Whitley mag

47 tickets available for a 3pm kick off, unprecedented and sign of the times.

Nah same page and 7 adult tickets for sale as of now. Few at £47 easiest it’s ever been to get a re-sale ticket lately.

There’s nowt like a defeat by the mackems to send the fanbase into a meltdown. He’s not going anywhere but this is a week where he needs results to keep momentum going this season, there’s no getting away from it unfortunately we need to be mentally stronger and start cutting the errors out.

Stack of resales now on website for today be interesting to see if they shift or same story as Tuesday. If they don’t then the kick off time excuse is out the window and it becomes a demand/pricing issue, as they’ve disappeared straight away in last few seasons.

Cardiff on the Friday night was brilliant and level 7 at its best. Notable also for a famous Cardiff hooligan begging for Police protection after giving it the large one. Still think Level 7 corner and the NW corner below all standing would make a massive difference to the SJP atmosphere.

They’re definitely a physical team who will press at certain times and our keeper situation worries me with balls in the box. Not buying they don’t have a bit quality as well, think with Xhaka and Le Fee they have the ability to unlock a defence. Saying all that we are the better team by far and if we approach the game correctly we’ll get a result.

Be a massive boost if he’s on the bench Saturday.

You and @Turnbull2000 should have a night out together be a reet laugh.

Don’t think club and local stakeholders share his view.

Key part of enabling development on Leazes Park about to be passed early in new year.

Elanga should be used for Leverkusen away as these will be camped with 10 men behind the ball. I’m sick of fucking Murphy as well, so would go Gordon on the right and Barnes on left.

Our struggles with crosses into the box doesn’t bode well for this. If they’ve been watching us lately they’ll have seen it’s a huge weakness and they seem to have scored more than a few from scrambles in the box.

Feels like he spent a lot of money and we’ve got more questions than answers. Return of Wissa is huge but defensive frailties and weak mentality in winning positions needs sorting.

Worst player I’ve seen in a black and white shirt bar none in 40 years. Mark Stimson all is forgiven.

A 70k new stadium might look a bit sparse looking at the number of re-sales that haven’t shifted tonight. Might be a perfect storm of pre Xmas, lots of games and expensive prices but makes you think if things turned to shite. I do think they’ve now maxed out general admission prices this season though and might just have finally priced out a good few.

Loads of re-sale tickets popping up on website for this, just bagged myself one if anyone looking.

City by the sea think they’d be used to a bit water.

If we sign a right back surely Tino alternates a rest with Hall. How long is Trippier going to be here past this season anyway?

We need to lower age of squad it should be a young right back with a high ceiling. Tino’s ability to cover left back dictates the right is the greater need.

Wouldn’t be opposed to sticking Gordon on the right just to see if it adds any variety to his game. Would also like to see Miley start alongside Bruno and Tonali. Think it could be the answer to retaining possession better and still enough physicality with Tonali in there.

Praise due tonight got the Burn, Miley and Elanga selections spot on. I’m not Elanga’s biggest fan but he needs more starts to get some confidence building. Thought we kept the ball much better tonight and some quality deliveries into the box.

The right choice.

Should be Burn and Thiaw for me they’re our two best centre half’s defensively. Burn was shafted by moving him to left back and his height is needed at set pieces tonight. I think Schar is on the slide and if we’ve got our 2 full backs playing we don’t need his ball playing ability as much.

New stadium is progressing well behind the scenes and it’ll be part financed by PIF, with rest through financial institutions. It won’t be revealed in a comms around the women’s World Cup bid either.

He could have a blinder on Saturday but think it’s high risk for Howe to pick him. They will target him at set pieces and if he drops another clanger the manager will rightly face questions.