Froggy

"Best striker in the world" and took nearly 90 minutes to even have a shot at home to Bournemouth. He owes me a tenner.

Was £10 for me.

Laughed when I noticed how it won. even sweeter for a Newcastle fan I imagine.

The talk is Mainoo is demanding £200k a week. I don't think there's much wrong with him coming to terms with the fact that's a sellable asset. It might ground him a bit.

Around the half hour mark Southampton had an attack and Ugarte just jogged back when he was in a position to track back. Amorim gave him dogs abuse and I'm fairly sure that was reason for the sub, but Mainoo was much worse than him last night. Ugarte has been one of best players in recent weeks, but he's 23 and not immune to a poor performance. I'm not reading into it too much.

Apparently this new deal is close to £500,000 a week.

My boy.

I think the Spurs game this season was much, much worse to be honest. Fernandes getting a red card maybe makes it look like it wasn't as bad, but we were getting torn to shreds before that anyway. Wolves game was worse than last night as well IMO. Also reckon the opening half hour against yourselves is probably the worst half hour I've ever seen from us but Mainoo coming on saved that from being an embarassment. I think we were poor last night, and Southampton had chances, but people seem to be glossing over the amount of chances we had ourselves. We've had games where we've created absolutely nothing and just sleepwalked to a defeat.

Pundits are hired either as a check box or as a popularity contest to try and bring in more viewers. Coverage would be a lot better if it had decent fans in place instead, like Adam McKola for us or TCD for you, but they wouldn't get the subscriptions Sky are after.

It applies to pretty much everyone this though. For outsiders it looks like Isak is carrying you. This is just normal for opposition fans. Look at the amount of people how think Amad is carrying us, when really he's actually been a bit poor lately and it's actually been Fernandes, Ugarte and De Ligt who have been the stand out performers, with the latter two getting criticised for absolutely no reason whatsoever except for ignorance. A lot of people on here say the same with Salah and Liverpool, and have said the same with Arsenal and Saka. It's normal for a team to have an attacker who has the bulk of the goal contributions.

Just found out that's StuntPegg's real name.

A lot of xG models genuinely don't. I don't like it either way.

You're using understat which has Amad's third as 0.39.

Hope he hasn't ruined Yoro's career.

And for what it's worth, Southampton had 1.54 xG and 0.81 of that was for the Fernandes chance.

Antony's was 0.28 believe it or not. xG doesn't take the keepers position into account. Amad's third was 0.68. xG is a load of bollocks like.

No way. We've had way, way worse over the last few years. It was an awful first half. We were in complete control after the Zirkzee and Collyer subs I felt. Very poor in general but we did deserve to win the game by the end of it.

Zirkzee's named was chanted all night. They know it was a mistake born out of pure frustration. He did very well and I'd be very surprised if he doesn't start against Brighton.

It was 0.92 - 1.25 at half time when we apparently should have been 4 nil down.

@KaKa I'm sure you've already said it as well, but it's Zirkzee who changed that.

Why are you acting like Antony's miss shouldn't be counted? It was the best chance of the match.

Newcastle Online for our opponents chances: Newcastle Online for our chances:

And funny enough, "people" doesn't refer to just you.