Irish Magpie

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.

Didn't even see a VAR message - "Checking possible penalty" unless I missed it?

A potential player here, surprised and delighted to see him start in a CL game and he looked assured and unfazed at the occasion. Thought Feyenoord had some lovely attacking play, was actually more entertained by the game than the Newcastle result. Less emotion invested and I could just enjoy the football on display.

Ok, my honest opinion. Absolutely delighted with a point away at the San Siro against last years semi-finalists in the CL. I think some of our players were a little pressurised in the circumstance of the game and never really settled. No real complaints though about any of them. That said, as much as I love Burn and Pope I would love a keeper who was good with his feet as Pope is saving shots, It seems so important these days. And I really would like a left back with genuine recovery pace and positional sense. No disrespect to Burn but he can both be slow and caught out of poition (recovery wise-linked to pace I guess). Hopefully the capture of Lewis Hall solves that sooner than later... Think it was a great result tbh, one point on the board (away from home in Europe) means we can't be adrift at the bottom of the group. Onward and upwards boys...

I think that was the toughest one tbh, watch Dortmund prove me wrong.

He literally is relaying information he heard on the radio. It is not his opinion. A lot of talk from T(alk)Sport fans... and these were suggestions/scenarios for a lot of the fans on the radio today,

As far as I can see he reads the game very well, but I am no analyst. He is struggling a little, perhaps, with the pace of our league and needs more time, but every fucker on the pitch suffered under the passing triangles of Brighton in that game. They were excellent, and maybe we were lacking in more than just midfield. Personally I thought Burn had a shocker. From memory that is four games now where I've been a bit dismayed that Eddie has not changed something that clearly needed changing. Last thing I want to do is criticise Eddie Howe as I think he is brilliant. But there comes a time you need to be more pragmatic with the need of three points paramount. The system cannot be infallible, no system is, it needs the ability to be adaptable beyond changing a few players in like for like roles - or near enough like for like. If we had sat back a bit, and not been so expansive, just keeping runners forward I think it would have been a different game.