Whitley mag

Great to see where no longer here to make up numbers and won’t be fucked with.

These were good at Spurs recently but without Cunha I fancy us. Where due a big performance at home and feel win is badly needed to boost players confidence as much as anything.

Get the arena site bought off Homes England and stop fucking about. Castle Leazes will get bogged down in objections and red tape for years with no guarantee it would be approved. The atmosphere at SJP, sight lines, facilities and acoustics are shit, build something the envy of everywhere with the River and bridges as the backdrop. Everton’s new stadium pisses all over the recent Anfield redevelopment in my opinion and will generate massive new revenues for them.

Ederson looks the part hoping it’s not dependent on Joelinton leaving.

What makes you think that FFP restraints ? I’m fairly confident the people in charge at the very least are about maximising the value of their investment, the potential for growth is still there it’s just going to take more time unfortunately.

Just mates meeting for a catch up, until Potter gets the job of course.

Agree it just isn’t healthy in my opinion and find it hard to believe Howe junior would be employed by club if Eddie wasn’t there. If he deserves his promotion from within due to performance so be it, but who made the decision to promote him and was the role advertised to find the best candidate, I’m guessing probably not.

He’s just signed a new contract where was this link from ?

Can’t say I’m fond of this move but it was on the cards moment Ashworth left. Newcastle United have made an alteration to their backroom department by promoting Andy Howe to assistant head of first-team recruitment. The nephew of Eddie Howe will now be number 2 to head of recruitment Steve Nickson having operated as head of technical scouting since the ex-AFC Bournemouth boss was appointed as Toon chief in 2021. The move comes swiftly after sporting director Dan Ashworth left the club on gardening leave last week. It means that the former Plymouth Argyle scout will now have a bigger role in identifying key targets for the first-team and drops a hint that things are moving ahead of what will be a busy summer. It remains to be seen whether Nickson could potentially step up to a revamped sporting director role following the exit of Manchester United-bound Ashworth.

Good kick off time full day on the piss in Manchester should be rocking.

Back in the day this would have been spicy off the pitch with 8k plus at City, would have been windmilling all the way from Piccadilly to the Moss side.

Getting them in the semi at Wembley would be worse, in a strange way think we have a better chance of an upset at their place.

Sickening McConnell and Clark both Newcastle lads in the Liverpool starting line up.

Would love him to prove me wrong, one decent cut in and shot over the bar, still early days but just don’t see him offering the creativity where crying out for, looks very predictable in the attacking 3rd.

Maybe politics are at play, but I don’t particularly worry about where the money comes from, if it benefits the club/city and creates jobs that’s enough for me.

It’s one sentence but no i can’t educate me ?

Always best to try and separate football from politics, the fact remain there good for the club and city.

Agree we looked pretty piss poor in some games when Joelinton played. He undoubtedly gives us a physical edge but in no way covers for the lack of a defensive minded midfielder, see Dortmund at home as prime example when we were cut to ribbons time after time.

Especially considering how proud his parents were when he signed for club his dad supported. This now looks like an Ashworth deal and the lad has borne the brunt of internal politics at play.

Howe’s been brilliant for a season and a half and average this season I would say if trying to put this in context. He ran out of ideas at Bournemouth and defending was genuinely regarded as his weak spot. Last season the stats showed we were fucking brilliant defensively, but most will have noticed towards the end of season we started to look a little bit vulnerable at the back especially to pace. I genuinely don’t know which way this goes for Howe, I certainly don’t see us winning the FA Cup on current form and strongly suspect this current form continuing into next season will see him gone after 10 games. Without a DOF i seriously worry about this summers transfer strategy, which if we get wrong could have massive ramifications going forward.

Midfield is weak as piss which doesn’t help, but have to admit there’s worrying signs and looks very Bournemouth at the minute.

Singing along to a local bands song as well, instead of the generic shite we have to suffer. Back to the point though and you’re right to get any atmosphere back we need more groups of younger lads, not families and tourists, but fucking match going lads who go to the pub have a few pints then get behind the lads. It’s killing our fanbase and worry the likes of Silverstone will kill our support for good. SJP used to be one of the most feared radged up places to come on its day, we can barely muster a murmur for the big games these days it’s embarrassing.

Eales and Silverstone shouldn’t be given such an easy ride going forward if they’re just burying their heads over this.

Think I said a while back that there were clear signs the recruitment team weren’t working in tandem, think I might have been accused of having an agenda as well. No hard feelings though 󠀠

Think Ashworth might regret putting his faith in Jim, on the other hand he might be quite happy being paid to do fuck all for 20 months.