The Fish

Maddison of the two for me, Grealish is a right powder puff stroppy bellend.

Dunno if Marcos Alonso has been the best Left Back either.

You'd have thought they'd have been glad of the bums on seats. Surely, rather that not selling the tickets, it's dead easy to make sure only Wolves fans with a certain number of loyalty points get them? If I owned a pub in Newcastle I'd get on the Wolves message boards and on twitter offering their game shown live, a free pint for every season ticket etc.

He'll either leave a hero, or stay long enough to see himself become the villain.

Utter bollocks. Say you're a Wolves fan, it's the final game of the season where you're no doubt going to be Champions, away tickets are going to be more rare than rocking horse shit. You manage to get one and then you can either; 1) travel up with thousands of your fellow fans, go to the game to celebrate your team's superb season, maybe make a weekend of it and enjoy Newcastle's nightlife the night before or, 2) sell it and listen to the game at home.

Even Koeman's shocking start would have kept them out of the relegation zone. They panicked and in their desperation they turned to a man they didn't fully understand.

I'm still waiting for my ten likes off Parky.

Have you seen the survey? It's maybe 5 or 6 questions, ranking the players, the manager and even the fans, out of 10. Entirely worthless exercise.

Exactly

It's easier to hear someone talk to you in a club if you plug your ear with a finger

It was, unless I'm being wooshed too?

You two need to aim for brevity. Don't drone on and on. Try to be pithy. Get to the point quickly. Be succinct.

Aye, European competition is brilliant. Mad Scandinavians marching up past the pub, shouting something or other. Wide-eyed Eastern Europeans who could be your best mate or the bloke who pushes you into the shallow grave, depending on how the wind blows. If ever we get back into Europe we need to find a way to make sure the ground is full. Make those games worth loads of loyalty points, or something.

Don't think we've many saleable assets that Benitez will be happy to let go. It's only really Lascelles, imo. We might get interest in Diame, maybe Merino. But the former won't get us any money and Rafa's not done with the latter.

Nope, but Newcastle have never been top half of the table with Rafa Benitez at the helm before.

Yeah, £14.5m on Wijnaldum, £13m on Mitrovic. £12m each on Thauvin, Shelvey, and Townsend.

Spent more than £11m once last summer, twice the summer before, and 5 (five) times the season before that.

Man City, Man Utd, Liverpool, Arsenal into Champions League Chelsea get Europa League via FA Cup. Wouldn't Leicester get the other Europa League spot?

It would be great, but we'll draw this and it'll be a stinker of a game thanks to Allardyce's dour negative tactics. 1-1 Rooney or Walcott to score theirs, Kenedy to get ours.

Doesn't work as hard as Perez does to close down and harrass though. He's a bit of a MoTD player, for me. Like Zaha at Palace.

Actual Shortlist, or betting site shortlist?

Think it's unfair to say Mitro is a hit or a miss. He's scored goals in the top flight and in the Championship, he just doesn't play the way Benitez wants and as such won't feature for Newcastle unless Benitez decides we're going to play a different style. Slimani has fewer Premier League goals and assists than Mitrovic, and none for us thus far. I like the look of him, but I'd not be shocked if we end up looking elsewhere. Shaqiri doesn't strike me as a player that would fit well in Benitez's style. Also, isn't he more a wide attacking player?

Aye Perez has been good lately, but there's far better out there and if he gets injured we've nobody else who can play that role the way Benitez wants. Agree about Slimani like. He's looked decent in his brief cameos, but he hasn't scored, and has only played, what, 40 minutes?