Newcastle Thread - 2023/24

Is it just me or are Newcastle the new media darlings? What's with all the love for Newcastle? Don't they have "oil sugar daddies" also? Where's the oil washing allegations? Where's all the human rights talk? This morning alone, the dailymail has like four articles all saying great things about Newcastle and how they're so close to becoming European royalty and how they've been smart in the transfer market! Really? What the fuck am I missing?
 
ICity said:
Is it just me or are Newcastle the new media darlings? What's with all the love for Newcastle? Don't they have "oil sugar daddies" also? Where's the oil washing allegations? Where's all the human rights talk? This morning alone, the dailymail has like four articles all saying great things about Newcastle and how they're so close to becoming European royalty and how they've been smart in the transfer market! Really? What the fuck am I missing?
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Once they start winning trophies that will all change.
 
ICity said:
Is it just me or are Newcastle the new media darlings? What's with all the love for Newcastle? Don't they have "oil sugar daddies" also? Where's the oil washing allegations? Where's all the human rights talk? This morning alone, the dailymail has like four articles all saying great things about Newcastle and how they're so close to becoming European royalty and how they've been smart in the transfer market! Really? What the fuck am I missing?
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scared ofgetting chopped up allegedly
 
KnaresboroughBlue said:
Once they start winning trophies that will all change.
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But we never had that. The media has waged a relentless war against us right from the start, well before the take over. I can't remember where I saw it but a newspaper frontpage published 50 or 60 years ago and in that article City were accused of ruining football. If anyone still has that please put it up here.
 
I'm sure that many Newcastle fans must feel that had that ridiculous penalty not been awarded to PSG in the last minute of the game in Paris the whole approach to the game with AC last night would have been different and Newcastle could still have been in the draw.
 
StillBluessinceHydeRoad said:
I'm sure that many Newcastle fans must feel that had that ridiculous penalty not been awarded to PSG in the last minute of the game in Paris the whole approach to the game with AC last night would have been different and Newcastle could still have been in the draw.
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Well they learning first hand that if you want to be successful, you're gonna have to win against teams and officials when you come up against certain teams that they want still in the competitions.
 
If you recall, when we were first in the ECL, it was a right ball ache. Awful draws and it seemed we never got a ref's decision in our favour. Strangely, having a good coefficient makes a huge difference.

Another example of the football 'closed shop.' It's just that these days we're in the guild, so to speak. Newcastle have just started serving their apprenticeship.
 
ICity said:
But we never had that. The media has waged a relentless war against us right from the start, well before the take over. I can't remember where I saw it but a newspaper frontpage published 50 or 60 years ago and in that article City were accused of ruining football. If anyone still has that please put it up here.
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true but of course we had the world's greatest club in our backyard and one who must be protected from any threat whatsoever. Because the rags had bullied so many into submission, had the refs and media in their pocket so became a gravy train for many hangers on .......and then the nasty City club came along.
Newcastle don't have that
 
BrianW said:
If you recall, when we were first in the ECL, it was a right ball ache. Awful draws and it seemed we never got a ref's decision in our favour. Strangely, having a good coefficient makes a huge difference.

Another example of the football 'closed shop.' It's just that these days we're in the guild, so to speak. Newcastle have just started serving their apprenticeship.
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and if they do qualify for champions league next season they'll likely be in pot 4 again which again make it a more difficult challenge to qualify for knock out rounds.
 
Mick_ said:
We've got some really good kids coming through and I don't think any of them is any better than Lewis Miley who is only 17 and hasn't looked out of place this summer. He's a midfielder who looks so smooth on the ball, he just needs to develop and stay away from trouble that young kids can get into if they think they've made it which doesn't look like it will be a problem. Miley is probably the best kid we've produced in nearly 40 years if he keeps this up. Another worry for his is how do we give him games as he's far too young to be sent out on loan where he'll lose the protection of his family. It's something which Eddie Howe has recognised and mentioned in the last few days. The only loan which I think we would consider is possibly to Boro if they were interested as he wouldn’t have to leave home as you can get there easily in under an hour from Newcastle, he would piss all over the Championship.

We also have a central defender called Alex Murphy, he came on as a substitute in America against Chelsea and looked out of place for about 5 minutes which is understandable but after that 5 minutes, he's looked like he has always been in the team, he's so comfortable in the team and helped us keep a clean sheet against Fiorentina today.

Elliot Anderson is another kid who seems to be coming good having scored 3 goals so far in pre-season. one of the goals was only against Gateshead but he's also scored against Villa and Brighton. The only thing with Anderson is that he often makes the wrong decisions but I would put that down to a lack of games. Hopefully he'll go out on loan in the second half of the season if we're out of Europe because he has everything except experience and that can only come with games.

The change around in our academy is like night and day and that’s down to better coaching and the fact that we now train all of out age groups to play the same way so a kid can drop straight into a team at any level and knows how to play in whatever role he’s given. That might sound basic but it’s something that we’ve always got wrong and it's so easy to get right.
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I know I've been missing for a while but I've been massively busy and hardly has free time to do anything. I just thought that I would bring this post up about Miley. The lad is class and in a few short weeks has had his first assist in the Premier League, his first assist in the Champions League and then today scored his first Premier League goal aged 17. He has a massive future if we manage him right.


He's been lucky to have benefited from the injuries that we've picked up and at this time, he's proven that he can start games as a genuine first choice in our midfield. He didn't start today because Howe is trying to protect him and I agreed with that. Hopefully we'll start him on Tuesday at Chelsea in the League Cup, even if Joelinton is fit. If Joelinton is fit then out best fit midfield is Bruno, Miley and Joelinton.

Things I've missed since last posting is:

Massive injuries that get added to game by game. Today we had one player return and two others drop out.

We're looking at whether to expand St James' or move to a new stadium which would be my choice as long as it's slightly North of where we are now and by slightly, I mean the new ground bordering on the car park at the Leazes end.

We've gone out of Europe and I don't care although we really should have won away at PSG but that's life.

Other than that it's just been inconsistent performances in Europe and away from home in the league.
 
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