Andy

shocking by the Sheffield Utd players that. Absolute basics to play to the referee's whistle.

Excellent play by Shelvey to play to the whistle.

This is bollocks though. He was a joke when he came on at Villa. Even worse when he came on at Chelsea. This is one of the club’s low points. Starting a player who’s only here because he’s a Geordie. Like the arsehole managing the team. I don't rate Carroll at all but I honestly don't see how he can offer less than Joelinton recently At least Joelinton can move and stay on a pitch for more than 70 minutes before being injured. Oh. Glad we put down that £40,000,000 then, I was starting to doubt him. not the point..neither are good enough, sad it's a discussion really. Well exactly, it's swapping turd for cack, I don't really see why people are getting their knickers in a twist.

This is bollocks though. He was a joke when he came on at Villa. Even worse when he came on at Chelsea. This is one of the club’s low points. Starting a player who’s only here because he’s a Geordie. Like the arsehole managing the team. I don't rate Carroll at all but I honestly don't see how he can offer less than Joelinton recently At least Joelinton can move and stay on a pitch for more than 70 minutes before being injured. Oh. Glad we put down that £40,000,000 then, I was starting to doubt him. Also, as someone who avidly doesn't watch our matches... How do you know?

Has he though? How many times has Joelinton worked the keeper recently? At least I can think of Carroll's volley a few games ago which forced a good save, a header or two on target, in much less time on the field... Again, I don't rate Carroll and haven't since he left us the first time, but sticking with Joelinton week in, week out is a complete waste of time as he isn't offering anything and his confidence is visbily dropping by the match

Yea, nowt to do with how Bruce uses him or owt He's got no pedigree for scoring goals whatsoever and is visibly indecisive and lacks instinct or any form of threat. As said many times, it's very obvious why Rafa didn't want him - he isn't a premier league goalscorer and never will be, in any team, under any manager, no matter how he's used.

This is bollocks though. He was a joke when he came on at Villa. Even worse when he came on at Chelsea. This is one of the club’s low points. Starting a player who’s only here because he’s a Geordie. Like the arsehole managing the team. I don't rate Carroll at all but I honestly don't see how he can offer less than Joelinton recently

Don't really see the problem with AC starting like. He'll have already contributed as much as Joelinton in recent games just by standing on the turf in the warm up.

A team like Man City ? How did that end. Worst than last season. A team like Spurs ? How did that end - we robbed them even though they were gash. A team like Man Utd ? How did that end. Could've easily gone either way. We didn't dominate and they missed a good chance before the young Longstaff pulled your mate out. A team like Bournemouth? How did that end. Could've easily been a draw. Same as WHU who almost came back from 3 down. We've not dominated a full game all season. Can we now talk about how Norwich, Leicester, Villa etc went? Or is that against your rules? Howay man we all hate Steve Bruce, but you could look at any team's results over the course of a season and point out what could've happened differently to change the scoreline. You can't take every decent result away from the players.

To be fair, it's always going to take a bit of luck for us to get a point against City regardless of their recent form.

It may be bad but our goal difference is still much better than the clubs occupying those bottom spaces though, to be fair. The "goals for" column is the key one. Teams that can't score get relegated, as the cliche goes, unless you're AC Milan 93/94 in which case you get a pass.

McClaren W8, D8, L18, Bruce W4, D4, L6. McClaren was struggling at Derby, had already turned us down, had bombed his previous 2 or 3 jobs yet we still appointed him. We were a shambles under him, some of the performances were mind blowing. It will turn for Bruce but for now he’s actually exceeding expected results. Aye, McClaren pretty much objectively had a better set of players than Bruce as well. Think it says more about the managers that preceded the two rather than their individual ability when gauging over so few matches though.

Aye, I understand apathy or even antagonism towards the regime, but I can't get behind celebrating when the other team scores like. Even more so when it's one of the plastic, money clubs like City scoring. Pretty much where I am. It's very easy to celebrate (only a mental 'ha ha' for me, no jumping around) when you view the club as Sports Direct United rather than Newcastle United. I sort of understand that perspective but it still seems odd to me to keep watching, if I legitimately wanted us to lose every week and no longer considered the team in black in white to represent Newcastle I think I'd probably give it a miss until I felt differently. To continue watching seems masochistic at best.

Who's getting worked up? Just feels a bit cringeworthy that people continue to watch the matches just to celebrate when we concede or lose. If the club is that far gone for you maybe there's better things to be getting on with? Covmag and stiff to name two. Anyhoo, as far as i know it isn't a bannable offence so on we go. If it's the best use of your free time then carry on, aye, by all means

Who's getting worked up? Just feels a bit cringeworthy that people continue to watch the matches just to celebrate when we concede or lose. If the club is that far gone for you maybe there's better things to be getting on with?

Aye, I understand apathy or even antagonism towards the regime, but I can't get behind celebrating when the other team scores like. Even more so when it's one of the plastic, money clubs like City scoring.

Shelvey tried to close him down tbf. Took him ages to get out though, on his heals as ever.

Dodgy VAR decision aside, PSG were lucky to get a draw out of that like, thought they were awful for large parts of the match.

He was absolutely miles from getting the ball like. Definite red if it wasnt called back IMO. The "foul" in midfield was soft but technically a foul It was technically a foul, but it's ridiculous to bring play back so many phases. Can they rewind to any infringement they can find since the ball last went dead?

That's a terrible use of VAR, how far back do you want to bring the play?

Disgraceful first half hour.

Aye, ASM uses the ball pretty well to be honest. He's set up a fair few chances already for Willems and the two attackers alongside him. Definitely isn't a "head down and run" type of player like Obertan or someone, that's unfair to him.

I think Maximin will bang a few in as the season goes on, thought he was actually a bit unfortunate with the one that hit the bar - if you watch it back the ball takes a slight bounce just as he makes contact with it. Still should have scored like, but a bit unlucky nonetheless. Joelinton will probably get five or six by the end of the season. Almiron is absolutely cursed, don't think he'll ever score.

Aye, I enjoyed it as a spectacle. We play some good stuff at times tbh, especially out wide; if the front three could finish even a third of the time we'd be comfortably in the top ten by the end of the season.

I like him as a player but he'll never score more than ten goals in a season. Just isn't a natural striker either technically or positionally. Would be a good foil for a decent striker.