wormy

Tbf considering our medical track record they might still be trying to work out the difference between his knee and his neck.

Get him back in a hybrid Head Coach-DoF role. Alternate head coach yearly with Eddie and then be DoF on his 'off' season. Get Little Dan back at the centre of the wheel to alternate with Rafa when he's on his coaching season. Couldn't be simpler.

Feed him his favourite food, too. That new diet be damned.

Something tells me with a 'knee ligament injury' that he ain't gonna be be back in a month.

I feel like someone at the club has made that comment every few weeks for a year now.

Bring him home.

Well that settles it. Howe Out. This man defended Bruce ffs.

Anyone had an email re Bournemouth yet? Getting my hopes up as they've finally become quite efficient at telling me I'm a failure and I've not had anything yet. EDIT: Nevermind. Another failure.

His PR people have worked wonders if Arsenal take a punt on him after all of this.

I wonder if we don't want to be opening that can of worms. Wouldn't be the least bit surprised if he immediately dropped us in it by saying he was in similar contact with us during his Brighton gardening leave too.

If so you would think the Best In Class(tm) would vet his own roles a bit better.

The problem is I can't even argue against it on this occasion. It's unfortunately the highlight of the footballing weekend for me.

Amazing. You have to assume that's him done at the top level unless he proves himself again. That would mean sticking it out longer than a year or two though.

And I'm sure managers like Mourinho would be delighted with a whopping £70m summer budget.

I would be interested to see who people expect us to attract to replace him. People talking about going for 'the best' are forgetting that they're going to want a much bigger transfer budget than we can offer them. I feel like a broken record on this point but anyone talking about Mourinho are mad when you consider how he would react when he realises he can't immediately ship out half of the squad. I don't think there's many clubs in our position that wouldn't regress while we're unable to truly strengthen the first team for three straight transfer windows, whoever the manager may be. That's not to say he's above criticism at all. I'm concerned at how incapable we are at playing any other way than counter attacking. As we get better players teams are going to counter that themselves and we need to find a way to break them down. And I'm in the same boat with Tonali as I was with Hall; he just needs to start. I think we're finally getting there with the set pieces in that the likes of Hall and Sandro when he's on are finally taking on more of those duties but we now need to work out how the hell to get the players attacking the better balls that are going in. The second time we played that corner routine with Hall whipping the ball in to the 6 yard area there wasn't a single damn player going for it which was criminal.

Stop it. Get some help.

I just know @Disco will be losing his shit at the pinpoint precision of Frank's answer.

Bump the thread. Do it.

I'm only half an hour in (never seen his podcast so really didn't expect it to be a full hour plus). While the idea that the questions are 'hard-hitting' seems a bit of guff unless it massively picks up, credit where it's due he seems to be letting Eddie do most of the talking. It's nice to see him talking fairly candidly, even while nothing groundbreaking so far.

Interesting. Never thought to look and only discovered today via a notification from the app.

https://www.newcastleunited.com/en/video/728430 Full replay of the match available here with commentary from Reisbeck and Ando. Have they ever uploaded a full men's game before, let alone so soon after the match?

Video version premiering on YouTube now too. Simon Jordan's entire cadence pisses me off by default.

Christ. Just tried to endure Twitter to find a clip of the ref blowing for full time and found scouser after scouser moaning that the referee was against them. Demented fucking pricks.

Who could ever have foreseen constantly playing devil's advocate would prompt people to respond in disagreement? It's an absolute mystery.

So.. Reckon £25m will do it now, guys?