope that Howe becomes a great manager and take home some trophies!

Yes in season I expect them not to go out and "enjoy" themself. They are getting a hefty amount of money that should be enough compansation that they are professionals on and of the field. They would still be able to go out and have fun with friends and family, its just that they cant stay out drinking and partying all night. Off season holiday they will be able to partying. Premier league players are playing in the best league in the world, the edge/margins in the league get smaller and smaller so imo players and clubs should do what they can to get the edge/margins to get even better. What alcohol and litle sleep do to the body is not getting us edge/margins it is actually putting us back. If Newcastle United by Eddie Howe are allowing our players to go out partying in season I must admit it is dissapointing especially with all we know about what alcohol and not enough rest do with the body.

The moon is not a planet...

only one with a shot on goal

Agree. Also think we are playing to safe, and not trying to play direct. Dont think Bruno and Big Joe is up to speed yet after the summer break. Bruno has been better but I think he was much better this time last year, and we are also missing those smart passes from him.

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I love the way Howe have us playing. One of the negative thing I find is that our central backs(especially when we have the ball) are to far away from each other and I think teams will notice this and exploit this like we saw Aston Villa did. Whenever Villa won the ball they tried to instantly thred the ball directly threw our central defenders. Neither Botman nor Schar imo have the gratest accelration which make them struggle in these type of situations. I do hope we figure this out without disrupting the way we play.

Lets hope they can loan players to us for cheap

You are robbing Sir Bobby Robson and Keegan of their acheivments, and imo underminding what they did at the club. I agree that Howe`s first 18months have been fantastic, but he still have some way to go before he reached those two legends. Keegan was appointed to a team that was struggling in the second tier, and steadied the ship, brought us back to the premier league, and made us title contenders. The entertainers Sir Bobby Robson also took over a complete hoples Newcastle at the time, we had 1 point from the first 6 games. Kenny Dalglish and Gullit had ripped appart our team and team Spirit. Sir Bobby managed to get us up to 11th with those players, and later he made us a top 4 team in the league for some seasons. Give Howe some time before we crown him the best manager ever, remember even Pardew looked the real deal for a season.

I disagree with that. Yes Gordon was more involved in the first have, but he made bad decisions and he slows down our build up.It looks like he cant play it on first touch as he always use 2-3 touches before he pass the ball, and this also slows us down and makes us loose momentum in the counter attack. Murphy did not have a good game, but he is much more direct which suits us more, also he is more of a teamplayer than Gordon is.

Do you think he will support Targett more defensivly than Burn? Because he needs to start help out soon…

Doesnt look like he is interessted in defending, and bang average going forward.. Dont know why we spent the odd 40 million on him. That said, I hope I will be eating my words..

I dont like that we dont have a plan b. Trippiers free kicks have been bad for months now, and he keeps taking them. In the first half of the season we had variation on them, now it looks like we’re just flosting them in. we need to get that creative spark back, atm I cant see that happening..

Im not defending him or anything, but you dont know what you listened to... We dont know if they had some kind of kinky fetish like playrape. I remember beeing younger I watched a movie about a guy who went to jail because a woman tricked him by saying he raped here by recording a playrape(dont remember the name of the movie). Again im not defending him, but when there is money and fame in the picture you never know is all I´m saying. Either way this is a fucked up case.

WTF has happened to his shooting? He used to have quite a foot on him, remember a few good goals from long range. He has been excellent getting in position lately, so I just hope he gets his finishing sorted out.

Willock is looking knackered..

looks like Amanda Staveley is squeezing the tit of the woman in white top

I can understand why Howe went for Burn today. I do think he looked a littlebit shaky, and not his normal self leading the back line. Solanke and Tavernier where just to good for him. Also his positioning on their goal was awfull and cost us a goal.

Its Lee Mason in the VAR box...

Yes, I know he probably gets a few outings in Europa League, but he will know that if they reach the finals De Gea will play. Its still just the Europa League and not Champions League, If he went to one of the Champions League teams I would more understand it. I hope we do what they did with Lindgard, just drag it out to the final hour and say sorry we cant find a replacement for him so his not for sale.

I understand that Dubravka wants to move to get 1st team football. The most dissapointing thing is that he will be happy to sit on the bench in Manchester than at our club.