Nah, I hate it when other fans do that. Free kick or not, we should be capable of defending it properly and not handling it (especially not sticking a bloody arm out at it!). We had plenty of opportunity to play properly and avoid that pen.
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Nah, I hate it when other fans do that. Free kick or not, we should be capable of defending it properly and not handling it (especially not sticking a bloody arm out at it!). We had plenty of opportunity to play properly and avoid that pen.
pigmanovich
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No chance. If he does go out on loan - and it’s a big if - it’s to another PL side or a European club but no way is he Championship bound
GT49er
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It's a big 'if' because it would make the recruitment team look bad!
pigmanovich
Good Old Sausage by the Sea
Either way, a spell in the second tier is not in the cards!
GoingUp
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Quite possibly but there's no way we would be anywhere near favourites of winning it.
Playing on plastic pitches 1000's of miles away, midweek in the middle of nowhere is hard enough, then playing experienced teams like Fiorentina and Betis if we make the later rounds isn't going to be easy either.
I just want us to have a real good run at the Europa again next season and think it would be best without The Conference league which is pretty Mickey Mouse, especially as we've experienced the joys of 'proper' European football.
With that being said, I'm not saying pack in the season, just that I wouldn't be gutted if we missed out.
Not that there's much chance this season, but 100% would want a shot at the Conference. European experience, chance of winning a trophy. I thought it was only teams like United and Chelsea that whined about some competitions being beneath them!
Nah, let's miss out for five years and wait until the CL comes our way!
Like I said I'm saying pack in the season, just playing devil's advocate...... Yes it would be great to win a trophy, any trophy! Just IMO we have a chance of fighting for top 6 every season (though at the same time I also worry about relegation too, which is strange).
With picking up injuries and if we DON'T win the Conference League it will probably foook our league form and domestic cup comps too.
Anyway, we'll have to wait and see what happens, obviously we'll be behind the team wherever we end up.
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Of course we would.
We were third favourites behind Liverpool and Leverkusen to win the Europa League!
GT49er
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West Ham could, and did. We're better. Well among the favourites.
Sorry, just not having any of that, not a single word!
GoingUp
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Which was mental
the Spanish and Italian teams would be favourites, as chances are they have experience European competitions.On top of playing on plastic pitches, in tough atmospheres, in extreme weather, it's also new experience to our players too.
I'm not discounting us, especially at home but just being realistic and not overly arrogant.
GoingUp
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It's your option, that's fine.
British market skewed odds.
An Albion without Macca, Colwill and Caicedo imho was also inferior to 2023/24:
Atalanta
Roma
Feyenoord
Milan
That’s completely beside the point and that list is influenced by how the competition panned out.
We’d be amongst the favourites to win the conference league whichever way you want to look at it from.
So would Bournemouth, Fulham, Brentford or whoever ends up playing in it from the Premier League.
Depends who‘s also in it. Chelsea have the most expensive squad in the history of the sport, their C team walking their way to a win.
I’d love us to be in it though … special for a club of our modest history and I love reading the stories of nsc’ers having fun across the continent.
Don Tmatter
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Looked like comments were madeWTF was Minteh’s celebration all about? Did he even make a single competitive appearance for Newcastle!! He’s with us now, disrespectful!
Kalimantan Gull
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It is weird and rather annoying how weak the Europa League is this season by contrast. Absolutely useless English sides Man Utd and Spurs have strolled it.
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Yes, blatant handball. But the free kick that led to the penalty was a dive. You can watch it back on iPlayer. For the second non penalty Pawson was close to it, so either he saw it which means he should clearly see it as a dive or he was unsighted so could not be sure and therefore he cannot give it as a penalty. He made baffling decisions all over the pitch yesterday.
With effectively a £100m plus prize to one of them for being the least sh1t squad in the EL. I am aware that UEFA did this so clubs took the EL seriously, but imho it’s wrong.
I think I meant worry if they win the cup and we come 8th. Or something