Pilko

His indirect set pieces are fucking crap. Love the effort and commitment and he's absolutely captain material all day long - but not having a secondary option on free kicks and corners is hurting us every single game at the minute. Thanks for the graft today Tripps but please learn to not hit the keeper every sodding time when you're crossing from a dead ball.

Shite today. An absolute warrior and anyone who gets 1 in 2 in that shite Bruce team deserves a lot of heavy praise. But.. got the feeling his powers are fading. He looks short of confidence and was absolutely non existent today. We need better if we're going to kick on, sadly.

Sat in Club Wembley having a sad beer. The lads did us proud this weekend - plenty of graft, effort, determination, passion and the never-say-die attitude we want... but sadly lacking in quality on the day. The difference was a side full of players who have negotiated big games and finals and a side sorely lacking in that experience. A set piece and a deflection, at half time we felt like we should have gone in at 0-0 in the ground. What a weekend though. Geordies everywhere, people believing in their team again and I come away with the overriding feeling that there will be other finals, other big games, and in time we'll start to win them. We have a team and club that are doing their best to win again and that's all I've ever wanted. A word on the Man U fans - largely crap and more interested in goading Toon fans sat around them. One of them missed the second goal because he was too busy shouting abuse at us (we'd said nowt to him). I'll save thoughts on individual player performances for other posts - the headlines are that NUFC are back and we'll beat Man U and all the other dickhead top teams over the glorious period that we're just seeing the start of. HWTL, I'm off to get blasted.

I've been in London & around various different areas of it since about 6.30pm Friday night and I've not seen one solitary Man United fan. You can hear or see Toon fans absolutely everywhere, it's absolutely class.

Mike at Tynemouth market love it.

To be fair to Mowbray he can hardly say "I fancy four nowt Newcastle, so and so for a hattrick" when he's in the Sunderland manager's job wouldn't be the smartest move ever in terms of fan base engagement.

"gone gay" like it's just something everyone has just done for a laugh to annoy him Hilariously bad post.

He was Liverpool's first choice for a few years and was concussed when he made those errors in the CL final. Other than the general worry around the lack of sharpness of a keeper who's barely played, which would be the case if Darlow or Dubravka were playing, I think he's about as good as you're going to get for a third or fourth choice keeper. Imagine this same situation happened 10-20 years ago and we'd be lining up in a cup final with the likes of Tony Caig, Ole Soderberg or Jak Alnwick between the sticks. It could be a hell of a lot worse...

The one they do with Kevin Lynch is class too, only two refs they've had on so far but they probably have better and funnier stories than 80% of the football guests do. Danny Simpson's Undr the Cosh pod is due out tonight as well.

Who here thinks Neil is more of a laugh than me? That's mentaaaal, come on...

Poor timing from QPR. Few weeks sooner and they could have got Uncle Neil back in.

I don't think you're helping yourself in your overall argument by giving it the "I'm a much better fan than everyone who lives locally".

Tbf with our awful PA system I'm not surprised nobody could hear whether it was meant to be silence or applause.

Liverpool cementing their mark as the biggest shit stain cunt club on the planet by singing YNWA during the Atsu applause. God forbid it not be all about Liverpool Football Club for one sodding minute. Nobody else can be the victims. Imagine the uproar if our lads belted out Blaydon Races during one of their endless Hillsborough tributes? Thankfully the noise from our fans almost drowned out the inappropriate singing.

Really on song today. Hopefully plenty space for him on that Wembley pitch, could be key.

Got to hit the target there

It's not hate. He's clearly one of our best players and he's a great captain but he's had a defensively suspect couple of weeks and his under or over hit set pieces are hurting us at the minute.

Trippier's shite set pieces are the biggest threat to us on the counter.

As much as I love Trippier and as much as he gives us so much going forward, it's so disappointing to see him constantly stood three yards behind the defensive line like a shit Sunday morning player. He's had a really poor couple of weeks.

Dubravka like a table football keeper there rooted to his line

Please spend the week wrapped in cotton wool Loris or it'll be the Mark Gillespie Masterclass next Sunday.

Trust us to eventually arrive at a cup final in absolutely fucking dreadful form.

That's just as onside as Isak's at Anfield was.

Biased cunt Carragher. Fuck off.

Fair fucks to Howard Webb for actually doing something and taking some form of action with consequence. Hopefully the threat of being potted for being shit will get some of the useless twats to buck their ideas up.