Nuff Said

**** me, this is a boring thread. Lakey is right that Farke tends to avoid rotating the first team, but it’s not absolute. Others on here are right that Hanley hasn’t been error free, but in general his play has massively improved since the first half of the Liverpool match. Both positions have done merit. No-one knows what Farke will do once he has other CB options, but for some reasons posters on here have stuck their flags in their respective “Hanley is great/sh*te” hills and are defending their positions to the death. It’s not a black and white situation, take a breath and count to 10. Then maybe we could discuss the OP instead of this pantomime “Oh yes it is, oh no it isn’t” debate.

That’s 135 minutes isn’t it?

I don’t have a problem with Lakey, unlike quite a few posters on here who seem to relish piling on his more contentious statements. But I’ve started skipping through his posts this season as, like you say, almost every one is the same blindly optimistic statement, expressed slightly differently.

Yeah, I was thinking of Chris, not Russell. Fair points from KC about those players he did bring in though. Given the quality of players recruited in Gunn’s era (Holt excepted), I would say we have to give Lambert and his team credit for the quality of the signings, it clearly wasn’t down to previous scouting.

Was it? Genuine question, but three star players in Lambert’s promotion seasons were Holt , Hoolahan and Martin, all of whom were already at the club.

And one is 29, while the others are 33.

Interesting stuff, and I would fail your test Orly, I was always a bit disappointed/unimpressed by him, especially as he came to us with a reputation that he could go on to greater things. Am I right in thinking that he was in the group of ex-players watching us last season (Ruddy and Madders were the others)?

Why wait?

Fahrmann - this season’s Jordan Rhodes? Big chunk of our budget for a relatively highly rated player on loan, but will only make a few appearances?

Someone help me unsee this post

So, will I need a VPN for this?

Yep, the commentary on my stream was about 75% “Newcastle are poor” and 25% credit for how we played. But under the radar and all that.

Really? I’m surprised at that, unless he’s older than I think. Edit: I’m NOT suggesting we sign him, just you’d think he’d find a newly promoted Championship/League 1 team who he could do job for.

Welcome back pete!

Just announced in the press conference. Apparently he slipped and landed on his knee at home.