Kid Icarus

Damn, this kid's good

There's also a running theme of other fans once 'having a soft spot for us' - aye, because we're a great away day and were a guaranteed 3 points

Most forums RTG aside are nearly always the same. A mixture of 1. level-headed people who give credit where it's due, and 2. people confidently talking diarrhea about other teams, about how they're uniquely shat on by borderline corrupt officials, how the media/everyone hates us, how another team are media darlings, how another team are habitually lucky, and how they've looked on another team's forum and they're ALL person 2.

In hindsight it's baffling to think of some of the wingers Rafa bought considering the workrate he wants from them. It should have been obvious from the start that Babel and Pennant were never going to put in the graft of someone like Kuyt or Kewell.

Willock

It's this imo. No way is Botman in over Schär. 433 Pope Trippier Schär Martinez Shaw Guimaraes Casemiro Fernandes Almiron Wilson Rashford With Joelinton extremely unlucky to miss out. Heart over head I have him in over the rat.

4 central midfielders though?

Nice to see that Chris Wood came back to watch it as well

Course they are, they're Man United fans. You have to go a long way to find one that isn't at least 1% Terry Christian

No idea what Forest's plan in this was like. It appeared to be let's hold onto this 3-0 deficit

Hardly his fault tbh, Hearts were awful in every way that half. I'm not even sure he touched the ball

It's more or less a dead rubber tbf

I've been watching this Hearts Rangers match for 15 minutes and Kuol hasn't touched the ball once. Not his fault either, the quality is canny low.

Hearts are suicidally open at the back

Man United Forest is incredibly boring so I'll see how Kuol gets on.

Man United pretty much full strength. That miserable old git assured me this morning that the top teams don't take this cup seriously, strange.

Just noticed something that I think sums it all up. That second goal, probably my favourite goal of the season, a goal that followed some excellent free-flowing football and movement that I haven't seen in a Newcastle team for decades. Willock, Joelinton, Almiron, Longstaff. All of them Ashley-era signings. What Eddie's done with this squad is unbelievable.

It's the FOMO for me, regardless of whether I went down to London or went into town. I have visions of the streets being deserted.

I'm starting to lean towards watching in the house so I can see what's going on, then going into town if we win.

Here, what yiz deein?

FWIW when I change my sound settings to Sport on my telly it always sounds much better. I think SJP is really badly mic'd in terms of capturing the atmosphere tbh, possibly to limit the amount of swearing you'd hear.

Less, but not none

We should never forget as well (mainly saying this because I just forgot for a minute) that in terms of effort it's a 10 again, and for me that's still all that matters after 14 years of our effort being 0.

Here's the big question though. If you're not going to the match, do you go into town or go to London? I think it's one of those ones where you wish you could be in both places at once.

5 I think losing Shelvey with no like-for-like replacement is a mistake. That alone has a big impact on the rating for me. Without that I'd probably give it a 7. Looking back it may end up being a brilliant one if Howe continues turning water into wine though.