A third straight defeat and pretty awful performance from Newcastle United, as an Evan Ferguson hat-trick did the damage before Callum Wilson’s consolation strike in the 93rd minute.
Both sides suffered devastating defeats last weekend but only one team responded, and that was Brighton.
Ultimately, we were way off it in both boxes, way off it on the ball and way off it out of possession; a combination that will kill you against good teams. It did last Sunday and it did today, as missed chances in the opening stages and an awful goal to concede proved costly.
The midfield balance also looked way off, as a back four missing Sven Botman was given so little protection. We were sloppy in possession, poor in the final third, gave away two avoidable goals and looked lacklustre off the ball, appearing like a side feeling sorry for themselves following last Sunday’s late heartbreak at St James’ Park. That’s not what we’ve come to expect from an Eddie Howe side and must change.
Howe was force into one change for this one, as Botman missed out with an ankle problem. That meant Dan Burn in at centre-back and Matt Targett at left-back, but the good news saw Joelinton pass a late fitness test, seeing the Brazilian start alongside Bruno Guimaraes and Sandro Tonali.
We made a really positive start in the opening few minutes, as one lovely through ball from Bruno and another smart cut back from Tonali handed Isak TWO bid chances in the opening three minutes. He was forced wide for the first after hesitating slightly and fired the second wide. Our high intensity start was encouraging, but we had to be more clinical in the final third.
At the other end, Brighton forced Nick Pope into a couple of early saves before Miguel Almiron’s deflected cross very nearly squirmed in at the front post on the 15-minute mark, forcing Verbruggen into a brilliant save. Another chance came our way after good work from Bruno and Gordon on the break, but Isak’s cut-back wasn’t capitalised on in a box full of blue and white shirts.
Brighton were dominating the ball and looked the better side. Yes, we had moments on the counter – each one wasted – but the Seagulls were dragging out our centre-backs, getting in behind our midfield too easily, creating overloads down Trippier’s side and passing us off the pitch.
Unfortunately, our missed chances and struggle to get a grip of the game was punished after not one but two errors from Nick Pope. After his clearances was scuffed into trouble, he failed to gather Billy Gilmour’s stinging shot from range. Evan Ferguson reacted first and scored. An avoidable goal to concede but one Brighton deserved. Pope will get pelters for his two mistakes, but Tonali’s air shot before Gilmour’s powerful strike and lack of pressure as he let fly also wasn’t good enough.
One glaring issue was in midfield. We had no clear No 6 to screen our defence and a lack of cohesion, with Joao Pedro constantly picking up possession on the half-turn and running at our back four. Bruno looked to be running in quicksand, Joelinton looked like a man playing with an injury, we were getting no joy down our usually dangerous left and Tonali was often caught in no mans land between Trippier and Almiron.
We did create an opening moments after their opener, as Joelinton burst into the box, but it was another tame effort as his low shot was dragged wide. Off the ball, it was almost like we were caught in two minds. Do we press and play our usual game or sit off and counter? Failure to commit to either left us chasing shadows, leading to cheap yellow cards for Anthony Gordon and Fabian Schar;
Considering some of early openings we created, it spoke volumes about our finishing – or lack of it – that we went into the break without a shot on target. If we wanted to get back into this and avoid a third straight defeat, we had to improve in both boxes and sort out our midfield in the second half.
Howe resisted changes at the break, but you got the feeling it wouldn’t be long until Sean Longstaff came on if we didn’t improve. Gordon was also on a yellow and started the second half poorly, then came an awful giveaway from Trippier, who almost gifted Joao Pedro a free shot in the box. We had to liven up, with Matt Targett another who looked half asleep in and out of possession.
A triple changes then came, as Howe brought on Callum Wilson, Elliot Anderson and Sean Longstaff for Miguel Almiron, Joelinton and Sandro Tonali. This saw Gordon switch to the right, Isak move out to the left, Wilson lead the line and Bruno to be joined in midfield by Anderson and Longstaff.
Brighton just looked sharper, than us in all areas and took a 2-0 lead with 25 minutes to play. Once again, a Brighton attacker found themselves in acres in that gap between midfield and defence and once again it was Ferguson, this time a long range effort curled beyond Pope and into the bottom right corner. A lovely finish but another soft goal to concede, as the Irishman had so much time and space to get his shot away.
We went down the other end and created our first big opening of the second half, as good work from Anderson found Gordon at the back post. However, last week’s man of the match didn’t have his shooting boots on here, miscuing his effort well wide. It just wasn’t our night, at either end.
The Toon Army were still in great voice in the South Coast sunshine, but they deserved so much more after the 350 mile trip. Sadly, it got worse, as Ferguson’s edge of the box effort took a huge deflection off Schar, wrong-footed Pope and flew in. 3-0 Brighton and game over.
Two more changes followed as Jamaal Lascelles and Harvey Barnes replaced Matt Targett and Alexander Isak. Moments later, Dan Burn went into the book after dragging down Solly March. Like so many today, he had a shocker on his return to Brighton.
At this point, Sky Sports showed a stat on our recent defensive record, highlighting the fact we’ve kept just two clean sheets in our last 22 games. Considering we were outstanding defensively for the first half of the 2022/23 season, that’s something we’ll need to put right; especially with PSG, Dortmund and AC Milan to come. To make matters worse, Fabian Schar was holding his hamstring for the final 10 minutes, leaving us with another injury worry at the back.
Quite incredibly, the away end were still drowning out the Amex, with “is this the way to Barcelona” on repeat. It meant very little, but the travelling Toon Army were given a late goal, as Callum Wilson latched onto Longstaff’s high punt, snuck past Van Hecke and fired home to make it 3-1.
A day to forget for Newcastle United and a lot for Eddie Howe to put right heading into the international break.
STARTING XI: Pope – Trippier, Schar, Burn, Targett – Tonali, Bruno, Joelinton – Almiron, Isak, Gordon.
SUBS: Dubravka, Lascelles, Wilson, Barnes, Hall, Livramento, Murphy, Anderson, Longstaff.
We played like s#@t full stop. All the money spent for what? CL🤷. Last season we dominated with what we had. What’s going wrong here? 3 losses on the bounce. Where to from here 🤷. $100+M on new players and can’t get a single point 👎
Geordieboy(Quote)
Very good analysis. £70 million to be spent on 2 very good defenders , yet we still have Targett, Burn & Schar in our defence. Someone explain to me plus Joelonton is no good in midfield, offers nothing
Mark Ruttet(Quote)
Are we allowed to be critical yet, Pope is so low on confidence, distribution been awful. Time for him to reset by sitting out a couple of games. Time to play a proper left back, Lewis Hall will hopefully be deemed fit enough after international break to start.
Bruno focussed on a new contract, meanwhile hasn’t had a decent game since about March.
Our transfers in the summer were average at best, not the players, the positions we recruited for, we still have no CB cover and we should have brought in another CF.
We keep bringing in youngsters for the future lots of teams have these youngsters playing now.
Eddie has to now show he can manage the team when things are not going smoothly or this could turn into a strange season, in the champions league and struggling to make top half of league 🙁
David Dryburgh(Quote)
A totally lack lustre display at City, folded pathetically against 10 men at home and didn’t turn up at Brighton.
The rock solid defence is no longer and if players are eyeing a champions league place they shouldn’t be playing.
I have said this already Howe doesn’t know his best side.
Pope was awful tonight and to be honest he wasn’t much better with both Liverpool goals.
There could easily be places for Dubravka, Hall at left back and Miley in midfield, think Tonali has been very unfortunate to be substituted in the last two games he has been better than Joelinton and Bruno.
Joseph(Quote)
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again.Howe is a **** manager will be gone by January. Last season was a fluke.His Transfer business was not great.pope should be on the bench give Karius a go can’t be as bad as pope.And I Ain’t a Sunderland fan before you all comment.
Jonboy(Quote)
Another bad day at the office
kimtoon(Quote)
Poor performance yesterday. But just to put things into perspective, we have played 4 teams that finished in the top 6 of last season.
For me, I’d drop our Brazilian pair. Both Joelinton and Bruno are rubbish right now for whatever reason. I’d start with Anderson, Tonali and Longstaff in midfield, and drop Miggy for Murphy. As for the defence, well here we have a problem as we didn’t strengthen the one area where we need cover. Now it looks like both Schar and Botman are injured and that leaves us with Dummet and Lascelles. Oh dear! We will see what this team are made of in how we deal with this.
Gilly Toon(Quote)
You need to give your head a shake fella! That’s absolutely boll ocks!
Gilly Toon(Quote)
Completely agree
kimtoon(Quote)
I’ve just watched Craig Hopes YouTube post & I said the same yesterday. We’ve strengthened our squad without actually strengthening the starting 11.
That’s kind of ok when you consider that 11 was good enough for a cup final & 4th last season – but not if you’re going to stick with players out of form or injured.
Joelinton was struggling through the week & declared himself fit for the game – he was clearly struggling & for me you bench him & start Anderson. That’s the point of strengthening the squad isn’t it?!.
Bruno & Miggy are out of form imo – yet both keep getting started & Bruno has played every game.
To be fair, I can understand him keep selecting the 3 midfielders if he sees that as his long term trio – it will take a little time to get right but he’s right to stick with it. I just can’t understand why it’s Tonali coming off when Bruno is off pace.
Miggy for me is a big problem. He doesn’t give balance to the team with having no right foot – he never has & I’ve never liked him out there. I’d rather try Gordon right, Barnes left or Isak right, Wilson through the middle – I’d even prefer Murphy.
Pope is getting hammered & to be fair, the lad has a brain f@rt in him. But he’s a good keeper. He needs to stay in his **** box!! coz every time he goes on the wander I panic.
He got punished yesterday but none of them handle that well at all. Trippier through himself into a slide block that wasn’t there, Tonali was really poor with his efforts & Pope looked like he’d been possessed by Pickford.
These are the same players as last season bar Tonali. We were compact, we defended well, we passed the ball well & we made good decisions.
I agree with Howe – calm. Let’s go back to what we did well last season. Empty our heads of Champions League magic, of Amazon documentaries & of mega Adidas deals. Let’s block out the hype & get back to what got us all that in the first place.
Sharpy17(Quote)
I wanna see Isak out wide and Wilson in the middle
kimtoon(Quote)
SHARPY a man talking sense ime with you on that comment
Icedog(Quote)
Icedog(Quote)
Ime with you on that mate,it’s worked before
Icedog(Quote)
Ice – everyone is entitled to their opinions, but I do my best to avoid stupidity.
For people to say Howe isn’t a good manager, and that last season was a fluke because we’ve lost 3 games – against City, Liverpool & Brighton – that’s just moronic.
It would actually be 18 months of fluke because Howes ‘good fortune’ started the 2nd half of the previous season.
I often think the likes of Simon Jordan and their broadcaster have NUFC fans all wrong – and of course they do the majority of us. But these dingbats keep raising their heads 🤷🏼♂️ – every clubs got them though.
I wonder if Klopp was all of a sudden a poor manager coz he finished 5th last season?!.
I’ve been disappointed about the last 3 results, and I don’t buy into this theory that the players or Howe get a pass because they are ahead of schedule.
Nobody should be beyond criticism – provided it’s balanced & fair.
If it is, then those being criticised should not automatically see it as negative – if I’m saying Bruno is off pace, that’s because I believe he’s a better player than he’s performing at the moment – I’ve seen it.
We have a busy month ahead. The CL & cup games will take its toll im sure – but there is some very winnable league games in there too. If Howe uses his squad correctly I see at least 6 points – but I’d stick my neck out and say 9 coz I think we beat Brentford at home after the break – a wounded animal & all that.
Sharpy17(Quote)
Bloody hell Manures strip looks like they are channeling their inner Toon, on close inspection though I think its really dark green and white with black shorts.
kimtoon(Quote)
Have that Manure ha ha
kimtoon(Quote)
Brilliant 3.1
kimtoon(Quote)
Kim – how long before it’s the Glaziers fault? 🤔😂
They’ve spent plenty on that squad – new managers well supported and yet the fans will be on the cases of the owners during the break.
Sharpy17(Quote)
Sharpy, just texted my Manure supporting mate, he says they were awful and the manager won’t last long !
kimtoon(Quote)
Kim – I don’t understand how Martial is still there??.
I also see Jadon Sancho has hit back on Twitter at his manager saying he wasn’t involved coz of his attitude in training.
He tried his hardest to get Maguire, McTom & Wan-Bissaka out in the summer too – can imagine his relationship with them is that great either.
I think your mate might be right. But I guarantee the likes of GNev blame the Glaziers.
Sharpy17(Quote)
Sharpy that’s a given lol
kimtoon(Quote)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsJ5dudfZNs
Give this a watch
PremAndUp(Quote)
Properly frustrated after that game.
The sense of entitlement and arrogance in some of the aftermatch commentary is derisory. Fans views have gone from Newcastle United are gonna smash manc at the etihad to last season was a fluke two weeks later 🤣🙄
I now they’re extremes but the commentary is out there
Newcastle have played four elite teams on the bounce and it’s time to acknowledge the quality of the opposition.
That said, the team look passive and disjointed and some players seem injured. Complement that with wasteful finishing (which was a theme last season too) and a series of individual errors and here we are.
I’m not ignoring problems coz they do exist. The team and coaches deserve criticism and scrutiny but also support and a degree of ( but not endless) trust
Tonali/Guimaraes.. I’d decide which to play centrally and rotate if needed with longstaff starting RM. Id start tonali.
Work on the fluidity by all means but stabilise the middle right now and upgrade.
Joelinton is injured and so id hook him for Anderson
Finally on MF .. man Newcastle United are missing Willock
Forwards; id start barnes and move Gordon right. Don’t care if Wilson or isak start but not together. Switch to bring on Wilson if required but give Isak 90mins
Defence is a problem and it’s tough to offer anything without knowing where botman/ schar are fitness wise but you have to think halls inclusion must be close
GoWest!Mag(Quote)
On transfers we simply can’t ignore the fact that Newcastle United just can’t compete for the specialist players at current prices and it’s still year 2.
Reality is specialist 6’s around £100m and for CB’s NUFC are competing with teams like Chelsea. Tie those factors together and the opportunistic future looking buys make sense. Oh and of the four players bought I suspect all will be starting before the end of this season so I would say the team and thus squad have been upgraded
GoWest!Mag(Quote)
Prem that was a good breakdown of tactics by that lad.
kimtoon(Quote)
Shows that Eddie was outthought by Klopp. Even with ten men, he found a way to control the midfield 5-3 and Eddie didn’t find a response. Brilliant tactics, and you can’t blame the players under those circumstances.
PremAndUp(Quote)
Prem Would tend to agree but don’t forget their keeper made a world class save and we hit post and had Barnes squared to Callum it would /could of been very different finish. All those incidents were pre Darwins goals.
But yes Klopp is a good tactician.
kimtoon(Quote)
My opinion for what it’s worth is that we have the same results as last year except for Brighton where we had a very lucky 0-0 last year.
Have we seen better performances? I think so, Villa was better. City was better. Liverpool we were out-thought by Klopp, see the video link above. Brighton, I think it shows how much we missed Botman. Schar and Burn were not working as a unit.
I know some are calling for ISAK on the wing but that didn’t work last season.
We have an international break and a chance to reflect on what we have so far, and Top four is not unrealistic, Europe should still be the target. Eddie is right, you only get better by playing better teams.
PremAndUp(Quote)
Prem – thanks for sharing that mate. Klopp is a @r$e head but is also a tactical genius – and the lads analyse of it was excellent 👌🏼.
I watched the game & didn’t notice those changes to formation – but it didn’t feel like a fluke to me, or that Klopp was just throwing the kitchen sink with his subs – it felt thought out & was another one of those games where our lack of clinical finishing cost us.
Sharpy17(Quote)
Prem – I agree re Isak on the wing. I do prefer him through the middle as well – BUT, it would be Wilson starting & Isak coming on to change the game.
Wilson is a better target CF and goal scorer. Isak would be more dangerous against a tiring defence – and tactically could still play with Wilson depending on how a game is going.
My biggest headache is Miggy. He’s not affective – certainly not against the better teams.
Sharpy17(Quote)
I have been keeping my thoughts since the Brighton game. Letting the inevitable mixture of dust and anger settle.
Finally I’ll talk about the midfield, which was a shambles in the sun. I was convinced at the start of the season we had the strongest midfield in the prem. On paper we have. But not the way they’re playing. My view is you need a holder, a playmaker/general and an AM, not the straight line three box to boxers. Our three are all box to box and it just doesn’t work. The defence is unprotected, midfield often empty and easily played through. e.g Salah and Ferguson both picking the ball up unchallenged and in acres of space. Get it sorted Eddie!
Having said all that Wilson would have scored one or two in the first 4 minutes that Isak fluffed. 2-0 and we would have won despite Pope, Burn, Targett, Joelinton, Miggy and Isak all having shockers.
There was a lad on 606 later who’d been in the away end. By the sound of his voice he’d been singing for 2 hours. He was still so proud of his team and made it clear he always would be, come good, bad, and ugly. Loved him!
georgio(Quote)
60 points got Spurs 8th last season.
I thought we were well ahead with 71 and 4th – though I know Prem called it at the beginning of the season.
I think it’s hard to call league positions coz you don’t know how other teams will do – but you can put a target on how many points you want to achieve.
I said in pre season that if we got over 60 points this season I’d be happy with that – of course I’d love it if we exceeded the 71 from last season, but being realistic I expect a bit of a drop off this season & the busy CL schedule might take its toll.
Teams will approach us differently this season. The top clubs now see us as a threat & the others as a scalp.
A big problem we had last season was breaking compact teams down & we wasted a lot of chances in games we could have won – we had 19 wins but 14 draws (that was the joint most draws last season – and a lot of points dropped).
Of those draws, I don’t remember thinking we’d robbed a team of 3 points – infact I remember thinking with better finishing we’d have taken all 3 a lot of the time.
Whilst we’ve strengthened our squad depth, I don’t think we’ve addressed the problem of breaking teams down or brought in the players that will convert those draws to wins.
As disappointing as our start has been, we are only 1 point behind where we were after 4 games last season – so for all the noise, it’s not that bad.
I think my target of 60 plus points is still very realistic – but improving on last seasons performance is highly unlikely having not really improved on the quality of the forward players (Barnes on paper has a better conversion rate than Maxi but isn’t being played).
Sharpy17(Quote)
I think that the reason we swopped ASM for Barnes is simply to break down compact teams. Barnes thrives in those tight situations, ASM likes to run past people into space. I can see Gordon taking on better teams and Barnes compact ones.
As the site optimist, I think we will lose one or two more games this season and win some of those 14 draws. So of those 14, w4 draw 8 lose 2 so 20pts instead of 14 so that would be 77pts this season, not 60. I’ll take third this season. (I’ll be happy with 5th )
PremAndUp(Quote)
Prem – I was conscious of how long my last post was getting.
Barnes has 150 appearances and from that has scored 36 goals, 26 assists and created a further 25 ‘big chances’ according to PL stats.
I mention the big chances along with the assists as he can only create – it’s not his fault if the other person doesn’t convert that chance.
But we need that down the right as well imo because teams have studied us and know that Almiron does not carry anything close to that threat.
I also mentioned the draws earlier with the intention of making the point you’ve gone on to make.
We drew 14 games and only lost 5 games winning 19 resulting in 71 points
Man Utd lost as many as 9 games last season – but they only drew 6 games winning 23 resulting in 75 points
The point obviously being – as you say – we can afford to lose games if we can convert some of those draws to wins 🤞🏼.
You really think I should have learned my lesson by now, but it’s going to take 1 more season to convince me I think mate 😂.
I say 60 as a minimum. It wouldn’t be a failure as in Eddie out stuff – but it wouldn’t be great. Below that would be unacceptable (depending on circumstances – as in if we are blighted by injury after injury).
If I had to put a figure on like your 77, I’m going 67 (ish).
Sharpy17(Quote)
The way I look at it, last season we beat villa at home, same this season. Last season Man City beat us at their place, same as this season. Last season Liverpool beat us at home, same as this season. Last season we drew away at Brighton and this season they beat us. So agains the teams and places compared to last season, we are -1 point. That’s easily gained back by converting one draw from last season to a win. It feels worse now as all these results have come together this season. 🤷🏻♂️. Faith! We will prevail. I was angry but really we aren’t any worse off than last season.
Gilly Toon(Quote)
Gilly – it’s another perfect example of things seeming worse than thug actually are. It’s only that they were one after another and not spread out like last season.
Sharpy17(Quote)
I can only really recall Brighton and perhaps arsenal away / WHU home as spawny draws for Nufc last season. Many others felt like points dropped
Agreed on Barnes being an option to unlock defensive teams on the left and I will mention again Gordon on the right.
Nufc lose nothing in replacing Almiron with Gordon as the latter is looking sharp defensively and is a more dangerous forward player
Both Barnes and Gordon are clever players but in different ways and if they can swap flanks throughout the game then great. Use Wilson as a target with them or isak as part of the fluid front three
Bigger questions imo to get the MF ticking and what to do with defence
GoWest!Mag(Quote)
GoWest – what do you think should happen with midfield? I made my thoughts clear above:
My view is you need a holder, a playmaker/general and an AM, not the straight line three box to boxers.
Do we bring Sean in as the holder? Drop who?
Or do we slip Bruno deeper? He played like that a lot in his early days at the Toon.
Quite a puzzle for EH. What do you think or anyone else?
georgio(Quote)
Hey Georgio, like you I thought the MF trio of joelinton, guimaraes and tonali looked very strong. Reality has been far from that tho
I saw some stats where a commenter was arguing guimaraes has outperformed tonali. That’s not what my eyes are telling me and while I don’t buy into the narrative he’s distracted by contract, RM interest etc, somethings not right there, so I’d rest him.
Joelinton has not been effective really and looks injured to me
I’m not convinced longstaff is the type of DCM Howe wants so I’d put Tonali there with longstaff RM and Anderson LM
I think that’s too much change for Howe especially with front three changes I mentioned earlier so expect a MF of guimaraes, tonali and longstaff if joelinton is not fit.
If joelinton is fit I don’t think he’ll change the MF three
Wotcha think ??
GoWest!Mag(Quote)
Last season Bruno was playing as a DM and had ststs rating him as one of the best in Europe. However, despite this, there was a call to buy a proper DM so he could move forward and be more creative.
Well, we didn’t buy a DM but a versatile player who could play 6 or 8.
Last season we had Bruno DM; Willock AML and Longstaff RBox2box.
With Willock out and Gordon and Barnes available as WL then that has freed up Big Joe to step in.
With Tonali I think we are being a bit more fluid than last season and it’s taking time to gel. So far it worked well against Villa and Citeh. When Liverpool went a man down and Klopp played a five-man midfield and we didn’t adjust we were so outplayed we looked awful. But not bothered by that. You can’t win the midfield when you are outnumbered 5-3.
Brighton was not good. Did the midfield miss the solidity of Botman and Schar behind them. Or was it just an off day. Soon find out.
PremAndUp(Quote)
I actually still think those 3 can work – though agree it’s not working at the moment.
All 3 have the ability & all 3 can perform the DM or attacking roles – I think it’s down to communication & understanding and that takes time. Knowing when 1 or 2 go the other(s) have to sit in.
Once it clicks I think we will have a very strong midfield – but it may take one of them to be the lead or the main voice to orchestrate it.
Sharpy17(Quote)
wonder if the offer of new contract that has not happened is on bruno mind hes not the player he was or is it the signing of a new m/f upset him,got me beat a bit of whats the matterB,runo said at the end of season that he would come back stronger as his ankle would get a rest in close season
icedog(Quote)
Apparently we turned down a £100m offer from Liverpool for Bruno. Conversations must have been had all round . . .
Lots of speculation all round about the midfield but I’m coming round to Sharpy’s view. Leave the three alone and they’ll sort it. Tonali’s new to the league and his team mates and he has looked a little lost at times but between them they’ll get it right. Joelinton was carrying a knock at Brighton but Bruno (to me) looked a bit better, more his normal self.
It’s up tp EH to sort it but that’s not easy with them all away for Internationals.
georgio(Quote)
Also got to remember that Joelinton spent a lot of last season playing LWF with Willock in field of him – now he’s more central with Gordon wide of him.
It’s a new discipline for him too. He’s perfectly capable of playing there, it’ll just take time.
Sharpy17(Quote)
So the protests went well last night – about 6 people there in total by the looks of it. That’s about half the number that would turn out against Ashley 🙄.
Still, the protest was against the ‘regime’ rather than the Saudi team 🤔. In that case why protest at SJP?!?!!. Why not hop on a train & stand outside the Saudi embassy???.
Anyway, that nonsense aside. Im not entirely sure what these 2 friendly games are trying to achieve being played at SJP?!.
Buying all these top players to grow their league & then playing their national games in a City a lot of Saudis probably still haven’t even heard of. There was only around 5k fans there last night as well, so they’ve clearly not promoted the game for season ticket holders to go along – hardly ‘sportswashing’ now is it?!.
Sharpy17(Quote)
https://youtu.be/FNI4XE4BP9Q?si=91cShtatiqIi9IM4
I really like this guy & his content. There’s obviously a wave of YouTubers making videos since the takeover, but I like this lad coz he looks for facts rather than just rehashing rumour.
The fact these protestors call themselves ‘newcastle fans’ – why would this group refuse to speak on a supporters channel – especially if their aim is to raise awareness & recruit Newcastle fans to their cause.
This guy hits the nail on the head. How does 6 or 7 people get national media coverage??
What they are protesting against is seperate to the fact this is being unfairly attached to NUFC in my opinion.
Sharpy17(Quote)
This England side are playing absolutely rubbish… seems like Brucey babes is advising Southgate on tactics 😂😂😂.
Gilly Toon(Quote)
How do you get 11 decent players to become absolutely dog sh.it? Put them in England shirts managed by Southgate
Gilly Toon(Quote)
He’s a good content creator isn’t he mate, I watch him too. That protest guy was a complete idiot refusing to answer questions
kimtoon(Quote)
As for England, it was a complete bore fest, rather watch the ladies .
kimtoon(Quote)
Brilliant assist from Bruno in Brazil.
georgio(Quote)
So we’ve got Barnes considering Scotland & England trying to poach Anderson from Scotland – international football is nonsense!!.
I hope both opt Scotland personally. Both will be first on the team sheet, play regularly and along with the likes of McTom & McGinn would give Scotland a chance of qualifying for more major tournaments.
Sharpy17(Quote)
So Tonali and Miggy both pick up injury on international duty😒
kimtoon(Quote)
Who are these people supposedly calling for Howe to get sacked?!
I keep seeing them written about in the media, but I haven’t actually seen anybody actually making the suggestion.
Sharpy17(Quote)
Speaking of Howe. He’s got a big job on his hands on the pitch but is it even bigger off the pitch? He has an awful lot of players to keep happy and with some of them representing big money that he’s spent. How long will Barnes, Targett and Gordon take as bit part players. In and out Isak and Wilson. Not to mention Hall, Livramento, Anderson and Miley all vying for pitch time.
Not a work load I’d appreciate trying to keep that lot and a first 11 happy. This is a challenge Howe hasn’t had before.
georgio(Quote)
Georgio – there’s one really easy answer to that – win 🤷🏼♂️
It’s easier to explain to a player why they aren’t getting in if the 11 selected are picking up the points week in week out.
Sharpy17(Quote)
They will all get game time when we start with champions league and the cup comps. Not a problem. Other teams manage.
Gilly Toon(Quote)
Gilly/Sharpy – I agree with you both but my question was more about EH and the first time he’s had really expensive problems to face. This not like Bournemouth.
Is he the top manager we all want him to be?
georgio(Quote)
This is new to EH but he’s talked about how he sought advice and tapped experience from top coaches during his time out of the game so he is different to what he was at Bournemouth and should have an approach in mind.
The summer window was presented as a squad depth approach with limited options / financial constraints preventing recruitment at the key positions identified.
The players must’ve heard that too and be expecting rotation
I guess we’ll see the truth of that narrative (or not) as the next week is a stereotypical test of CL / PL demands for a squad so Howe should rotate players esp’ given the ‘injuries’ reported after the international break.
GoWest!Mag(Quote)