What the f*** are you on about? :lol:
The only chance of winning something (very little I know) and fans talking about not playing players. Sick to death of playing reserve teams and seeing them beaten off lower league opposition. If players are fit play them end of and see if we can have a decent cup run for the first time since Ashley took over.
That's all that needs to be said.
Aye, it's never easy playing against teams as deep as Burnley but they had absolutely nothing. Dan James looks like he could do with a break too, his form has fallen off a cliff seemingly.
Yeah agree on James, his form has proper went downhill.
We can't have it both ways. We (rightly) used to criticise when we'd play weakened teams in the cups.
Now criticism is coming for playing our strongest players in a cup match.
Strongest players who have frequently broken down. You have to find a balance to ensure we get no new injuries.
That's fair enough, we should never risk a player who isn't fully fit.
But if they're fit, we need to play our strongest team in every round we play.
We can't have it both ways. We (rightly) used to criticise when we'd play weakened teams in the cups.
Now criticism is coming for playing our strongest players in a cup match.
I don't get how on one hand you can rightly slate Ashley's Newcastle for our dreadful cup record and not taking them seriously and then on the other hand you think we think we should be playing such a weakened team?
Welcome to Newcastle-Online. :lol:
I expected 1-2 points from Wolves, Chelsea, Everton, so 5 points has to be classed as a success.
Beat Norwich, and we're 33 points with 13 games left. Would be a very solid position to be in tbf.
We've defo improved on set pieces - we look more threatening and we're scoring more goals.
Team morale looks good, we've picked up a reasonable amount of points from behind, and you can't accuse the team of a lack of effort.
Bruce has no attacking identity. No evidence he's improved our passing/build up play etc.