Ronaldo

Awful performance and result.

How can Tonali not get in this team when the midfield are consistently so poor on the ball? How?

Yeah, very in keeping with a lot of the home games in 95-96, absolutely irrepressible wing play and someone on the end of everything directing it top or bottom corner. Weirdly we played the same West Ham side a few weeks before that at Upton Park and they battered us. Bizarre.

Great night that. He was brilliant too. Turned around after just about every save and posed for the fans. Then gave the Gallowgate an ovation on FT.

A 0-0, 1-1, 0-1 or 1-0 against Everton at OT.

Man U were absolutely awful there. Like really really bad and fortunate to be up against an abject side.

Osula is years away at best from being a viable starting option for a club with our ambitions. He wasn’t bought for the here and now.

In your world, yes.

Got to that point. That’s been the case for years.

Surely that Ireland side is mostly made up names?

Yeah. I think there’s a few in denial about this.

Depends where but down south there’s far more for a millionaire footballer to do.

Not good this mind. There’s already a comparative lack of incentive to live in NE without compounding it with safety issues. Was this the Albanians again?

Remind me.

You say that like he’s not playing for Bayern in the Bundesliga.

6 in 182 tells a pretty damning story, mind, whether it’s the whole story or not.

Define mediocre club? I can see very few if any PL clubs going in for him.

Surely you recognise Tonali is a much better footballer and can grow into doing anything Longstaff provides?

Utter shit? No, he’s very good.

Best away performance in a long long time. Great result obvs.

100%.

If only we had a midfielder who could both press and move the ball around quickly.

Yeah we’re a poor side away from home. I hope Eddie finds the answer but I can’t see it. Hope to be wrong.

Why would any player of that age with ambition waste their time at Ashley and Kinnear’s NUFC? I’d have left. All of us would.

He hasn’t had more of a role because he looks terrible every time he’s on the pitch. Sad to say as he’s such a trier but his decision making, execution, eye for a pass etc are all really substandard to the point it’s not worth having him on to press.