Chris_R

This is absolutely tragic. Clearly what we're doing isn't working, and hasn't worked since the first minute, yet we're seemingly either unable or unwilling to change anything. No excuse for not getting all 3 subs on immediately and trying to switch it up a bit because there's 0 chance of us getting anything at all from this match otherwise.

What, that all our attacking has been coached out of us? Think that's all the more reason to get a manager like Fonseca in.

Considering how bad we were going forwards, I can only assume that Jones is trying to get Bruce his job back. Absolutely woeful. Defence was just about OK, but we just cannot move the ball forwards at all. I think part of that problem is that although I say the defence was just about OK, we don't press at all and just sit really deep and let them have the ball in front of us. This means when we get the ball back everyone is in our 18 yard box and we can't move forward, it's too congested, so we just boot it away and lose it again. We need to get forward and press when they're in possession, so we're in a better position to create an attack if we win the ball back.

20% posession after 30 minutes ffs. That's an utter joke.

We're fucking shit, aren't we? Maybe it was Jones making Bruce look bad, not the other way round.

So fucking loads of our players are not in their best position. Surely that's football management 1-0-1, get the right players in the right positions? It's like THE basic thing. Harks back to seeing Shola on the fucking wing.

I mean I'd change things around too, but Darlow up top is quite radical.

I mean on one hand fair enough, but on the other hand ASM apparently basically won't train at all so surely if you're picking based on that.....?

Maybe it's some kind of 4-2-3-1? -------------Wilson Ritchie------ASM-------Fraser -----Longstaff----Hayden Manquillo--Clark--Lascelles--Krafth -----------Darlow Still shit. I mean I'd waaaaay prefer it quite a bit different, more like this: -------------Wilson Murphy------ASM-------Almiron -----Willock----Hayden Manquillo--Schar--Lascelles--Krafth -----------Darlow Anyway, let's see. He's not here for long, we've just got to suck up the next couple of matches. But I want it on record that I said after his interview yesterday that I wasn't exactly inspired!

Yeah but Delia drinks all that away.

So? You forgetting we're filthy rich now? This is spot on, but maybe Lampard was really keen but we've pied him off, and this is him saving face?

I'd label the attack as many things, but to complain about not being shown "respect" is just laughable. You earn respect, you don't demand it. The paying public are not your subordinates, you're not some better class of human that everyone else must kowtow to. Anyone has a right to not respect anyone else, and especially if it's based on you serving up years worth of shit football that they're paying to watch, failing to competently do the job that they indirectly employ you to do. He absolutely should not be throwing cabbages at you (as amusing as it is), but he's got every right on Earth to not respect you, you fucking gimp.

Don't even have to play the first team. Just be blatantly corrupt about it and play the U18s behind closed doors against a local side. Fuck them.

Everyone saying how well he came over in the interview, but I'm less happy tbh. Although he said a lot of positive things and was measured, he was maybe too measured and there was a lack of enthusiasm or passion. He also seemed very much a Bruce man - My hopes for Jones came from wishing that he was hired against Bruce's wishes and was being held back by Bruce and not allowed to shine. Seems maybe that wasn't the case and we've already seen much of what Jones can bring to the table. Hope I'm wrong and that was just him being polite and trying to remain level and calm in his first interview, and either way its only a couple of games, but still he didn't exactly inspire me that we're going to see much different.

I don't think I will ever tire of listening to Keegan talk about Newcastle.

It might be helpful if just some of the media outlets would stop expecting us to judge our football manager on his merits as a human being and start expecting him to be judged on his merits as a football manager.

What, by giving everyone days off? Some fucking genius level planning that is.

Well the game was mostly shit, but I can't deny that I shed a tear after we scored the first goal. That's the most I've celebrated a goal in years, and it just felt like such a release of emotion to finally give a shit again about us. Aside from the result, we've got just a handful of decent players and really need a complete overhaul in January. Bruce is not the man to oversea this and needs to be gone by the morning.

Expect we'll get battered, but it's just nice to be able to hope for a win again, because the result actually matters for once.

I doubt it either, but it's the impression it gives and it's the story that other clubs and the media will run with. We really should not be doing it. We should not be giving them free ammunition. But whatever, I've said my piece on it.

As long as it's not Leicester's.

They should have him in charge of getting signings done. Just get him in to talk to the new manager, players, their agents etc. Make any prospective new arrival sit in a room with King Kev for a couple of hours, and he'll walk out with a signed contract from them.

I agree. I just don't think we should give them free ammo by dressing up in fucking tea towels. You can not give a shit what people think whilst still not actively sabotaging our image. Plus, let's be honest, whilst I've tried to come at it from the angle of protecting our image, ultimately it is distasteful. No matter how anyone might say "I'm celebrating Saudi culture not the regime" it's clearly NOT the image it gives out, and frankly it's a shit image because they've got a fucking terrible human rights record that we should in no way be venerating or normalising. People are absolutely right to be aghast at fans waving Saudi flags, those fans need to get some self awareness and stop being idiots. This is not a country we should be putting on a pedestal.

If you live in a little bubble of just Newcastle, and only post here and don't talk to other fans in real life, and don't read newspapers, sure. For the rest of us it is our problem though. Some of us give a shit about how we're perceived.