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Maybe if Buckley hadn’t come back three days later, he might have had a longer career. You can’t run off hamstring injuries and the like. Playing through injuries is archaic nonsense peddled by dinosaur old pro’s who can’t now walk without pain. It should be a thing of the past, it only harms...

The third goal was a triple team cock up from Mitoma, Lamptey and Van Hecke. Mitoma game the ball away AGAIN (his error for the first goal too - he had a rare shocking night), Lamptey made a bad call, was then a bit weak in the challenge and then Van Hecke got his positioning and decision making...

Yep that’s it. There were big gaps in their midfield last night that Joao Pedro in particular exploited. They looked better last season with Willock and or Longstaff in the middle. Tonali is an interesting one. I watched a lot of him in Serie A - lovely player but I’m not convinced he is going...

Without doubt. Hopefully the experiment of playing Milner or Gross at RB ahead of Veltman is over forever.

We, including JPVH did defend, well, I’ve said that. But Newcastle were definitely not at their best and haven’t been all season. They’ve got issues with the balance of their team. They lacked a bit of energy and invention, we were quite comfortable and the first couple of minutes apart, I never...

He’s a brilliant player but they were lacklustre today, you can’t deny that? We played really well which obviously nullifies them but that was not a good Newcastle display? In fact with the exception of 45 minutes against a ragged Villa after Mings injury, they’ve looked lacklustre all season.

JPVH was generally good today against a lacklustre attack, nothing more than that and made an error for their goal (apparently Webster makes a mistake a match so they’re even on that front). JPVH deserves to keep his place though.

Good post. Webster was undoubtedly poor yesterday along with a few others but the elevation of JPVH’s ability is going to leave a few disappointed when he does play against decent teams (ie. not Luton). He started just 3 games last season and whilst he was good against hungover City, he was...

Shame, I did suggest him as a signing a while ago but knew we probably wouldn’t have a chance. Very good young player. The fact that Antonio’s heat map was concentrated on the left proves they targeted our right hand side. It’s a blatent weakness and I’m suprised we’ve not done anything about it.

WS - you remember how much you used to defend the right sided centre back having to play next to your, ahem, favourite player Montoya? Surely you can see the issues Webster is having with Gross or Milner next to him? We really need to sort the RB issue out or whoever is playing right sided...

I’m not defending Webster’s individual performance today as he was shit. And I’m like a broken record I know, but he’s really not being helped as the right sided centre back by having Milner or Gross playing right back.

Yes Webster was shit today and it might be sacrilege to say it on NSC but so was Dunk. Both of them bullied and scared shitless by Antonio as they both quite often are against good, physical strikers like him Toney, and Mitrovic

Absolute nonsense! 😂 You clearly don’t watch the Championship.

Webster was imperious today. When he’s fit, there’s no contest.

Yep. Some very short memories and recency bias on show. There was a sustained period of time not that long ago where Webster was consistently better than Dunk and was the one who was going to break into the England squad. He had an injury interrupted last season which didn't help him but if he...

Webster, easily.