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The arrival experience at Newcastle is genuinely one of the better ones IMO. Hate walking for miles through a soulless terminal building. At least at NCL it’s a mercifully short jaunt towards the hell that is dealing with UK Border Force personnel.

This gets floated repeatedly and the answer is a big fat no. There’s no passenger demand, it would have to be subsidised to a ridiculous extent and introducing the route would cannibalise Emirates traffic to Dubai - losing that would be terrible.

Keeper is a priority position for us this summer. We went from having one of the best defences in the league to haemorrhaging goals after that Man United game. The drop off between Pope and Dubs is vast. We can’t go into another season if we’re serious about competing with such a poor number two.

Add to this that absolutely no one is able to articulate why it’s shit, beyond the fact it doesn’t match some kit they imagined. It’s got black and white stripes and our badge on it. As long as it ticks those boxes will, at worst, be ok.

This basically.

Him and Hall were stand outs.

Final ball was almost universally shite today. These performances happen unfortunately. Still all to play for.

I love the bloke but his body just can’t cope with the volume and intensity of games at this level anymore.

DWP are getting moved. They just don’t know where yet.

Would tie in with what I was told.

He’s Anthony Gordon.

He’s not going to buck you pal.

Seems like it’s a question of where he goes rather than if he goes. Comfortably behind Murphy in the pecking order for me now.

Ooof. I’m knicking this.

They’ve been found out in a big way and Ange’s inflexibility is costing them.

We’d have finished top 4 without Pope’s injury.

“Bringing up the floor” is such a big part of our progression over the next 18 months imo. We need to address squad depth.

Pretty worthless as a comparison. In golf they were trying to set something up outside the existing structure so they could afford to brute force their way into the conversation and chuck money at the problem. It didn’t matter if they upset the PGA. When they bought us they were joining an existing institution, and they were hardly welcomed with open arms. What happens if PIF turn up and immediately start litigation against the league and its rules? They’ve no powerbase, no relationships, no credibility. They’d immediately be a pariah and the PL would almost certainly have found a problem with that separation between PIF and the Saudi state. City broke the rules when the rules were nothing more than abstract concepts jotted down on the back of a fag packet, and they’re of a stature now where they can afford to kick back. PIF were always going to play the long game, because eventually the league will either shoot itself in the foot (as it appears to have done with the related party stuff) or we’ll reach a point through sensible investment within the confines of the rules where our interests converge with that of the bigger clubs anyway.

On the one hand I don’t want him rushed back in case it reoccurs. On the other if he starts our last few games I’m certain we’re finishing in a European spot.

Providing he lumped on against Burnley and not Brighton then we’re undefeated when we’re on Sandro’s accas.

Administration by Christmas then.

I hope he made a decent chunk back on his bets in that case.

Decent deal if it gets done. Brings the floor of the squad up and gives us PSR headroom. It gets the Christ seal of approval.

They’ve got to get them clicks somehow.

All the “OPTION THREE!” wronguns in the mud.