bobbydazzla

Well aye, good acoustics aren’t going to fix a shit crowd. And you’re also referencing a bygone era referring back to the early 90’s. It was arguably the most exciting time to be a Newcastle fan in the last 50 years, we still had terraces and football was nowhere near as sanitised as it is now. But the fact is we currently have shit acoustics that don’t help with atmosphere in a situation where we also have a lacklustre crowd.

Well aye, obviously it’s the people who go to games who create the atmosphere but the acoustics at SJP are fucking awful and that can’t be denied. You can hear L7 more clearly from outside the south end of the ground than when you’re actually in the south end of the ground for starters. The two things can be mutually exclusive.

Some do, some don’t. Maybe Eddie will, maybe he won’t. But everything we’ve been experiencing aligns with what the Bournemouth fan who came on here told us what Howe was like in his end days there, so that’s why it feels like history repeating.

I think it’s absolutely valid for someone to say they think Howe should go without having to name a replacement. Not everyone on N-O is an expert in scouting and recruiting managers, but everyone on the board has an opinion on Howe. I can see my dishwasher is broken, doesn’t mean I have to fix the fucker myself.

It all feels remarkably similar to how Bournemouth fans describe the end of Eddie’s era there. History repeating.

They paved paradise, put up a parking lot

This isn’t a criticism of you, because I don’t know if you were at the match and I was watching it on telly thinking the same as you were. But the negativity and nerves from fans at the game is a self fulfilling prophecy with us most of the time. Players look a bit nervy, crowd gets nervy, players get more nervy, crowd gets more nervy, players fuck up, rinse and repeat. We’ve got a losers mentality on and off the pitch currently. And the two things are inextricably linked.

How was it ? On a scale of 1-10. With 1 being tragic and 10 being a morgue.

Counter argument would be that a change is a good as a rest. As an example, the lad Boro sacked is doing a decent job at Man Utd. And I don’t think many would have predicted that. Froggy would have obviously, cos he’s never wrong. Sometimes shit just goes stale under a leader and change is needed.

That wasn’t just a home loss to Sunderland after being 1 nowt up. It was the summary of our entire season in a TL:DR format for anyone who hasn’t seen every game we’ve played. We’ve defended like shite and dropped points from winning positions since August. It’s the same shit week after week after week. And that’s on the manager. He picks the team and decides the tactics and is tasked with ensuring the players know how to control games when we get a foothold. We’re making the same mistakes again and again and again and Howe doesn’t seem to be able to stop it. Which is his job.

And the way in which we lost to Arsenal and Liverpool. And scraping past Leeds with the last kick of the game after conceding 3 might have been exciting, but it glossed over the fact that we should never have been letting teams such as Leeds come here and score 3.

Don’t know how anyone can be surprised at how that game played out We’re absolutely soft as fuck at the back and our record of dropping points from decent positions is tragic. If any opposition team keeps having a go they’ll score goals, especially late in the game. That result today is a microcosm of our entire season.

I know a lass who was a lapdancer She’s happily married with two kids now and even if she was the one paying me the £’s I wouldn’t give her permission to rub her chebs in my kipper. Nice lass though, don’t get me wrong.

FUCK YA FUCKING PYRO AND YA FUCKING FIREWORKS AND YA FLASHY FUCKING STADIUM LIGHTS YA SOULLESS RAZZMATAZ VAPID CUNTS Was gonna watch that Bournemouth match but they can get to fuck, I’m watching Mortimer & Whitehouse Gone Fishing now instead FUCK MODERN FOOTBALL

I’ve changed my mind on this one. I was all for a new stadium. I think in the case of SJP and the 35,000 who trudge through the turnstiles to vent their frustrations every game, familiarity has bred contempt and change would be as good as a rest. But now I’d rather just have a competent defensive unit like we had in 22/23. That’s my biggest grand ambition for NUFC. Anything else is of minimal importance.

The scourge of modern football possibly. Difficult to feel an emotional connection to something that has become so utterly vapid.

Dat pelanty

We’re scoring plenty of goals, problem is we’re conceding more than we’re scoring

If we're going up against any of the clubs that PSR doesn't apply to, then most times the player will choose those clubs over us. They have more prestige, they can pay more, they can afford to spend more on the transfer fee. To land a player like that, we need the stars to align. And the stars rarely do. Last summer we were big game fishing, but the other fishermen we were competing against had bucketloads loads of chum and we were naively dangling a maggot thinking we had a genuine chance.

Fair comment. But turning the draws and soft losses into wins would have a much bigger impact. In the league we're 8th for scoring goals and 14th for conceding goals. We can stick the ball in the onion bag much better than we can keep the ball out of the onion bag. And loads of those goals have been conceded when we've had a foothold, we're 3rd worst in the league for points dropped from winning positions. And we're bottom of the rankings for Points Gained From Losing Positions. Once we go behind, we're fucked. You can't build a successful side when you're weak as piss at both holding onto a lead and coming back from being behind. The current NUFC is a soft touch.

UEFA calls leagues to summit over 'microscopic' VAR https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cly6993wn64o

Doesn’t explain why we’re gifting goals at set pieces though. We’re absolutely shite at the back, which to some extent is due to our inability to maintain pressure at the top end of the pitch but that’s only part of a much bigger problem.

I don’t know what the answer is, it’s above my pay grade. But I know that going into next season with the same group of defensive players (keeper, defenders & defensive midfielders) and coaches and tactics isn’t the answer.

Sign players who aren’t at the World Cup. Problem solved.

As others have said, we have defenders who are excellent as individuals, some of the best I’ve ever seen at the club, but they’ve been absolutely tragic as a unit. They just can’t keep clean sheets and concede soft goals week after week after week regardless of the quality of the opposition. Games like Chelsea are an outlier in a season of Keystone Cops defending. Howe really needs to sort this out through new signings, better coaches, or tactical shifts to give the defence more protection. When he came here he made a mockery of the “Howe teams can’t defend” reputation with a 22/23 side that had the meanest defence in the league. But that’s history now, we’re absolutely dogshit at the back and the “Howe teams can’t defend” reputation is absolutely justified this season.