RobsonsWonderland

It's not the Ashley years and I've got faith that we are trying. I'm sure we will either try to buy a one that fits our long term plan or look to loan a player who will provide cover for now. If we don't... how many games has Shelvey played this year, 3…? And we now have Gordon to allow a cm to be pushed back into the centre.

Before now it felt like a slow evolution of the squad... with the likes of Shelvey, Ritchie, Frazer etc running out their contracts But thank f'ck for Nottingham Forest and the free spending ways! Not the worst player we have had but he is still tainted by the Ashley years

What if it's due to a club asking about his availability? Maybe it's to stop the transfer or to increase / remove the buy out clause from his original contract? Would it not be better to get it out of the way now when he is in a positive place?

Everton have played 20 league games He has played 16 and has played 90 mins in most of them (3 as sub) But facts get in the way of the truth

I wonder if we are just worried about being ahead of our long term plan. As a fan it would be great to get into the champions league this year but do we have the revenue / FFP in place to really improve all aspects of our squad competing on both fronts next season? However Once the new sponsorship / strip deals start to land and we have guaranteed a top 4 place more transfers will open up to us in the summer? At the moment we are so close but you are still selling the dream to the 50 million plus player.

Not sure if people watched the video of him chased down the road in his car... But knowing the streets around the ground, the supposed threats against the board, players etc why would you want to go through that every home game? I bet you half the team would leave if clubs come in for them! Also he is not the first or the last player to go down this route... Even Messi did it Barcelona the first time he wanted to leave.

1990 Newcastle v Leicester 2-4 down at 77 mins 5-4 up at 87 mins Quinn and McGee on ? that day and I think it was my first game in a seated area.

Maybe but look at our goal last night... isak knew where and when to play the cross. Even looked up 3 times before he did it. But then he is a level above.

So our go to move seems to be tight passing across the right side of the box and the ball being played across. These are the ones I think he should be poaching... But then again it is a lottery where longstaff's or miggys crosses will end up.

We are on a slower squad building journey then our league position suggests You either have to dream of the likes of Bellingham or Rice or accept we are taking it step by step at the clubs pace. But I think Gordon is good enough to strengthen our midfield pool.

Does Bielsa not need more time to beast them and make them fit enough to run around at 100 miles per hour or get them into his way of thinking?

I don't think you can fully judge a player whilst playing for a poor team, under a poor manager. I mean Almiron, Schar, Big Joe are a million miles away from where they were under Bruce. And if I'm honest I would rate Lampard at the same level as Bruce. So I'm in the camp that if Eddie believes that it works for his system then it must be part of a bigger plan.

Why are people assuming we would not be bringing a loan or somebody in if we let any of the squad go? It is not the Ashley years, those rules no longer apply??

Of the three where would you place them on the Chris Wood Transfer Rating Scale? 1. Rubbish player never wanted him 2. average player but Eddie could work his magic. 3. Don't rate him... But when we sign him, I will pretend he has always been quality? 1. McSauce 2. Gordon, 3. Tielemans

So we spent this weekend worrying about the results from the Manchester and London derbies and beat the 6th placed team in the league... Let that sink in and forget about the past 15 or so years where we would be celebrating a 1.0 win no matter how we played. More teams will set up to frustrate us, so we will need to keep plugging away in games... Obviously if Longstaff could put away these early chances it would bloody take the stress away lol

Southampton have Blackpool in the fa cup in between our game. Might help us depending how deep there squad is

Not sure what to say... But this is the REAL Newcastle. Hereford, Luton, Brentford.. Christ I can even remember us struggling to get draws at Non league teams the year we got to the finals in the 90s. And for balance if Bruce had played this team under Ashley we would have been screaming from the roof tops to get them both out. Just pray we get through the Leicester game and then start to improve our squad depth

One forward scored both his chances... Ours missed them all

It still frustrates me how useless he is at our corners... Surely even 1 out of 100 crosses should bounce of him if he didn't just stand on the line!

I never understand these stats... I mean we were not purposely kicking the ball out of play during the game? The 16 fouls we give away were mostly due to their players falling down to win free kicks or pretending they had been pole axed in the face by a vicious finger nail. Both teams tried to bend the rules to win the game let's not pretend otherwise.

Going to sound like our friends down the road... But the tickets went on sale to season ticket holders over Christmas when a, people were too busy to notice B, wait to get tickets together C, its another chunk of money just after a lot of people have other things to pay for? Either we at it will be 50k plus on the night and I heard a lot more season ticket holders around me saying they had booked tickets

I think longstaff's faults would be overlooked if we had other cms who were regularly scoring, running past players or having the skill to play the killer ball into the forward. Big Jo, Willock and Longstaff are unable to that against defensive teams.. so the negative traits are highlighted as soon as we struggle.

I predict a comfortable 2.0 win with Leeds (insert team name here) underperforming against a lucky Newcastle. Their forums will then not mention that they had 1 shot on target but that we are solely responsible for all the faults of the middle east if not the world.

That is crazy by the Premier League.. say we missed out on champions league place by a point or another team were relegated.. does this open them up to be sued? I remember Sheff Utd getting money for the West Ham Tevaz signing? Think the next season had started so they were stuck in the Championship but the Premier League had to pay them off??

Still think the Argentina keeper should be red carded for throwing the ball away lol