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We're giving them too much respect since we scored, need to stop smashing it to no one and get a foot on the ball because this is relentless. Big Joe and Livramento please

Poor 20 minutes, shocking

Super super Harvey Barnes!!

Mackem levels of self awareness and sense of irony

It's literally your job to find a way to win in every circumstance you bald nonce

What kind of witchcraft is this??

I don't really care about them....but here's a list of reasons why I do care about them. Tit.

It was such a refreshing change from our side to side and backwards passing, there was no fear at all, direct passing, moving the ball quick, letting the ball do the running and always looking for the forward pass, makes you wonder why we've found it so hard in other games, we even seemed to lose possession less by being braver with the ball.

You come out of a game like last night and you're reminded that Eddie Howe's Newcastle United can really turn it on and beat anyone at St James' on their day.

Might I add that the official TV commentary was sickening MUTV sycophantic bilge, so much more refreshing watching the highlights. Although the devastation meekly hidden when the Osula goal went in was pure music.

What a night, what a game, every one to a man played their part but in particular Ramsdale was integral, some amazing stops and his distribution was pivotal, Joelinton was everywhere, a man mountain, Burn was solid at the back and Trippier had his best game in years, even Elanga played really well, 11v11 we bossed it. At 10v11 it felt like an air of inevitability but the injustice of the sending off seemed to galvanise us and create a real siege mentality, everyone went up 20% and the belief that was sapped from us as fans was not reciprocated on the pitch. Take a bow Osula, that was a moment worthy of a win in any match, the tenacity, belief and confidence in that run and strike was second to none, folk law stuff. Absolutely buzzing with all of it.

Tbf Maguire is covering his sight of the shot, he probably didn't expect it to come in from that angle and that distance.

I have an Irish friend so I know what this means, however it does have a dodgy background

Heart tells me we fight back the recent malaise and win convincingly, my head tells me a loss to 0

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Some wild takes in here like, so glad the club isn't fan owned at times. Howe = Dalglish/Souness?? Howay man

What a stark contrast to just a year ago, depressing

The one thing we can be grateful for with Howe is that we will never be a souped-up version of Stoke City, give me high intensity "get after them" football over long throws and "get it in the mixer" every day of the week, please and thank you!

I'd have probably had more faith in it with Staveley still in the club than the chaos we've endured since she left. Either way it's not a stick to beat Eddie with, give him all the tools to succeed and then judge him, he can only be judged on what has been made available to him thus far and until this season he has consistently exceeded expectations and we still can't judge him on this season until it is over.

Then the onus is on the CEO to ensure we maximise our commercial revenue so that we can compete financially with the elite we want to rub shoulders with, or is there some mythical, magical Manager out there with the ability to battle on multiple fronts with a relative shoe-string wage budget?

I'm not convinced this is the case, I still think Howe's way of playing still has a place in the game, we've just not implemented it properly, whether that's through fatigue or conservation of energy I'm not sure. But that's what leaves us so vulnerable and why we look so disjointed in midfield and defence, we're pushing up but not committing to the press as aggressively as we usually would so we're easier to play through. Given fresh legs and one game a week next season I think we see that intensity at full volume again and we will roll teams over.

I'd go one further and say Howe would have us up and around the top 3 with one game a week and fully fit and organised, well trained squad, maybe even the outside chance of a title push if the recruitments are right, we weren't far off last season.

The media have always had a frenzy for our best players, we're not allowed nice things and why would any of them want to stay at little old Newcastle? We need to stop this victim mentality and feeding into gutter press sensationalism, we are here and we are upsetting the equilibrium and long may it continue, we might have the odd player who feels the pull of a red top team but we're not another "also-ran" despite how this season has transpired. We're still building for the future and that future has players like Bruno, Hall and Thiaw in it, there's not going to be some mass exodus, we will get it right, one poor summer and proceeding season does not define us.

The mistake was hiring Mitchell in the first place, everything there after is moot, had he stayed we may have struggled to sign even the players we got if he has a habit of rubbing people up the wrong way. Him being in place at all was the issue, stay or go I think we would have had major issues in the summer.

We don't need wholesale changes and a couple of astute buys would definitely catapult our fortunes, but there's still glaringly obvious weaknesses in our team that need addressing, bar a striker and a goalkeeper: 1. Suitable LB and RB backup 2. The damned RW position 3. A proper DM to fill that massive gap between MF and CB 4. A creative 8/10 to unlock a low block We still really need to sort out that spine through the middle. Having said that, the glaring gaps aren't uniquely down to personnel, our press lately has been lackluster, the times we get it right we dominate, previous seasons have seen us score so many goals from harassing a team high up the pitch and turning the ball over in dangerous areas. This season I've watched us push our formation up high but with much less intensity making us so much easier to play around leaving us vulnerable on the break. Whether thats an exercise in maintaining balance with the amount of games we play, or players not committing as much, I'm not sure. We either need to play with the same intensity and accept that we're going to be tired, or be more cautious in how we distribute our attack. Because at the moment, we're toothless and wide open.