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3 hours ago, Froggy said:

Campo, Hierro, Okocha, Djorkaeff and Anelka.  Were they all there at the same time?

Sam Allardyce is utterly revolting, but Okocha at Bolton was absolutely fantastic for me. Loved that so much.

Also really enjoyed Kanu at Portsmouth too from a Super Eagles point of view.

10 minutes ago, Shearergol said:

 

As long as we're entertaining though. We'd take some 0-7 losses as long as the neutrals find it fun, right?

How long has this patronising idea been pushed for now regarding Newcastle supporters?

No surprise that the current manager uses it as a means to justify his rotten record, as if it is an actual remit that is acceptable to supporters.

Yup, as soon as we came out of the bottom three by virtue of a 90+ min goal by Antonio against Leeds, which gave them a worse goal difference, I knew we'd start hearing that kind of nonsense Edwards just posted.

We have not taken advantage of pretty decent fixtures. The storm will soon come and it's going to get ugly.

I'd say the bigger issue is the club not making a proper effort to find a situation where he would be guaranteed games.

I'm sure as with everything else at the club no effort or proper thought was put into the decision to send him over there.

Could be a turning point for these young gunners and Arteta. Brilliant performance and result.

2 minutes ago, Tiresias said:

All the hindsight saying spurs should have sold Kane and rebuilt squad probably do ignore that likely all purchases would be hyper inflated and wouldn't have been so easy. Still Spurs are just naff. Lost all their dynamism when Erickson left and in decline since all it takes is for son or kane to be out of form and what is there?

 

 

 

I thought at the time they should have moved him on. The highest bid was £130 million I believe. Get in three players around the £45 million mark and freshen up the team.

14 minutes ago, Fantail Breeze said:

Dele Alli proving every week why Mourinho was right to bin him off.

 

Mad how his career has never taken off as it could have. Another massive waste of talent.

 

Edit - will probably show me up now.

 

 

 

The real culprit in that midfield has been Ndombele. He's been shocking.

Dele was in the team when they beat Man City at the start of the season, but had decent protection with both Hojberg and Skipp in there with him.

Playing both Dele and Ndombele is asking for trouble though. Have to pick one of the two if you're going to use them.

Just now, Anderson said:

Spuds fans off home.  

Incredible man

Joelinton is out there in a Harry Kane costume 

Oh my goodness

Ramsdale is so much more comfortable with the ball at his feet than Leno, and also passes far more confidently too. Has made a big difference in them playing out from the back. Leno was so bad at it.

This is absolutely scintillating football. Smith-Rowe is class man. My goodness.

Really like the look of Tomiyasu. Looks a fantastic pick up.

Arsenal have started deliciously well ... wow.

Love Smith-Rowe and Saka man. What a young pairing to have. Fantastic chemistry between the two too.

That back pass to ASM, I cannot believe he doesn't loop the keeper initially, and then when he runs at him I was shocked he didn't just look to make space and shoot as soon as possible and then not just that he keeps on running towards the keeper and then does a bloody step over

ASM is class, but that was the silliest thing I've seen in a while. Only for him to then play a poor ball that was behind Longstaff who then awkwardly skied the ball over. Terrible phase of play.

Jimenez finding his scoring boots just in time to face us is just so incredibly typical.

The extent of Ashley's interest this weekend will be that we are out of the bottom three. Has probably already called Bruce to congratulate him.

He's not paying enough attention to our performances to recognise how much trouble we are in. If he does ever notice it will be when it is far too late to reverse our fortunes.

1 hour ago, Chris c said:

I was at the game today (supporting Watford) but a couple of observations. I admit that we were shocking , probably our worst performance of the season which isn’t saying much. The ref was absolutely horrendous for both sides. It reached a nadir when having ruled out our goal he then pointed to the centre circle! For what it’s worth the most puzzling aspect of today was despite being on top once you had scored the time wasting went into overdrive, the highlight being when Matty Longstaff (who had a good game) suddenly , with nobody within several yards of him threw himself to the ground clutching his face. If you had continued as before you would have won easily. After we equalised the time wasting stopped and you could have won several times over. Just bizarre tactics. My wife’s family are from Newcastle and I hope that we both stay up but it does look unlikely!

I think you'll at least have a decent chance of staying up. You've had a pretty solid start and your club will make a change in management and/or will be bring in new players in January as needed if you are struggling.

No chance of that for us though. We're already pretty much done I think.

7 minutes ago, joeyt said:

He was their assistant for ages

Just had a look. He was their asssistant like you said, and before that was at Brondby for three years.

I mean can you even imagine ... goodness knows how many younger managers with good ideas are out there. With the right contacts in the game and some proper vetting it shouldn't be hard to find someone better than Bruce for goodness sake.

And a younger manager like that would be more open to working under Ashley's tighter constraints. Sickening to see it play out so well for other clubs, while we listen to the clown in charge talk rubbish every week and make excuses.

Now people will say if Bruce leaves who will we get in to replace him.

But can anyone tell me where on earth this Brentford manager was plucked from?! 

With just some bloody effort I'm sure there are talents out there that can be found. So annoying man. This club is just the worst.

6 minutes ago, ManDoon said:

I legit think they are better than a lot of teams in this league 

They are fantastic. They don't even splash the cash like that. Just brilliantly run.

If anything they've been a selling club, with the likes of Watkins and Benrahma having been moved on in recent times.

Brentford are significantly better than us. For goodness sake man 

3 minutes ago, David Edgar said:

 

Norwich.

Norwich were better than Watford in the Championship last season. I think at best we'll draw with them

In instances where we should be winning games we are now getting draws instead. This is a very bad sign.

2 minutes ago, hakka said:

 

We're out of it now.

Ah, I see West Ham scored late on. Missed that.

I cannot believe we couldn't beat this Watford team. We are impossibly bad.

Another week sat in the bottom three. Getting nice and comfortable in there. 

Wonder what the odds are for us not winning a single game this season. Might throw a fiver at that.