TheBrownBottle

Bugger

‘Bad day at the office’ for me. I can understand why Howe would’ve been tempted to do what he did first half after the Arsenal LC match but it backfired. I really don’t want to see Trippier starting PL matches anymore.

I agree he’s not the best on the ball, and that has been a longstanding issue with English centre halves. But BDB is an underrated footballer for me - and this is Man City’s forward line he’s up against, and he’s surrounded by a LB having a ‘mare and sat behind a midfield which hadn’t offered much protection

Just a goal needed. I want some forlorn hope.

We’ve just sold Lloyd Kelly to Juventus - where he starts. BDB looked twice the player.

No, you’re not alone. The awful set up first half didn’t help us at all.

Fair enough - but for me there is a benefit. I get to see NUFC in Europe

BDB can play for a top club in the PL, but would struggle anywhere on the continent? Not sure like.

The ‘streaky’ nature of the results are notable, mind. But the vacillation between ‘he’s mint’ to ‘he’s shite’ definitely happens. It tends not to change my view - he’s an excellent coach with some limitations.

Why would anyone want us to not qualify for Europe? We might as well stop following football if qualifying for European competition is seen as a bogey prize.

Richard Masters made us play 5-3-fucking2

Fucking ho’way lads, need a much better second half showing than that shite first half

We’re not good away from home generally; but we not good at all against quality sides. Howe’s away league record before today vs the four members of the big six who haven’t been misfiring: W0 D2 L11 Not a pop at Howe, just a reminder of how difficult these games are.

In 2024/25, no-one died

Could end up being brutal this

Easy. They’ve been completely dominant.

Recent form doesn’t support this position at all

He's done exactly that, tbf. I reckon the cunt sleeps like a baby.

A general rule of thumb - if the pub has a flat roof, has the curtains drawn and is in a postcode where your car insurance premium gets a '0' added to the end - you've probably found a place to watch it. Enter at your own risk

BTW if anyone is interested in this stuff / bored beyond all reason and wants something to look at, then you can do a 'spot the difference' exercise between the APT rules before and after the December republication of Handbook and its changes. Before (page 132): https://resources.premierleague.com/premierleague/document/2022/07/19/40085fed-1e9e-4c33-9f14-0bcf57857da2/PL_Handbook_2022-23_DIGITAL_18.07.pdf After (page 135): https://resources.premierleague.pulselive.com/premierleague/document/2024/12/11/e9aa1b9e-a7d5-4788-8afe-6e07b8a5f5fc/TM1603-PL_Handbook-and-Collateral-2024-25_11.12_DIGITAL.pdf

TynesideLife is being moved brick by brick for his retirement in Beamish

I used to watch some of the games on a dodgy satellite feed in a local CIU club - the irritating part is they didn’t like having that forrin commentary, so they’d hoy Radio Newcastle on over top - which of course was several seconds ahead of the game on the screen. Absolute knackers

The thing is of course that while sale was all down to PSR, if there were no FFP regs we are unlikely to bother signing a Minteh in any case, let alone have Elliot Anderson still not scoring goals from midfield. So stop whining about it, lads

I never thought he was intended for anything but being flipped for a profit. He was never going to be our RW

Because it doesn’t remove FMV, only APT