Newcastle properly shat the bed here

They're the Spurs of the north for me so I'm disappointed but certainly not heartbroken 

The best of the best. RIP legend

Should also remember we were without Paqueta and Summerville. Bowen was having to keep the ball on his own given Soucek can’t pass a a few yards. We’ve at least learn Guilherme won’t make it. Earthy should have been on for him but I don’t think KWP instead of Guilherme made us worse! What I find we...

Nuno properly out-though here. Crazy substitutions

Mind you, with Summerville and Paqueta out that fucking bench was always a shocker.. and that's on anyone but Nuno 

zebthecat wrote: ↑22 Nov 2025, 09:37

onsideman wrote: ↑22 Nov 2025, 09:31 Chef... or Goochie... or frankly anyone with a solid technique and capable of picking his shots and playing every ball on it's merits

Root is the only one we have.

Chef... or Goochie... or frankly anyone with a solid technique and capable of picking his shots and playing every ball on it's merits

Come On You Irons" wrote: ↑22 Nov 2025, 08:24 31 wickets have now fallen within two days play. Awful shocker of a wicket.

Some proper batting at the start here for the convicts proving there's nothing wrong with the wicket, just with the techniques





 

Yep, you're right, especially when they'll also likely be facing Cummins and Hazelwood going forward

65-1 to 76-5 is just rank bad batting

Come On You Irons" wrote: ↑21 Nov 2025, 14:15 17 wickets shouldn't be falling on the first day of a test wicket. It's clearly a joke of a pitch. Counties would be fined and docked points for preparing such shocker. Let's hope the chests are too.

I see Potter's first game in charge of Swdeem went well

The impact of the Irish Kiwis is diminishing so they're not the force they were. We're in decent shape and I agree with Ron, Borthwick is making gains despite his lack of charm. I think behind the scrum is where we are lacking. I wish we had a proper game changing scrum half and, despite his drop go...

Lee Trundle" wrote: ↑14 Nov 2025, 11:28 Today, it's Chris PACKHAM's turn to tell us that there's nothing wrong with the BBC.  It's funny their own staff can't admit they're part of the problem.

I think our nerds are a pair of wankers. No offence As well as Fullkrug they bigged up Hermansen, as you say, and they almost creamed themselves when we signed Magassa and, while the later may well prove to be a good signing in time, he's hardly blown me away Analysis paralysis if you ask me. It's o...

COYI has doubled down on his on the face of it reasonable introductory post and has reverted to moronic type. Summerville's was the run early on that led to Bowen's shot against the post. His was the cross after another run that was flapped at by Pope which led to Paqueta's goal. His was the run tha...

Was it £10m we decided we wouldn't pay for Diego Gomez in Summer 24? 

Yeah, the last 2 years of that 4 year spell we managed to finish with only 40 points one season and then the following year conceded 74 goals, more than any other team that wasn't relegated. The rot had set in long before Moyes left. If anything the good period under him was the blip, with the lock...

What a load of old shit

Moyes, Lopetegui and Potter all have one thing in common. They each bought - or at least agreed to the purchase of - absolute footballing detritus. Whilst I understand the argument, the Iraola comparison has no merit - under him they acquired Semenyo, Kluivert, Kerkez, Huijsen, Zabarnyi, Evanilson ...

Moyes, Lopetegui and Potter all have one thing in common. They each bought - or at least agreed to the purchase of - absolute footballing detritus. Whilst I understand the argument, the Iraola comparison has no merit - under him they acquired Semenyo, Kluivert, Kerkez, Huijsen, Zabarnyi, Evanilson p...

The squad issues are mostly to do with lack of continuity in playing style. If we'd got Nuno in after Moyes and given him the money that's been spent, we'd be in a much better place. Frankly, we'd probably be better off if we'd backed and just pushed through with the mental blinking Spaniard. But t...

Orford is on loan at Stevenage Made his debut during the week when they beat Palace u21’s setting up 2 goals and scoring himself Not involved in their 1-1 draw with Bradford in the league yesterday  I've been looking at their squads each week and not seen him named, so thought he must have been inj...

Basically a quarter of the season gone, so no

If anyone wanted a true guage of how far we've gone backwards in the past 2 years then the fact that Mavropanos' injury has now made us weaker defensively is really all you need