LionOfGosforth

It's honestly not worth the rise in blood pressure every single week.

So this is going better than expected.

Dzeko scores to make it 1-1 after Roma have had about 3% possession

Lots of nice tributes in here. Glenn wasn't born a Geordie but "became" one. He represented our club with distinction and integrity as a player and manager and always maintained an air of dignity and professionalism, more so than some who are actually from the area. You could tell he was always very proud to be associated with NUFC. RIP Glenn.

We'd be better off with the Dave Clark 5. Another useless defeat incoming, 0-3 at best, more delays until he gets the inevitable bullet weeks too late.

This outcome is more predictable than the Sound of Music. 4m compensation for this pinhead FFS, as ridiculous today as it was 18 months ago. What an absolute waste of everyone's time, this cunt's tenure.

Away win banker of the week. We'll play exactly the same way we always do, too deep, forwards isolated and feeding off scraps and the defense over-worked. A draw at best if Leicester have an off day like Liverpool.

This is the crux of it. As a one-off result and strategy, it would be laudable if we varied things and actually attacked teams with a semblance of quality in other games (like Fulham et al). That would display thought and an overall coaching philosophy and realism that even the most critical fan could potentially appreciate. Since there is no variety or tactical system at work here, today is just a one off result that displays nothing of note. It's simply credit to a few individuals that actually earned their wedge today instead of the lucky fat twat in the dugout who did nothing useful in particular. Again. As usual.

I think that's probably fair but what happens if it's a normal Liverpool day for their strikers and 3 of their many chances go in and we lose 0-3? There's absolutely nothing else from that performance except the result to hang onto. There wasn't any attractive interplay to enjoy, because we barely had the ball because the manager hasn't the coaching or philosophy to make that happen. The chances we did create were individualism and set piece based. When the margins are that fine and you've only got heroic defending and goalkeeping keeping you from a heavy defeat, I don't get the positivity for the sake of it. It's a defeat on 9 out of 10 days. I dunno, maybe my glass is half empty

But we did better than what Sheffield United would have produced We were lucky like but I did enjoy some of our defending. Good effort at the back The defending was superb. The 3 CBs + Darlow can be very proud of their individual performances, despite the shitty team tactics and framework that ensures they have to put in heroics every game or we typically lose. The kind of defending that at a normal club with a good owner and something to look forward to, would make me swell with pride honestly.

But we did better than what Sheffield United would have produced

I'd like to see a post quoted in here that displays any type of agenda. I assume you mean needlessly negative, all I see is honest appraisals of another performance that offered little and was rewarded with a lucky point. Well we were playing the, albeit depleted, champions and were never really under any sustained pressure. Aye they should have scored a couple but we also could have won it on another day. I'm generally as horrifically negative as they come regarding NUFC these days but genuinely think I must have been watching a different game. In isolation that was fine. Obviously means nowt in the long run. Where you saw a game we could have won, I saw a game where we were under the cosh for about 80% of it, barely had the ball and relied on Darlow for 4 or 5 brilliant saves, plus a couple kicked off the line. Not to mention 3 or 4 last gasp tackles from our over-worked centre halves. Should have scored a couple? If the possession stats don't show us being under sustained pressure, I don't know what does. In 90 minutes, we offered a superb piece of individualism from Wilson that nearly nicked a goal early and a set piece header from Clark 12 minutes from the end that produced a good save. That's it, the sum total of our attacking threat. Yeah I mean that's an extremely negative spin and certainly won't chime with what most neutrals will have seen. Standard disclaimer - I'm very much BrewceOut. Not sure how you put an extremely negative spin on the statistics of a game, that's what happened. Yep, we played the champions (and objectively at a normally run club, you're happy with a point before a game with them) but I mean if we're going to put an extreme spin on something either way, calling that "very decent" would qualify perfectly. The result was very decent if you didn't actually watch it. What went on for 90 minutes (heroic goalkeeping and defending and a bit of quality from Wilson aside) was shit man and only eventually ends up going one way.

I imagine people walking around making a noise like a beehive.

I'd like to see a post quoted in here that displays any type of agenda. I assume you mean needlessly negative, all I see is honest appraisals of another performance that offered little and was rewarded with a lucky point. Well we were playing the, albeit depleted, champions and were never really under any sustained pressure. Aye they should have scored a couple but we also could have won it on another day. I'm generally as horrifically negative as they come regarding NUFC these days but genuinely think I must have been watching a different game. In isolation that was fine. Obviously means nowt in the long run. Where you saw a game we could have won, I saw a game where we were under the cosh for about 80% of it, barely had the ball and relied on Darlow for 4 or 5 brilliant saves, plus a couple kicked off the line. Not to mention 3 or 4 last gasp tackles from our over-worked centre halves. Should have scored a couple? If the possession stats don't show us being under sustained pressure, I don't know what does. In 90 minutes, we offered a superb piece of individualism from Wilson that nearly nicked a goal early and a set piece header from Clark 12 minutes from the end that produced a good save. That's it, the sum total of our attacking threat.

First time seeing him for 90 with us. Very impressed, quick and clever. Mark of a good player is not being in the game for huge periods but still being switched on and dangerous, you can see he'd have been ready for a late chance if it came. Then again, the way we play, it doesn't happen much. Good player though

I'd like to see a post quoted in here that displays any type of agenda. I assume you mean needlessly negative, all I see is honest appraisals of another performance that offered little and was rewarded with a lucky point.

Bit of a mismatch when he squared up to Fernández, like. should have put him in the stand like Bennett did with Speedie in the 80s, only good thing a Mackem ever did

Some of the defending was very last ditch like but it was excellent in those moments. Individually, we were great in the middle (don't get me started on the full-backs, they might as well not have been on the pitch at times), Schar in particular was inarguably tremendous. When the margin between a good hiding and a jammy scraped 0-0 is that type of heroic and desperate defending, it's not sustainable in any way. It isn't indicative of any type of progress or philosophy either, whatever Bruce or his arse-licking media pals say. It's just a very basic plan that should and would have been punished on another day and got a lucky draw today because Liverpool were indecisive and wasteful.

Defensively in the individual sense, we were fantastic. In the team sense, defensively we were a joke, cut to shreds at times with only last gasp challenges and brilliant saves keeping them out. Based on that, we'll scrape to about 35 points and probably stay up but Christ, football is supposed to be an escape, not a reflection of life.

Don't know what anyone gets out of watching us play under this mug. Even a "better" performance/result is just 90 minutes of stress or boredom, depending on if you care or not.

I doubt we've had the ball for longer than 20 seconds at any point. Just 90 minutes of defending while Liverpool played as poorly as they have all season and still missed about 7 clear chances. Darlow and the centre halves were fantastic, the rest was just boring, slow, insipid, unimaginative bollocks.

Darlow is incredible, a hammering without him

Thought Fernandez should have put Robertson in the stand there like Bennett did with Speedie

Lewis. Cush sub.