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Hard to comment on us much since we haven’t participated in the match Only way is up I suppose.

Not anyone’s fault really, he’s just the last available midfielder. Longstaff is just as bad if not worse.

By doing?

We’re playing a different sport to these lads. Still possible to rattle them if we come out firing, but I can’t see it.

They would’ve possibly gone sooner if we didn’t have so many people we needed to replace.

Damning but true

Sels is such a strange keeper.

Yeah, that’s what I meant, the first bit anyway. Not sure about wanting to send him back. We knew his profile when we signed him, nothing has really changed there. Hard to say unless we could talk to the management team about their plans. He’s very young in a difficult season, could just be a matter of time. I dunno.

Baffles me a lot, I’m tempted to think he will come good, just not yet. To look at the lad at Chelsea he looked like someone they would never sell and we would never be able to get. To look at him here he looks decent with great technical quality, albeit extremely different to Dan Burn. I think a lot will depend on the direction we decide to go. If we decide to sign someone more similar to Burn so we can continue the same way, Hall doesn’t fit. Maybe in that case he would end up as a midfielder. Even Tino hasn’t been getting games, that tells me that it’s more about the player profile than the individual quality. Otherwise we could change a bit and he might become our first choice LB soonish. Either way I think we will sign him permanently, seemed like nailed on when he came in.

Really is the definition of a free hit, but at the same time they can be mentally vulnerable. Try our best to enjoy it, see what happens, don’t worry about it. Fin.

Yeah, I mean it's obviously one of the 2 or 3 most difficult games of the season, so see what happens I suppose.

I know we've had a lot of bad luck but I still think blood offerings are a bit much.

He’s too sensible to do a Newcastle podcast really.

Yep, changing to parking the bus is an option, but then he can't mix the messages and jeopardise the overall philosophy because of a bad spell.

I wanted Burn and Longstaff dropped even when we were flying, I don't rate them. But it's not a factor in whether I think Eddie Howe is an amazing manager or not. He is, he's proven to be, he's proven to be a student of the game and someone who never stops learning. I would swap him for Pep and that's it. I don't expect the manager to make the same decisions that a fan would make. We had impossible fixtures followed by impossible injuries, that is the story of this season.

That's only two mistakes TBF, and it's without a whole team of players in crucial positions.

I get what you mean but I'm hoping we can argue FMV on almost all of our deals. If our sponsorship is worth 80% of Man City for example, I don't see how anyone can really argue against that.

I do think the issue of unlimited memberships and no required purchase history is relevant too. But like we said at the time, I don't know where you would draw the line because attending before the takeover is actually worse than not attending

Well no, it isn't if they had a digital team or put any investment into that area for the last decade. Maybe it's already planned, they must know the website is archaic.

I can imagine a user interface where you could multi-select as many areas of the ground as you want, down to the level of individual blocks. But the website and the algorithm for drawing the ballot would have to be redone.

Hard to make a call on it for me. Of course FFP might slow our progress, but you would think that a capable and patient exec would see it as a challenge to overcome, like he had to at Brighton. Maybe the job at Man Utd just seems more appealing to him. More control, more money, who knows? We know our owners want to progress the club and will do so as quickly as the rules allow. So I'm trying not to worry too much about what this means.

Both world-class managers

Or he goes down too much because he’s a big girls blouse?

Think it was imagined that Willock and Joelinton could spend some time on the left side too.

I never agreed that replacing Miggy was a priority last summer. It’s next on the list but I can understand why it wasn’t done given the work rate we need from a Howe winger.