Geordie_once_removed

Probably just misty eyed nostalgia. But I'd love another Irish keeper between the sticks for us as I loved Given back in the day.

Dear God you're right!

So can someone explain my internal logic to me because it makes no sense to me. I don't what Liverpool in the final as they have a bit of a hoodoo over use. Yet I also don't want to play Spurs as we have a hoodoo over them but my brain tells me all runs must come to an end. Is this pessimism just the result of decades Newcastle supporting induced trauma?

I saw that kicking moment and thought that this is a guy who knows he's off and doesn't want to get injured. Why else would you try to kick rather than just diving on it.

Arteta tapping his watch after Arsenal took 4 minutes to take a free kick in the first half. 100% he'll cry on about the first goal being a foul.

The cynic in me wonders if any chatter around a new contract could just be a way of justifying a higher fee for him in a world of fair market value assessments. I.e. "We wanted him to stay and he was about to sign a new contract, but £8 million was too much to turn down"

Now that is a cry for help. No. Just no.

Steady on!

He's not and Hughes was a solid starter but one of the weakest links in that team, but he also was rarely embarrassed. You're missing my point that people are being critical of Kelly ignoring the fact he was clearly signing for depth. Good teams need players like him. People need to stop being so binary about players. Burn, Murphy and now Kelly are all singled out for criticism because of this. Should all of them be starting when all players are fit and we've addressed the weaknesses of the team, no. Does that mean that they useless, also no.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I think he'll be this team's Aaron Hughes. And I'm fine with that. The Spurs game underlined why he was a sensible signing. Had Botman not been quite ready or hanging out his arse after 60 minutes he's a solid option to bring on, the same could be said if Hall had been injured. He was signed as a versatile back io let's not pretend like we thought we were bringing in a starting LB/CB.

Isn't the handball rule that if it is above the shirt line on the arm it's not handball? It's not been mentioned in connection to the Burn call and it was clearly well above the shirt sleeve. Anyway my longstanding call is Postecoglu to be gone by March. I'm glad we did out bit today. Angeball is the definition of all fart and no shit.

My mum is a Geordie and my dad grew up in Gateshead but I've never lived in the Newcastle, so I find it hard to muster a proper hate for Sunderland. They're annoying when in the same league but for my period of following Newcastle (1992- ) they've been almost uniformly worse than us and often in a different (lower) league so they've largely been irrelevant to me beyond derby days. Scum United on the other hand broke my 12 year old heart in the 1995/96 season and many times since. I 100% support a thread to revel is their demise. (If they ever start to do well 100% we lock the thread and throw it into digital room 101).

I was really struggling to think who would play at centre back. Totally forgot he existed. On one level it's hardly a ringing endorsement but also paradoxically a sound validation of his signing.

Amorim had a really odd quote. It was something like "I'm not stubborn, I have my principles and I stick to them." Isn't that the definition of stubborn? He seems like a nice guy, I certainly got a lot more joy enjoying Ten Hag fail, but that starting midfield was insanity. It wasn't like Newcastle's lineup was hard to predict. If there is one thing you could criticise Howe of it is that his lineups are predictable.

I was too fixed to the match to check earlier but I assume it's been done to death how suicidal starting a midfield two of Casemiro and Eriksson against a 3 of Tonali, Bruno and Joelinton was. What was he thinking?

Is it just me or does Yoro look a bit like Napoleon Dynamite?

It's a firm no to DCL in any capacity for me. He's toilet.

In terms of minutes on the field perhaps, but I think as Miley is under 21 he doesn't count towards squad numbers so he also doesn't count towards the homegrown rule. So of we sold Longstaff in January it might have knock on effects on who we could register.

Can you record from Amazon Prime or are the games shown available to watch after the game for a bit?

Hoping an unchanged team but with Willock for Joelinton. I'm actually quite keen to see this as I really like the driving from midfield that Willock could bring.

Cherki reminds me of a certain other French maverick we had here. I'd love to see him coached by Howe and Tindall.

Sounds like a Bond villain. Sign him up.

Can someone with more time than me do a mocking video about this of that Spanish guy pissing himself. Ta.

It's not even spring. His garden can't have gone to shit that quickly?!?

He was doing the half time analysis for the match coverage I watched yesterday. So biased and clueless. He felt the first half was even. Pat Nevin, who I normally like, clearly hadn't done his research before the game and put our dodgy form down to tiredness and injuries. He obviously just rolled out a line from last year.