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Horrifying. Utterly gutless performance. I don't know how we're going to snap out of this away game malaise but we'll not amount to anything if we don't soon. Very poor selection as well. We weren't set up to compete at all. Gordon has been fucking shite all season, ALL SEASON, actually since last season as well and the less said about Elanga the better. We really needed our wingers to command the wide areas but instead we got those two who barely had a touch. Woltemade has gone sour as well, quite apart from the own goal, he's contributed very little over the last few matches. We go five or ten minutes without him touching the ball sometimes it seems. I don't think Wissa as a like-for-like change is going to work out at all, either. Better to try the two of them together. I've very little to add about their side. Nobody stood out, they were just a standard bunch of cloggers who played harder than we did, roared on by the home crowd. Brobbey in particular was 100% shithouse, an absolute nothing player.

Horrendous match so far, waste of 45 minutes. Almost no skill on display whatsoever from either side, except fouling and playacting from the mutants.

Agree, Gordon for this match and Barnes at the weekend. I don't trust Gordon in high-pressure, hostile matches.

Going above Liverpool as well. How's the view looking up, Alex?

Bewwwwww!

An absolute howler

Brilliant win. Great stuff all around. I don't know what happened in that first half but we've outfought one of the best teams in Europe at home yet again. VAR taking the day off from screwing us as well, lovely to see.

It's an absolute barrel of shite and it's making people markedly dumber. Source: I am a teacher. Almost none of these kids know how to do fucking anything besides ask AI to answer questions for them. Even the mindless Googling, which at least forced them to read sources and paraphrase them, has been replaced by AI searches. They write emails with AI, they have AI do their math work for them, it's an absolute shitshow. I wish I could say that's confined to the younger generation, but it isn't. I may have mentioned at some point that I go to law school at nights. The number of my classmates - almost all young professionals, since I'm in the evening program - that routinely have this bullshit word-predicting calculator vomit out assignments for them would boggle your mind. "Oh, I use it to summarize cases for me." Better triple fucking check that, it's TERRIBLE with cases. It routinely makes up citations that don't exist. Practicing lawyers have been sanctioned up and down this country for submitting AI-hallucinated case citations in their briefs. "Oh, I have it explain what I didn't understand from the professor." Mate, you are paying tens, in some cases hundreds of thousands of dollars to attend this school, you'd better fucking pay attention to the professor. "Oh, I use it to pad out my writing assignments." Congratulations, you're forming a habit that will literally lead to your firing, sanction, and disbarment. There will come a point where you literally don't know how to do anything else but rely on what a bot tells you. My only solace is that I'm going into the field of litigation, and a bot can't cross-examine a witness, or fight an objection, or voir dire a member of the jury.

"You're getting sacked in the morning" ringing out at the Scab Ground as well. From the home fans. Three weeks into his tenure. But of course the OTHER fat Greek bastard won't let him go so easily. This is the man that he and Edu pushed Nuno off a cliff to get. Let's see how well that works out for them.

At what point is VAR just fixing games blatantly for the red cartel? Salah's extended arm yesterday which has been neatly swept under the rug, the one here...these are not marginal decisions, they're flagrant cheating.

Outrageous to be giving Miley any stick. We've got to pull together and support the lads and not give any grief to players who give 100% for the shirt. Now if it was that fucking useless cunt Barnes, that'd be a different story.

Pretty strong lineup. I'm enjoying the new and improved rotating Eddie Howe. Personally I think I would've saved Gordon for the weekend.

Why are you all wasting your time engaging with this moron? Slap him on ignore and move on. He's thicker than fuck and contrary to boot, nothing you ever say will make a whit of difference. Does one argue with a black hole?

I think that would be news to him considering he played on Sunday! I'd like to see Park get some minutes tomorrow.

She's fucking lush, those mutants should be happy her family was bringing fresh genes to the North East. Their lot have been passing around the same five or ten sets since time immemorial. I think it was in the Domesday Book "And then Callum did marrye his sister, as generations of Callums hath done before him."

Newcastle Signing of the season: Woltemade Top goalscorer: Woltemade Most assists: Murphy Biggest surprise: We beat Barcelona and PSG but lose to Union SG Best Young player: Woltemade Player of the season: Bruno PL finish: 5th Trophies? No. League Champions: Red scum Rest of the top 4: Arsenal, City, Chelsea Bottom 3: Mackems, Wolves, Burnley Top scorer: Haaland First Manager Sacked: Nuno Biggest non-surprise: Man U are fucking dogshit again

In the cold light of day we've been done up like a kipper, well and truly. The rat has got his move, we've got taken for a ride on the fee by the red scum, and then we've been taken for another by Brentford. If this is all we could come up with - rat going, Wissa coming - then we could've done that business four weeks ago and not had our preseason and first three games utterly fucked by the rat's antics. I am really pleased with all of our other business. We've improved in a lot of key areas and brought in younger players to rejuvenate the squad. But we've been fucked here. So much blather about the Saudis this, and loss of face that, and exactly that has come to pass. We've had the piss taken out of us.

I don't know, how about "we're happy to welcome back one of the best strikers in the world?" Calling what he's done this summer "professional" makes a mockery of the entire profession.

Just going to leave this here.

Barnes has lit up some matches with brilliant strikes. His brace v. West Ham stands out as a particular example, but the Luton and Man U home matches featured some great goals by him as well. He offers little to nothing else. Overall he has flattered to deceive massively in his time here. We need a reliable backup to play on the left when dumbfuck Gordon is serving his inevitable fifth three-game suspension and Barnes isn't it. I actually would've played him up front instead of Gordon in the first two games, Gordon offers so much more when he isn't getting sent off during critical periods of great importance for the club.

Horrendous if the 125m fixed fee reports are true. Utterly mugged off by the red scum and by the rat himself. What in the actual fuck?

Both should get the chop. It was one of the worst decisions the entire rotten VAR system has ever produced, and denied a bright kid his first goal for absolutely nothing. VAR has been reduced to “how can we chalk this off, if doing so benefits the cartel?”

Horrendous. The snake has snookered us out of another 2 points there.

Working overtime today! Fulham goal ruled out, bogus pen awarded to Chelsea, Burnley's earlier goal ruled out for a mystery offside, now we've got an illusory penalty. EARNING THEIR KEEP!

Time for VAR to rescue the destined top six again!