Elliottman

He's had a couple of bad games after coming back from a serious injury = shit forever.

I refuse to believe this statement.

Hatem man, what a bloke. One of the best memories of the Ashley era. Used to go to the games buzzing to watch him. More often then not, just to find out Pardew had him on the bench 😫

The more I think about it, in the event Isak is fit, we're going into the game with over £300 million worth of midfield/front line. Gordon is a miss but Barnes is no mug and can produce something special. Tonali, Bruno and Big Joe were being called the best 3 in the league a couple of months ago. Just need them to be aggressive as fuck on the day and try and stay solid.

In the grand scheme of things Botman doesn’t make a huge difference, we’ve not had him all season. Hall is the biggest loss from the 3 but Tino has shown he can cover there and Barnes is going to have to now step up big time. Eddie will have a plan, whatever happens we’ll give it our all. But aye, fucking vintage Newcastle this.

He did say lately to be fair …

But we cant afford to rest Isak, we looked utterly toothless when he went off yesterday. He's got a full weeks rest now which will do him the World of good then another 5 full days before the final. Unless he's injured he has to start, if we're winning then bring him off. Agree with Gordon and Liverpool though, that seemed the perfect opportunity to give some a rest.

The game is a week away?

Muppet.

Well he had a year out and came back and was mint for about 3 games so I reckon he’ll be fine.

Also singling out ‘families’… Christ, how dare people take their children to games, selfish fucks. Heard my 12 year old sing more than 90% of the people around him.

Surprised at that, first half I thought was pretty poor after the first 10 minutes but second half onwards I thought was pretty good. Experienced a lot worse, thought today was half decent at times.

Where were you sitting out of curiosity?

I was behind it and he looked to go down in slow motion to me. Watched it back this morning and have pretty much the same opinion. Not as bad as the Forrest one but looked poor to me.

What’s been the criticism out of curiosity? He was my mom, thought he done a great job again Salah despite being left isolated a few times.