frankpingel

Fair enough, Keegan moreso for me but I always respect others opinions.

Genuine question, do you not include Keegan in the " greats" of Newcastle United?

At the moment I'm confident. Might change after tonight's matches and probably will by 3 tomorrow regardless.

Noticed Cardiff play at home v Watford on Friday night, the wrong result will increase the pressure even more.

Taken from groomers " Will Grigg is dire, you're defence don't have to try" .

The grandma's orchestrating the near riot there, police need to get to her before Tuesday's match or there could be some serious disorder.

I'm never overly confident of a win but have tried to look at it objectively.

Looking at the relative form of both teams I reckon a 1-0 win seems most likely. Hopefully the addition of Almiron gives us more in the final third and we're able to win more comfortably.

Loads of them were overly confident of 9 points from these 3 " easy" home matches. Hopefully the lack of a decent winning streak continues and they have to be content with a play off place. They'll brag about getting to wembo but in reality it'll be massively underachieving.

Glad I decided to watch now. Still going to score though aren't they.

I'd imagine the new and returning (from injury) squad members will get most game time but there'll be the usual high numbers of substitutions.

Happy birthday to the man who brought my best times supporting NUFC.

Saying on SSN that Blackpool have best away defensive record in the 3rd division.

Hopefully see Barlaser on Sky Friday vs sunderland.

Definitely one of the greats. RIP

It's a very interesting point that Longstaff probably would not have been given this opportunity had our "1st choice" central midfield pairing not been unavailable. I'm sure there are numerous similar situations around other clubs throughout their histories. I'm not one to get overly excited or enthused but these recent performances are not some flash in the pan but are a player who knows his position is calm and makes good choices with the ball. Watching him talking to Rafa during the match had me saying to myself we've got a player here.

Still think a draw would be a good return from this.

Took that one as well. Looks good at ht.

That's the spirit. Only pointing the obvious out, fancy a score draw personally.

Heavy defeat and we're in bottom three.

Would be my predicted team as well.

Which is why I assumed it was for current levels of televised games. Not that I know for certain but I agree it would cripple attendances.

I was listening to Talksport when he made those comments, although he wasn't specific I got the impression it was more about the PL owning the " product" and his projections of income. I would've assumed it was based on similar amounts of televised games as now but an increase in subscribers worldwide.

You'd like to think there inability to score more than one per game will mean they'll be in the playoffs. Still plenty time for them to improve but it's got to be a disappointment for there fans.

Turning into a more important game after the weekends results, a point would be great and three fantastic.