Kid Icarus

On Tifo this week they talk about our match for 6 minutes. We're mentioned in one sentence "Newcastle pressed really well and took their chances" The remainder of the 6 minutes in entirely devoted to Spurs. So that's no coverage all season, then featured as the main event when Villa beat us, then not featured at all in the review of a match we won 6-1 In better news, their middle class patter black hole of a podcast is ending in June.

Hadn't realised that we're only 5 points behind our 95/96 points total after 31 games. That's insane like.

Aye, he'll be frightening if he starts meeting his xG and xA.

You've all got it wrong, it's James HetfielDAH.

Matt Sels redemption arc incoming

Absolutely loved this gadgie firing his fingers like guns into the air

He redeemed himself. Colback on the other hand.

14 is the coolest number you can have imo

Love the 25fps on the match cam tbh, gives it a real cinematic feel.

Bruno needs an end of 93-94/start of 94/95 period of form to get past Rob Lee for me, but I've no doubt that he's capable of doing it. That spell, plus longevity are the only things holding me back from saying he's the best midfielder I've seen at Newcastle. The likes of Cabaye are leagues below Lee and Bruno and shouldn't even be mentioned really.

I do that constantly. It's all Dan Ashcroft's fault

Every time without fail. We've battered Chelsea, Man United, Spurs, Man City (despite it only being a draw), Brentford, and Villa at home. At some point you'd think that they'd realise it wasn't just that all of these teams were just having 'off days'

Near the start of this season, Loaded Mag had a really good preview show with a Liverpool fan who was talking about our progression and the targets that we can set for ourselves. One of the points that he made that's stuck with me since then is that we shouldn't measure anything in terms of the position we end up in and it's much better to think in terms of points totals. At one point he says something along the lines of 'maybe you can say to yourselves "can we get 60 points?" and then if you get it, you'll have done amazingly well and will be on track to getting to where you want to be. Next season can you get 72?' Cut to 7 months later and we're one point away from achieving 60 points with 7 matches to go. Dunno where abouts in the video it is that he says this, but this is the video. EDIT: From 16 minutes. He actually gets pretty close to predicting our season. Around 60 points and a really good cup run.

The Liverpool choices are odd, Robertson in particular. They weren't good at all.

I think we were on to a good thing with Primal Scream tbh, absolutely cannot stand that Hey Baby song, it's ear AIDS for Butlins and Benidorm nonces.

I've just been thinking about this. I definitely think there needs to be a separation between favourite player of the season as well as a best player of the season as well. e.g. I can't say Willock's been our best player this season, but he's definitely been my favourite.

I think it's only a matter of time now tbh. Southgate has his favourites and doesn't come to Newcastle enough, but I think with Jones, Ashcroft, Trippier, and Wilson here, Willock's brilliant form and the alternative's non-existent form, he'll be impossible to ignore.

@HollowayStill think he's overrated or underrated?

All things being equal, we should have lost at home to Bournemouth. Our pen decision for hand ball was a joke tbh.

F**k me, that's awful.

I've never seen anything like what Howe's done to our players. It really shouldn't be possible. He's turned players I thought were (being kind) Championship quality players and helped them to become invaluable cogs in a team surging its way into the Champion's League. If Leicester 15/16 hadn't happened, this would be the most remarkable turnaround I've ever seen at this level, it's staggering. Joelinton, Almiron, Murphy, Longstaff, Schar have gone from dead certs for the chopping block at some point, to in some cases being I-wouldn't-sell-for-anything players. Ridiculous. The nearest thing to it here is obviously Keegan, but by the player's and Keegan's own admission that was largely to do with his own ultra enthusiasm, the insane confidence he instilled into players, and the amazing style of football he had us playing. Not to mention that the players who came in were still absolute quality. But Howe has seemingly done all of that in the modern era where the top 6 is much more of a closed shop, while also coaching the players on everything to do with the whys and wheres of football, switching players positions and them still being brilliant, and made my prediction of 8th and feeling that was arrogant to a prediction that's turned out to be hugely conservative. He's fucking class, give him the keys to the city, I love him. I've said it before and I'll say it again, it's not just that he's brilliant, it's that he's every inch a Newcastle manager. That's something that as much as I loved Rafa and would have really liked Emery, can't be said about them. In terms of football style, Howe is the spiritual successor to Keegan, without question.

The more I think about it, the more I think he might be our player of the season again you know? Yellow cards aside he's been more or less consistently brilliant and has added goals and assists to his game. Has to be between him, Schar, and Trippier for me.

Wolves 1-1 Palace Villa 2-0 Fulham (double) Leeds 1-2 Leicester Forest 1-1 Brighton Chelsea 1-2 Brentford West Ham 1-2 Liverpool Man City 3-1 Arsenal Everton 1-1 Newcastle Southampton 2-1 Bournemouth Spurs 1-2 Man United

I reckon most people didn't really celebrate the 5th goal but instead just burst into laughter. Watching it now still provokes the same reaction like. Imagine if we hadn't eased off at 5 nil as well.

6-1 against Spurs and we get fucking Jenas, Deeney and Beckford