howe's team seemingly on a spiral of ever decreasing circles v guardiola's resurgent CITY who we always do so well against. get in, can't wait for this one! :

[OTF 10528]

21 minutes ago, LondonBlue said:

Hello people, been awhile. i was in my 50s last time i was here. 

 

Should be fun at the weekend. Oddly enough your new fella looks better in front of goal than the old guy, whatever he was called. Dare i say it more like Haaland lite.

 

No Isak, no KDB it's a new dawn.

 

You're probably not making much of an impact on the average age of the patrons here tbh. I'm doing the Lord's work keeping it down.

 

[LondonBlue 1141]

Newcastle at St James Park is not for the feint hearted.

 

I know we "can" beat you but we'll have to fight for it.

 

Strange season for us, Like a reset button has been hit and we're having to go again. Definitely a transition period with more still to do with possibly the end of Rodri, Bernardo, Stones and Ake. And the verdict still out on many of the new guys, Savinho, Tiny Reindeer, Cherki, Gonzalez, Nunez, Marmoush (good players but various questions to be answered)

[ewerk 39128]

7 minutes ago, LondonBlue said:

Newcastle at St James Park is not for the feint hearted.

 

Aye, those two defeats in your last *checks notes* TWENTY visits must have really scared your lot.

[LondonBlue 1141]

15 minutes ago, ewerk said:

 

Aye, those two defeats in your last *checks notes* TWENTY visits must have really scared your lot.

 

I had to go check that as (sorry) i didn't believe you. I'll never doubt you again.

 

Maybe the period in the late 90s and early 00s when City were climbing out of the doldrums and you spanked us a few times stuck more firmly in my memory than it should.

 

[PaddockLad 22422]

28 minutes ago, LondonBlue said:

Newcastle at St James Park is not for the feint hearted.

 

I know we "can" beat you but we'll have to fight for it.

 

Strange season for us, Like a reset button has been hit and we're having to go again. Definitely a transition period with more still to do with possibly the end of Rodri, Bernardo, Stones and Ake. And the verdict still out on many of the new guys, Savinho, Tiny Reindeer, Cherki, Gonzalez, Nunez, Marmoush (good players but various questions to be answered)

 

Rodri hasn't returned from his year out injured the same player?... that's how it seems from the outside....

[LondonBlue 1141]

1 minute ago, PaddockLad said:

 

Rodri hasn't returned from his year out injured the same player?... that's how it seems from the outside....

 

Not so much that he's a lesser player, more that he just hasn't fully recovered yet.

He has been picking up new injuries and needs a lot of minutes to get him back up to his best.

You can't take liberties in the PL so he's not had much chance yet.

Maybe we have seen the best of him, maybe he'll eventually get there.

 

Gonzalez looks to have adapted to being a 6 instead of an 8 finally. For me, Gonzalez is Gundogan's replacement.

 

You have a more powerful midfield than us at the moment. But then so did Liverpool last week and we found a "solution".

 

[Dr Gloom 26309]

[Dr Gloom 26309]

6 minutes ago, LondonBlue said:

 

Not so much that he's a lesser player, more that he just hasn't fully recovered yet.

He has been picking up new injuries and needs a lot of minutes to get him back up to his best.

You can't take liberties in the PL so he's not had much chance yet.

Maybe we have seen the best of him, maybe he'll eventually get there.

 

Gonzalez looks to have adapted to being a 6 instead of an 8 finally. For me, Gonzalez is Gundogan's replacement.

 

You have a more powerful midfield than us at the moment. But then so did Liverpool last week and we found a "solution".

 

 

not sure we do at the moment - our fullbacks have a combined age of almost 38 and our midfield is dropping way too deep as a result. we're not helped by joelinton, who has been way off it for most of the season, having to babysit burn at left back. the result is woltemade drops even deeper to receive the ball than usual and we invariably give it away. you're in great form and couldn't have picked a better time to play us at SJP. we're a team in transition, missing key players and out of form in the league. 

[Dr Gloom 26309]

[OTF 10528]

Eddie has had an extended time to work with (some of) the squad and he does fancy a tactical tweak to fancied opposition of which Man City most certainly are. The odds are still against it working, though one thing is for sure; we shalln't see BDB at LB or anywhere on the pitch.

[LondonBlue 1141]

7 minutes ago, OTF said:

Eddie has had an extended time to work with (some of) the squad and he does fancy a tactical tweak to fancied opposition of which Man City most certainly are. The odds are still against it working, though one thing is for sure; we shalln't see BDB at LB or anywhere on the pitch.

 

Curious as i see BDB as a huge set piece threat due to his freakish size.

 

 

[Craig 12324]

19 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

 

our fullbacks have a combined age of almost 38

A bit more than that, surely?

[Dr Gloom 26309]

2 minutes ago, Craig said:

A bit more than that, surely?

 

my bad, a combined age of precisely 38 

[Dr Gloom 26309]

or almost 39, if you prefer 

[LondonBlue 1141]

well the combined age of our fullbacks is zero.  

Nico O'Reilly and Matheus Nunez are both midfielders.

[Ayatollah Hermione 17219]

8 minutes ago, LondonBlue said:

 

Curious as i see BDB as a huge set piece threat due to his freakish size.

 

 

Hes suspended  

[ewerk 39128]

5 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

 

my bad, a combined age of precisely 38 

 

[Dr Gloom 26309]

oh yeah

 

i can't even blame the valium/codeine anymore 

[LondonBlue 1141]

1 minute ago, Dr Gloom said:

oh yeah

 

i can't even blame the valium/codeine anymore 

 

i can. well nuproxen & codeine and some other stuff.

[Gemmill 62981]

Alright Shaun Ryder. 

[Dr Gloom 26309]

11 minutes ago, LondonBlue said:

 

i can. well nuproxen & codeine and some other stuff.

 

bad back? 

 

condolences

[LondonBlue 1141]

18 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

 

bad back? 

 

condolences

 

not a bad back (well yes i've had that for years and find sleeping on the floor deals with bouts of that) but i had a fall whilst running in July and haven't been right since. Broke a bone in the hand, the costachondritis but the pain killers are for an unknown shoulder issue. its been months. hoping an ultrasound will help.  too much info maybe.

 

thanks

 

[ewerk 39128]

1 minute ago, LondonBlue said:

 

not a bad back (well yes i've had that for years and find sleeping on the floor deals with bouts of that) but i had a fall whilst running in July and haven't been right since. Broke a bone in the hand, the costachondritis but the pain killers are for an unknown shoulder issue. its been months. hoping an ultrasound will help.  too much info maybe.

 

thanks

 

 

You and @Gemmill should start a support group.

[Gemmill 62981]

3 minutes ago, ewerk said:

 

You and @Gemmill should start a support group.

 

 

Let the record reflect that I stayed upright. Sprained ankle and an avulsion fracture but I completed my run cos I'm fucking nails. 

[LondonBlue 1141]

3 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

 

 

Let the record reflect that I stayed upright. Sprained ankle and an avulsion fracture but I completed my run cos I'm fucking nails. 

 

I completed my run too. Then drove home with a broken bone. Tbf i didn't realise it was broken until i went to hospital the next day. Seems you can't run everything off.