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Trippier has been poor but like Dortmund I think Wolves have been pressing him into mistakes well. Having Jamaal next to him instead of Schar is always going to make easier to squeeze us there and it's usually so key to our passing tempo.

We've been pretty poor overall apart from Bruno who's been carrying us. Would love Pedro Neto here - think he'd be perfect for our right hand side. Normally I'd fancy us to step it up second half but we look tired and have so little off the bench.

So jammy. Both the awarding and the penalty itself.

Type of goal we never usually concede. First set piece of the season? Very frustrating.

Wilson in his bootcuts in the corner there

Aye I'd be tempted to rest Bruno for Sandro. It's a gamble obviously but we could end up with a very thin midfield against Arsenal if he picks up a yellow.

Rather have constant singing and supporting the team than a reactive crowd that just calls the players cunts and slumps back in their seats every time a pass is slightly underhit.

Blaming the Dortmund fans for our own utterly shite atmosphere is pretty pathetic mind. Drum or no drum our lot turned up expecting to win and just pissed and moaned when we didn't. It was one of the most disappointing atmospheres I can ever remember considering the circumstances.

Could do without that like.

He still had a couple of years left when we let him go to Stoke on a free. We'll have either paid him off or be covering part of his wages for the remainder unless he's willingly given up £

At Galatasaray? Looked full to me. The empty seats at the front behind the goal is only because the fencing/banners make it an obstructed view so they cluster further back.

Ned?

I've tried finding Cumbria supporters groups to help him out, and struggled to find any footprint online at all. I think people forget how strong Carlisle's local support is.

If you've actually booked a hotel there I'd agree in suggesting changing it last minute if you can and booking a night in Newcastle. As others have said you can be back in Carlisle the next morning very easily. Reiterate what Disco said regarding Uber at that time of night in that part of the world on a midweek. It almost certainly won't exist. You will have to pre-book with a local taxi firm. It will probably end up being cheaper to simply book a night in Newcastle (even if you couldn't cancel your other one in Carlisle). You're right about public transport in this country in general but Newcastle - Carlisle isn't really a major route as very few people live in between and it's too far/slow to be a commuter route between the two places. It did always surprise me that the later one never went all the way to Carlisle (I used to live that way so regularly got last train home) but clearly the economics of it don't stack up.

I interpreted that his accomodation for uni is in Carlisle, rather than booking a hotel there.

It does have the feel of convenient paper story rather than a deal that would ever be something we'd pursue in reality like.

Neesy has his Crystal Palace, Bologna, Levante, Steaua Bucharest, Basel, Inverness Cally Thistle, Dagenham & Redbridge and AFC Richmond shirts ready for future Red v Blues.

Maybe price up booking a taxi from Hexham to Carlisle? You could get the last train or a bus to cut some of the journey distance. May be at least cheaper than a hotel but tbh I'd have no idea of knowing for sure. I think finding other Carlisle based fans would be the best bet though if you can.

The Tyne Valley line does serves that route late on a weekday but only up to Hexham. I'm not sure there is huge demand for passenger services running late all the way across to Cumbria on an evening most days of the week tbh. And UK rail services will rarely adapt timetables/run extra services to suit sporting event. Even if they did I don't think we've historically had massive support in Cumbria tbh - most either support Carlisle or glory hunt south. That might change though going forward... To answer your question I'm afraid your only solution is to book a hotel/hostel/Airbnb - or ask around and find somebody who is driving back that way. Maybe ask on somewhere like Twitter.

It's not unique to Sunderland though. To be perfectly honest many large towns and small cities (effectively the same thing) in the UK are exactly like that. Particularly ones that were Victorian industrial boom towns (with no prior history) and have since ceased to have their entire purpose. Get past about 6pm and they are eerily dead. It's worse in the UK than mainland Europe because nobody lives in city centres to give them any life. Throw in council having no budget to maintain streetscape/public realm, clean graffiti or pick up litter and it's unsurprising places can look apocalyptic once you hit the witching hour. The one thing I will give credit for to Sunlun is the council do have the right ideas and are genuinely trying their best. The new housing development coming forward where the civic centre is being demolished is interesting because its putting good mixed housing right close to the city centre. Not only is that the right idea to try and inject more life but doing so makes more use of the Metro as it can/should have a genuine commuter belt function into Newcastle but currently doesn't really (because of how low density Sunderland is). I will also say what Sunderland has and Newcastle doesn't is a well located city centre park in Mowbray Park. Newcastle's green spaces always feel more peripheral and there's very little green space actually in the heart of the city. Again this reflects the fact Sunderland was very much a Victorian town. It's probably better maintained than the likes of Leazes Park as well for some reason.

The new entrance will look a fair bit better when it is done tbf. Looked nearly done when I was there couple of months ago (went down to Brighton via Grand Central as it was dirt cheap). Still more local bus/light rail interchange vibes than major train station - but a big improvement and long overdue.

https://www.nufc.co.uk/news/features/jamaal-lascelles-programme-interview-23-24/ Nice interview.

But Sven wasn't on the bench and isn't back for another couple of weeks yet.

He's so good. He's made me look a right mug. I compared him to Callum Mcmanaman ffs. Tbf I was fully converted to pro-Gordon by the U21 euros.

Aye I'm not usually one to obsess over stats but our underlying numbers have been really good throughout so far. Even the one comfortable defeat at Brighton where we were terrible relative to what we are used to seeing was actually weirdly close in terms of xG - far closer than last year where we got away with a lucky 0-0.