Doctor Zaius

Im probably as confident for this as I was for the West Ham game, so yeah...

Raahford in that game at SJP put in one of the worst performances I've ever seen from any player, ever. Players are often shite but it's actually quite rare to see a player so brazenly not trying. Wasn't even bothering like.

If Joelinton plays well, Newcastle play well.

HOPE THOSE STEWARDS BONUSES FIX IT JIM YOU GIMP

Nowt to do with American nationality per se, but more to do with American owners with knowledge of American sports and trying to implement ideas and culture from there in order to make PL clubs more valuable. You can see it clear as day, American owners in shock at the value of PL clubs in comparison to NFL franchises. "Let's use our experience of US sports/leagues, and increase the value of our investment". More commercialisation, less sporting jeopardy. Football is in a dire shape. The PL is anti competition, and it's the same teams winning over and over again. Stale and boring. I welcome any shake up to the order but going the way that US based owners want to isn't the answer. Itll just lead to the whole thing getting even more plastic than it already is. I don't want to see any more US influence the PL but it's certainly not due to xenophobia.

Spurs are abject. Constantly wide open like. Can't see Ange turning it around.

Massive game. Win and were right back amongst it. Lose and we're back to chasing again. Has the potential to set the tone for the rest of the season. That big win last season will live long in the memory for Emery. Both him and Howe are capable of doing each other over tactically. Shame it hasn't fallen after a CL week for them.

Best player suspended and without a home win in the PL since 2002... Nervy 2-1 for us

Why does this sound like a pre season friendly?

Wolves have enough talent in that squad to stay up with the right appointment. Don't think anyone would keep Southampton up. Where do you even go? Bring in a progressive, forward thinking manager and carry on getting hammered, or bring in a conservative pragmatist for a bunch of players not used to playing that way. Leicester are the ones that'll struggle for me though. Not sure why they appointed Van Nistlerooy. They've went from Maresca, to Cooper and for some reason RVN. Suggests they have no clue what they're doing

Flooding out after 25 minutes. What a waste of a Sunday evening

Southampton are miserable like

Shit for the away fans but I like 7pm Sunday kick off time.

Crap this like

Have to win here and I think we will, by two clear goals.

Vlachodimos played 150+ times for Benfica and is a current international. Better option than a soon to be 36 year old Dubravka?

Been a good game this

He's basically done like. 33 in a few months and he just cant stay fit anymore. Plethora of muscle injuries, two ACLs, and years as an elite athlete does that. Been a good player for us between the injuries. Even if he was to return, given his age and the amount of time he's had out over the last two seasons, hes not going to be the player he was. The thing is, we knew all this. Yet we did nothing about it.

If anything there has to be more highlighting of PSR, at no point should we begrudgingly accept something thats solely in place to prevent us progressing.

Gotta be the end for Gaz O'Neul surely

At no point have I tried to rewrite how he was. He was killing the club and we were woeful on the pitch and the response from the fanbase was fractured at best. Had we been finishing 6th/7th every season, the opposition to him would have been minimal, particularly from match going fans, which was my original point. You're entitled to think in wrong all you want.

In a world where Mike Ashley's Newcastle had finished consistently in Europe (winning consistently) there would have been less of a fuck given about how he ran the club - rightly or wrongly. That's my point. Genuinely don't think it's that hard to understand.

We weren't winning games with any sort of consistency. We never finished above fucking 10th in a decade aside from that one season under Pardew. Had we been regularly qualifying for Europe under him, there would have been less noise about his running of the club, because like I say, results matter. Im not fucking claiming grass isn't fuckin green here like. Christ alive.

You said it flippantly to trying diminish the point I'm making about results on the pitch being of the utmost importance. It wasnt just a few bad league positions and that was the ire of most people's anger, that's my point. The banners, the protests, the boycotts wouldn't have been as prevalent if we were somehow achieving on the field, without doubt. Results are more important than anything else for the majority in my opinion, whether you share that opinion or not, I don't really care. Not sure why you keep signing off with 'you do you' either as if it's some kind of withering put down.

It wasn't just a few crap league finishes though was it? It was going to be three relegations despite no PL relegation prior. It was going to be a solitary season in Europe. It was going to be year on year of absolute turgid football under footballing dinosaurs. Calling it 'a few crap league finishes' is a rewrite of history itself. The asset stripping, running the club for his own interest, lack of investment amongst a plethora of bad decisions all essentially translated to the above. One criticism was of his business practices, there was frequent criticism from a moral standpoint of his treatment of workers and how he should never have been associated with NUFC. It's a bit of an elephant in the room that one these days if we're honest. Im hardly trying to rewrite history by stating that, in my opinion the crux of the matter for the majority of football fans boils down to results on the pitch.