MickMack

You seem a little bitter, you’re not jealous Keith is getting more attention than you are you?

Billy Sharp and McGoldrick would probably be grateful for his input to their careers, if he can get them playing premier league football how can we rule out hed be good with better players. His win percentage is on a different planet to Bruce’s

I think we are all being unfair on Wilder. He’s no pfm, hasn’t jumped from job to job, has largely performed miracles at Sheff Utd. nothing like Bruce except he’s British. Look at the footballing lesson they gave us with a far inferior squad. *Not that he’s coming anyway*

I don’t disagree in that it’s not going to happen but how is it a typical Ashley selection?

How so? It could be to the end of the season with a chance to impress, not that there’s any chance it’s happening

If we forget about this season Chris Wilder has worked wonders for Sheff United and would be a massive upgrade for us. Zero chance he’s coming here though

Has anyone got the powers to stop this guy talking about Tim f*cking Sherwood?

I will just take your word for it, there is no way I’m going to look back at your posts, I want to feel positive ?

Is there any way to count who has posted in this thread the most? I would bet gdm has easily posted the most offering nothing positive in the process

Is Keith actually from Whitley Bay?

He definitely bites but why can’t people just leave him alone, seems a good chap, hearts in the right place. I don’t see what any Newcastle fan would get out of trying to bring him down.

Fair play Hoogan, i lazily looked at a stat site and thought it was for this season only. Players are allowed to improve, I feel Darlow has done that, and earns the right to keep his place until the next error. One thing we can’t complain about is our goalkeeping coach as our first and second choice have kept us in this league the last two seasons, if we stay up this season obviously. Not sure Dubravkas quality has much to do with our coach, he was clearly top class when he arrived, and should walk back into the first team when he's fit. Darlow has had a good run, but for me he's a flapper, he's not confident plucking the ball out of the air amongst other things, Dubravka is the number 1 for a reason. No room for sentiment. I think you could argue the coaching plays a major part. In the same way most of our outfield players have regressed, Sean Longstaff looking like the prime example, the fact Darlow waited so long to get his chance again, and to be more a less the same keeper as Dubravka (ref optimistic nuts 69% 68% stat) is a testament to the goalkeeper coaching and the players themselves. FWIW I thought Dubravka was dropping some clangers before he got injured, ones we haven’t seen Darlow make since he came back in. That’s not to say I wouldn’t still have him back in.

Fair play Hoogan, i lazily looked at a stat site and thought it was for this season only. Players are allowed to improve, I feel Darlow has done that, and earns the right to keep his place until the next error. One thing we can’t complain about is our goalkeeping coach as our first and second choice have kept us in this league the last two seasons, if we stay up this season obviously.

How have you got stats that show you the defence were 5m higher up the pitch? Impressive if you have. Could that be why dubravkas mins per goal conceded is worse over less games?

There’s a fair chance we’d have went down our first season back without him. We’d just dropped into the bottom 3 before the Man Utd match. He had a blinder and our results picked up overall. One of the main reasons was we had a good Premier League keeper rather than a Championship one. I don’t doubt Dubravka is our best keeper, I just don’t think at this current point in time there’s as big a gap between them as you say. I don’t personally think it’s affecting results either, i don’t think our defence is suffering, I think we would be in the same position had ol Dubs not got injured. We are blessed to have both.

Then do you not get banned for this post?

I don’t disagree, but the amount he improves us is minimal.

This is the sort of mentality though that Bruce stuck with when he went 4-4-2 against Brighton because it’d be unfair on Carroll to leave him out. Disagree with that. There is barely anything between the two keepers. Darlow has shown he has improved since his younger days for us in the championship, he has more than earned the right to keep his place. I don’t see that the same as playing a striker for one game after he’s had a decent game, which at the time was probably fair enough.

Unpopular opinion but I don’t think Dubravka is the far superior keeper. Darlow has more than earned the right to keep his place.

For someone who’s confidence is at an all time low, being mentored by the worst manager in premier league history, I feel this is the one fella that doesn’t need all of this. He’s a 24 year old lad, that’s life has been football, sheltered if you will, he will probably see all this piss taking, the Twitter abuse, made one mistake and will no doubt be scapegoated further. If there’s one person I’d like to succeed it’s this fella, hung out to dry more often than not, by our ‘owners’, ‘management’, ‘fans’ he deserves a great career away from this shiteshow.

It may of been touched upon in this thread, but due to the page upon page of absolute drivel I can’t remember seeing it discussed. The whole dot to dot thing, good things will keep coming out each week, is Rafa one of them dots? Did the journalist (Liam K) have prior knowledge?

How exactly? Are there pl plants on here?

Coupled with Big Mikes statement regarding ppv, it sounds like the PL are still taking dragging their feet, but the consortium/MA are proving they can hurt the PL in different ways whilst still leaving the ball in the PLs court.

TheInfiniteOdyssey = Miguel Delaney

Did everyone just watch the goal in slow motion? It was a good goal, can’t exactly be classed as a mistake