The Fish

Ahh, c'mon, IammRazul has never steered us wrong before.

Bet you wouldn't try this bullshit with Diego. Diego, with his suave demeanor and debonair fashion. WE CAN'T ALL BE MEDITERRANEAN, Y'KNOW! I know it's not football manager, that's why I'm not mentioning Nianzou, Badiashile, Weigl, or Raul Moro. The ones I mentioned are realistic, reasonable, gettable players, that are all improvements on Clark. I've read the last sentence a dozen times, and I've still no fucking clue what you're trying to say.

1. All managers have hit & miss transfer records, overall, I'd say Howe's is decent. Certainly good enough to see the gaps in our squad and plug 'em with sufficient quality to make a difference. Replacing Clark with a garden shed, e.g. 2. Eh? Why would a short term appointment have an agenda that, at all, strays from addressing the short term problem of keeping Newcastle in the Premier League? 3. I'd assume he'd have the kind of input that he's had at Brighton. Shaping the overarching strategy for recruitment and coaching, then delivering it. 4. I don't follow this point. The board have fumbled a few things, no doubt. They are naive and they've made mistakes, the hope is that they learn from them. In appointing a company to find the right men for the job is a tacit admission that they are happy to rely on people who know more about it than they do. Which is an evolutionary lightyear from Ashley's ignorance and arrogance. Get players like Clark, Lascelles, Ritchie, Manquillo* away from the first team squad is the first step. Replacing them with, at worst, Premier League standard options in their position is the second. I think you could throw a dart at a board of the linked defenders and you're guaranteed to hit a better CB than Clark; Ake, Botman, Grillitsch, Tarkowski. *might be harsh on Manquillo.

Which teams do they have to face? Spurs, Watford and Villa. They could easily come out of those 3 with 0pts, especially as they'll be played in a congested run of fixtures. End of the day, we're 3pts off safety with 1/2 the season to go. We should strengthen significantly in the window. Our performances are improving and but for individual errors we'd have another 2-3 points already. Who knows, had Ederson been sent off we could have clung on for a draw, had we got a penalty against Liverpool we could maybe have got a draw there too. We're not going to get 45pts and the comfort of midtable, but I do think that this squad + January additions has enough to survive.

Why, do postponed games magically transform into 3-0 wins?

But only one of them lives in the same village as me, so...

Well, Bowyer's retired from playing, Michael Tonge too... so I'm afraid you'll have to make-do with the namby-pamby dandies we have.

I will defend the creative mavericks. I will get excited about Comic Book movies. I will laugh at farts. I will never give up my inner child.

I wonder if he had faith in his teammates to do anything, he'd be more willing to pass. e.g. that 4 man break, where all he had to do was slide the ball left to Fraser (I think), if it was Wilson, I'd have fancied him to square it. If he can get used to the more fluid attacking unit he could be great. The goal we scored against Spurs was because he drew 2 players, Manquillo had a free overlap and put in a great ball for Wilson. That is eminently repeatable.

I'll get around to that one after I finish this one called "Dealing with online abuse from mean mean boys".

I was the opposite end and as the ball was dropping must have been the only dickhead saying "don't shoot". Further proof Diego knows more than me

They all come after the January window opens, mind you. Hopefully we'll have strengthened at the beginning of the window with some better quality defenders, and a central midfielder of sufficient quality. Centre back is the absolute priority. I think we could get away with Schar/Fernandez + someone of real ability. Right and Left back. Again, I think a quality right back would be enough. We could get away with Lewis on the left. Central midfield. Boubacar Kamara from Marseille would be good.

Dunno like, that's a fine jawline he's got there. I have to fake mine with facial hair.

I like Shola's consolation one where it bobbles off his shin past the Man Utd 'keeper. Definitely stands up against Robert's volleys, Shearer's blasties or Berdsley's shimmies.

More Paul Dalglish.

Basically a three horse race between HBA, Robert and Shearer.

I see Diego like Les saw Shearer, he's only going to make me raise my game.

De rien.

Setting it up? 90% of it is plugging the thing in and connecting it to your wifi. The only hassle is when you change internet service provider and have to remember to update all the doohickeys. Amazon's good for that, I update one and it'll spread the news to every Alexa device I have. I have 1 Show, 1 Echo, 3 Dots, 2 Fire Tv sticks and when I switched to Vodafone fibre I just told the Show what to do and the rest fell in line. I set reminders, video call my folks, listen to music, send messages, follow recipes, watch tv, check the news, all by having a chat with the nice lady in the box.

Get the IFTTT app. It stands for "If this, then that" and it's a pretty user friendly way of automating your devices which works with loads of the smart tech brands. Expands the programming options you've got within the existing apps. Useful stuff like 'If my phone gets within 100 meters of the house, turn on the lights'. 'If my phone leaves that area, turn off these lights, turn off the heating, turn on the alarm and release the hounds'. 'If I say "Movie night" turn down the lights, set the audio system to this setting, open Amazon Prime', lock the doors. etc. The smart thermostats are useful and can save you money (if used right). Smart blinds that gently open with the sunrise are cool. Smart Locks give you added security (mate has them purely because his girlfriend is forever locking herself out, so rather than schlepping home from the office to let her in, he pushes a button on his phone and et voila. After the Kitchen gets paid for, my next project is getting more smart home tech up in this hizzouse. Definitely getting a video doorbell for the added security and the ability to tell the courier not to take the package next door because she's a cunt and I can't be arsed with the 20 minute diatribe about the proposed speed bumps. Like Rayvin says, that's the way the world is going, so resisting it is like holding onto your Nokia3210 because you 'just need a phone that calls and texts'.

Had my booster. No side effects. I'm a golden god.

Pancake and Slaphead? That's what I call your Mrs' tits. Cos one looks like a beagle ear and the other like Grant Mitchell.

Not significantly.

Like Gemmil says, Eddie's a little lower than Steve, but had less time and mitigating circumstances. Manager Season Pos Team M W D L G GA PTS xG xGA xPTS xGpG xGApG xPtpG Bruce 19/20 13 Newcastle 38 11 11 16 38 58 44 36.49 67.03 31.92 0.96 1.76 0.84 Bruce 20/21 12 Newcastle 38 12 9 17 46 62 45 43.96 60.02 42.65 1.16 1.58 1.12 Bruce 21/22 19 Newcastle 8 0 3 5 10 19 3 9.33 15.47 6.77 1.17 1.93 0.85 Howe 21/22 15 Newcastle 6 1 3 2 6 10 6 5.62 9.79 5.8 0.94 1.63 0.97