The Fish

Didn't realise it was named after New York, New York. Apparently there was another village called Philadelphia as well.

Maybe he means the New York near the Silverlink?

I guess it's not too dissimilar to us watching Soccer Saturday? But for the bellend generation?

That's 5pts dropped from winning positions, in added time, in the last 4 days.

It's pretty funny that as soon as sufficient clubs run foul of the rules by spending too much, the rules are set to change. Kind of makes a mockery of the whole thing.

Got to say Arsenal have the toughest run in, so it looks like it's up to Man City to stop the Scouse circle jerk.

Agreed, we should sign him.

Truther Geordie

Macheda?(Sp?)

Isak in the middle, Gordon on the right, Barnes on the left. Stick with the same midfield through necessity. Hall at LB, stick with the rest through necessity. The only big change I'd make is bringing on kids instead of Ritchie or Dummett. In a season where our intensity has been exhausted, the very least you can expect from kids is an over abundance of enthusiasm.

Yeah my point was our first and second choice right backs are ahead of Paolo Dummetto in the left back pecking order.

Livramento and Trippier would probably be picked at LB before Dummett if they were fit and not needed on the right.

Here's West Ham for comparison And Brighton

Even then it's not like Plan A isn't a really good plan. The issue is that the squad is so decimated that a reliable Plan B is tricky to come by. Its not just the first XI that are getting injured it's their replacements and the replacement's replacement. So we haven't had a settled squad to select or cater a tactic for. Wilson and Isak have both missed great chunks of the season. So have 2/3 of our first choice midfielders; Joelinton and Tonali. Then their replacements too. Look at the fucking state of that man.

It's just lazy pundits and knee-jerk fans. Last season we benefited from our new players and new style surprising so many of the opposition, other teams having poor seasons and a good amount of luck with injuries. So our position of 4th was definitely better than expected. In many other seasons we'd have finished around 6th or 7th This time we've had to try and compete in four competitions, without a great deal of new players available and the worst injury crisis I've ever seen. Without the injuries I'd expect us to finish around 5th or 6th. We're still making progress in my opinion.

To even be in with a fucking shout of Europe given our luck this season, is remarkable. 2 domestic Quarter Finals, about 30 minutes off getting out of the group of Death, 8th in the league, 3rd best attack in the league. All with an injury list that would have most teams in the relegation conversation.

Another game where, if we had any real options from the bench we win it comfortably. Wilson, Almiron, Joelinton, Trippier, Targett, Livramento, Miley. Any one of those as choice and I think we win that comfortably. Dummett fucked us, but he was just slipping a softy into the gaper left by the John Holmes-endowed Injury List.

Plus ça change

Inherently classy.

Yeah if Lascelles doesn't go off forcing a reshuffle, we probably don't concede their equaliser or second. Barnes would likely have replaced Isak or Gordon at some point.

Genuinely, which of their players would get into our squad? ( If we weren't dry fucked by injuries?)

That fantasy is all they have. They don't match up in terms of recent quality, even in the halcyon days of Six in a Rowuh it meant more to them because they knew we were the better side, with loftier ambitions and greater chance of reaching higher heights. So they'd need something abstract upon which to pin their support.

I dunno, they might have had a better left back than us at the time, or whatever. But if you stack their very best against ours for a combined XI and the entire squad is turning out in black and white. Like, is Wilson a better forward than Bent, Defoe or Phillips? Arguably. Wilson isn't even in my top 5 Newcastle forwards of the past 40yrs.* Honestly think that's why they fawn over Henderson and Pickford even though those two played there briefly and played their best football elsewhere. It's because they're the closest claim they've got to actually good footballers. * Shearer, Beardsley, Cole, Ferdinand, Ba,

Oh aye I forgot about the 17yr old kid drafted in to cover for the injury crisis subsequently getting injured