Coffee_Johnny

Done ?

Poor. Should never miss an opportunity to namecheck Mira!

Why didn’t they include Mirandinha (first Brazilian to play in England, I think…) in list of NUFC Brazilian players? Was it a football didn’t exist before the Premier League kind of question?

My heart bleeds for the lad. Who did he think he was going to displace? He opted for predicable bench warming when he had the opportunity to become part of what is being achieved by us in the Premier League. Might be amenable to a January loan deal ?

Cheeky fuckers! nicking our pearls of wisdom (ish ?)

Just saying some Geordies support Sunderland. Which is true, to be fair. Just as I guess some Wearsiders support Newcastle. Not sure if term ‘Makem’ is appropriate, for them (…it can get complicated this petty tribalism malarkey) as I am pretty sure it originated, or at least became a generic name/took off, specifically within football as an accent piss take.

Fifteen years you say? There’s been a fair bit of pain in the decades prior to that.

Gameweek 14 Leicester 0-1 Man City Bournemouth 1-1 Spurs Brentford 3-0 Wolves Brighton 1-0 Chelsea Palace 0-0 Southampton Newcastle 3-0 Villa Fulham 2-1 Everton Liverpool 2-0 Leeds Arsenal 4-0 Forest Man Utd 1-0 West Ham

Grealish’s greatest moment.

About to buy Jesus again, for Firmino. Probs means you should bin him.

So it’s your fault!! At last the senseless pain is explained ?

So is Emery’s latest move sound like going from Villarreal to Villa-fake? Seems a bit like going from Estádio da Luz to The Palladium of Shite.

Their kid is going to have some smile!

I think three of those were January ‘stay-up’ rather than ‘new-normal’ strategy signings and the other’s a keeper who tend to have a longer top level playing career.

Seem to recall 360 being seen as one of the ‘if patter was watter we’d all be drown’ rumour merchants.

Just had a look at what, historically, has been required for a sixth place finish; I’ve used average points per game rather than total points (just to get around the initial 42 game seasons). Graph shows this along with ppg for 1st place, 18th place and ourselves. The average ppg for sixth is 1.61 (most likely to fall between 1.51 and 1.71); the average for the Champions is 2.28 (2.11-2.45 most likely); ours is 1.36 (1.66-1.06 most likely); and relegated in 18th place was 0.94 (1.03-0.85 most likely). Eddie Howe’s NUFC has 1.67ppg (P39 W18 D11 L10).

Great shout

In terms of which traditional/usual top six sides we might finish above, we have a draw and a win in two of the away games; alongside a very harsh late defeat against a struggling (by their standards) Liverpool side. Win a couple, or three!, of the home games against those three and who knows. I’d also fancy us to take 3 or 4 points off Chelsea. Only Man City and Arsenal look out of reach at the moment.

Do we still slip on banana skins? Because this has all the signs of one in waiting. 7 points from three games which we would have all probably been absolutely delighted with 4 points from. I don’t think we do. Assuming we’re not overly leggy, or at least no more so than Villa (they’ve had three games in ten days, three in seven for us) we’ll have done the work on how to approach this. Both teams will have had a six day gap, which should enable us to regroup and recuperate. Dizzy heights of 24 points from 13 games (1.85 ppg ?) seems very likely.

Can’t agree with you there, BB. But if I don’t get it out of my head at some point today I’ll be joining you!

Ahhh… what a way to wake-up. Some wonderful footage on and off the pitch. Great time to be a Newcastle fan. Beginning to truly believe there are even better times coming that we may well live to see!

Thing about Tripps that strikes me is he is like 100% on the competitiveness continuum, but close to 0% on the aggressive continuum: never seems to get riled. Rare and rather wonderful combo.

How much did Killer cost? ?

? ? many of us have been there. On receiving as well as delivering end.

“Comments like these rightly give rise to people calling our fan base deluded and entitled.” Haddaway and shite, man. Do the maths. Look at how we’re playing, given Howe a little settling in time, the points return from January this year. Who gives a fuck about the potential sneering comments from others. We should be striving, with every sinew, for top six. That is where we deserve to be—stats not entitlement.