Shadow Puppets

What a fucking night that was. Absolutely minging, 3.5hr drive down. Frustrated as hell hearing the starting line up, wondering if the drive would be worth it. Arrived with 10 minutes to spare. Watched an Eddie Howe masterclass with a C team in one of the best away ends I've ever been in. Drove 3 hours home. Fucking class.

I would be putting out a 90% strong team. Maybe just Livramento for Trippier and Targett for Burn. We have a massive chance to beat Man Utd here.

I think, considering the state of our squad and how run into the ground they looked, we should be happy with that result. A draw at Wolves isn’t a bad result anyway, but in the circumstances it’s welcome.

Trippier and Wilson (barring the finish) have been awful. decent shape to us though.

Told you!

He's been in some discomfort for a few weeks apparently, but only had the scan in the last couple of days.

I don't think that was anyone's choice. It was beaming from the big screen... a load of Champions League sponsor ads.

The atmosphere was just weird all round. Really muted walking up to the ground pre kick off. The deafening champions league adverts and god awful pre match music killed the ability to get the songs going prior to the display. And then when the display came, as beautiful as it was (and honestly I appreciate you guys and your efforts massively), I do feel like it may have had a weird effect on the lack of ability to really make a cauldron of noise when they came out. After that though, it was entirely on the fans. There were some good moments, but for far too many long periods it was near silent.

Agree the atmosphere was really poor tonight. Good in spells, but it fell very flat after Isak’s injury. Also… the display was fantastic… however I would argue that it possibly hindered the atmosphere at the start of the game to a degree… simply because people couldn’t clap. The entire stadium was holding something up in the air with two hands which made for quite a weird muted response as the players came out. That isn’t a criticism… more an observation that perhaps it might be better to stick to partial displays in future ?‍♂️

Spoke to one of his family members tonight. A broken bone in his back. Out for around 6-8 weeks.

He's in the training videos still ?

Go after them on the pitch!

IF this is all true... I don't have any sympathy for the lad. I don't buy this "addiction" bollocks. He got caught... that's it. It's very convenient to pipe up with addiction bullshit when your bad behaviour gets found out. As far as I'm concerned, IF this is all true, he's let everyone down massively and I think it'll be really hard to come back from that at NUFC. I'd be looking into all legal avenues of how we can take Milan to the cleaners to be honest.

Where is it “pretty much confirmed”?

Aye I desperately want a white patched shirt to make it Champions League accurate. Hopefully there are plans to release them soon.

Ask any West Ham fan and they'll tell you Paqueta has a very poor start to life with them. Started to come good around January / February.

I thought he was "OK" yesterday, as were most of the team.

Fair result. Desperately need the break and a few injured / suspended players back.

Second half much much better.

Because we have been shit with Isak in the middle so Howe has moved him out wide, and we've improved.

Massively missing Gordon's intensity today.

I’m absolutely in love with that white short, white patch, red letter combo like. Beautiful.

I thought he was excellent first half. Second half he looked to tire, but first half you could see the player we bought. He’s on his way now. Give him another 10 games and he’ll be a mainstay.

Yeah, that was comfortably the best I’ve ever seen St James’. Absolutely unreal from start to finish. Even that spell after they scored, the crowd roared them on. Singing all over the ground, people out of their seats. Phenomenal. I was there for 5-0 in 96, 7-1 in 96, the 5-1 Sunderland game, the 6-1 Spurs game, and that was comfortably the best. What a night!

I think that might be my favourite ever night at St James’ Park. Special from start to finish. The loudest I’ve heard it. Just unreal.