Newcastle United (H) | Sat 19th Aug, 20:00 | Pre-Match Thread

[Tricky_Trev]

Pope
Tripper, Schar, Botman, Burn
Tonali, Bruno, Tonali
Almiron, Isak, Barnes

Midfield is strong but that defence can be got at.

Didn’t they have the joint best defensive record in the league last season with ourselves? If they can be got at, there’s no hope for the rest of us!

 

[Cricket Blue]

Just our of interest why are the Prem shafting us on this and not allowing us to play sun or mon?
We should boycott the fixture.

 

[Zenmanc]

If this was a rags game after a European game midweek we would be playing Sunday or even Monday. Many thanks PL.

No Excuses- we aren't everyone else. We play the games that are scheduled on all fronts.

 

[ganganvince]

Fucking hell. Stones will never be reliable.

No class player but unavailable too much

 

[r.soleofsalford]

Pope
Tripper, Schar, Botman, Burn
Tonali, Bruno, Tonali
Almiron, Isak, Barnes

Midfield is strong but that defence can be got at.

Tonali so good they named him twice.

 

[Gigant]

Ederson
Walker
Dias
Gvardiol
Ake
Rodri
Kovačić
Alvarez
Bernardo
Grealish
Haaland

 

[SSL2]

FFs - tired little lambs after the first class travel, five star hotel suites for what was basically a productive, match and conditioning training session. Now back to multimillionaire houses and staff, the CFA spa and recovery facilities, state of the art phsyio and massage studios.
They've not queued up at Mcr airport's wonderful security checks, sat in Ryan Air seats with their knees by their ears, stayed in a 2 star, salmonella pit, come back to neighbours from hell and can't get a physio appointment for a month.
Add to that they're playing at home for the first time since the Treble (some for their debuts), against would be title contenders. I'd hope they'd be raring to go and focused.

well said - too much negativity on here ahead of this game

 

[youngbob]

Is there an echo in here?

We're just geniuses.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Will be very, very tough.

We need to control the ball, sap the energy out the game and kill their adrenaline/momentum.

This for me.

 

[oddfellows]

Why would we be training after flying back from Greece ??

Trained before flying home is what I heard