Novocastrian

Pissed me off the amount of noobs on Twatter who think this is the first time we’ve been in the CL or even in Europe! We fell a long way down under Fat Mike’s stewardship that’s for sure.

4 minutes ago, Elric said:

 

Now we reply with some kinda German slang totally irrelevant to the North Rhine-Westphalia region

Maybe a picture of some gadgey wearing lederhosen.

1 hour ago, oldtype said:

I think I might have drawn the most boring group possible

 

No real elite teams. Porto would be fun I guess. Napoli okay. Belgrade meh.

 

Would fancy us to advance, at least.

 

 

 

 

I lived in Naples for a while. An away day there is not for the faint hearted.

Is this the way to Barcelona? 

If anything we were galvanised from the disappointment at Anfield last season so let’s hope we go on a long winning run now.

Just now, hakka said:

Can't wait for NUFC360's take on the game.

I don’t have the heart to even look on Twitter.

Liverpool an official bogey team now and it’s fucking infuriating.

Just now, Nobody said:

Just the 8 shots on target plus one off the post. 23 attempts in total. 

Against 10 men, I didn’t feel like we were going to score. A few snapshots but we never built any real momentum in front of goal.

1 minute ago, SUPERTOON said:

Creativity wasn’t the issue today though.

We hardly had a shot on target. I’d argue creativity was exactly the issue. If you can’t give 10 men, sitting deep, the good news then that’s a lack of chance creation.

Howe and the players need to own this. Not seen much ‘intensity’ recently. Very poor, we struggle with too much possession as we don’t have the guile to unlock the defence.

I certainly expect to win today. Apart from City I’d expect to win every home game. This isn’t Ashley’s NUFC anymore, we’ve got a team that tries, now we want to win. I won’t  be too upset if we lose after putting in a decent performance but we are rubbing shoulders with the big lads now.

No chance we lose this, I don’t expect to lose any home games now. We will win this by two clear goals.

33 minutes ago, Whitley mag said:

Rambo Reilly, Joe Allon and Tony Cunningham whey we haven’t got anything to whinge about these days.

 

Big game mentality required on Sunday, smash these scouse cunts and Bruno to arrow the winner in and take the fucking roof off SJP.

Billy Whitehurst!

From Wiki - “Whitehurst's robust style of play attracted much notoriety and he is considered by many to have been the hardest player to have played the game”.

We tried.

4 minutes ago, gbandit said:

That’s a big statement. Grealish is a very good footballer who isn’t quite at the very top for his position. I think Gordon will be more versatile than Grealish, he already is, and he might offer more to the team but to be better than Grealish he still has a way to go

Understand what you are saying, I often think Grealish is somewhat constrained in that City team to some extent. I do think Gordon has something special and once he nails down a position he can call his own he’ll show his worth.

I think Gordon will be a far better player than 100m Jack Grealish.

Bloke at work, Scrum Master, has a YouTube channel about radio controlled planes with 775k subscribers. Not sure if he’s raking it in but he’s still on the stand-up every morning.

Those Youth tickets really aren’t shifting. 

5 hours ago, TheGuv said:

I managed to get get one last night after refreshing the ticket page every minute for around 2-3 hours. And even then I had to click on the seat within 2-3 seconds. I missed out on a handful as I was too slow. 
 

I’d rather not have to do that every week tbh and I doubt I’ll be that lucky either. 
 

However, 3 of my friends and family cohort that I would go to the games with have all been unsuccessful in the ballot, unsuccessful in yesterday’s 10am queue and also couldn’t get any last night and this morning on resale despite trying the refreshing technique. 

 

 

 

Did exactly the same yesterday afternoon and got two in two separate goes. Although I was refreshing the page on and off from 1000 in the morning until after 1630. I got kicked off my laptop for being ‘a robot’ so moved onto my mobile which I actually found a bit quicker, that’s when I snagged the two seats. Before that I was getting beaten to the punch trying to manipulate the mouse. Bored on Teams calls today and out of curiosity I went back in and there were a few adult tickets popping up which were snapped up almost immediately.

1 hour ago, patrone said:

 

That's not right to be fair, membership was a thing pre Ashley.

 

Not that it matters now like, but they've been a thing for years.

The current Membership came in around 1999/2000 IIRC. I’ve still got my original membership number. One of the selling points was to go on the season ticket waiting list. I then got a season ticket after the expansion to 52k.

Didn’t we bid circa £80m for Kvara a couple of weeks ago? 

2 hours ago, The College Dropout said:

1. I just don’t think we sign a LB.
2. I consider Burn a defensive weakness in the team.
3. The Livra fee is very high. He needs to be more than backup. We must think there’s a way we can play both at times.  
 

I don’t love it at all. But it is an option.  

I get a bit nervous when Burn is on the ball but in fairness to him as a defender he’s more than adequate. I’m surprised he wasn’t exposed more often last season but he largely held his own even against the speedsters and  Saka’s etc. It’s going forward where I think Burn’s shortcomings lie. We need an energetic, over-lapping LB to complement the threat down the right.

27 minutes ago, James said:

At this point probably worth mentioning that anyone we sign henceforth has missed pre-season and we all know how Howe is with players who aren’t properly conditioned / tactically prepared.

Yes, even if someone came in tomorrow they are going to miss the first 3-4 games at least. This isn’t Bruce ball, they aren’t getting thrown straight in. 

Fifth this season with, touch wood’ CL qualification would be a fantastic achievement. Then we bring in another 3/4 purples and establish ourselves in the top 4.

16 minutes ago, Armchair Pundit said:

 

But Shearer scored 283 top flight goals, Kane's only scored 213. At 30 I can't see Kane scoring 71 more English top flight goals to beat Shearer... or are we only talking about Premiership goals? Bit skewed if so.

 

 

 

Either way you want but if we are including Shearer’s 23 Div 1 goals then we need to include Greaves’ 357. Kane still miles off.