Away Toon

I agree selling Barnes is absurd, it's just buying him when we did was more opportunist than a priority. It will be interesting to see what we do next season because both Barnes and Gordon should be starting and they both play the same position.

We have Gordon, both Joe's, Anderson who prefers to play wide left for starters. We didn't need Barnes when we bought him, he's a luxury signing to back up Gordon that maybe in 5 years we will be in a position to do. I like Barnes, over a season he'll probably outscore Gordon, but where do you play Gordon in that case. He certainly doesn't like playing on the right.

Maybe DCL is Isak's replacement?

Normally injured, otherwise maybe not very good?

Nobody is paying 50m for the invisible man Willock.

We need to sell someone for a reasonable sum, so if not Miggy who?

The risk is that we lose one of Isak or Bruno or Howe depending on how PIF view not qualifying for Europe.

And yet Eddie has shown no interest in playing anyone as an out and out defensive midfielder or purchasing one. I can't think of a successful team that doesn't have one. Arsenal have three although obviously they don't all play at the same time.

After Bruno he’s technically the best player we have.

Just too slow to make use of what looks like a reasonable amount of skill.

In typical Newcastle style it's all going very pear shaped.

If we are the 6th best team in the league than the league is honking.

So win our 2 games and we get 6th and Europa. Anything less and it's possible we end up 7th and depending on who wins the cup in the Conférence or 8th and SFA. Pretty crucial that we don’t fuck this up.

Man Utd looking good so far and reasonably competent.

The implications of not getting any European football are unknown. How will Bruno, Isak and more importantly PIF react?

I think one person said we weren't getting Europe, we have as good a chance as either of the other two, better than MU if they lose to Arsenal tomorrow and we get a result when we go there.

Well the last time we weren't defeated when it mattered was in 1969 so there is a bit of a pattern here.

I think Barnes needs to start and play a lot and for reasons already discussed on here we bought him to play in the position we have by far the most options for. Gordon, both Joe's and Anderson for starters, Isak can also play there. Maybe coming on as a sub really doesn't suit him and like today shows he's a rhythm player.

Just about worth a point i suppose. It does set up both Chelsea and Man United to finish above us unless we win our last two games.

Cheating little bitch. Sell.

Eddie needs to coach the players to love the ball and protect and nurture it, not give it away carelessly and consistently. Just seen Bruno, Murphy and Isak take no care at all and give the ball away under no pressure.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/videos/c0v02xj9e73o If we ever want to compete at the top level something similar is what our owners should be aiming to do. Show us the ambition.

That’s what we’ve done with Barnes.

Murphy tends to be either amazing like today or terrible like last week with not much in between. When he's on like today he's a much better option that Miggy on the right.

I've been trying to enjoy the journey since I started going regularly in 1970, for fuck's sake we just need to win something.