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This one is less interesting, just absurd.

Next video is a selection of news reports from when Les Ferdinand signed in 1995. Tyne Tees, BBC local and some BBC national stuff about the price of football. Oh and it includes a certain "teaser" shirt in the back of a car as discussed many months ago with @midds and @Jonas

Interesting that City have been talking to him. Maybe Pep will leave soon afterall

So the board want a manager who will manage the youngest squad in the league, improve them, rotate the squad and keep winning? Such a weird club. Hope they rot, and I don’t even like Mini P

Not sure how much anybody will care about this sort of thing but perhaps this is the thread for it! My Grandad used to record more or less everything NUFC (and other NE sporting events) to VHS. I am working through digitising them, it’s all 1994-99 era. A lot of it is Match of the Day highlights which are widely available anyway (plus PL copyright etc) but there’s some random stuff too. This is North East footballer of the year from 94/95 season, broadcast on Tyne Tees.

Just relieved to win. Of course we could have done lots of things better but at least we made quite a few chances. Aside from the goals we had the Wissa header from about 3 yards out that he somehow missed, the Barnes one on one, Thiaw off the line, the Murphy open goal (would have been offside on VAR but whatever). It's easy sometimes to sit and say if they'd taken their chances we would have lost but let's not make out like we didn't have a kick and we smash and grabbed a win.

Pope, Miley, Hall, Thiaw, Schar, Joelinton, Tonali, Bruno, Barnes, Gordon, Wissa Source: Bland

The problem is there's a tangible way of calculating what he doesn't save (e.g. goals conceded) but there's not really a way of demonstrating how much better our general play is without Pope blazing it into the stands every few minutes.

That break man. Just roll it square you knacker.

I meant Thiaw, Monday brain.

Don’t think he was being entirely serious

I feel like Jimenez always plays like prime Santiago Nunez against us. I guess Joelinton, Ramsey, Tino, Hall, Schar, Botman plus 5. Wissa doesn’t look near sharp enough to start whilst big Nick looks gassed. Maybe Gordon through the middle 😞?

Have a horrible feeling someone like Ballard will score from a set piece. He had a mare in the FA Cup game and will probably want to put it right. Hopefully we turn up today like we did at Everton

Lots of long throws and balls into the box with Ramsdale lost in a sea of giants. I can’t say I am looking forward to it even if we, in theory, have the better players

It’s ridiculous they have done it at all really but they are a welcome gift

Agree with you, we started poorly and could barely string 2 passes together. Elanga was particularly poor but even Tino was quite sloppy. We got better as it went on which I suppose makes sense when you think there were a lot of new relationships being built on the fly. The Bruno goal was obviously great and settled everyone down a bit. Gordon’s pass for the red card was lovely and the penalty basically ended it as a contest. Every time they attacked they got a corner, if you looked at the stats you’d think we had been under immense pressure but it was just one of those games where every interception/tackle went behind. I feel like everyone knew it was the third priority of this week, we played a team just about capable of winning it and we got through unscathed for the next one. A lot of work to be done but when you play every few days with minimal training time I don’t know what else to expect. As the Discman said, nobody was abject, Gordon was very good, I will not remember this match in a month

He got the knock quite early and played on for probably over 30 minutes, so hopefully nothing that keeps him out too long

Onana managed to negotiate missing Cameroon’s first match somehow, no doubt one rule for one again

Feel like Willock has been in the picture more since he went off to Dubai in the previous International break with Trippier and others to do fitness work (judging from Trippier's instagram).

The fullbacks are so vital for us, I would go with whatever lineup means Tino and Hall are capable of starting Saturday. Greenwood, the horrible prick, has been in top form recently and I wouldn’t be against Burn playing up against him

He's more than earned the right to lose a few away games and not get compared to Sam Allardyce (for fuck sake). It's great having a manager who gets it, doesn't make excuses and mostly says the right things. Our entire game plan has had to change, not just because of Isak but because the player best suited to replace him without having to change everything has yet to kick a ball for us. I don't think it's rocket science, teams have started to swamp big Nick and the fullbacks haven't been available to carry the ball up the field. Teams leave Burn as the out ball and he shovels it up the line, not his fault but we are easy to stop playing at the minute. Everybody just looks a bit leggy too which isn't surprising given the workload. Could we rotate the midfield a bit? Imagine the backlash if we'd lost these last few away games and not played Bruno or Tonali, there's hell on and he's played the full strength team. I think some of the fanbase have become a bit lethargic. Too critical when we win (for not winning well and playing sparkling football for 90 minutes) and the roof caves in when we lose. I don't see anybody getting more out of this set of players, just got to stick with it and trust results on the road will turn around (hopefully the home form doesn't slip in the mean time!)

Can see this being 0-0. They attack in a way we are good at defending but I have little confidence in us scoring goals. Wouldn’t be that surprised to see a return of 3 centre backs.

Am I pissed or is 10 + 10 not 20?

They pressed us really well and basically had all 20 outfield players trying to play in about a 30 yard radius. They know Nick isn’t going to run in behind and blocked us playing in midfield so often the only pass was wide, meaning nobody was getting in behind. The one time someone made a break Joelinton was offside, looked close in the stadium but haven’t seen a replay so assume it wasn’t. It was just a very scrappy match, again they smothered Nick so our build up play suffered a lot. I do worry teams have worked that out as West Ham were the same. Gordon had a night to forget before he came off, fans are turning on him a bit too. Hope the injury is minor but enough to stop him playing for England, a rest and a few days on the training ground will do him well.

One of the most enjoyable nights at SJP and all I can think about is why do Benfica have a song based on the Banana Splits theme