Heron

Oh well.

Separately... Saturday may well be one of my favourite ever displays, not for creativity but for content.

Seen someone whinging on Twitter cause I was chanting "New-ca-stle" for the three claps. However, to my knowledge, growing up it was only ever 3 claps, then United. At least New-ca-stle makes sense though with 3 syllables for the 3 claps and it's our actual name. The other thing was vs Everton just United and United being shouted which was quite good to drive the loudness upward.

Boosts global profile doesn't it, has folk buying merchandise and potentially spending big bucks as 'package' deals to come watch us, etc. (Potentially). All just speculate to accumulate I'd guess.

MotM for us on Saturday coming.

Ah God. I have an inner rage and sickness now.

I actually don't mint Leeds. Proper club. Got a respect for them and think they have for us, despite wanting to be top dogs in the North etc.

8? O'Nien?

Love players like Bruno me, Rondon was another, just love life and love playing football, all round good eggs. A pleasure to watch them.

On account of Dummett not being on to make that stupid mistake then aye. He's probably right

Half assed is what this post is if you're equating Longstaffs effort to that.

We need our £60m signing available whose name we keep singing despite him being fucking unavailable all season. Tonali > Longstaff. Well not for NUFC he hasn't been, quite the opposite. Not yet. (Not a dig at you BTW mate.)

This is where I'm at too. I feel folk rewrite the game as well based on the result. Everton did fuck all by and large, one chance where they hit the post and that was it. We hit the bar, had the ball in the net twice, one off the line and generally had them on the back foot most the game. They created virtually nowt. Dummett massively cost us with his stupidity. Just a personal gripe but I feel expectations have risen too quickly and feel folk are desperate to find scapegoats at present. Effort is no longer enough. People turn up to be entertained and are fans not supporters. Supporters support when the going gets tough. We fold like a pack of cards on 60mins every game and it reflects on the pitch, or vice versa. I'll put my tin hat on as everyone will no doubt say "we need quality to go to the next level", yada yada yada. We fucking cannot because of FFP. You get more flies with sugar than shit so we should be backing every one of these boys to the hilt. They've given us all these moments, from cup finals to derby wins to possibly one of the biggest victories in our entire history, but groan at Burn for not clearing the ball on the first bounce when he was nigh on immaculate, sigh every time Longstaff misplaced a difficult pass. Wey give owa man. What was that phrase "we don't demand a team that wins..."

Atmosphere always changes at 60mins and nerves set in. Have to use the Corner etc to push through the negativity, if that doesn't happen we're on the back foot.

For 5th choice LB it'd be wise to allow that to be a kid imo. So in short, yes.

I'm not even disputing that. What I am saying is folk shouldn't equate his career to the equivalent of that one performance tonight.

This is a fair assessment, but I feel we aren't at a level where we can simply replace willy-nilly at present so it's kind of taking a big chance on offloading these kind of players and whether you can find a real hidden gem. This is where Ashworth probably came in. Not sure on the background of all that stuff but we need a real intelligent scouting system and transfer strategy now FFP is dicking us.

That might be the case but aside from Ritchie I'm not sure what the other viable options were tonight. Burn, Trippier, Tino, Hall all unavailable to play there for various reasons. At which point you can only put kids in. Kids are also likely to do what Dummett did. Only difference is it'd have been more forgivable. Howe isn't to know that ahead of the decision though. We rely upon people with the right application and attitude and will for 2/3more years and possibly beyond with FFP. So we have to choose whether we back folk who deserve backing or chance it on potential mercenaries like we did when we got relegated. I'd have a Dummett, Longstaff or Burn every day of the week over a Sissoko for example who didn't give a fuck.

Arguably MotM tonight after Bruno who was next level.

Confidence is absolutely shot. Find the groaning at the stadium fucking boring and stupid.

-Demonstrating the right attitude in training -Wanting to be at his home town club -Multiple managers seeing enough quality in him to at least offer something to the squad -FFP -Other clubs not being interested that would make it worth our while All of the above. Reality is, attitude is the most important thing.

Would you have brought Ritchie or one of the bairns on then?

I'm not disputing that.

Dummett was great for us under Benitez despite being limited. Benitez often had him as one of his first people on the team sheet. Defenders who defend. There's nowt wrong with that it's just a somewhat seemingly old fashioned view now. Now we have full backs who make up an additional CM. I just don't think it's fair to equate his whole career to being shite based on his fuck up tonight which seemingly some are doing.