Mattoon

Send the dirty bugger off

Fml this has gone to shit because the ref keeps falling for their cheap free kicks and its thrown us off here.

Don't feel worried at all here, they're powder puff, remind me of us under Bruce, get it to Richarlison and hope for the best, no movement around him, no one ahead of him and no one in the box when the ball goes out wide. Howe will have his number, make a few tweaks at half time and we'll turn the screw here.

Pawson the ref for this one, the guy on VAR for that penalty ignored vs City when Fraser was tombstoned by their keeper.

They made it personal for some strange reason, so I hope they tank.

Early game is likely to contain and frustrate, get the home crowd nervy which will filter to the players, Joelinton is absolutely paramount for us to effectively cut them off. Big Joe won't be needed all game, once their heads drop and we take the lead, all going to plan.

Beating Everton is likely to put enough daylight between us and the drop to ease the rest of the season, we should go all out.

Absolutely agree 100% he was substandard against Chelsea, but that doesn't mean all of a sudden he's public enemy number 1, some of our supporters have the memory of a goldfish. Who's to say Howe hasn't told him to stay forward? Either way he's more than earned the benefit of the doubt.

I see half of twitter have turned on him, including Culkin, the guy is an absolute game changer and can tear apart the best defenses in the league but let's moan that he doesn't track back? I think I'd prefer him on the shoulder of the last defender waiting to counter tbh.

Heard the commentators talking about his rigorous training techniques last night, 5 and 6 side matches, such cutting edge techniques he has, not sure why we ever let him go! Thought Fulham were the dominant side last night but didn't look like they were likely to do anything in the final 3rd and West brom looked dangerous on the counter, Fulham couldn't cope with the directness.

After our run of form and performance against Chelsea and their respective run of form, anyone that says they'll take a draw now is still haunted by Ashley and Bruce ball. We should absolutely be looking to win this, comfortably.

It's not even as if it was your average shirt pull either, some force in that to pull the neck hole over his shoulder, clear attempt to bring him down rather than rough housing. And that's before you get to the leg across the body that eventually brought him down. It's unfathomable that with access to replay and slow motion that it's not seen as a foul, there's literally no excuse.

We're the form side to beat, Everton in full disarray and hemorrhaging goals and points, I think at this point I'll feel a little deflated at a single goal victory. We need to bounce back from the Chelsea injustice and I hope we put these to the sword.

Got to admit this one still stings, we were in control of this game and were undone by a moment of magic by a player that should have arguably been off the field of play. Even if it was a yellow (could go either way) we 1000% should have had a penalty and likely have been ahead and even more determined to hold on. Very hard pill to swallow as the injustice cuts deep in that it definitely changed the course of the game and an impressive unbeaten run. I feel I'll still be stinging from this one for a while.

In American football managers get to challenge on field decisions a number of times a game, would something like that work for decisions that maybe go overlooked?

I'd love this to be the game we finally put a team to the sword, Howe will have Lampards number from the off.

He's clearly been doing his homework and learned a lot in his hiatus and I'm impressed, I think if we'd have got Howe straight out of his last job it would't have been as impressive. I think he has the capability to be the real deal, to get a performance like that out of, what looked like on paper, a no hope situation was extremely impressive.

Daylight robbery, good goal to win it but the decision to not give that penalty was absolutely criminal.

I see Merson is back on the sauce this week "They've been on a good run but these players finish in the bottom 3 next season". Is he barred from pubs in Newcastle or something?

https://twitter.com/GeordiePirate9/status/1502063244932001793?t=LUBbCdDRSuF_i7kRQ0Kl8g&s=19

And stands at the back unassuming.

He's the full package, not the finished article but definitely has all the tools to be so.

This won't be easy for Chelsea and that's all we can ask for, make it difficult, defend well and when we do get a chance, hope that it falls to the right player. I'm not expecting anything but I don't think it's a dead rubber either.

Cannot be understated how big a win this was, Southampton only beaten once at home this season, a goal down and we've only managed to turn 1 game around all season, when their goal went in the result felt inevitable, maybe we could scrape a draw? The belief and mental fortitude of this team has seen a miracle change, we were against the ropes and taking a pummelling, we came out that second half and soaked it up, took our chance and looked the better side at times. Absolutely delighted with the performance when we've got so many of our better players out too. Chelsea seems a step too far, but I wouldn't put it past this team to grind out a draw.