Kid Icarus

Take all of this and put it on the back of an Irvine Welsh book. I'd read it /tell me what happened next when I next see you.

He just looks offside. Then the graphic shows him behind the ball.

/customers

He's like my weight graph on My Fitness Pal, it's all trending in the right direction but I wish it was faster.

12 months from now if nothing has changed I'll give up on him. Personally think we'll see a huge difference next season though.

I don't think it's that, I think he's (partially) adapted to where the players are now, but where he sees the players ending up is very different to where they are now. I think if we'd just signed a couple of new players he wouldn't have had to change anything, but because we've not just replaced our focal point up front but also replaced his back up (Wilson) we've had to adapt to a degree where it's been really difficult. I genuinely think that with the benefit of hindsight this season will be seen as the best of a really bad situation. I'm absolutely convinced we have the right man for the job.

The possibilities are funny though.

"Being offered" doing a lot of heavy lifting there Sony Discman.

Just seen Salah's 'onside' goal. The tinfoil hat is coming on soon.

From our perspective our identity is theoretical or unseen at the moment. Get them being able to train and it'll become clearer imo. Our problem at the moment is that we have a fair few players who aren't 'Newcastle fit' or haven't had it click yet, I have no reason to believe it won't happen though. I think everyone saying we need big changes in the summer coming doesn't get it tbh, the expectation for me is that we'll see huge improvements from the signings we made in the summer gone.

Everyone that left is a cunt and should give me their ticket. Everyone who stayed gets it.

It's a steep and unforgiving learning curve for him with this schedule (at this level that he got us to) particularly in an obvious transition season, but I generally understand why he makes his decisions even if I don't always agree (quite often just at first). Eg weighing up spreading the load vs winning, subs being wanted earlier vs subs coming on and us getting worse. I'm very confident he'll get it right. Managers who consistently punch above their weight shouldn't be held to that standard, they should be supported so that the weight they punch above keeps going up.

I don't think there's a match that could sum the fatigue more than tonight tbh. There was no tactical change from Man City, we just didn't have what we had for the first 30 mins for the full match. We all know that we usually have it for the duration

I think you'd agree that tiredness shows itself relative to the opposition. I don't think that's controversial like, if we hadn't played one of the best teams there is tonight I doubt anyone would bring it up, mainly because I think it wouldn't have made any difference.

It can't be proven or disproven but one match a week Newcastle win that imo.

There's no hill, it's just an opinion. It's Man City, all the under the lights stuff has merit but it's not a guarantee, we played on Wednesday with 10 men, won, and we've just played one of the best teams there is 3 days later in a run where we've been playing every 3 days for months now. Sometimes I wonder what people expect, even without the fatigue, even without us not being the finished article, we're not on Man City's level. Punching above our weight being the expectation is not for me personally.

The good thing about Man City is that no one other than them classes anything they win as meaning anything, so they act as a buffer against other teams I hate from winning and it meaning something. I'm taking the positives, fewer games. I'm sure that with it will come much better football and a 26/27 to look forward to. This season has been relentlessly difficult from the summer onwards and I want it to end. Can't really fault Eddie, his staff and the players all that much tbh, the adversity and schedule has been ridiculous.

No chance imo.

We're not just knackered after 30 minutes like we're playing Norwich, we're playing one of the best teams that there is anywhere in the world, being knackered is going to show.

Glad to hear the fans cheering them and Eddie on.

In the context of playing Man City, yes absolutely. You're going on like it's only us out there.

More games than who? The teams who are allowed to buy who they want when they want.

Come on Keefaz. I'm not saying the first half an hour is the be all and end all, but it still happened. We're playing with a handicap before you even get on to how knackered we are.

Played more than literally every other team.

Case in point