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I'm worried that Burn is still the first choice LB in Eddie's mind

Ridiculous yellow, never a card that. Utterly incompetent ref

Just let them run through midfield there like much of our recent games.

Anyone been on the RTG match thread yet?

Really should get 4 or 5 here and rub it in

Is that some fewwwm I'm hearing at the SOL

We're in the worst form of Eddie's term and yet Sunderland have barely got a look in. And they think they'd be smashing it in the premier league every week...

get in!!!!!!!!!!

Oh dear Longstaff in the stands again from another half chance

Michael Owen thinks ref made the right call because a red card would have changed the flow of the game. Yeah, that's the criteria Michael.

wtf?? foul surely??

That was quite a decent chance Longstaff sliced it, good bit of play though.

Almost feel sorry for them. On hand they absolutely hate NUFC's guts and want nothing to do with such an unethical club, and yet at the same time the fixture is their biggest in years and they've no idea when or if they'll have such an occasion again so you might as well celebrate it. The internal conflict must be hilarious

"Tentatively touted as potential future...." The state of journalism these days

Should these fears come true and the Saudis do eventually push Eddie out, I'd love to see their plan for the next manager. As things stand their pitch would be: "Transfer budget for the next year is about 2 loan deals. We want you to take this half squad of relegation fighting Bruce players and finish top 4 plus win a cup or two. Just like Eddie did, after which we backed him with 2 first team signings and against everyone's wildest expectations the whole thing fell to shite so he got the sack." I'm confident candidates will be falling over each other to join.

My wife once got mad that I have no sense of direction. So I packed up my stuff and right.

PIF own/control some of the most complex entities on the planet. There's probably a bunch of long term financial models and business plans that will have been put in place for NUFC right down to 5-10 year cashflow projections. My guess is there's a particular point in time the management feel certain things have to be put in place to get the maximum benefit out of them, perhaps aligned withg the stage of progress/evolution the club is in. I could be wrong, but something like that seems more likely to me than them simply not knowing how or being able to immediately raise all revenue streams when every other club is doing it.

We tried being positive when the Tonali news first broke and thought some journos were making more of it than there was. The pissy pants are sometimes right I still don't think Ashworth will leave. Man Utd are a mess by all accounts and he's already helping build something special here.

In that case we can continue to blame our rotten luck and not have to contend with the meltdown a defeat against Sunderland would entail.

Unless they can find a way around FFP they'll have to suck it up. And it's hard to think of another manager who can get more out of the current players than Eddie has. If we dont turn it around in February that's when the alarm bells should go off. We've already been soundly beaten by many poor teams so when the fixture list and injuries have eased off there will be no mitigating factors. Football can be funny but there's no reason to think we wont turn it around then, a manager and players that have been this good for two years shouldnt just suddenly become shite.

Football is funny, and fickle. A couple of decent results and we'll be flowing again, sausages everywhere. Eddie will sort it out. Just not this month perhaps Let's just have some relief from the mackem game.

Some nervy moments defending though which is unlike him. Understandable of course because of how shite we are defending as a team at the moment and he's just come back from injury. That long ball over the top which ended up falling to Nunez was the bread and butter sort you'd expect him to clear half asleep.

The Mourinho link just wont go away. Do the people that keep advocating for him seen some of his recent teams play? He's methods have been outdated for some time, all he does now is throw tantrums and live in the past.