Raymond

Fine to never see that second half again, but a win is a win.

Fulham appear to have dinner reservations they don’t want to miss. They couldn’t give less of a shit.

Can’t wait to be a life-long Newcastle fan for two hours tomorrow.

Martinez going out changed the game. The players clearly have no faith in Olsen. Point probably flatters us, but man we got close to a winner at the end.

I try not to complain about refs, but holy shit is this one bad.

To me, the real development today was how Mings, Konsa, and Luiz pressed the issue with their passing. Even when we were playing well, that trio too often has settled for the shuffle out wide and then let Moreno/Young get it to the midfield Today they routinely found the midfielders themselves, and doing that in one fewer pass puts a lot more pressure on the defense. I think we saw that in the space JJ and Emi had. A great example was from Luiz. He was headed back toward the goal, and in the past he would have passed it to Konsa who would have passed to Young who would have hit it to McGinn. Today, he hit a long pass over the press to McGinn, who immediately put Newcastle under pressure. Having McGinn in the front four instead of Leon probably helped open some space, but those passes have been there. Emi consistently finds those spaces. If we start hitting him in them, this could get very exciting.

MEATBALLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!

Class finish by Ollie.

Someone wake Konsa up.

VAR is a joke

Missed opportunity. Duran definitely has some growing to do, but I can’t understand why Unai won’t give he and Watkins an extended run together. Anything would be better than Bailey.

Ramsey has been so bad. He needed to be the sub when Chambers came on.

Too long, some people say.

If the one in the first half was a pen that is too.

Imagine if we had Bowen instead of Bailey.

I’m not a set piece coach, but it might be good if our defenders did not challenge our keeper for the ball.

Watkins in Bailey’s spot and Duran in Watkins’ makes so much sense to me.

I get we don’t want to play Chambers at CDM, but I worry we have weakened 2 spots by moving McGinn back. McGinn gets forward once and creates the best move of the match.

Beautiful move. Ollie has to score.

That deserved a yellow for the dive. Absolute horseshit. We should just start falling in the box and see what happens. .

We will be in a decent position if we can win tomorrow. I am not holding my breath about getting into Europe, but I thought it was done and dusted after the Leicester loss.

That pass deserved an assist. What a ball.

I think a lot of this comes down to our CBs, specifically Konsa, struggling on the ball and struggling to find more incisive passes. I’m hoping it gets better when DC is back.

Mings might be the most frustrating player I have ever rooted for. If he was just shit it would be fine. I have seen a lot of shit players. He isn’t one of them. And yet, all too often he does some dumb shit like that.

Just one of those games.