Armchair Pundit

Arsenal have got to be the luckiest team in the league

Well, that was a million miles from the pap we've being playing this season up until this game! If only they could keep up that sort of play, that sort of intensity from now on.

It's games like this when you wonder if we'd have been better cashing in on some players - knee-jerk-tastic, yes, but it still makes you wonder. You can't help but feel like maybe we really are cursed, nothing seems to improve for long, before reverting back to shit eventually. I saw the Keegan years, the Robson years, we've had peaks, but invariably it comes back to games like today's - just utter, utter soul-destroying shit.

3-1 against Fulham, ffs

I know they say it's the hope that kills, but they're not wrong. Years we put up with shit, we've now got some decent players, a bit of money, what I hope is still a decent manager and some better internal structure... and still we get absolute dross like this. Just... why?! What do we have to do to change things? All confidence, drive, enthusiasm just ups and disappears like a fart in the wind. Gods, it just all feels tedious.

Fucking seriously... what a bag of whup this has been, complete bollocks.

Any chance a bit of urgency could be injected there lads? You fucking lazy cunts.

How is Gordon surprised by that substitution? He could have been taken off much earlier, he's been pap.

William Osula isn't exactly a proven goal scorer

No competition

Gordon should dye his hair black, wear long sleeved jumpers and be done with it...

For anyone laughing at Palace missing out on a better price for Guehi's due to their performances so far this season... Gordon, Bruno... their value is dropping week on week at this rate. Edit: (not that I'd want to sell either)

Think it happens at every ground tbh, I reckon I've seen it at every match I've been to, no matter the team.

It definitely has the feel of that, whether people want to believe it or question it, something just doesn't feel right.

100% this

I'm starting to have doubts... not because I don't think the ability is there, but because it feels like the players are no longer buying into the long term plan and, as sad as it seems, it doesn't feel like Eddie believes either. Whether something has kicked off in the background between the playing staff and the money/technical staff or whether it's something else, it just feels like the momentum we had, the togetherness, the drive, it's gone.

We've lost any semblance of the togetherness in covering each other, we're no longer pressing or have any intensity and in general just look like a club who's waiting for something to give them a refresh. It's like the players are no longer sold on Eddie's vision, I'm not even sure Eddie seems that enthusiastic any more - it all looks like a bit of a chore for them all.

https://www.newcastleunited.com/en - click 'listen live'

Can see why we've been looking at Trafford as a new keeper, Pope's been pants for the last 18 months. Add in Gordon and Trippier not having their mind in the game and our weakness at central defense... we're not even pressing any more, it feels like Eddie's not 100%, whether that's any alleged power struggles, the potential of being offered the England job or something else entirely. In general, the whole team doesn't look focused. ... it's not helping the ref's been inconsistent either. Urgh, it's got big fuck-up written all over it... fucking Fulham indeed.

What happened to Gordon? His woes with Southgate during the summer had nothing to do with us, was he really unsettled by the Liverpool links?

What's with the shit quality of the live commentary via the official website? It's been a bit arse so far this season, have they changed provider or something?