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As long as the location is good, there's a football field with enough seats around it, and a team who's trying to better themselves every day, who the fuck cares how it looks really? Who's going to say ah naw can't cheer for my team today because the stadium looks like shit, or fuck no am I going to support my team in that ugly bowl, I can't be seen in such a ghastly place.

Are players normally instructed to keep their mouth shut when asked about the manager and training? When asked about Howe and what he's been like as a manager all he says is: "hard working, fight for everything" like he's the biggest PFM in the history of Football I always hope players elaborate a bit more on their managers approach and training when asked but every player has more or less the exact same answer for any manager.

I feel the "first 10 games" stuff is a bit short sighted as it's only looking at the results. We've been playing better since his first match in control, he's phased out the regulars that weren't performing while giving them a chance. If we won against Brentford and Norwich, which we should have and it's hard to blame Howe for those results, it would have looked a lot better and we'd currently be on 25 points sitting 14th in the table. We also played Arsenal, Liverpool, Man Utd and Man City in that spell.

Can the FA kick the PL out of the "system" so to speak, and give the CL spots to the top 4 of the championship?

Fingers crossed we're not in a position where Howe will feel compelled to rush him back. Healing the fracture is one thing, but isn't it also important to build up the muscles after this kind of injury to prevent other injuries from happening? Or is that assumed to be part of the time out?

I emphasized with Bellamy and felt he was justified in kicking up a fuss due to Souness using him on the right wing, as his best position is obviously as a striker. Possibly a bit clouded by my dislike for Souness I will admit. I wouldn't do that if ASM for some reason did the same because Howe didn't play him as a #10.

I'd love Rashford here. Both for what he does on the field, but also off the field. Can't see Man Utd selling him to anyone, not only us, no matter how much he needs saved.

I think he has better understanding of English than Almiron, which is quite remarkable considering Almiron has played in English speaking countries for the last 6 years Was an article/interview on Almiron by Sky from May 2021 where he said he was now taking English lessons, so maybe he's gotten better over the last 9 months but still.

I'd add CM to that list as well. I don't want to see Shelvey and Willock playing regularly next season. While they are serving a purpose in the way we are playing right now, I hope we get someone in that allows us to control the game/keep the ball more together with Bruno, and have Joelinton, Shelvey and Willock competing for the remaining spot & serving as squad/back-up players.

But you still wanted Bruno to play against both Everton and Villa I find the "don't change a winning team" mindset about as solid as the "you play your best players" mindset. Based on what I've seen so far, I prefer the "manager knows best" mindset.

He's not the player he was 2014 - 2018, and he currently has 5 goals in 21 premier league games which isn't exactly indicating that he's just in a temporary decline. Wilson who's of similar age has 6 in 15. I'd much rather keep Wilson and Wood as our experienced strikers and focus on finding our next #9 for years to come.

Immediate reaction is yes.

"I remember when we used to have 25 shots in a game and couldn’t score. Now we have 4 or 5 and can’t score. Much better" "It's like 11 strangers, formation is better, but no cohesion or communication." "There's no great change in the reality of our play. But shape and approach is straight shite now, and is how Bruce has always set his teams up. I could atleast get behind the last managers philosophy." "Another manager with zero plan B" Still many of them blaming the players more than Bruce. Will probably take another month or two before the majority of them gets past the denial stage.

Luckily I fell asleep around the 30-40 minute mark.

Love the feeling of watching a Bruce led team play, and hope they lose badly out of schadenfreude and glee rather than contempt.

Got a lot of sympathy for Blackburn due to the shit their owners has put them through. Hope they get promoted and get a new chance to establish themselves in the top flight.

I hope you're right, but I doubt we'll see him perform as good as he did under Rafa on the right in the 3 man central defence. It was tailor made to get the best out of him imo.

I love that photo That old baldie is so happy. Every muscle in his body is clenched, blood pumping to his head as he's trying to hold tears of joy back but he knows he's going to fail in doing so. This is the greatest thing that has happened in his life. What was the occassion now again?

I've been quite vocal about accepting Howe not changing the midfield in its current form, but if one of them has a below par performance I'd like to see Bruno in there without any chance of redemption like Fuck waiting for suspension or injury.

I'm not going to fact check that, but my gut feeling is that this is re-writing history. I'm sure he's had a lot of woeful performances, even defensively. Had a good little spell under Rafa, and a few games under Bruce but other than that his defensive qualities has mostly been judged on the odd admittedly impressive recovery run and subsequent sliding tackle, literally the only redeeming quality he has, and now he's not even doing that.

Great bump btw @YorkieLove reading these posts of people finding their passion for the club again.

Think you're getting trolled by wormy guys

Oh this is a hard one. I'm watching every match now from start to finish, gave my father and myself a round trip to Newcastle + match tickets of his choosing as christmas gift, am more active on here than I've probably been for last 10-11 years, just hungry for any Newcastle related content online in terms of reactions, pod casts, analysis, highlights, rumours etc. I went with a 3, but honestly it's probably higher, it's just I want to believe there's still some way to go further down the line when we're hopefully challenging for trophies instead of fighting to avoid relegation.

Judo tosses is all technique. This is more like Brock Lesnar man handling Hornswoggle.