TheEntertainer

3/10 for me, the league has been a shocker, but probably not a 1, more of a 2 and the champions league and league cup pulls it up to a 3 for me. Could have maybe gone with a 4, but the league is massively the most impacting on how I feel about the season so I'll stick with a 3.

I'd put CL above the Prem but the rest of the order is right

Alexander who?

Who plays instead of him? Rashford has been in and out at Barca, Eze isn't really a left winger. There's weirdly not much competition for the spot at the minute. Maybe Eze? But he's a completely different profile and forces you to be more narrow.

The game today hasn't changed me from Howe out, but it has softened that somewhat. I'd got to a point where it felt like he'd lost the players and without changing him sooner rather than later we'd end up dangerously close to relegation this season. Today was better, but still not great. Very much a Newcastle 25/26 performance, the better team in the first half, then got nervy in the second and let the opposition back in. However hopefully holding on for the win this time and actually getting a 3rd will take some pressure off the players and we'll see more of the first half performance for the rest of the season. I'll take any win against a decent team who we struggle against. If it does and the team actually get going in the last 3 games maybe I was wrong and he does deserve the summer to sort things out. Either way super happy for him on a personal level and the team today, must have been grim for him the last few weeks

Haha! True! I don't think I've ever heard it used in real life

We've lost 4 in a row, that's why we're more worried about relegation than excited about maybe winning 4 in a row and making Europe. I don't think we'll get relegated, but I think it's something the team should be thinking about and should make sure it's impossible as soon as possible.

Got Welbeck in the fantasy football team for this one.

Ah we are back to disrespect and entitlement, jolly good. It's been a while.

I mean it could be either right, who knows what other fans are thinking, It was more just that it could be super positive Newcastle fans, or it could be super negative Sunderland fans, or it could literally be anyone. I just thought it was interesting how different that result was to ours.

Yeah 100%, I was thinking it could be a load of Sunderland fans hoping for our downfall. Still interesting to see the difference.

The BBC voting public are much more pro-Howe than the forum.

He's not, but he is still quite good and one of our best players.

This is the problem, his heads gone. He's clearly a confidence player and he's not feeling it and may now never feel it for us. As someone who suffers from the same thing when I played at a much much much much lower level I know hard it is when you don't feel loved. I also know that it's hard for anyone to love you when you're playing like that, it's a vicious circle. I don't think it's a scouting issue, unless we could have got some insider info on his mentality.

My mistake then, I took irrationality, spitting the dummy and having a chip on your shoulder as suggestions of mental fragility but I don't want to put words in your mouth.