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Pope saves Tchouameni’s goal against France. For all Pickford plays well for England his hamstring and glutes can’t always make up for his tiny arms

16. Plus 1 for the goal difference improvement

Soon

I want to sign players who’ve been class elsewhere, and the only question is will they be class here? (Bruno, Botman, Isak). Gordon has been anti-class in his minuscule career. it’s great Howe can work wonders to improve players, but going forward we should give him better players to take a fair fight to the Big Six.

There are plenty of photos of him walking about wearing Granny’s blouses and trousers! Some of the pics are earlier in this thread

I mean, can we really stomach placing the beautiful emergence story of Bruno, his dad’s taxi, thinking he wasn’t good as football as a child, leaving home at 15 in Brazil as an only child, struggling to make friends in a new city, then moving to FRANCE, establishing himself as champions league Quality, persuading him to come to Newcastle’s project adding to him Sven Botman, a wonderful player who left Ajax to forge his own character as the world’s most cool and destructive defender, signing Isak, Sweden’s great young hope, so Bruno’s thinking this project is worth the hard years of sacrifice as like quality is being added to the squad, only then to follow up that project with Anthony F&*¥ing Gordon! It’s abysmal!

He’s bang average. A little gas on the dribble in open space but that’s about it. And he seems like he’d be a horrible git in a worse than Bellamy/Barton way. He’s like a git without loyalty. He’d be a git to the club, teammates, Howe, everyone. He wouldn’t be our git, he’d be a git in our midst! Frig that!!

What is? What am I missing?

I would kill to have a keeper in goal where a shot on target results in a save. Wouldn’t that mean we’d never concede?!

I absolutely love this!

All these people saying he won’t be here when we’re top 4 are so forgetful. Serial title-winning Manure had no-skill grafters like John O’Shea, Wes Brown and Phil Neville regularly contributing amongst the stardust players. As far as I can see there’s still room in football for dedicated grafters with narrow focus, like Fred at Manure now. Longstaff’s here for the next 5 years at least in my book

I hate it when people refer to themselves on the third person; especially journalists!!

Dressing room scene on Sky’s website. 4 minutes of utter pleasure. Enjoy! https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/12784008/burn-leads-toon-celebrations-incredible-scenes-in-newcastle-dressing-room

After losing to Cambridge United and missing 25 chances we decided the answer was Chris Wood. But he doesn’t take any chances. So we’re still asking the same question: who will score routine goals for us? Not this lump for sure

Wow the mood in this place?! “Eeeeeverybody huuuurts, sometimes!! Sometimes!!” But suck it up, we go again, take points off Arsenal and move on with our business.

All the life and productivity coaches say you should plan your week by putting in the big rocks first. The match cam and Eddie’s pressers are definitely the first of my 2 big rocks. Wife kids and work fit in round them.

Eddie said he signed Bruno as a 6+. #Eddie_Knows

If that’s the point being made that all players can be replaced then fair enough. But the post I was responding to seemed to be making a different point, as it said all players are replaceable “but ASM deserves a proper go at Eddie Howe NUFC 2.0 before we think about replacing him.” So it made the comment seem much more like he was saying all players can be gotten rid of, which to me was a stinking take fair play if I read it wrong

That’s why Eddie adjusts the team. We don’t press the same with Maxi as we do with Big Jow out on the left. It’s different tactics which can be successful. You don’t need a unified press against all teams as not all teams try to play out from the back intricately. Many just play into full back to play channel ball, which is another successful tactic of ours as with our 3x centre backs we’re likely to win the ball back albeit with possession in our half not the final third, but the modest press has still been successful in turning possession over

Kieron Dyer said recently on the True Geordie podcast that the problem with the England team and English media is that we focus too much on what players can’t do, instead of focusing on what they can do. He said this in the context of playing Trent against lesser teams like Wales and USA in the World Cup. But I think his point applies to us. Saint-Maximin can do an awful lot that other players can’t. Let’s just let Eddie figure out how to bring his strengths to the fore whilst masking his weaknesses in the team, and let’s just celebrate what he can do for us.

This take left a trail of snail slime across my phone. Yuck!

Sorry I missed this at the time. I love that video!!

Madders has already downed tools to force the move. My man!

You’re 100% correct. This was a classic deployment of the ultimate card in Top Trumps.

“My neck, my back, my p*ssy Amrabat!” - that’s his song sorted!