Shays Given Tim Flowers

Good assist yesterday.

Ferguson was repeatedly fired and re-hired when Man Utd didn’t win the league.

Aye, watched his full press conference with the written press, nothing controversial in it at all.

Anyway Wissa has been the worst buy. Paid for goals got next to no goals from him. If he’d have got ten this season we’d be looking a lot better.

Little binary, he probably wanted to play football, wage demands of squad players vs first team players. I do think other clubs signing x player and they’ve done well so why don’t we kind of ignores the fact that we’ve made a lot of good signings and that there’s a lot of overlooked nuance to these situations.

What was the net gain in terms of first team players in versus first team players out. We spent a lot of money on Elanga, Wissa and Woltemade. I think Elanga will end up being ok, Woltemade is not a poor player and I really expected a lot more from Wissa.

Your opinion doing some heavy lifting here. We purchase players who are one dimensional and wedded to Howe's system but those same players cannot operate to the best of their abilities in the system they were seemignly signed in order to be wedded to? If we had a goalscorer and a goalkeeper we'd have been a load better this season, we're really not a million miles away from where we want to be (look at the points we've lost from winning positions). By your own metric Howe has achieved two successes with significant financial and sporting consequences and then you go on to advocate getting rid of him if he did it again.

Not at all. Only if you're wholly ignorant of the context of football, recruitment and PSR. The compelling case for keeping him is he has a demonstrable record of over achievement at Newcastle since he has been here. That in the main the players signed under him have been really rather good, but that it's been abudantly clear that we don't have enough quality bodies to compete in the way we as fans would like us to. Managing a packed schedule is primarily down to the quality/size of the squad.

Ancelotti at Everton finished 10th in his full season in charge. Unless you can pay the wages to top players and build a strong squad (think Mourinho with his 25 at Chelsea), something it is no secret we are prevented from doing you're really just twisting for the sake of it.

So Howe goes, suddenly our squad of players looks significantly better? We no longer require significant investment and major recruitment? I swear most of this is people getting soft cocked about the players that might get brought in under Howe. An argument which seemingly is predicated on the Elanga fee, Wissa/Woltemade. We added nobdy in January so why is the squad we started the season with supposed to be markedly better? We are four points off what would be considered par in terms of wages? Emotional responses to an emotional game entirely understandable. But it also emboldens the short termists and greener grass aspirationals amongst us.

What fucking youths

No team this season has lost more points from a winning position. Which does suggest that somethings must actually be going ok.

Wolte is a goal a game on the Derby.

Jason Tindall does all of that for us. Pretty sure he’s not a shrinking violet.

Leeds, Bournemouth (FA Cup) spring to mind.

Aldi Chewing Gum.

what @Kid Icarus said.

Clearly the team was set up to get ahead in the game. Two slips immediately put paid to that. As did the set piece goal. Nevertheless the team responded with resilience. The objective was to go through. Setting the team up to get ahead was pretty much the only way that was going to happen and no doubt had we led on the night we’d have adapted our approach to the game. We scored two first half goals which should have been enough to achieve that objective. It wasn’t, because we shot ourselves in the foot. The scoreline was ultimately painful/embarrassing (not a word I’d use because I’m generally not embarrassed by Newcastle United). Once the first goal had been scored in the second half it was only going to go one way.

Partly this and partly needing to outscore them in the second half. Once they scored first in the second half we need to score 3 to win.

The lesson learned is to have more revenue and a bigger and better squad? We can kid ourselves but that is all football is now.

Furthest we've been but still a long way to go. Keep ahad.

From 442. 'UEFA official Francois Letexier is the man in the middle in Barcelona and has quite the reputation in his homeland. In 13 Ligue 1 matches this season, Letexier has brandished 61 yellows and five reds, whilst also awarding three penalties. Letexier also showed 16 yellow cards during three FIFA Club World Cup matches he ruled over last summer, but is yet to expel anyone in his six Champions League appearances this term.' Burn and Joelinton one yellow away from suspension.

Absolute weirdo behaviour.

Second this. My first attendance was as a non-player and it’s a good time.