Andrew

Scored on his first start the other week, it was a decent goal too. If he stays fairly fit he'll have a lovely time in the championship, he was better than that league when he was 20 years old.

I got bored of Newcastle a few seasons in and went off to manage Boca for a season, absolutely obliterated the league and then left and have just joined Napoli.

it honestly didn't really look like that watching on TV. They looked a worse team than us despite us having ten for most of the game.

Aye, hes never going to be the best technical player but you can see so much difference in him being properly coached, he looks like a different man.

Based on his decision making tonight he was asking "Is there any way I can not give this?" to the VAR

Doesn't matter how they go in.

LETS FUCKING GO. This refs done everything he can to give us nowt, down to ten men and that wait was a LIFETIME.

Whys the late one on Williams a foul but neither on Shelvey and the bloke clambering over Lewis is?

What a fucking idiot. 9 minutes into the game what on earth is he playing at?! Given hes also shit that needs to ne clarks last action in a newcastle shirt, get rid in january.

First game at a watchable hour for me in what feels like ages. Its a very attacking lineup, not a lot of defending in that midfield, if we can play like we did against brentford, with a better keeper, we should win this. God knows we need to.

Now now now, neither of us is going to be happy with that

According to the last pod on the tyne (they had a bloke who covered Bournemouth for years as a guest last week) its actually the opposite! Tindall is lovely and Howe is a real hardass behind closed doors.

who cares? Shouting at people, three months after the fact, about Dwight Gayles goal scoring record at 4 in the morning...good grief.

Sound on.

Forza Horizon 5 is out on Gamepass and I've been having a great time with it, much less serious than the "proper" forza series this one has you belting around fake mexico racing against planes n shit. It is a very fun arcade racer that has shit loads of great cars in it that you can paint and do up to ridiculous degrees, like my Isetta bubble car which has 600Hp and is painted up to look like sonic the hedghog and revs so hard it sounds like its about to shit itself. 10/10 would recommend.

Both absolutely streets ahead of what we have in their positions now. Brozovic is a well rounded central midfielder who would immediately make an enormous difference to us considering our trouble in that spot. De Vrij is brilliant and if he is leaving Inter there will be plenty of clubs after him. Central defender that reads the game and sweeps up rather than a belting into tackles type. Both have been big players for Inter and were starters for Conte in their league win last year, reckon spurs would be looking at both off the back of that if they're available.

They've not released "touch" this year but the Xbox edition works on PC and is essentially it. Less shit to do if you're wanting something more akin to the older games @Gemmill

So the makers of my favourite metal album from last year have just released a "live" album they did as a stream during covid. Anyway, highly recommend the album, highly recommend the live show, probably not to the taste of anyone else on the board but they're posting "metal" in the music thread so you never know

You absolutely had me I was about to go digging for a dossier

What do you mean by necessary? Jones is a well respected assistant and coach who has worked with some of Howes backroom team before, perhaps everyone is just happy to have him stay?

Yeah @adiosfrom four years ago, what have you got to say for yourself?

Technically we could but anyone on their books who is actually good would still probably be attracting the attention of bigger clubs and cost a fortune.

I think players like that suffer from not playing consistently more than your less "on the ball" defenders. They take more risks which bites them when they're less sharp. Could see us moving for Ake now with Howe coming in actually, at a big club, not playing much and knows the manager, would quite like him in our team once match fit, hes got more pace than anyone in our back line currently.

Its funny but he'd be genuinely perfect right now, French football is an absolute disaster financially at the moment and their TV deal is totally fucked.

I guess that even keel is based on how Ashley wanted the club to run, ie as cheaply as possible, rather than how the new ownership want it to.