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Celtic celebrate winning the Scottish Premiership which is like us celebrating League One promotion.

I'm really chuffed for them me. Watching Scotland is like watching Newcastle I feel. Just proper wholesome, passionate, love the party, loving a good time. The sense of achievement and not just taking things for granted. I mean, it is also a bit small time some might argue and that we're now trying to move onto bigger, better things, but I don't know, just feels from "from the heart".

Marriage.

Western Ireland is fairly beautiful but I reckon I'd opt for Scotland too. Edinburgh is one of the best UK cities after Newcastle and Liverpool I reckon. However, I am Inter...so maybe you don't trust me

We're due to turn these over I feel. Howay Eddie Howe’s mighty mags.

Woltemade Wonderbar How many goals have you scored so far?!

6 in 14 for Newcastle I think it works out (43%) versus Isak's 1 in 8 for Liverpool (13%)...and for half the price 👀

There's Nor way they're winning it like as good as they might be.

And Bruno and Joelinton.

Yep that all makes sense to me.

I mean one thing is for certain Casemiro is definitely NOT the best Brazilian player to play in the Premier League, based on his performances here as virtually that whole list have been better in their time in the PL and that's not even including Joelinton and Bruno. Shows how fickle and short-termist football fans are.

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I base it on what I see from Howe. We scored some of the most goals in the league last year that we've ever scored (if I recall correctly), changing tactics to beat the countries top sides on the way to our first trophy in years. In seasons prior we had one of the best defences in Europe and won lots of scrappy but organised 1-0s. I just think there's a lot of nonsense perpetuated on social media when we hit a bad patch tbh. He's not untouchable and we have been woeful in the last two away games, but it feels like folk rewrite history to me like. Howe has earned the right to be backed in times such as these. I rarely see many viable alternatives or solutions either...

On what basis does Howe get too much credit for it? We beat like 4 of the top 5 clubs (at the time of playing them) in the country to win it. If Howe is at fault for all of the current misgivings how can he not be credited with tactically out doing last year's top 2 sides?

It's just social media kinda nonsense tbh. Fans of the "big" clubs belittle it because it is understandably not on their list of priorities, but we've now won a cup more recently than the likes of Arsenal. I bet they're thinking twice about its importance now. Other fans only belittle it out of jealousy - we shouldn't listen to any of that shit. The major trophies in this country are the League Cup, League and FA Cup. It's been that way for decades. It doesn't change as soon as we win it.

100% Imagine belittling that trophy win after we waited 70 years for one domestically man. Give your fucking heads a wobble. There's about 90 teams in English football that compete in that same competition yearly and whom would have loved to have won it the others would be pretty nonchalant but pleased.

Since when was the league cup not a major trophy. What sort of absolute Mackem/ @HaydnNUFC bollocks is that.

He hasn't been bad at LB either given he's had limited protection.

It's not dressing it up, it's being realistic. Draws away from home at relatively tough destinations isn't so bad when you're winning a lot at home. 19 home wins and 19 draws would see you on 76 points which would see you comfortably CL and/or challenging titles. Of course that is an ideal world and we are some way off that at present. That I am not denying. There are 4 away games this season I'd have expected better from us results wise. West Ham, Brentford and Leeds as outlined previously, but also a draw at Brighton ideally for where we want to be. However, there is also some rhyme and reason for the likes of Leeds. It is important to look at some of the context rather than just the statistical summary. Despite our away form last season we finished 5th. We weren't competing on 4 platforms either. We are only 12 games in this season. Ultimately, as is always the case both on here, on WhatsApp discussions and in life I just choose to see the positives to be honest rather than dwell on negatives. It has nowt to do with 'dressing up'. It is about perspective, because both what you AND I say is a reality.

A desirable rather than an expectation. Beating the likes of Villa away is good for any side in the division. The only ones expecting that should be those hunting down the title, even then it's not a foregone conclusion. We didn't have a striker at Leeds, but yeah, I'd agree that was pretty piss poor.

There are literally only 2 results on there that I find pretty unacceptable tbh. A lot of teams lose away to Villa, Arsenal. Brighton and Bournemouth. It's the last two that have been particularly woeful. I honestly think that is in some part down to the noise being created about this problem.

Dan Burn is fine 1 vs 1 when there isn't space to attack in behind him. When there is he is massively exposed due to a lack of pace. Today he was exposed due to lack of pace, versus West Ham he was exposed due to a lack of folk like Gordon tracking back.

Agreed.

He was first half. Which is what I wrote. He was stopping almost everything and was even offering going forward, albeit it wasn't great. Second half he was allowed to be isolated. His positioning was fine but his pace was a problem, for their penalty - which wasn't one. The prior tackle may well have been. He made a mistake the same as Botman did, but Burn is our of position. None of which I haven't already said. Burn wasn't given the run around at all. He made one mistake which resulted in a penalty that wasn't given.