Newcastle Fan

You do realize these are hundreds of millions in decisions and even an entity like PIF needs time for these things to go through? they've already made unbelievable progress with the club on all aspects in a relatively short space of time, can't think of any other owners than turned a relegation threatened side to a champions league/cup winning side in that short space of time, and if we do make Champions League this year i expect big progress as well in their plans.

Our best bet against Villa is always to attack their high line on the break, conceding after 40 seconds pretty much blew any plan to do that out of the window, our midfield balance looked so off today which is not what you need in a game against a strong opposition.

He'll rise like the undertaker after that performance.

Similar to Almiron this season the only thing putting him on the pitch is doing is taking valuable minutes from players who need it.

Watkins has his number today, but considering how consistent he's been lately its fine to have a one off stinker.

I'm confident he's playing with a groin injury, has not looked himself lately but we don't really have anyone who can come in for him.

Moving Barnes is really silly, he's been playing much better than Gordon and if anything Gordon offers similar to what Murphy does so don't see why we need to switch then.

I think it's the first time i see a midfield with Tielemans in it beat us, our midfield balance was so off today and Bruno was having a stinker, nothing he did came off and kept getting frustrated and committing silly fouls.

We've seen the worst of us today, lets use the week to clear our heads and go again vs ipswich.

Why make changes now lets wait till its 5

What a performance tonight, if he can beat Villa next Saturday we can give Howe the rest of the season off

Regardless of wither Pope got the ball or not, as a GK he's entitled to go for it, it was a perfectly normal collision in the air, there is zero logic in looking at that and saying it's a foul/penalty, no one on the pitch thought it was but VAR decided lets give it anyway.

At one point he comfortably stopped their attack, picked his head up and almost put Barnes through on goal on the other end, what a player.

Looked incredible today, did not put a foot wrong and got an assist to add to it too.

How does he rank in goal for us compared to our other defenders in the league?

He's like a Gattuso/Pirlo hybrid, chases everything in defense and wonder with the ball at his feet.

Said it here when he first came on for Gordon that he looks much more capable of producing in the final third than Gordon, never doubted that he's score when he went one on one with their defender.

What a season he's having and what a fantastic performance today, from the start he look so up for it and should've had even more assists than the one.

The instant drop in quality when he comes on tells you all you need to know really, love him as a person and a servant for our club but with Miley stepping up i think his time here is coming to an end.

Aston Villa can be very proud of themselves and their team. But happy for them to fuck off this tournament and hopefully not come back anytime soon, keep this spot for us

Desire Doue looks so good, would love to have him in our side.

Wish him a speedy recovery, knowing him it's takes a lot to get him to not attend a game or training. Tindal said he got a congratulations text from him after the game which was nice.

He looked better today, i think with is groin problems we are doing well managing his minutes.

And starts every game for them

Great defending from him but on the ball and in set-pieces he was a bit lacking today, tough test for him on Wednesday and i was happy to see him rested early today.