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Must have been Whitley mag cos I wasn't at that one. I only went to Blackburn and Cambridge away in the 91/92 season (my first season as a ST holder). Blackburn was absolutely mental I remember. Probably 4k of us in the Darwen End. David Speedie scored at hattrick for them and took great delight in antagonising the away end. Quite a few tried to get onto the pitch to get hold of him. Funny to watch as a fresh faced 14 year old

Aye I've always thought of it as an urban myth like. As you say when we had Keegan we beat them every time and once the Bobby Robson era properly kicked in we got the better of them as well. Arsenal tend to be better than Spurs and they usually beat them, same with Liverpool and Everton. When Rangers were dominating Scottish football in the 90s they nearly always beat Celtic and now that has changed Celtic usually beat Rangers. At present they have to be favourites. Well above us in the league, playing with far more guts and fight than we are, more confidence, and have home advantage. However getting Tino, Hall and Wissa out on the pitch that day would make all the difference.

Bloody hell that's some going that mind!

Hell of a result for York last night. Watched it on DAZN. They don't look a bad team at all.

Yep haven't seen anyone on here, or spoken to anyone who wants him sacked. However I think, as much as we don't want to admit it, the mackem game will be key. If we lose to them I think we will start to hear calls for his head. That's just the nature of the beast and how football fans are. Burn being suspended and Hall being back is actually a stroke of luck. Tino back training now and Wissa shouldn't be far away now. Once those 3 are in the team we should see an improvement, and also a change in how we play.

As things stand everything points to a home win. Sadly I think they'll out work and out fight us which was the foundation for their success when they beat us "6 in a row marra". Add to that the rabid home crowd and they do seem to be getting a lot of breaks at the minute I just can't see us getting a positive result. Aside from that our fixtures leading up to the game don't exactly look like they'll be confidence boosting ones for us either. If there was any chance of Wissa playing we've got to throw him in as well because as things are we are far too one dimensional and easy to defend against. If you're playing a 433 like we do the middle one of the 3 forwards surely needs to be running in behind, because if he isn't you have 3 forwards who are largely ineffective as he's not doing what the 2 wide players need him to be doing so you're nullifying them as well. That's not Woltemades fault as running behind isn't his game but we do need a change of approach regardless. I'd snap your hand off for a draw now put it that way. Thank god we got our derby back!

Agree. He'd be much better playing with a traditional number 9 in the sense of the word. He plays much deeper than a typical out and out centre forward. It's why I have some sympathy for our wingers. In the past they would get the ball and see Isak or Wilson in the box so there's their target there. Often they'll get the ball now and Woltemade is deeper than they are so they aren't sure of their next move and things break down. It's not a criticism of Woltemade. It's the kind of forward he is, but I don't think we'll see the best of him until Wissa plays, whenever that might be when I think we'll go to a more 442, 4411 type of formation.

He'd walk into our team at present mind. Would take Minteh ahead of Elanga any day as well. In hindsight I think I'd rather we'd cashed in on Joelinton and Gordon to satisfy PSR (we'd have got more for those 2 as well) but there you go.

Said this yesterday on the group chat. Our ball retention is pathetic. Must be up there with the worst in the league. Our midfield lose possession time and time again, and when you add that one of their strengths used to be how quickly they could win it back, which they aren't doing now, and also how easy they are for the opposition to play through, then it's a recipe for disaster. No matter how good a centre half you are, you need protection in front of you, and our CBs get very little.

He's been shit ever since he wished Isak well on Social media. Same with Gordon. Like some sort of curse

Scandalous that we spunked £155m on him, Elanga and Wissa like.

Tonali was awful tbf. Not taking Burn off when he got the yellow card was what done it for us today. And literally everyone but Eddie Howe could see that coming. Brentford couldn't believe their luck.

How come everyone on the WhatsApp group I'm on said what was going to happen with Burn 15 mins ago and to get Hall on for him but Howe can't see it. 100% on him today but some of those players just don't look interested in playing away from SJP.

Can't wait for the derby mind.

I've got a saver bet on them just in case. 15/2 is a hell of a price tbf. Also backed them to beat Chelsea at 7/1 two weeks ago.

Aye they had a huge temporary floodlight pylon obstructing their view was well

https://www.nufc.com/html/2010-11html/2010-10-27arsenal-hcc.html

Aye this game... https://www.nufc.com/html/2010-11html/2010-10-27arsenal-hcc.html

Aye but we played them in a League Cup game where they only had the Lower NW Corner as Level 7 was unused.

Correct. Since the PL era away fans were first given the Strawberry Corner, then the NE Corner when the Gallowgate was developed and then the NW Corner during the 1999 redevelopment. They were then put in the Level 7 Corner and then where they currently are now.

Was a midweek League Cup game. Level 7 was closed and they were put in that corner and also overflowed around into the Leazes. 3,400 fans they brought I think.

No chance in the world there's typically almost 2,000 empty seats at every home game. That would equate to 4 blocks of the away end being completely empty as an example. 200 maybe, 2,000? Nah I'm not having that like.

I actually walked into Bar1892 during HT unchecked.

Sat in 3 different seats last night. First seat was in the Leazes End. Lasted 10 mins before I had to shift because the bloke to my right was the most miserable, negative, whinging twat I've come across at the match in years and i was aboutto say something but didn't want to get the lad who's ticket I was using into any bother. I spotted a few empty seats in the Milburn Paddock so headed for there instead. That was just as bad. Actually worse. Bloke sat next to me with his son never looked up from his phone and even complained when someone nearly knocked it out his hands as they walked past. So far my atmosphere rating would be 2/10. At HT I walked all the way around to the Gallowgate to meet a mate of mine who stands in the Strawberry Corner. Unsurprisingly that was the best of my 3 seats for atmosphere and I'd give that a 7/10. They try but it was clear last night that the rest of the Gallowgate rarely join in and I noticed that from my other 2 seats I couldn't really hear them. Overall pretty dismal atmosphere wise. 3/10. I don't think there's any real desire from either party, club or fans, to improve things so it is what it is I suppose.

Appears to be turning into a bit of a figure of fun if those sat around me last night are anything to go by. People just laughing and saying "he's absolutely terrible" was the general reaction. Better than booing him amd getting on his back I suppose.