Newcastle United (A) - Sun 21 Aug, 16:30 | Pre-Match Thread

[PaleBlue]

Always like to beat the Barcodes, think this'll be another fairly relaxed game with a clean sheet to boot.

 

[Lord Blue]

seems like most Newcastle fans on the toontastic thread i'm on think 0-2. probably caught between a desire to win and a desire not to lose heavily

 

[wolfie1988]

Tough game, Grealish to get pelters from the stands after the jokey Almiron comment that they've all taken to heart. Hope the players overcommit on him too.

 

[andyhinch]

I’m going up on Friday for a nice long weekend, can’t wait :-)

 

[i went to rotherham]

EH brace.

Eddie Howe not playing :-)

 

[Kinkys Left Foot]

They can try and mark Haaland out of the game like Bournemouth did by committing 3 players to keep him quiet and let KDB, Gundog and Foden or Grealish have the run of the place or let Erling do his thing. Choose your poison. I think the outcome is likely the same.
Do we think Eddy will even try and be progressive or are they going with 5-4-1 at home again and spending most of the game in their own penalty area?
Headless chicken Almiron to be lauded by the geordie arselickers as some kind of victim and Jack to be booed relentlessly by the gormless knobheads. In which case I'd love Jack to have a blinder, score and take the piss mercilessly.

 

[Gigant]

Ederson
Cancelo
Ake
Dias
Walker
Rodri
Bernardo
KDB
Foden
Alvarez
Haaland

 

[SWPISHOME]

Ederson

Walker
Ake
Dias
Cancelo

Rodri
Gundogan
De Bruyne

Foden
Mahrez
Haaland

Barcodes 0-2 MCFC

Haaland and Phil with the goals.

 

[Lauz9888]

i'm on the Toontastic forum. I joined after the buyout as i was curious (and still am) about their takeover and how it would go. would they learn from our mistakes and buy a RSC, would FFP hit them harder now that the "drawbridge" is up.

i'm very polite on there as its their forum and i'm a guest.

with that in mind anyone want me to ask anything ahead of the weekend?

Can you gauge some opinions on Eddie Howe and how long do they think he'll be their man?

I thought he did pretty well at Bournemouth but seemed a little naive and unwilling to deviate from his plan A.

Would be interesting to know their impressions of him and if they see him as the man to build their success long-term or just the man to steady the boat and solidify them as an established mid-table PL team before they bring in someone else with a different plan to push them higher.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Is that fact because United started to finish outside the top 4? It’ll be the top 12 soon.

I think you’ll find it’s a top 20 now