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Lascelles fucked

Get in, 1-0

Given

Just now, McDog said:

Not sure about that. 

VAR checking offside now

Just now, St1pe said:

As good as an 11 we could have hoped for. I think we’ll get it done.

 

Gordon masterclass 

Aye, no reason that can't turn West Ham over like. Big games from Murphy and Willock hopefully

That's undeniably true like   I also took some pictures of Castle Leazes but there's literally nothing there

I had a look down there yesterday while I was out taking pictures in town.  Honestly, Leazes Terrace is already canny ruined like

Well that's still true but it's had the same sort of fall from grace as some of the tat Mike Ashley peddles unfortunately

Because it's sadly but undeniably absolutely fucking vile now, I guess

I reckon we could do without Shieldfield

With apologies to anyone who lives in Shieldfield but you'd end up in a lovely little two up two down looking onto beautiful and iconic Leazes Terrace 

Maybe got the ball but went clean through her for me, hard to tell from the single replay but I think she was genuinely clattered

aye  i used to use Haymarket when I was there but also a good shout, the walkway still goes all the way down to Ellison Place if you're brave enough to walk through the stinky underpass bit

Manors handy for the courts and Quayside I reckon, probably gets a bit of business

I thought it had been closed for years

Just watched the game again. Was 100% a penalty on Bailey Gayle at the end I reckon, but the way we were playing we would 100% have missed it anyway, so at least we were spared that little bit of drama and heartbreak

It's hardly iconic like - most folk wouldn't even know it existed if it wasn't next to SJP.  And it's almost certainly no more beautiful than plenty of other streets in town that have already been bulldozed

18 minutes ago, Pancrate1892 said:

That bastard leazes terrace was there mind 

  was handbuilt by Jesus himself, I heard. Completely untouchable, unlike the Royal Arcade which appeared to look just as good as Leazes Terrace but was hauled off all the same 

It's a strange one and I know what you mean from the equality perspective.  If you're playing for your local pub on a Sunday morning then you're opening yourself up for criticism and I'm sure they wouldn't be doing this unless they had a bit of steel about them.  At the same time, a lot of the grief aimed at Donnelly in particular was absurdly personal, and even more absurd to those of us who have watched her making plenty of great diving stops and sweeping up like an absolute pro these past few months.

 bang on

I'm pretty sure the Kingston Park support will be as good as ever, but it is a concern that the game after we lost to Manchester United was a real blip in the league, albeit against one of the tougher sides.  Has been sad to see the club having to remove dozens of comments about Grace Donnelly from insta over the last couple of days - there were plenty of supportive rebuffs to some of the rubbish that was posted but it's all gone now, thankfully.

Sad but entirely expected that the women's game is falling into all the same shit patterns that the men's is (hoarding players to sell, one of my least favourite aspects of the men's game)

Aye. They didn't play anywhere near what they're capable of and while # deserve plenty of credit for containing them I think nerves played a part, just like they did at SJP. Big step up for them I guess, that sort of environment and atmosphere. Kingston Park gets noisy enough but not like that.

Aye, that's the risk of doing it - if the opposition can use it as motivation then it's powerful. I feel the same about booing referees. I do feel it's more pantomime than unpleasantness though.

Most folk around me stayed to applaud but I saw plenty departing as well.

Just back north of the Tyne now, been a long couple of days but I'm still pleased I went.

We got it back plenty at the end from the few of them who were there, tbf might teach some a bit of humility. I'm not a fan myself but it's not that unusual a feature of a football crowd in my experience

Grace Donnelly has been putting in some heroic performances that you wouldn't expect of her recently, really commanding, but she was very hesitant and uncharacteristically glued to her line yesterday - not sure if they were drilled to expect a particular threat so not to play sweeper as she usually does - but you could see the whole back line was operating differently to usual, right from the opening exchanges. Ultimately there's no room for sentiment if you want to progress, I guess - I have no problem with Langley showing faith in GD though.

I wasn't close enough to judge how she did with the second yesterday but it looked like it all started from an absolute hospital ball from someone in midfield, Boddy I think? It looked like none of them dealt with the situation particularly well after that was given away.

I can't really recall it but I feel like the first came from us cheaply surrendering possession over on the right wing as well.