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• Newcastle United A New Season, New Opportunities

  A new season, a new challenge, new opportunities. These days, going into a new season, Newcastle United fans have reasons to be optimistic. This wasn’t always the case in the past, but lets not dwell on that – hopefully those days have been put behind us and we can look forward to a bright future. We have a strong squad and some class individual players. Isak, Bruno, Flash Gordon, Joelinton, Pope spring readily to mind. Perhaps the old nickname of “The Entertainers” should be resurrected […]

   

• Newcastle United v Brest: Reflections

  Thought we played okay for the first 25-30 minutes but then faded towards the end of the first half, and pretty much camped in our own half for most of the second. The contrast between the two starting 11’s boiled down to Isak and Joelinton against Girona, vs Harrison and Osula against Brest. Not a dig at Harrison, who looked out of his depth having likely never played opposition of that quality, or Osula, who has been bought for his potential rather than his ability, […]

   

• Cup Final Result Good News For Newcastle United

  Manchester United’s victory in the FA Cup final was the Best outcome we could have had. If we had got 6th and the Europa League, we would now be looking at qualifying for the Wilkos European Trophy. At what stage do relegated teams qualify for the ‘Even worse than the slightly less crappy European trophy competition for teams finishing 15th-17th’. We now have an entire season where both Man U and Chelsea are playing Thursday/Sunday for a large part of the winter, where we can […]

   

• Opinion: Is Eddie Howe Still The Right Man For Newcastle United?

  This might be controversial but it isn’t a knee jerk reaction. I don’t envy the decision the board are going to have to make this summer. On the one hand, you have an incredible 22/23 campaign where Howe showed he is a fantastic coach, capable of coaching players to be better individuals and work better collectively as a team. A freak season where we had a system that worked, had few injuries to dent this, and a momentum you get once in a blue moon, […]