Thomson Mouse

When do we get butchered by Liverpool?

They’re not shit, average, yes. See them under Benitez, R. There’s just an absolute absence of anything resembling tactics and motivation now Disagree Dummet,Lascelles,Shelvey,Ki are all shit Rafa just had them drilled so they seemed to perform better in a team Joelinton looks a fucking donkey and Almiron cant score Fucking great eh Lascelles is good, the rest are average. Far too early for Joelinton especially with a dog turd of a manager

Not a chance that was a booking

They’re not shit, average, yes. See them under Benitez, R. There’s just an absolute absence of anything resembling tactics and motivation now

Watching Longstaff there I feel desperately sorry for him. Shelvey is an absolute fucking disgrace

Commentator telling us that poor Bruce and Agnew didn’t have a lot of time due to Benitez’s contract negotiations :lol:

Good job we did all of that extra running in pre-season. It’s really helping

Not at all. He’s struggling and I have no doubt Bruce’s lack of any tactics will contribute. Wait until Andy get back and us knocking balls down to him for 5 mins. Bruce’s whole season hangs on Carroll staying fit

I know it’s a rly days but Joelinton looks absolutely lost. Not a clue

Can’t figure it out, is it 4-and-the others run around

Happy to delete for the forum but he’ll need to cross international borders for me

Heard it’s something about girls in the ticket office and Charnley. That was about two months ago.

He’s on the TF podcast, haven’t listened yet but I’m sure he’ll be spouting drivel on that http://www.true-faith.co.uk/podcast-newcastle-united-lose-premier-league-opener-to-arsenal-with-special-guest-luke-edwards/

I’m still more surprised that he ever contacted us to sign up to this shitfest. It’s not like Ashley has done to Rafa something he didn’t do to other managers before. I love Rafa as much as the next fan, but in an odd way his presence possibly set the club back by taking the pressure right off Ashley. Fans might have given up on their season tickets by now, after three more years of the likes of Carver, McClaren and Bruce. I don’t blame Rafa obviously, but he can’t claim he didn’t know how Ashley operates before he joined and if he thought he might persuade him to change his ways he was sadly mistaken. I’m sure the likes of Keegan and Shearer would have been happy to explain that to him beforehand if he didn’t. Sadly I will always look back at the Rafa era with some regret for that reason, as brilliant a manager and a man as he is. I’m certain Ashley will have loved playing with his and the fans’ emotions. Tbf I fell for it as well. I was convinced that agreeing to hire Rafa was Ashley finally conceding his methods weren't working. But he really couldn't give a toss about the football, I think he'd rather watch the club burn than admit he is wrong. We saw it with Keegan when we were riding high, and we have seen it again with Rafa. When it all goes tits up as it must do, then he'll hold a press conference again saying he has made mistakes but will learn from them, and blah blah blah. Rinse and repeat. The signs weren't bad to begin with - talk of "what Rafa wants, Rafa gets" behind the scenes. That lasted one transfer window, where we made a substantial profit in net spend terms But players were signed that fit the needs of the squad in the manager's view. Whether that changed because Ashley wasn't happy with a few of the signings, or it was always the plan to play nice to give the best chance of promotion then pull the rug from under Rafa and revert to type, only Ashley knows. I think Ashley agreed to go along with it for a while, but was never really comfortable with Rafa's insistence you need quality and experience. One or two iffy signings and he was probably "I was right all along". When Bruce takes us down or gets sacked, he'll probably be full of regret again, but only because relegation will cost him more than any profits he makes from these 24yr old signings. Iffy signings read little roi and the dangerous desire of Benitez to push might’ve had us in Europe once again. I’m not sure why some people can’t figure this shit out. He wants us in the prem, ideally. Wants to sign young players and sell them on for a profit while advertising his businesses on the world stage. We are a profitable business to prop up the rest of his shite, if we go down he’ll stick it back on the debt. Why anyone would pay to watch that shite is incredible.

I took the next bit as the explanation, that they only wanted to sign players under 24 instead? Yeah I did as well. Basically Ashley will see upgrading the training facilities as high risk in terms of return on investment so is quite happy going back to his old model of buy low, selling high and letting the mugs still keep coming through the doors. It amazes me that Charnley is able to exist in the north east without more grief

Some the comments on that article man, fucking morons. “Themoscow72 11 minutes ago You went for the money as simple as that Rafa and money which is tax free. You could have stayed but chose to move on. The club could have sacked you after that poor start last season but they stuck by you when many other clubs would have got rid. You chose to repay them by moving on. That is what you should do and goodnight.”

Watch the difference between pfm and tactics when sourness and mourinho talk tactics at the end

Anyone with half a tactical brain will take us apart. Bruce looks like he’s told Almiron to run around a lot. Commentator telling us that things will get better as Bruce hasn’t had the time

Those fucking tactics eh Steve

hayden still a beast. Longstaff off man I’ll give it about 4-5 games before the players are looking at Bruce and going

Shelby over Longstaff

Commentator telling us how ‘sadly boycott talk dominated pre-match talk’. Bruce’s mates in the media protecting their own

Lovely stuff from Bruce there says Smith. Cock Didn’t realise they changed the rule about the ball coming out of the box from a gk

Absolute beast there

Atkinson got it spot on If it was the other way around it would have been to en as a penalty, and the guy in the VAR studio would have said that there was intent. No