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This season? The 4th placed clubs haven't played a qualifier since 2017

Conference League these days, I'm afraid.

I'm usually a defender of him anyway but thought he was really good today.

Yeah I like Longstaff but he's been dreadful as the deepest midfielder every time. Negates everything he's been doing well. We need a signing there now for sure.

Christ, that doesn't look good for Bruno. Can see him being out for a little while unfortunately.

Think our biggest problem at the moment is actually that Trippier and Wilson have gone off the boil quite a bit.

Definitely need a midfield signing. Just the thought of Bruno getting injured is horrifying.

Prosaic this. Still not a fan of this left hand side at home.

Lovely quotes from him. Glad he's doing well in the PL.

Cracking player but doesn't seem like the kind of signing we'd make tbh. You'll know if there is anything in it early tomorrow as they play at 11:30am

I believe this incident further underlines the need to extend the metro line to Ponteland and urbanise the lot of it. Who knows just how many are drink driving to get home.

Personally don't see the point in going down like if you don't have a ticket. Either go to the match or watch it in Newcastle.

Really poor. Know loads of people who do similar mind. As far as I'm concerned it's a total cunt's trick.

He'd give us something different to most of our midfielders apart from Bruno tbf. He's a good technical player. But I do find his lack of athleticism really stark.

Very good performance all round that.

How do you know it was definitely him? I can't buy for a second he was anywhere close to getting in the France squad tbh. He's never even been suggested for a call up. There were players who have been involved in recent squads (IE Diaby) who didn't get called up.

Keown said well machined oil during the game yesterday

One thing that I have noticed having spent time in both Bradford and Leeds recently is that you do see lots of Liverpool and Man Utd shirts - and people openly supporting them in pubs. Certainly to a far greater extent than I have ever seen in Newcastle tbh.

Weghorst comes across as a bit of a weirdo, though. The grief was probably more than justified.

He was alright going forward last night but was poor defensively. His performance against Palace in the cup was probably the worst of any individual player this season that I've seen - although luckily for him only people at the game had the misfortune of watching it. Make no bones about it we'd struggle massively without Trippier in the PL and we desperately need a new right back to push him.

Just seen West Ham got through. That's a shame. We could do with getting a spare weekend for that away fixture.

Similarly I would say there are posters on here who contribute so little they might as well just log off, such is their inability to engage with nuance or debate without having a childish meltdown and slagging off other supporters. In fact since the ownership change this has got worse - such is the positivity towards the new ownership. Nobody has anything other than praise for the unbelievable job that Howe has done. But two 3rd round exits to lower league opposition is, in isolation, a bit of a disappointment. That is all and I imagine Howe is himself very frustrated by it.

The only hysteria I see on here is people unable to accept legitimate and balanced critique without throwing their toys out of the pram. I have had a lifetime of watching us be absolutely shit in the FA Cup. It was a hope that this would change very quickly. The fact it hasn't happened is one of the few blemishes on his record so far. It's just a blemish in an otherwise exceptional record - bit it still is one.

What has that got to do with anything. I am saying that this is a blemish not that he's doing a bad job. Exiting the FA Cup in the 3rd round to lower league teams two years in a row is underperformance considering the club's ambitions. I'd imagine even Howe, considering his high expectations, would think the same.

Bruce and Pardew both got us to League Cup quarter finals. Rafa did it in the Championship ffs. It's hardly a massive achievement especially when combined with abysmal FA Cup exits. Big pressure on Tuesday to save our season in terms of cup performances IMO considering where our ambitions are supposed to be now.