Abacus

Absolute monster of a player. Always think of when he was on 5 a-side games in training that everyone wanted him on their side as he was just so competitive, and he just goes all game. Not sure I've seen a player like him before. He won us that today all over the park and it was a deserved goal to put us in the lead.

He's looking straight at it as well. Very poor

Shame for Tonali after the Chelsea game, but I don't see how you could drop anyone after Arsenal. Hopefully he gets some good minutes as a sub later if they're tiring, so happy with that lineup. Expecting a tough one today, but hopefully our confidence is up.

I want to see him with a traffic cone on his head, being pushed down a hill in a rickety shopping trolley.

Oh right, that's why I'm the wrong person to ask then

OK. I'm no longer a long-standing season ticket holder, I gave it up after many years during Benitez's last season. So, to be clear, I'm not who you're asking. I gave mine up because I thought our loyalty was being abused and I also no longer enjoyed going. I do know some longer standing season ticket holders, who still stayed during that period because of their seats etc. We fell out a bit over that Anyway, I think the question, and please correct me if I'm wrong on what you're asking, is that if we moved stadium for the good of the team would you be happy to lose your seat and take pot luck on getting a ticket in the future. And the answer to that would probably be no. Unless I have I gotten the question wrong.

I would, yes

Well I think the question was more about a small relocation rather than a complete move to somewhere else. Which I'm ok with. Thing is, I remember before even going to games and feeling the excitement of that in town, wandering around the city and hearing the roar when we scored. Knowing if we'd won or not, but asking the score anyway. I don't think you can replicate that anywhere else - it made me a lifelong fan and so my first steps into SJP felt like I was stepping into the shoes of people that had lived their whole lives that way. It's sort of what you buy into, come grim times or joy. But then, for the city it is the heartbeat of a whole week. Edit, it's what makes SJP special, it's why it has to keep being bang in the city centre, it's why we go. And I have probably misunderstood the question now

It's not a daft question, and I'm not the person to answer it, since a move a bit back into Leazes park would be ok with me. A complete rebuild at least keeps it at the top of the hill, but I understand that may not be possible with the limited capacity it could likely bring, so if moving a bit is the better option, then fine. I don't support any move out of the city centre, nor to the Arena site. I suppose there is an identity crisis really about what any club really means. Your owners won't usually be local, nor will most of your players. So what are you actually supporting? Just the name of the club, wherever it plays? Bobby Robson answered this all much more eloquently. It's why people are attached to the pitch, the years of walking the same streets to get there, seeing familiar faces on the way, the memories you had watching that piece of grass. If you strip everything else away, and there really is nothing more as players, managers and owners come and go, then that is what you're left with. I guess that's the argument. But yeah, Leazes would work for me.

Shot!

Two and a half years? Obviously looking to save a bit on the compo.

Agreed. It still makes me laugh that Bruce was thought of as hard to play against tactically because even he didn't know what he was up to.

Taking that at face value, he probably knows his body better than most by now and that there would likely be another breakdown if he pushed it. So maybe he doesn't trust himself either. He's certainly a conundrum to medical science In which case, the fault doesn't lie in him, more on the club for not moving him on and a couple of posters pointed this out at the time. But then again, at the time he wasn't sold we weren't really in a position to replace him as it now looks from a financial point of view, so maybe there is no real fault. But I still can't help be annoyed with his lack of availability - I'm just not going blame anyone in particular for it, which would be nice and cathartic to be able to do. I do think the best thing for both him and the club would have been less of a workload and maybe a warm weather environment for a smallish fee had there been, say, Saudi interest. Maybe he'd then have had an outside chance of staying fit enough for the odd England game last summer. But hindsight is a wonderful thing. As it has turned out, he just adds to our squad problems, which I'm a bit tired of thinking about.

Osula played well when he came on, Joelinton as well all game. Very good and we had the best chances as well.

Personally, I don't think that's the choice. Isak has had chances and fluffed them this season due to being rusty and / or injured. That's not Howe's fault. Previous to that, he's been banging them in when fit, so he is normally deadly in a Howe team. Find this debate a bit strange, but hey. That's the beauty of a forum.