OTF

An assistbfor Wyki, well played. Love how the players all have to give the ref their opinion even though it doesn't matter at all.

Longers!!!

We're too calm in our own half and not calm enough in theirs.

They've had two going at him from early, need Gordon to release early to make them think about it a bit more as they're clearly very wary of him having the ball with any space.

We look sloppy and disjointed instead. Need Bruno to take control.

Yeah because their player cut in front of him to draw the contact by hanging his leg out, classic south american play. You can't shield like that unless you can reach the ball so that was no foul.

Dodgy south american dive there and Schär cops an undue yellow.

Nice reach 'bravs

Both teams playing fast and loose, but mostly loose.

Such a chance for Murphy, straight at their keeper

Feels like Lascelles is still young, but he's 30 so I'm inclined to agree. The flipside to that is that he's looked good when called on by Eddie and has shown a great attitude off the pitch. Schär has played his best football in the wrong side of 30, and Lascelles having had a quiet two seasons should have a good few years in him. The final flipside is that he probably still turns like an oil tanker.

Take That

I hope he can perform at his highest levels consistently, but for me Murphy is better as an impact player when defenses are tiring.

Agree, I was just thinking that Barnes really really likes to cut in and shoot with his right, where-as Gordon only reallly likes to. If he goes we'll definitely miss Miggy's engine, but definitely not his right foot. In fact he'd probably not miss his right foot if it went.

If this goes ahead will it mean Gordon being played on the right and Barnes on the left (once fit) or the other way around?

Reinvented as a combative box to box midfielder.

Possibly more unless they really need to sel. His fee to Wolves had a lot of clauses with a high total price of £40m+ and likely a sell on clause too.

@Diego21 we're going to need you to unpack the Real Madrid v. Almeria refereeing 'decisions'. Also, not explicitly saying it's your fault, but Newcastle were doing a lot better when you were posting here more frequently...

Sorry gents I would have been here faster but my keyboard was broken. It was so bad that I had to hire a glyph fix.

No consistency in fitness or performance from him on the pitch in the that time. Who knows, he may be fantastic with attitude etc off the pitch but as per your message much more likely to have had such a long tenure here due to Ashley taking the cheapest option available.

After checking our supply of players is there any chance we could petition the FA for the remainder of the season to be played as 8 v 8?

You can't be considered exceptional at something if you injure yourself everytime you do it. Dummett remains the king of the slide, and even better he's* often** able to pull off the elusive legal slide tackle reducer. * - he's = he was ** - often based of per minute of play