Irish Magpie

I am puzzled by how so many of the posters on here undervaluate our players. We have all seen the prices players sell for in, admittedly an insane modern football market, yet our players are thought of as almost worthless. Miggy's stats have him in the top metrics in many areas. He is a current international that scores goals for his country. Now, personally, I want him gone as just not good enough! His decision making and final passes are nowhere near what we need going forward, but don't think that means he is not of serious value to another team. He actually reminds me of Lee Clark, not in his overall play but in the box. Clarkie got the nickname Jigsaw because he awlays went to pieces in the box - sure he scored some crackers, so did Miggy, but most times it results in wasted shots/opportunities. He is worth £30 million easilly imo.

Just had to go back to page 270 to read anything worth reading! What a car crash this became. No-one seems to have taken into account one of the main reasons he came back to England. For his wife, his family. I can't see him wanting to scoot off to Germany just for the next year or two. I watched some mini meltdowns over Dan Ashworth leaving but held my tongue, (fingers off the keyboard), though I was personally sure he was going nowhere. Well neither is Trippier, that said - I can't see him featuring so much next season, so I was more confident about Ashworth.

Not to disagree but I feel I've been waiting all my life. I'm 65 in March and I'm close to starting to pray that I see success before I shuffle off into whatever lies beyond. When we became the first team in Chamion's Leaugue history to lose our opening three group games but still qualify I thought we were close, it wasn't to be though.

How? As the rules currently exist the teams with most income from sponsers, corporate etc. will always hold a distinct advantage. The bigger they are the stronger they become.

Just read it and was about to post same. Great read and that is some mindset he has, the dedication of a winner is there for all to see. -----

We not signed any cunt yet that has everyone up in arms, pitchforks out and ready to burn the league just to stop us? Disgusting is all I can say!

I can't believe any Newcastle fan is even questioning Howe right now. Liverpool are the best team in the league RIGHT NOW, no doubt about that. OMG!, we lost. Grow a set of balls. 2 years ago we were all apathetic about any game, win or lose, and most of them were losses! We had an owner that was as commited to the club as a (fuck knows, analogy falls short). Our entire team is decimated through injuries and fatigue, they are not robots that you can just recharge at a filling station. The losses against Forest and Luton felt far worse than what happened today and I put that down to mental health. Going out of the Champions League to a dodgy penalty is a real kick in the nuts for anyone to recover from. This team WILL get stronger. He turned us around from perennial no-hopers to a team with belief, now he's not good enough? Take your heads for a shit. That's it!

Yeah, only we had it most of our goddamn lives, not just the last few years.

Man City Home 1‑2 L Arsenal Home 3‑4 L Crystal Palace Home 2‑1 W Liverpool Home 1‑1 D Tottenham Home 0‑1 L Burnley Home 1‑2 L Yes they don't often win, but they give everyone a hard game at Kenilworth Rd. There are four top 8 teams in the list above. They only lost by one goal in three of them and managed a draw with Liverpool. They were 3-2 up against the Arse with something like 10 minutes to go. The last couple of times I watched them I thought Barkley was excellent.

Aye, rare for him to do any different but watcing Gordon doing the same, time and time again electing not to go down the wing but set off into central areas, leads me to think it might be Howe's instructions. Leaving aside Miggy can't cross with his left you can't do the same thing every time, even a 12 yr old would quickly suss you out and be ready for it. Also remember now last night, Tino had at least two opportunities to bomb down the wing and elected to turn and pass in towards the central areas. Got to be a Howe thing but failing to understand why atm.

Everyone in the team seemed absolutely delighted for him after he scored. Lovely to see.

By his agent would be my guess. He just made a mistake that any super rich 20yr old could make. I don't think anything remotely similar will ever happen again. Everything I am seeing suggest he is a thorough proffesional at heart.

I came away from that match tonight with the feeling that Almiron needs some serious competition. He has some good spells but they are invariably countered with groans and 'Oh ffs's!'

Football is exhilerating, exciting - it can lift you to the heights. Football is cruel, soul-destroying. Onwards and upwards....

Nope, but I will still be surprised. That said Spurs form has dropped of a cliff the last 4 games, and, if I remember correctly we bounced back from the Bournemouth defeat with a solid win.

Hahaha, Fernandez fucks it up....

Replays show it may have been pretty soft but not overturned because not a clear and obvious error.

Luton surprising me with their industry here but thoroughly deserve their three goals, Barklay MoM so far for me. So hoping they don't get beat in the end - - want to see another Arteta meltdown more than anything but he hasn't really got a single thing to complain about yet.

Get in! Been kinda wanting to play this lot again since the takeover/Howe era began.

Because after your subs Ten Penny changed your shape?

Agree with this, he shold not be captain for that trait alone. Throwing in the towel and whinging when it doesn't go your way is the last message to be sending to your teammates in any game let alone one where you need to pull together and up the energy.

December is non-stop also. 8 fucking games. So between 25th November (Chelsea at Home) and Liverpool on 1st Jan (at Anfield) we have 11 games in 43 days, (or a game every 3.9 days!). Expecting a few more injuries?

Well that was horrific, they completely outplayed us. They out-Newcastled Newcastle United. The team known for their pressing and intensity. Simple as that. No histrionics, the better team on the day won the game. :(

Astonishing the amount of Stockholm Syndrome from the Ashley/Bruce years. I have no problem with the selected team - you have to consider each and every one of them are drilled in Howe's system by now and will be condiderably better than anything they could have produced under Bruce. Also the disrespect for Ritchie, is he top level?, of course not but he has tons of experience and heart and he's a leader. Man U to self-destruct through Anthony.

Looks completely lost here, agreed.