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We’re absolutely horrible to watch. No plan when going forward.

Excuse my ignorance, but why do we think this would be the case?

Yeah hit the post. Don’t know what keeper #2 was doing out by the touch line, mind.

We have City at home, Burnley away. Can’t see us beating Sheff U away either tbh.

Pardew 2.0 If Newcastle could produce a Geordie-friendly composite of the managers during Ashley's reign, it would be a mutaiton of Pardew, Carver and Kinnear. I think you would end up with Bruce. Ashley’s wet dream.

I've always rated him. Sure, he was often poor for us, like the rest in that shite setup under McClaren, but his quality was evident IMO.

Well, he scored 23 goals last season so it's not the worst idea. If you look at the rest of our squad, Joelinton scored 7 goals last season, ASM scored 6. Think they are the top 2 apart from Gayle? We'll probably end up the lowest scoring team. It's currently us and Watford. He's a Championship striker, has never been Prem quality I agree. And yet, he's probably got more goals in him than any other player in our squad. That was my point.

Well, he scored 23 goals last season so it's not the worst idea. If you look at the rest of our squad, Joelinton scored 7 goals last season, ASM scored 6. Think they are the top 2 apart from Gayle? We'll probably end up the lowest scoring team. It's currently us and Watford.

Looks like another bad use of transfers from our side. We've replaced Rondon (who was perfect in that role) with a player who really doesn't look like he should play as a lone striker. He's strong but much more mobile than Rondon and looks more suited to be playing out wide or as one of two strikers. This is how he was used at Hoffenheim, if I'm not mistaken. The only player we have who really looks suited for that lone striker role is Carroll but of course he's not good enough. So not really possible to push Joelinton out wide.

What the fuck did the Watford keeper do there. Just catch the fucking ball.

Tino-esque

How exciting.

Well yeah, I love the mad man and his style of football. You always know he’ll be gone in 1 or 2 seasons though. With Mourinho you get 3 or 4

Leeds are one of the bigger clubs in England historically and it's a major city in England as well. You can see why it would be attractive to a potential owner who had big designs on the Premier at some point. Would be a new kind of gig for José though, I think we can agree on that.

Much better from Sweden after the first 20 minutes or so. 0-0 HT

Embarrassing so far.

Sounds crazy. Leeds?

They own 14% of Bordeaux. Ok, but the chairman and CEO of GACP, Joseph DaGrosa, seems to be the president of Bordeaux.

Owns Bordeaux, right? How’s that going then?

Why not? He’s a Man U fan on a Newcastle forum. You’d expect a bit of humility (not just talking about this thread)

Love that interview. Still have a feeling Sean is gonna be great.

He thought he handed Jack Colback a start.

A footballer getting a tattoo, I've seen it all now.

Aye, noticed that last night. A lot more annoying than pigeon lady saying it. I used to be annoyed by it, but I guess it’s natural. When people say Real everybody knows which team it’s referring to even though there are many Reals out there.