Saint_clark

He was at his best when he was further forward in midfield, closing down and getting stuck in and playing passes from higher up/getting long shots in. With Romeu leaving and Lavia getting injured he's had to drop deep again which doesn't suit him. I'd like to see a new formation for us under whoever comes in, a 4-3-3 in the style of Chelsea with two CMs sitting deeper, JWP further forward and then two of our attacking miss/quick strikers playing wide of Adams. Would still allow the fullbacks to get forward with the cover from two deeper CMs without needing them to expose themselves too much. As to who those CMs are, who knows as Diallo is better further forward too. We'd need to sign someone really. Romeu and Lavia together would have been an incredible combo, sadly.

I want us to get rid of Ralph now and bring in Domenico Tedesco. Harshly treated by Leipzig after winning the German cup and getting them to the semis of the Europa League, basically sacked very early in the season for losing two games in a row by 4 goals and one of them being to Shaktar Donetsk.

He's fucking shit, end of. Signing a kid instead of someone experienced to be first choice keeper in the premier league was absolutely mental. We'd be much better off if we'd kept Forster, released McCarthy and signed a younger keeper from the lower leagues as backup.

Adkins?

If they're directly at him yes, but he tries to palm it back to an opposition player even then.

4 shots on target, 4 goals for Newcastle. Why doesn't Bazunu just go and sit in the stand for fuck sake.

Of course. I've got trippier and pope in my dream team so of course Saints would not only lose heavily but cost me a clean sheet bonus as well.

Ralph has to go before the world cup, we only have two players going to the tournament at most (unlikely to even be that many), get a new man in to work with them while it's on and come back fitter with new ideas for the second half of the season.

To think we could have had Nick Pope for half what we've paid for Bazunu.

Looked like Ralph literally said "yep...that's it then" after that third goal. Not sure if he's talking about the game or his job.

BAZUNU. IS. POINTLESS.

Bazunu is fucking awful, nowhere near that and it wasn't even particularly hard or right in the corner.

Fuck sake why does Chris Wood turn into Ibrahimovic when he plays us???

I will point out that was a good ball by Elyounoussi there to Adams.

Fucking hell Adams...come on...

It's a lack of vision that's the biggest issue. We make some really good runs but they get ignored. On a side note, what happens to that rule that the flag stays down until the attack plays out when we're the ones going through?? Last game the lino put his flag up straight away and it turned out to be onside, just happened again and it was tight.

It was wide, not over, wasn't it?

Moi ignores the pass which would have put Adams one on one on his stronger foot. Really frustrating.

I heard you the first 3 times 😉 The forum isn't happy, is it.

People would have said the same thing about these Newcastle players. This side isn't hugely different to the one that was nearly dead and buried and relegated before Howe came in. All of our players at some point have shown individual quality and turned in good performances. A good manager could get us to upper midtable I have no doubt about that.

Interesting you say that because in the 5 minutes before the goal everyone on here was moaning about us just hoofing it forward.

Wtf was AMN doing? Seriously what was that???

Really easy. Defense was a shambles.

Yeah I forgot about AMN. Not a bad option to be fair, he's looked good there for Arsenal before.

Lavia on, AMN to right back then. Makes sense.