RobS

I couldn’t watch the match today, was it an injury or tactical replacement at half time?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crgyk9x39mdo Bruno is determined to upstage Sandro....

I wondered if the rumours about us being in the clarts and needing to raise a bit before the end of Jkune might make us cash in on this lad early - hope its not the case he looks really good

Players unavailable, a flipping decent Premier league 11 this: OUT: Nick Pope Kieran Trippier Jamal Lascelles Sven Botman Matt Targett Lewis Miley Sandro Tonali Joelinton Joe Willock Miguel Almiron Callum Wilson Thats a damn decent side, and would finish mid table at least I think, and their all unavailable for us. And he delivers that, amazing really - thank you Eddie and team

Felt like we were down to 10 when he was on, offered nothing and gave them more space on that side. Would rather of had Ritchie on I think!

hoping just cramp and knackered after not having played 85 mins of football in ages? praying thats the case anyway!!

this cunts knee exploded then?

Could Steve Nickson really get the promotion? Interesting times

watch the video, he shows how lol

Was gonna say, I dont think tyneside Life is usually the man for details and facts etc, but in this case having watched his video the evidence seems pretty strong. Utilitia Arena defo not going to be knocked down for 4-5 years Heliport owner has no plans to sell Homes England just bought the brownfield land and already got surveyors / land prep etc. Arena Stadium is not happening like.

It is all good. Until wilson gets injured and missed 5-6 matches, Isak plays every minute of those games, getting more and more tired till he gets injured, and suddenly were playing Miggy - Gordon - Murphy and not scoring much. Your theory is sound if you have 2 strikers who can stay fit, and support each other. Isak andf Wilson are incapable of doing that sadly.

City - Haaland / Alvarez Liverpool - Diaz / Nunez (plus Salah from out wide) Arsenal - Jesus / Havertz (plus Saka scoring loads) Man Utd - Hojlund / Garnacho (Rashford contributing too) I'm not saying buy Solanke, im not even a big fan of his and think he's just having a miggy purple patch. But from this season anyway, Gordon is not a central forward, and Isak is not fit enough, so we need to buy another contributing forward this summer who can replace Wilson, thats obvious, to me anyway.

I don't think you can call him a backup when Isak has hardly proven his fitness record so far. If he can play 3/4ers of our games in a season then fair enough, but as it stands i would like thme to sign another equal striker, one with a good fitness record and an eye for goals as they will get a lot of game time as it stands.

I agree with CD here mind, theirs been many a game where from 60 minutes Isak's been barely able to run, offered no tracking back, no movement for options for balls and just offered very little. In those situations i'd rather have a young lad on who can run about a bit than Isak, and all it does it make Isak worse for the next game as well. Howe needs to learn to use what bench he has, even if its poor, more effectively, to take the strain off key people who are not that strong phyisically.

It’s like he knows he can’t be aggressive as he will get a yellow and we have no other midfielders. Or he’s injured. But either way been anonymous that half

got excited then tasted the Jam.

I missed that, what did he say roughly?

potentially related to his Groin issue, didnt feel comfortable sprinting down the weings and having to track back etc? Not sure really, I know what you mean tho he wasn't his normal self, but then is that also in part related to Miggy not being there, and Murphy playing that position differently perhaps?

wheres that from?

Aye if your good enough your good enough IMO. Gordon's case he wasnt fit at all, blame that on him, his previous club or what I don't know. but others have come in and slotted in straight away fine.

Is Willock defo in the same mould as Joelinton from a tackling/win back / interception perspective? Whilst ive not seen him play in what feels like motnhs now, I remember him being more a transitional midfielder, fantastic range of passing and fast on the break, i don't remember him for his tackles etc.

Are we close to actually seeing Schar play in Midfield, when Bruno/Longstaff or Miley now gets injured, or soon banned for 2 games? Play Lascelles with Botman and Schar as a holding Mid and Miley and Longy as the 2 normal mids. Madness, what a cluster fuck of a season. Got to be a lot of questions between now and the summer of our medical team, and Howe needs a period of reflection on team management. We have a U21 team, yes they suck but how many of them could of played 20-30 mins here and their to see out games and potentially helped this utter mess of a situation were now in?

didn't someone say that this was some condition that NFL players get, grass foot or something, and it is a nightmare and takes months to recover from?

at times aye, put it down to my old age and thought about using it as an excuse to buy a bigger TV, missus told me to get fucked.

yeah would make sense for sure. Insane how beart up the squad is like really, would be very interesting to see all the lsit of issues they have, barely any of them are probably 'fit' with no issues.