Dr Jinx

26 minutes ago, LFEE said:

Planning permission incoming then?

It’s nowhere near that stage yet. When they decided what they want to do, then it’s over to the architects and other teams to work on a design. They’re not gonna pull that out of their arse, it all takes time.

I believe we paid 4.5m to Brighton for him. Anyone thinking he goes for under that is a Brexit Jim journo shill or just deluded.

Likes a slide tackle obviously. Echo the sentiment about his highlights there. I saw a bunch of situations where he’s lunged in needlessly but that’s just the clip we’re looking at. He could well be better than that.

Hard to tell if we do that last ditch defending as much as Bournemouth.

I much prefer seeing clips of players just reading the game and snuffing out passes, Botmans was like that and Tosin’s too.

Southgate doesn’t like to get his hands dirty by actually making any tough decisions. Perfect for the FA because he just goes through the motions and respects the hierarchy above him.

The players like him because he’s not a threat.

Then if the players succeed through collective ability he’s more than happy to pick up the plaudits.

He’d tick a lot of those boxes at Man Utd, a good company man.. and the players will like him because they’ll walk all over him and he’ll never let on he’s not in control.

But the amount of games in a season will soon find him out.

It’s a total myth that International football is the very highest level, at least tactically.

14 minutes ago, Dancing Brave said:

Stadium rebuilds aside, why couldn’t they just get someone up on the roof to repair a leak? Couldn’t cost that much surely.

Are they worried the whole thing is about to come down or something?

He’s a right sided centre back? Does that mean Schär moves over, or are we gonna have the tallest CB pairing of all time with him and Burn?

Given the injuries, I see Kelly as more of a backup if we are in for him. I’m surprised we’re in for him at all to be honest given the problems we’ve had. No doubt he’s a good player but boots on the ground n all that.

Agree Tosin would likely be an immediate starter, well once Howe bloods him in.

If Botman comes back like the player we knew before, then there’s going to be some selection problems.

Are ACL’s as bad as they once were?

Didn’t see the match earlier but the radio mentioned that they didn’t play too badly, Arsenal maybe a bit twitchy in the last few mins?

Hopefully that gives them the confidence to press the play and give us some chances to counter attack.

I’m sure he’ll have his agent in his ear presenting him with options as he should as that’s his job.

But don’t think Bruno is fed up just yet. Another season without the problems we had this year and he’ll want to see how it goes.

Best thing he can do is jet back home for the summer and try and remove himself from the tabloid shite. It will be endless.

Howe would not have said we’re planning for the next season with Bruno and Isak in the team, not start again etc.. and I believe him.

Chelsea have been impressive since the new year. Not without their vulnerabilities but Poch has finally gotten a tune out of them, they’d be mental to sack him.

If we can’t win our remaining games then we don’t deserve 6th. I’m not overly bothered.

We would have a better chance at the lower competition in any case. A trophy is a trophy.

Newcastle Specific

Player of the Season: AG
Young player of the season (21 or lower): Livramento or Miley
Season to forget: Sven Botman
Most Improved: AG
Unsung Hero: Dubravka
Signing of the Season: Livramento
Goal of the season: Schär v PSG
Moment of the season: Team photo at SoL
Low point of the season: Penalty against us v PSG
Manager rating (Out of 10): 7

Premier League Specific

Player of the Season: Declan Rice

Young player of the season (21 or lower): Cole Palmer

Manager of the Season: Emery

Season to forget: Salah

The commercial deals and also the CL money should give us some opportunity to spend big once or twice this summer.

But 60m on a keeper? No chance.

Miggy out for 25m and someone at right forward in for around 35-40..

Wilson is the big decision, if they move him on we could get 10-15m for him. We could keep him but how many games will he miss?

No decent striker is cheap so that’ll be the other big one (if there is a big one).

Couple of free’s (Tosin, Kelly)

The main decisions will be around deciding which of the injury prone players we have to stick with.

3 hours ago, Jack27 said:

any idea if it's being made public?

 

documenting this whole thing for a YouTube/NUFCTV series would be very insightful, please 

Oh am fairly sure Darren Eales will make some sort of statement on it in due course, am just trying to give a bit of reality to the process as there’s a whole bunch of us eager for some news. Nothing concrete will come quick.. if they do stay at SJP as what’s currently expected there’s a whole heap of work to get through before we ever see a render of the plans.

My hope would be that they opt for the Arena site before anything else goes in there. It couldn’t be much more than a 15/20 min walk from SJP and much closer to Central Station.

It would look amazing beside the river.

Nothing stopping us from keeping the lease on the land at SJP and building a state of the art conference centre with hotels, a casino, event venue etc. Revenue which could go back into the club.

This hasn’t gotten anywhere near the architects yet. The report that they have had for at least a month at this stage only outlines options v RoI and external considerations (planning, metro etc). It won’t have even gotten to an estimate because that’s not what they do. Only what’s possible.

Once they have (a decision) and then all requirememts gathered into a document, they’ll be in discussions with civil planners, surveyors and architects before they eventually go with one.

Then it will need to be designed, then approved.. probably with changes, updated designs/drawings etc.

We’re a way off anything being announced that side of things. Probably 1-2 years.

It’s just always a very long process when working with an existing structure and planning considerations.

A whole new site/stadium would be a much easier venture but they seem to be stuck on the idea of staying.

So ambitious they had to cull “The Line” project.

3 hours ago, Vinny Green Balls said:

I can think of a couple of bizarre alternatives. Mourinho, and the alternating coach thing. But I honestly don't think that he actually believed it when he suggested the latter either, which he basically said later.

I don’t think you quite understand what I meant by that or you just assumed something and ran with it.

I was never talking about hiring a new coach every two years.

What I meant was having someone, just for example sake.. someone like Rafa Benitez who could sit in a technical role.

Then at a point, I did say 2 years but I didn’t necessarily mean a 2 year rotation every time, what I meant was.. when the coach starts having burn out, that there’s someone who can step in and won’t upset the flow of things. Let the manager go off and recharge for a season.. do some learning like what Howe did when he was unemployed.

It was never about removing Howe from the setup, it was always about giving him the best chance for a much longer term project.

18 minutes ago, Lush Vlad said:

 

Seemed like being better than last season, be it league finish or winning something (lol) was always going to be tough, no?
 

CL to contend with, no longer a bit of a surprise package, we 100% over-achieved against what was expected in almost everyone’s opinion. Although perhaps not yours, as you seem tough to please  then throw in clubs that couldn’t possibly be so shit again, whilst also having no Europe to contend with. Then we had some shit luck with injuries and players missing, plus some poor management of said injuries and barely got minutes out of our summer signings. 
 

I don’t feel like it will be a rebuild?! We have good players returning and hopefully playing more than this season. The emergence of some younger players. Tonali to come back in. Hall and Livramento getting meaningful minutes at the back end of this season. Along with a full pre-season this summer. Howe showing that he does have tactical versatility. Despite what some on here and social media say. I could go on, but I can’t be arsed.   
 

With what, even say 3 first team players brought in. We would look in better shape than we have for an age. How doe we need a rebuild? 

On that last point. I don’t know if it is or not. Will there be mitigating circumstances again. With some of these being out of our control? Like drawing 70s Brazil and the Harlem Globetrotters in the knockout rounds of cups? 
 

 

Definitely not tough to please. Supported this team so long I’ve seen it all. We’re in good times and it’s brilliant supporting the club the last few years. You look forward to each weekend now with a real hope that we’ll keep pushing forward collectively.

That doesn’t mean I can’t be critical of mistakes that happen, or poor performances. If Eddie Howe is as critical of himself he’ll have thought or said the same things that posters on here have said.

We went to shit defensively earlier on season and that was a real concern, he looks to have stabilised things but when I say rebuild I mean Botman missing for a large portion. Potentially majority of season.

Burn is not a long term solution.

Lascelles same boat injury wise.

Trippier was showing signs of slowing down this season. Let’s see how he is when he’s back but he may well be a candidate for moving on.

We may need 2-4 players to come in to cover all those positions.

So yeah, a rebuild of sorts.

2 minutes ago, Beth said:

He never scored two for us.

He scored against the dippers in that game where Staveley came to watch us for the first time. That’s enough of a contribution.

1 minute ago, Lush Vlad said:

Depends how the summer goes. But I think Top 4-6 again and try to get past the QF’s of the cups this time, then who knows. Although the draws were difficult to say the least in all comps.
 

If it’s just ‘very respectable’ with all the injuries we’ve had. What were you expecting from us this season exactly?! 
 

Tough crowd. 

I wanted us to be better than we were the previous season and I can’t say that we have been. But I understand the reasons for that.

We’ve got some sort of defensive shape back thankfully but it almost feels like the summer will be a rebuilding job for all the long term injuries we have so I don’t know what the target should be. If we sign another couple of quality players maybe it should be top 4, but then what should be a consequence of failing to reach that?

Is settling for a top 6 finish something the Saudis are gonna be happy with?

Delighted for him ?

Top 6 with the injuries we’ve had would be very respectable. Just leaves you wondering where we could have been if it weren’t for that handful of absolutely sloppy games where we should have been better.

What should the target be for next season?

If we had an extra game or two I think we could have easily caught Spurs but I think they’ll get 4 points from remaining games. Burnley a draw possibly.

Not sure we’ll win all remaining games, Brentford away is a tough one.

Confident for 6th. It’s ours to lose.

2 hours ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

Not sure what you mean by ‘he’ll get next season’. As in, someone who has proven to be brilliant at their job is allowed to continue doing that job? 

I think I explained it pretty well.

They will expect a season of better managed injuries. We’ll have an improved squad and I the target will be top 4.

Not getting that and I’m guessing the owners will have a decision to make as much as they probably don’t want to.

I doubt they’ll (the club) will invite any unnecessary attention. He’s done his time now, we’ll almost so let’s just bring him back as quietly as possible.

Impossible to know what we’ve missed this season as he was still settling in. Hopefully his head is in a much better place.

Can’t help but think he got wind of this before it blew up on that International break so he must have had the weight of the world on his shoulders.

2 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

 

The Irish TV at the weekend spending the build-up talking about how he still might lose his job was genuinely unreal

It’s a possibility even though highly remote I’d say. They’ll review the season and probably come to the same conclusions most of us agree on.

I don’t think there’s one supporter who doesn’t like him. We all want him to succeed. The board will be the same. He represents the club very well and has mostly managed well and disarmed the uncomfortable questions that were a mainstay at the beginning.

His style of play (when we’re playing well) is something everyone can be on board with.

This style provides risk though, we will probably always have a big injury list until we have a squad similar to the top clubs where we can rotate without diminishing our chances of winning matches.

Consistency needs to improve but this is probably down to managing injuries and being more tactically diverse. We’ve shown some signs of that recently but still a lot of room to improve on.

I believe he’ll get next season and will be judged on results with a stronger squad, how he gets on up against the top clubs.

I think there’s a chance there. Liverpool and possibly Man Utd will be in a transitional phase, Spurs don’t seem to be able to maintain a good run, Chelsea will be in the top 4 next season. Arsenal will maintain their challenger status regardless of what happens this season, as will City. Villa will run into similar bother that we did this season, let’s see how they cope.

So there’s a chance, a strong chance for top 4 next season. If we don’t make that I think the club will then make a change.

Which is reasonable I think.