Jimmy_D

Everton aren’t used to pressing like this, it’s already starting to look like they’re done this game.

Dyche’s main strength tends more towards making teams more difficult to beat and more difficult to score against. Everton’s main weakness is that they’ve only scored 15 goals in 20 games, 20% of those were by arguably their best striker this season, and he’s just been sold. That’s far worse than Burnley did in getting relegated. Obviously how the season plays out isn’t known yet, but today I’d far rather be in our shoes than Everton’s. I don’t think Everton have anything like the performance we showed against Man City in them, for example.

11pm for at least the deal sheet to be submitted for the Premier League window.

Credit to Saints for that second half. Really were nearly back in it and made it very uncomfortable for Newcastle. Another ‘what could have been’ unfortunately.

Ohhhhhh That was an incredible through ball

What a finish! Still in with a slight chance! At least we’ve ended that clean sheet record if nothing else.

Certainly not out of this yet. Showed enough in the 2nd half to say we’ll have a chance of going through.

Gerrrrrin!

Not troubled them too much, but in turn haven’t been troubled too much ourselves either. Not that you’d know that from Radio Newcastle on commentary. Standard 1st leg so far really.

"I felt it was enough to go down..." Cheating ****ing ****.

Utterly cheated by the worthless cheating ****ing ****s officiating today. Villa cheating every time they got tackled got them the three points despite being by far the worst team we’ve seen at St Mary’s this season. Utter ****ing scandal.

Get in! JWP Now time for a lie down...

If it's the one I'm thinking of, I think the touch from Alvarez was going wide and then a defender knocked it towards the goal.

Worst draw out of who’s left and away 2nd leg. Still, it’s better than being drawn against City and set up another possible Saints - Man United final. Would love us to play like we did tonight and set the record straight from 2017.

Bloody hell. That’s as close to a perfect performance from Saints as I’ve ever seen. Unbelievable. Lyanco MotM for me but could have been any one of them.

It's been a while since we've seen a half of football quite that good.

WHAT IS HAPPENING!?!?!?

Wolves must be seething after seeing that goal disallowed.

It’s nice to see that even at our lowest point for a few years, we can still call Dellhurst Park home.

Looks like a combination of improved air defence and network redundancy, as well as importing power from the EU, has made Ukraine’s power grid extremely resilient, judging by the replies to this.

Looks like they were expecting 120-odd from Russia’s preparations, but Russia didn’t have them. Looks like 15 got through.

What I want is irrelevant. They are, however, running out of money. https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/russian-rouble-falls-70-vs-dollar-sanctions-weigh-2022-12-27/ And ammo. (And morale) https://www.businessinsider.com/wagner-group-prigozhin-backs-video-cursing-russia-top-general-gerasimov-2022-12?r=US&IR=T

So, supposing Iran and China’s miltech industries can keep up with NATO’s, what makes you think that they’ll be more willing to risk evading sanctions and supply Russia long term than NATO are to supply Ukraine?

Legend. RIP