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What happens with Carabao Cup Europa place? Liverpool winners so presumably another place for the league when they go into the CL?

Apart from beating Chelsea 4-1

Don’t think you can blame the ballot for this. The safe standing section is usually returns from the away allocation I think so goes to the resale. I got one in there for a pal today and he said the same - standing frowned upon ffs. Only thing I’d say is that nowhere on his ticket did it say “safe standing”, not that it should matter.

Most of the lower Gallowgate had no idea it had been disallowed. Plenty raging that we were pushing for a winner so much instead of settling for EL. Killed a bit of the atmosphere as well where I was which had been immense up that point.

Box on Deansgate is usually decent. Watched the Wolves game in there and there were a few other Newcastle fans in.

Hate white socks. Probably because we’re usually next to useless in them. Another hoodoo for Eddie to smash.

Yes it does because it was played by two Forest players before it hit Longstaff. Ridiculous

We had the (?) pleasure of heading down on the train from Manchester on Sunday morning. It was the same all the way down even when they thought no Newcastle fans were in earshot. Straight up weird behaviour especially as 90% were Shearer related songs & the bulk of them singing it weren’t born when fucked them off.

Olympic way was a sea of black and white around 1-1:30 when we landed.

Worth double checking the seating plan - I had this in Level 7 corner for the Palace game. Seat numbers were a few apart but when we got their the missing numbered seats didn’t exist so they were actually next to each other.

Well it is possible for Eddie and Romano to be correct. There’s no way the club say anything until medical is done and contracts signed. Just have to look at the delay in the club saying anything on Botman for days whilst clearance was sought. They eventually had to say something to calm the panic brigade. Looks to me like both parties have reached agreement but admin and medical to sort.

Noticed that he waited for Ederson to set his wall up and then placed the ball a yard further to his left. Totally changed the angle and sent Ederson moving fractionally the wrong way. Very clever as well as an immaculate strike.

Looks like Fofana is pushing more and more for his move to Chelsea, which may mean this is a non starter for us without going all the way to £60m.

Been interesting to watch PIF’s approach to this. People like Dustin Johnson and Bryson that said they’d never take part have then had huge sums of cash thrown at them, resulting in some 180’s. From a NUFC perspective it does indicate that they’re willing to spend whatever it takes to make sure they’re successful. Confirms to me that the only restrictions for us come from FFP.

He was very precise with his language and made a point of saying it was very position dependent as well which may mean that we’re comfortable with an older keeper for a while. FWIW I think he’d be a great fit personality wise as well.

Watched Eddie’s Football Focus interview earlier, discussing the likes of Fraser, Richie and Wilson giving him an advantage with the dressing room by telling the lads about his expectations and what he’ll do for their careers and the club if they buy into his methods. Wonder what AC has said to the West Brom guys?

Ex-players never fail to disappoint when they open their mouths. Benz’s turn this morning, championing Chris Wilder as some sort of revolutionary idea and stating the next man must be British.

That’ll go well from level 7

Quite the leap from Conte to Carrick in one article

Could be that arbitration is either under way or imminent and the delay in releasing this “bomb” via the press is a negotiating tactic to apply pressure to the PL. NDM has always maintained that these things are best settled outside of court/arbitration.

Thread title change was oddly prophetic. He’s genuinely a false manager now that Jones is in charge

See his wiki has already been updated: "Graeme Anthony Jones (born 13 March 1970) is an English professional football manager and former player who played as a forward. He is currently first team coach at Newcastle United. He then proceeded to play aggressive attacking football after telling steve bruce to "do one cabbage heed"."

Lots wrong with this. Mainly that we've finished in the top ten 4 times in the past 15 years, in spite of the owner. Constantly belittling the club, nufc fan my arse.