Jackie Broon

It's textbook Dunning-Kruger effect. (I say probably with probable Dunning-Kruger effect about my knowledge of phycology)

Going on like he's Pep fucking Guardiola when he's only in that job as a multi-club yes man and has achieved less than fuck all in the game.

Ref's always made mistakes but they're becoming farcically incompetent, I think they're becoming increasingly deskilled by VAR and their reliance on it to make decisions for them.

Fuck that, he can only score against us, he'd probably score two own goals every time he plays!

Fair point, maybe it would have been better for Howe to have said that rather than implicitly blaming the team.

It was the wrong decision, the team were clearly getting carried away taking too many risks and losing their shape.

Moments before he'd waved Burn forward for the free kick when Burn hesitated and looked to the bench, Burn was back in position for the goal but the whole team seemed caught in two minds whether they were pushing for a second or sitting back and defending the lead, that indecision came directly from the Howe.

Copium maybe, and I'm obviously gutted not to have won, but I feel it's probably psychologically better for us to go into the second leg level than with 'something to hang on to'.

Shola vs. Barcelona-esque performance from Osula coming up hopefully.

The team that started worked out fine for 30 minutes, the issue was his reluctance to change the team when it obviously needed to change before or at half time.

Inconsistency is our identity?

Don't bother to hold off a player while the ball runs out play now either, just push them into the advertising hoardings.

I think the difference is that he only needed to break his fall because he was jumping to block the shot, if you do that and it his your arm I don't think there can be any complaints about it being a penalty. I think that's different to someone falling naturally, cushioning their fall and being unintentionally hit by the ball, his intention was to block the shot.

Wow. Get it!

It is a pen, he's only jumping like that to block the ball, it's not that he's falling and putting his arm down to brace his fall.

No we aren't, that report of us being worth over a billion pounds was based on the (likely golden handshake) price paid by PIF for Staveley's shares, it was not a true valuation. Forbes publish annual estimates of club values and they put us at £0.8bn in their 2025 report. They paid £305m for the club and have since have injected £558.3m through allotment of shares (issuing a share and paying £Xm for it). That's £863.3M they would need to sell the club for to break even, currently increasing at a rate of around £100m per year.

How is that very likely? They've already sunk not far off a billion and counting into buying and subsidising us, I just don't see how they ever make a profit on that. I agree it looks increasingly like they're not that arsed, but I don't see a prospect of them doing more than breaking even, if they're lucky.

And still is, happens all the time and I can't remember the last time I saw an indirect free kick given for it.

Bruce didn't really have a great reputation before taking over and most people outside of Newcastle saw him as having done a good job in difficult circumstances and had been unfairly hounded out (they were wrong, of course).

I don't think that's true in relation to our managers. Hughton, Pardew (outside of Newcastle supporters), Benitez and arguably Bruce (outside of Newcastle supporters) all left with undamaged or enhansed reputations.

We're about as clinical as Dr Nick Riviera.

He had a full preseason with them and they have played like strangers since the first match. The fundamental differences in that season is that we had some great results and performances and a good run of form before the fatigue an injuries (and possibly the Vermont stuff) affected our form. This season we've been relentlessly shit, even for large periods of the papering over the cracks wins.

We've been shit since the start of the season, can't blame congested fixtures for that.

I remember sitting in an English lesson at Heaton Manor that day, the deputy head barged into the classroom and said "guess who the new Newcastle manager is?... Kevin Keegan!" Then ran off to the next classroom

They and the other southern B clubs are outliers, they are very attractive to high potential players due to their location and being happy to be a shop window for the cartel clubs.