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This is where we click. Howay!

Geet up!

Looks match fit to me.

3-0 to us, Tonali hat trick, Almiron with a trio of right-footed assists.

I thought he actually turned the full back inside out to make room to cross, which is very unlike him. Still feel there's more to come from him when he and Isak are on the same wavelength.

I thought it was fairly obvious I was being facetious, but apparently it wasn't. In all seriousness though, we've no idea what shape he'll be in until he gets on the pitch midweek. I'm optimistically hoping he hits the ground running because of how eager he'll be to be part of it all again.

So how can you come to the conclusion he's not match fit?

How do you know?

It looked windy as fuck in fairness to him. A few heart in mouth moments.

His first touch was back today. Took a ridiculous one to move about 10 yards up the wing at one point.

It was a lovely ball in for the goal, like. I thought he was very unlucky with the left footed chance as well. He srikes the ball so well.

He was that bad it would've still been his fault, mind.

We started well to be fair. Really got at them quickly, albeit without anything to show for it. Really frustrating how we stepped off and let them back into it.

Like they did the last 2 times at SJP?

I'm really hoping he slots right in, like. Longstaff is a tough watch at the moment. Plays with absolutely no belief and kills any momentum we might have going forward by taking an age to do anything.

As far as I can tell, these are the links to the articles in question: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5697574/2024/08/13/newcastle-sponsorship-saudi-stadium/?source=emp_shared_article https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/newcastle-stadium-plans-cheque-generation-imminent-3224798?ito=copy-link_share_article-top Tldr: No news, announcement "imminent". Possibly.

Howay, man. You can't come into a thread making grand claims like that then admit there was no announcement from the club, before telling people to find the articles themselves. Terrible form.

Can't believe no one has commented on Lacselles yet. Looks like they filmed his in a sauna. Creased at how more often than not, they just repeated their name at the same speed.

Hopefully it's not Pennant behind the wheel!

The most ridiculous part in all this is how he's being referred to as simply "Diaz" by everyone. He was plain old Ben Brereton from Stoke until he somehow remembered his mother was Chilean in 2021. Barely speaks a word of Spanish by all accounts.

Granted, I was more talking about the prediction of ninth from the Beeb. I'd still expect an objective appraisal to have us higher than eighth, mind. Particularly when they're pushing Man Utd for fifth.

Seen some absolutely mental predicted finishes from the BBC and Guardian. 9th and 8th I believe. Frothing for us to fail.

He always wears a cap when they're anywhere sunny. He'd crisp up otherwise.

They're there but in the same colour as the body, no?

It's just snaps of them visiting the adidas archives.