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Yeah he’s not going to be obviously the best player every week anymore, and he doesn’t really need to be.

Who the heck are the 9% of our fans that are pessimistic

The fact that we were willing to take a chance on Howe rather than some has-been who happens to have a head coaching job at a bigger club on his resume was the first sign that the people running the club are smart. (Although to be fair, Howe wasn’t the first choice.)

We’re going to lose a great player to a bigger club eventually imo. Obviously this is a great situation and we can match wages, but we can’t realistically offer a league or CL win, and perhaps more importantly, we’re not a club like Real Madrid which a lot of these players will have grown up dreaming of playing for. The upside to that is if it does happen, it will be for silly money, and I trust those in charge to reinvest the funds wisely.

I should caveat that as “any club in a major, globally-televised league.” I’m sure it’s never going to be as good as that Mexican second division team I visited once where it was just five hundred insane people drinking and screaming.

The “atmosphere” is just going to get worse as the club gets better imo. The normies who only have a casual interest in the club will start pushing out some of the serial masochists who were filling the ground throughout the Ashley years. It will still be a better atmosphere than basically any other club on any other sport in the world. That’s what makes Newcastle special.

Managers really should be using in-game subs more aggressively now and we have the depth in attack to do it. Isak doesn’t have to conserve energy knowing that we have Wilson to come on for 30 min+ of elite striker play if necessary, same goes for Gordon, Barnes, Joelinton etc. We’ll have a lot of rotation between games with the CL and all, but tactical rotation mid-game could be just as beneficial.

He’s just good at everything. Fast, strong, smart, clinical finisher, good technique. The Swedish Haaland. I’m only half joking.

Best player in the first half for us. This is how he should be used going forward I think. Start on the left and track back aggressively, give it everything you can for as long as you can. Once you’re knackered, we have players to bring on.

So much elite finishing in the team now after what feels like a decade of complaining about no end product.

Let’s try to temper expectations folks. We’re only going to win the league, not the treble.

Isak’s going to score a trillion goals this season. Look out Haaland.

Would like to see Almiron and Tonalli replaced relatively early in the second for Barnes and Anderson.

Players like Gordon never draw as many fouls as they deserve because refs just don’t understand how it’s humanly possible to get the shit kicked out of you that many times within a ninety minute span.

Not quite SJP but decent viewing location

Central midfield as a whole has been pretty quiet today (except for Tonalli popping up for that goal). Villa doing a good job in that part of the pitch.

Gordon reminding me of peak Jonas Gutierrez today. Couple more games of this and I’ll start calling him Jisung Park with more end product.

Gordon closing down has been an absolute killing machine today.

Trillion years off side if not for that dude unnecessarily sticking his leg out

Gordon seemingly controlling the entire left side of pitch has been the highlight of the team so far.

Two very "first ten minutes of the season" goals there.

Within the space of what feels like a couple of years, we’ve gone from debating the relative merits of Scott Parker, Lee Bowyer, and Nicky Butt; to fretting over which of our too many good players will be filling the three central midfield spots.

Fans of every other club would probably say the same of us, mind.

Kind of crazy that he's been with the club for almost a decade. I still remember the thread on here when we got him and Lascelles together from Notts Forest. Same summer we signed Perez, Colback , Cabella, Rivere , Debuchy, and Janmaat.

They would very much care if they were being directed by PIF to do so.