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"Babe, I had a chance to get with Sydney Sweeney, but It'd have been a sideways move" Husband points for days Edit: If this was @cubaricho I was responding to he'd probably believe it tbh

While I do like to start a #fred, I believe its @Jack27 that loves starting player signing threats prematurely

There will be two draws around the Carabao Cup third round this evening. Both will be live on Sky Sports, one before Newcastle's visit to Nottingham Forest, at around 19:25 BST, one after. The first will be to confirm whether the Champions League or Europa League qualified teams that will be involved in the first six ties will be at home or away. The precise team will not be known until the draw itself takes place after the game. Although Manchester United and Tottenham could have played each other and any combination of Manchester City, Arsenal, Liverpool and Aston Villa could have been paired, the EFL felt the method they have chosen was easier for fans to follow and broadcasters to publicise through their graphics. United and Tottenham must play their games in the week commencing 16 September as they open their respective Europa League campaigns the following week. That means a clash with the opening round of Champions League fixtures, which will be played between 17-19 September as it is Uefa's designated 'exclusive week' for the competition. The remaining 14 Carabao Cup ties will be played in the week commencing 23 September, when Europa League games will be played on the Wednesday and Thursday as part of their 'exclusive week'.

I'm wondering if there is something missing about Bruno in the sentence that got cut and that line got left in by mistake. It would be a bit mental like

Didn't Disasi have a good reputation and was highly thought of before Chelsea got their stank all over him? Think we where after him at one point last summer too, so would make sense.

Captain tonight? This is from Douglas's piece:

Ohhh thats interesting, guessing that'd mean Big Joe would play further forward, and we'd look to "pivot" away from a three in midfield Tonali Bruno Gordon Joelinton Barnes Isak

Both things are technically true, so I can, and I will

Ah yes, let's include someone we haven't signed to make my point look better Also technically we've spent £7m on RW given we bought Minteh.

The Allsvenskan in Sweden are celebrating their 100th birthday, to celebrate this last weekend every club wore retro kits:

Gave an Interview with the Clubs media: https://www.newcastleunited.com/en/video/680811

Is he a CM too? Would be class if we could start a CM three off: Miley Miley Miley

Louise Taylor asking Howe this morning: "In a clinical terms there is a difference between a gambling addict and a problem gambler, what category do you think Sandro fits into?" Is horrendous journalism and just downright shitty from a human stand point. The person she's refering to has clearly gone through some mental hardships and is now coming out the other side, so to ask that is so unbelievably insensitive.

Its an admittedly simple metric, but looking purely at Assists last season: Right wing: 18 (10 from Trippier, 7 from Murphy, 1 from Miggy) Left Wing: 15 (10 from Gordon, 3 from Barnes, 2 from Burn)

It been a few pages, think its time for one of these don't you think @Deuce

Is there a reason you're being needlessly antagonistic?

FWIW Howe's response to that question of "RW or CB pick one" (Which is a shitty question in general tbh), was "I'm not going to disrespect my players by answering that question". Which is as straight bat Eddie as you can get.

I'm listening to the press conference atm, and unless I missed something, that comment from Hope is pure made up.

Luke Edwards asking Howe the questions everyone wants to know: "If you had to pick one, Blur or Oasis?"

I've not listened to True Faith in a while, are they still as unrelentingly negative as they where previously?

This is basically what I'm implying, people seem to act that Murphy is absolutely horrendous and it's a war crime he's starting, when factually he's been effective over the last few seasons, even if he's not been spectacular.

Murphy is in the top 1% for assisters for his position for Europe over the last year in fairness:

Personally, while I want us to upgrade our RW, as it is the part of the pitch that does lack quality compared to the rest of the squad, I think people go overboard with how bad it is, and think that CB is the position that needs upgrading most. Murphy had 11 goal involvements last year, with 7 of them being assists, that's not horrendous, infact it's half decent, while at the same time as a squad we scored our highest ever total for Premier League goals so we can make do with Murphy, deploy Miggy if we need a pressing monster, or play Gordon on the right with Barnes on the left. Our biggest issue yesterday was getting out of the press in defence, Burn is a colossus, but he can't pass, and most of our issues came from just hoofing it long for Bournemouth to attack again, so having two ball playing CB's in Botman and Guehi with Tonali in CM will add so much to the way we play, that it's the more important position for me, if we're having to pick one.