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Woods is fucking magnificent man

He’s absolutely class, shame he got down for the goal, but been our best player so far.

Is better than he’s showed tonight. Just needs to release it quicker

They’ve matched us in physicality and been the better side going forward. We’re lucky to be one down.

HTL, let’s do these

Are we hoping for a draw in the other fixture tonight?

My top 5 that I’ve been to 1) Newcastle vs PSG (4-1) 2) Newcastle vs Man Utd (4-3) - 2001 3) Sunderland vs Newcastle (0-1) - 2002 4) Newcastle vs Brentford (5-1) - 2022 - first match with my son 5) Newcastle vs Chelsea (1-2 - FA Cup Semi) - despite the loss, I have such vivid memories of being there with my sister

He’s a top lad like

Let’s just make @LFEE’s gaff the forum party mansion for anyone going to the match from out of town.

I have to agree. You look around the league and there’s not a lot I would take. Alisson, maybe Martinez.

Who told us anything like? Most of it has been pure guesswork and speculation in the Italian press. The facts of this have been scarce from the start, so no need to say he’s been deceiving us at all.

Didn’t get to watch the game yesterday but noticed him popping up in the middle. Wonder if this is a tactic we’re going to see when we play Murphy and Murph can hold the width and deliver a killer ball from wide, where as Miggy would come in and create the overload there. I don’t want to be that guy, but he absolutely could play midfield if need be.

Looked juicy. Class performance.

Ideally I would want Gordon, Joe and Wilson starting this with Isak, Anderson and Tonali dropping to the bench. That’s a strong three to come in

They’ll be managing him. Think this is the sort of game we would want Wilson for anyway if he’s fit. Save Alex for Dortmund.

Same people demanding we get players to share all their personal information, vices and relationship history before signing would not doubt be fuming if they were asked the same before a job offer. Fair enough if you work in legal profession or police or something but howeh, he plays football.

How would you do that though? Other than asking the individual to disclose

Would it matter if he was gambling on Milan though? Obvs if he’s gambled on us then it’s a different story.

What’s a class way to help a millionaire with a gambling problem…give them a shit load of free time

I guess it would maybe allow Bruno to play further forward with 1 other option? I don’t think they would necessarily be in competition for the same position, but obviously Howe likes players to be flexible enough to play in a few roles.

Would be happy with that to be honest. There’s a good player there. Prior to his move to city I would have rated him higher than Rice.

Might explain why he’s been a bit all over the place performance wise.

From what I’ve seen so far I think some of his strengths are instinctual first time passes, carrying the ball and surging/finding the spaces between fullback and defender. He’s also very strong on the ball. His passing when he has time to take a touch is not amazing, and his confidence is clearly not there to take risks. I think he will be class for us but will take a season. Remember Milan basically thought he was shite in his first season there.

That chant also annoys me that it’s not “he fucking hates Sunderland”. He hates fucking Sunderland sounds silly to me.

He’s moved to a new team, a new city, a new country, learning a new language, playing a new style of football in a new league. Not only that, he has had documented fitness issues. The lad was a part of a seismic win on Wednesday night against elite opponents, and found it tricky today like many others. So that’s the context of him supposedly being crap or whatever people are saying about him. Then you add in how many players have started slowly or were completely written off that Howe and his team have improved. People ignoring this and arguing about him not being good enough are just pure fucking idiots.