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Probably me being a miserable cunt but I find the constant tongue in cheek recommending of Greggs and the Black Garter to people coming to town boring, lifting patter.

Off to implement his ballot Satanism elsewhere.

That's the feeling I got from this; https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cwyne3dnld2o

Heed’s gone.

He’s excellent him, like.

Everton wearing all black in this fixture.

I’m more convinced now by this post, collector’s item seeing you be positive.

Nico Williams is a doubt apparently.

What is it with lerds of these 20:15 kick offs? Yet another victory for the woke.

We’ve also won 21.4% of PL away matches in 2025 as we enter November. There’s a problem there that needs addressing but have shown few to no signs in doing so.

I really want it click for him as he seems like a brilliant lad and it still can. But for a £55m signing to be benched in November just speaks volumes. I think it’s an indictment on our recruitment more than it is Elanga himself; he was apparently one of our few top choices that we ended up getting. Tried to get him last summer also. But he doesn’t have the technical ability and incision on the ball to unlock teams for us and create chances which this squad is fucking crying out for. If we have been trying to evolve the play style into being more comfortable on the ball then his profile wasn’t what we needed. And that’s not his fault. Perhaps Howe feels like he can mould him into what we need but when we sorely lack creativity outside of our wingers and our wingers are out of form he isn’t afforded that time.

It’s not as he scored at Spurs in January 2025. Two goals in the semi final against Arsenal also. But he hasn’t had any contributions in his last 19 appearances in the league.

ATHLETIC CLUB BILBAO @ ST. JAMES' PARK Felt like holding off making this thread after such a disgusting performance today but Lehoiak return to the North East of England again, having recently played up here in a friendly in 2022 before which they presented us with a flag they produced for us in a display of friendship that stems from the last competitive time they met us in Europe in October 1994. Ooooh football fwends. LAST TIME OUT? Spring to autumn 1994, the period of time where Keeganism arguably peaked. Newcastle had as a newly promoted side finished 1993-94 as the Premier League's top scorers alongside a 3rd place finish and a return to European competition for the first time since a brief UEFA Cup stint in a doomed season of 1977-78. We boasted the country's most lethal striker, an expanding ground, boisterous fanbase and an enthralling style of football. 1994-95 opened with an unbeaten start, 7 wins in 9 in the league, 11 in 13 in all competitions, 40 goals scored and a 10-2 aggregate win in the previous round of the UEFA Cup against Royal Antwerp. Athletic Bilbao were next. The 2 goals we conceded at the end ultimately cost us in the tie but the matches against Athletic Bilbao are best remembered for the atmosphere and camaraderie between both sets of supporters both in Newcastle and in Bilbao. Many similarities could be seen ourselves and the Basques through pride in our city and region, our own identities separate to the nations the cities belong to and how our football clubs are the de facto travelling representative of the cities. Some footage of the atmosphere ahead of and after the second leg in the Basque Country can be seen in the spoiler below. They're bringing up 3000 on Wednesday so would be good craic if similar happened. As long as our team actually turns up; (the pitch invasion in the third video in the above spoiler as you can see was peaceful and friendly. The S*n reported it as a riot instigated by our fans. Which is extra reason as if there isn't plenty enough that no self respecting human ever buys that vile fucking rag) WHAT ABOUT THEM CURRENTLY? They've actually made quite a poor start to the season in La Liga, similar to us. Their manager and former Barcelona manager Ernesto Valverde has them sat in 11th and they have only won 1 of their last 8 league games. They did however win their last Champions League game at home to Qarabag, though they lost their first two including their only other away game; 4-1 to Dortmund. They lost their most recent game also on Saturday, defeated in the Basque derby 3-2 by Real Sociedad late on. Although missing a couple games through injury, star Nico Williams who I have been a huge fan of appears to not have made a great start to the season, though he is still very dangerous and we will need to watch him as well as his brother Inaki. ANY TIES BETWEEN THE CLUBS? There are no players or managers that have played for or managed both clubs. Athletic Club have a Basque only policy whereby only players from the Basque Country or trained as a child by a Basque club can play, tapping into their fierce regional pride. This makes their status as one of the three clubs never to be relegated from La Liga all the more impressive. Whilst there are no ties between the two clubs in terms of players and managers, the two regions have a connection away from the 1994 tie: back during the Spanish Civil War when many Basque refugees were taken in by families across the North East. You can read about that below; HOW WELL DO WE DO AGAINST SPANISH SIDES AT SJP? 2025-26: Lost 1-2 v Barcelona (Champions League) 2006-07: Won 2-1 v Celta Vigo (UEFA Cup) 2005-06: Lost 1-2 v Deportivo La Coruna (Intertoto Cup) 2003-04: Won 4-1 v Real Mallorca (UEFA Cup) 2002-03: Lost 0-2 v Barcelona (Champions League) 1997-98: Won 3-2 v Barcelona (Champions League) 1994-95: Won 3-2 v Athletic Club (UEFA Cup) 1968-69: Won 2-1 v Real Zaragoza (Inter Cities Fairs Cup) Good opportunity to make it 3 consecutive Champions League wins which we have not managed to do since 2002. Expect a much better performance than that shite today. Also: BRING YOUR SCARF!

You can’t say this and not spill the beans.

Some can get like RAWK appears to be when it comes to criticism of the manager’s decisions. We’ve won 4 away league games in 2025, none this season, all of which were against poor opposition who finished in the bottom 5. It’s not good enough.

I’m not sure, we were bidding around £60m-£70m in an attempt to get Guehi that summer and a Joelinton sale would’ve added more funds. I think we’d have got more money for him that summer than we would now, no one else is paying the wages we pay him and it’s before his stark decline in form and how much he impacts games on a regular basis. Also, that he was on more money than Isak was frankly outrageous imo regardless of the tribal feelings we all have about the rat’s conduct this summer. Howe loving him could well be part of a problem in terms of loyalty to players. He’s just not up to it on the ball at all and shouldn’t be starting games regularly for us imo. I can’t remember him getting plaudits for anything he’s done with the ball recently and that’s an issue. He doesn’t have ability in possession to fall back on for when his physicality isn’t the perk it was and it looks like that’s becoming the case this season. It’s not strictly Joelinton’s fault but I think it highlights a glaring issue we have in that we barely have any top technical footballers in the squad.

I said it to those I go to games with in the pub before Southampton (h) last season and posted the below in October last year; He wasn’t in peak form either, between New Years Day 2024 and the end of that season he appeared in 4 games. FWIW I’d have brought Ederson from Atalanta in who at the time we were linked with iirc.

Aye. We’re crying out for an attacker with serious technical ability on the ball to help us create.

Agree on him being the get out of jail card but we’ve seen performances similar in terms of is aimlessness and hopelessness in possession with Isak up front. What concerns me is watching Bournemouth atm and they look better after losing many of their best players from last season. We’ve lost 1 player and look significantly worse than last season. Even before the December-January run we went on.

Think we should’ve sold and replaced him in 2024 instead of giving him a new contract tbh. His good performances have been few and far between (one being the final, admittedly) for a while now in addition to his quite shocking injury record.

3 of them coming against the sides who finished 20th, 18th and 17th last season as well. It’s fucking shite.

Our best chance of getting Champions League football this season is if we win the thing this year. Which isn’t happening either.

It’s the away showings that I find concerning. Honestly feels like we’ve barely played well away from home in the league since 2022-23. Off the top of my head; 8-0 v Sheffield Utd 23/24 3-1 v Villa 23/24 4-1 v Burnley 23/24 4-0 v Ipswich 24/25 2-0 v Man United 24/25 3-1 v Southampton 24/25 0-0 v Villa 25/26 Surely there’s more but that’s from what I remember. 6 games out of 43 and not exactly the best opposition either.