Chicken Dancer

Buzzing for him. Hope he can grab a goal. Can't see a better striker behind Kane, if it wasn't for injuries he'd be getting 20 goals a season consistently, even under Bruce.

Aye, completely forgot about the League Cup pre-Christmas Hopefully a home tie again!

Wasn't great at all, most of the players didn't play well at all. So sloppy. So many long balls too, which is a tad uncharacteristic, albeit with 70% B Team. Didn't help Palace seemed happy enough to play for pens like. Soon as I seen 3 CB for them against Wood I feared for a long night. Targett was sloppy and ASM was particularly poor I thought, but it is canny fashionable to grief him. Only Joelinton (second half) looked OK. Rest were all pretty meh.

Wonder when the last time we went into a game against 'the big 6' as betting favourites? 17:30 kick off, pissed up St James', we're flying, they've been poor lately. Last game before Boxing Day. Everything points to a win, which means every fibre in my body doesn't expect a win

I can't pretend I wasn't underwhelmed at first, mainly due to the fact he was (probably) not first choice and we could have appointed him immediately after Bruce was sacked, although I understand there was an interview process and they were narrowing down a shortlist. My main concern was the fact we were absolutely shambolic defensively, and Howe was renowned for being pretty open at the back. Just didn't seem to be what we needed. I got fully behind him throughout though, although was starting to question again after Watford (H) in January. We looked dead and buried and without any luck. How wrong I was. Delighted to admit I was massively wrong and it seems that his time out of the game was used to perfect his methods - learning from different managers and different coaching techniques, as well as going over his old training sessions and see what he could do differently. That to me is exactly what separates him from most other coaches. He literally wants to improve and improve the players he coaches. Look at Joelinton and Almiron. Chalk and cheese to that fucking chancer we had previously. As he said in that podcast, he's very hard on himself and a complete perfectionist. Ultimately, a very likeable bloke too, which I've always thought back to his Bournemouth days. It really does seem to be the most perfect fit. He has bought into the region and the club, and if he continues as he is, he will be as fondly remembered as KK eventually, I have no doubt. There is literally nobody in world football I would rather have as our manager, including Pep etc. Not saying he's a better coach or whatever, just sometimes certain people are perfect for a club at the right time. I hope he's here for ages and has some special nights at St James', which I'm sure he will. Absolutely love the bloke and what he's done in his short time so far. Long may it continue.

Proud (but almost ashamed) to admit I only seen 3 games of Bruceball. No memories of his time, save for the Spurs post-takeover game.

Aye I thought so too, particularly in the second half. Mind I was absolutely certain we’d lose on pens. Only one I can remember us winning was Watford in the mid 00’s. Would turn my Apple Watch off if we got to a pen shootout in a final. Heart rate would be horrifically high.

Mike Ashley has reprogrammed our brains hasn't he I honestly don't think they'd care these days, we'd likely let him leave for nowt anyway if a club close to home that he was happy to move to came in for him, regardless of length of contract. Was actually saying in the pub on Sunday that we'd deliberately not play Shelvey for same reasons under Ashley (granted he's involved in the first team much more that Ritchie).

Hope we don't go too weak. I'd definitely be resting Trippier, Bruno and Wilson. Maybe Botman or Schar too. I'd like to see; Pope, Manquillo, Schar/Botman, Burn, Targett, Shelvey, Joelinton, Willock, Murphy, Wood, ASM. You'd have to think Palace will make some changes too, so would balance it out a bit if we're missing Bruno. Have him on the bench just in case we need him.

Yet every time he took one, I still fucking convinced myself he was going to miss I agree though, took a great penalty.

and hopefully the Bills smash the Packers too! Enjoy everyone. Fucking bouncing in there today second half.

it was indeed. Goalkeeper error too. Really was one of my favourite days at SJP, which isn’t saying much. Plenty more to come though!

I know, they won us the title on final day (technically) as they scored a late goal to deny Brighton, just before Gayle put in our 3rd. Magic day!

To my knowledge we've relegated Cardiff (2014) and Burnley (2022) and no banners either time. I suppose the argument for Villa fans was that we're a much bigger club that the 2 mentioned, and had the likes of Owen, Viduka, Duff & Butt whilst having Shearer as manager. The entire country wanted us to go down that day - you can see Man Utd fans at Hull celebrating like mad too (no banners mind). It was a huge story at the time, but Villa definitely did go OTT for sure. I must say, I feel like we've more than evened the scores since. We thumped them 6-0, tend to beat them at St James. Beat them at Villa Park a couple of times, and they technically did win us the Championship in 2017. As the above has touched on, Twitter fans are no representation really, given ours is tragic, and I find Everton a lot worse than Villa. I do hope we smash them though - like any team!

If I see one magpie I may as well just not go to the match. Been like that since I started going when I was like 8 Saying that, I did see one before the Brentford game, but still sticks to this day!

I thought all of January was being announced?

Very surprised by that! A tad before my time but all I ever seem to read/hear from that era was how gung-ho we were and how Keegan just basically tried to outscore everyone. Interesting.

I never really mooch about on RTG but couldn't help myself this morning. So far what I've seen; - Newcastle the city being a shithole (I mean come on ffs the best thing about your cesspit is Jackie Whites market) - one of them wanting to punch Eddie Howe for being a 'smug c*nt' - we will have tourists at SJP shortly which will impact atmosphere - Green energy will meant Saudi's will run out of money - we've been lucky and media should be talking about Fulham more than us - we can't be good because Dan Burn plays left back - we will drop like a stone 'even we were 2nd at Xmas twice' - if we ever win a trophy, it should have an * next to it - Ashley deserves credit for signing the likes of Almiron and Joelinton - wanting Trippier to have a career ending injury All this amongst casual racism (camel humpers), arguments amongst themselves - glorious reading. In fairness, there's a few who say it how it is - that they wouldn't give a fuck if it was them who had PiF as owners and they're jealous of us, we look a good side etc. If the shoe was on the other foot and we were shortly going to be in the lower leagues for 6 years, whilst they were competing at the top looking brilliant on and off the pitch, I'd probably change sport.

The frustrating thing despite a wonderful start is that we arguably should have at least 3 more points (Liverpool 1, Palace 2). Bournemouth we didn't play well and didn't deserve to win, but I suppose we were lucky to get a point at Brighton (we did score a perfectly good goal that day too). Top 4 is out of the question I would think, but if we can pick up 5-7 points before the World Cup I would start to think about Europe. I'd be delighted with the Conference League tbh, but Europa isn't out of reach. Still very early days but we've been in more or less every game we've played since the Cambridge cup game, except Spurs away last season. Have to pinch myself when I say this but we're actually really good now. Was saying to the wife yesterday, with it being Newcastle, I'm just waiting for it to go wrong Thankfully, we are in fantastic hands on and off the pitch, so it (probably) won't, but after 30 years of near-misses and good times never lasting so long, it's ingrained in me to panic. Will maybe take a few years for that feeling to go. That being said, I'm over the fucking moon that my kids should support an NUFC that competes to be the best they can. It will be crazy to think they should hopefully never have to worry about being relegated and penny pinching anymore. Magic. EDIT: completely erased that 5-0 thumping at Man City from my head last season too. Woops.

Very good looking kid who happens to be fucking class at football. Love him.

Unbelievable. We are fucking mint

Biggest prick in football at the moment and has been for some time. Started the season after they won the league - arrogant as fuck. He is perfectly suited to Liverpool, although I do echo what others say regarding the scousers being sound (and similar city to Newcastle)

Which is exactly the perspective the club should take into consideration. Nothing to do with 'middle-aged blokes using the kids can't go line'. It's an actual fact that the youngsters are going to be unable to attend unless something is done. They are the future after all. That being said, I would imagine things change at the point it becomes relevant. Also - I seem to remember it being a paper application in the early 00s when I started going. Were points even a thing? As I can't remember having an issue getting tickets for most games - Old Trafford, Anfield and the likes. Or was demand just nowhere near as big?

At which point I was a ST holder with lots of points...glory days.

I actually take back my post - I completely forgot they had a new ground I went in Jan 2017. Big Daryl Murphy. Was their old ground though.