Whitley mag

Some good pics of our end from the Curva Sud. https://Twitter.com/dougbagleyfdl/status/1704370802148139132?s=20

St Max disrupted the opposition more and attracted extra defenders. Any coincidence Isak has appeared more marked with less room this season ?

Happy to re-visit these 2 deals at end of the season and hope I’m wrong. Something tells me we’ll be looking to upgrade the wide areas again next summer though.

Would fully recommend the route from the Cafe Beehive, via the Cafe Geordie Star also taking in the Black Bullio to St James for your fan March in a few weeks.

Not enough end product for me, looked great at home against Liverpool for a spell but anonymous away from home for me this season. Jury is absolutely out on him and Barnes, not sure it was worth sacrificing a talent like St Max to accommodate both of them. Where really missing some unpredictability and X factor going forward this season.

Exactly we’ve paid 35 million for the lad he’s got to play ahead of Targett.

Simple fact is apart from Isak we haven’t been able to sign a really intelligent world class attacker. We’ve signed potential in Gordon but we got rid of the one other player we had who is unpredictable and can unlock a team. We look one paced and predictable in midfield and we need Willocks pace and goal scoring from midfield desperately. We’ve had a tough start and we won’t have a problem retaining possession, but creating is different and I think it’ll be a major issue throughout the season with the personnel we currently have.

Longstaff as a false 9 in tribute to Bruce recommending Howe for the job.

This funnily enough, though I’m really struggling with the fact he’s neither a midfield destroyer or creative player. Howe clearly values running and intensity and seen these values in Tonali. Not sure it’s what we needed though at 50 plus million.

Maybe at home when we need a goal but not permanently, especially in a 4-3-3.

Never lose in the San Siro HTFL

Fucking hell look at the state of the pillow man.

Tons of local old songs we should be using instead of these generic ones every club sings.

Best flag so far.

These European aways might be a steep learning curve for some of the younger lads.

Gutted about missing this will be a fucking unreal experience for those who’ve gone over. Remember the metro system on the way to the match last time bouncing with thousands on way from city centre. The place might be a shit hole but it’s unreal from the outside lit up at night. Stay safe all who’ve travelled HTFL

Ffs our rivals haven’t suddenly become Man City and Real Madrid. Just because we’ve had a couple of decent seasons and have some money, this lot will always be our rivals it’s based on years of rivalry. Did Celtic forget about Rangers when they were demoted ? These cunts would be 10 times worse if the boot was on the other foot due to their inferiority complex. Milk it and rub their mackem fucking noses in it.

The messiah in Jerusalem, very appropriate on the eve of our return to Europe.

Hopefully Eales and Silverstone turn up to this canal in Milan and somebody accidentally pushes them both in. Nobody is telling me they’re not behind this, absolute cunts trick giving people who have travelled hundreds of miles dodgy tickets aswell.

Giroud despite being surely past it has an awful knack of scoring against us. Just hope we’re not overawed like at Wembley and play with our heads for once on the big occasion.

Interesting where not flying out early and holding our last training session here. No pics of the lads training at the San Siro tonight.

Unreal talent who should be played off a main striker, pair with Sesko or Ferguson next season in a 4-2-3-1.

The new ticketing policy only came about since Eales and Silverstone came on the scene, so I think it’s a reasonable assumption they’re behind it. I didn’t expect them to implement a policy that’s resulted in hundreds of empty seats home and away when demand is at an all time high that’s for sure.

Seems massively overpriced for an area behind the goal, it’s going to look embarrassing having loads of empty’s in their all season. Sure the Barracks in the Milburn is fucking cheaper. Not to mention away fans can openly buy tickets in these corporate areas without question, which is fucking ridiculous in a home end behind the goal. This smacks of new execs looking to justify their wage packet and increase revenue by shafting ordinary fans. Personally feel Eales has been embarrassing to date with cheap sound bites. They’ve massively recruited in the marketing department and left the ticket office to operate on a shoe string whilst trying to implement big changes. Really think the whole ticketing situation has soured the start to this season for many.

Apparently there were a few empty seats in the new wings corporate section in middle of the Leazes and those 17 seats in the park grill nobody could buy. One way to destroy the atmosphere even more is placing corporate seats directly behind the goal. Im sure those seats in Wings are 300 quid plus which is far more than the previous sports bar seats they had there. The new ownership have got most things right but feel Eales and Silverstone are wholly responsible for the ticketing shambles this season. Instead of scoring cheap fucking brownie points with have you ever seen a mackem in Milan shite, get the fucking ticketing policy sorted and make sure there’s not fucking empty seats all over the shop home and away you useless overpaid cunts.