Why wasn't he starting at left back instead of Dan Burn earlier on in the season? He's been mismanaged

@@BrianPinas9 I think having read Hall's own words of frustration with not playing, but now understanding why not, I can also understand. It's a sh1tter no doubt, but boy have we got a player in our hands now!

completely agree i'm baffled by his lack of game time especially when burn has been struggling at lb

Eddie Howe likes to give players time to get used to the system doesn’t he? Anthony Gordon didn’t really break in in his first half a season.

Eddie Howe likes to give players time to get used to the system. Isak scored at Anfield on his debut, 6 days after signing. Howe has completely mismanaged Hall and could have destroyed a young player. Was he a Dan Ashworth signing by any chance.

Yes and Howe will win f.all . Need a proper manager,a winner.

Nick Pope has

I think that could be the deciding factor in deciding to sell

​We would be making a serious mistake if we didn't sack Eddie Howe next week

actually statistically dubravka is top5 goalkeeper in the league with expected goals saved and thus derived he has won us more points than pope... but anyways, i hope we have new 1st option for next year too...

Trippier has cost us way more

@@tomruddell9099 yup, cannot disagree

Craig your delusional! Trippiers legs have gone!! He is so slow now and has cost us so many points this year! He needs to go in the summer! Also why don't you ask Eddie why he is playing Murphy ahead a a 40 million pound signing in Barnes?? Barnes scores goals but Eddie is killing him by not giving him game time!!

Trips has been awful this season. Terrible at the start, came back for several games then dropped off again. Cost us quite a few goals like the first and his delivery has been average all season. Disappointing!

An abject failure in team selection, tactics, and big match mentality. And that comes from our 'small club' background manager. That is the sixth 'must-win, mustn't lose' match that we have failed in under Eddie's tenure. With regard to the point about returning players, if they did get injured they would have had all the summer to recover.

The problem is Eddie won’t want to manage the big egos, he wants the longstaff as etc

It's just experience, a lot of the players haven't played in Europe before and it's natural they get nervous. They've been in Europe and cup finals now so it'll get better, it's still an ongoing project

He won't be here next season. He'll be sacked on Sunday

​@@tomruddell9099he's a Championship player and needs to work in a league with predominantly British players

We didn’t freeze 😮 School boy errors at the back were costly.

Amen to that last sentence sadly we aren't really born winners up here.

We’re only two years into the new ownership. You can’t turn a limping horse into a race winner overnight. We have such an unbalanced squad in terms of ability. In the summer, if we keep our big players and sign 2 or 3 more, then we’ll look much better off next season. Patience man. I struggle to believe most our fans (on social media) were around the last 15 years. We’re already gutted about not getting into europe etc 😅 it’s quite crazy really.

@Serioustwister I hear your sentiments and agree somewhat. There's also a large portion of fans who are "just happy to here", "we dont demand a team that wins, we demand a team that tries" yada yada. It's loser small club mentality that needs to change if we are going to win anything.

Is FFP an issue in your world? The new management have bought pretty well I reckon - Tino, Hall, Minteh, Gordon and Tonali (exception) after the initial Trippier, Woods, Botman to stave off relegation. I also don't think you can expect a player to be 100% their best in the first games after returning from injury, but many fans seem to ignore that. Howe has picked who's available, but yeah, our away form and individual mistakes have cost us 60 goals in defence. If anything I worry that the coaching regime and high press is too stressful and has caused more injuries than other squads, after it was so successful last year. Wilson and Pope's injuries have cost us, Trippier is having a shocker but there's still players that have developed and we have to remember it's a marathon, not a sprint.

@@tartansinatra FFP is an issue of course but we’ve had 5 windows and you don’t need to spend crazy money to upgrade on the likes of the players I’ve mentioned as squad players. Brighton rarely spend more than 5-10m on a player we could have easily upgraded the likes of Ritchie, Dummet and Almiron by now. You’re right about the coaching and high press system - and that’s why the loss of tonali was more significant than people realise. Similar to Liverpool making the transition under Klopp in his early days from pressing like maniacs to a more possession based team, Tonali was key to us making that transition. The more you have the ball, the less you need to press. Losing him meant we had to try and go again with the same high press system as the season before which clearly isn’t sustainable over a long period. We’ll always press under Howe but with more possession the press will become more controlled and for lesser periods, which in turn should result in less injuries.

He needs sold

Longstaff isn't playing with an injury. That's just B.S. if he was legitimately injured he would be taken off and rested at the 60 minute mark for anyone else off the bench to replace him. He will be played constantly in this side until Eddie Howe is no longer at the club sadly.

@@robbeck7846 So we shouldn't believe the many press statements that Sean has had pain killing injections in order to play and believe you instead? Why aye man! 😂

@@jayaychare7318 We will probably have to pay them to take him.

@@robbeck7846 He said he played with it because he was worried about losing his spot in the team. Doing that he's made us weaker. He was good last season and we really missed him when he got injured.

Trippier shouldn't have been on the pitch

Trippier is a right midfielder, not a right back. He can't defend. No wonder he was behind Serge Aurier in the pecking order at Tottenham

loves a favourite eddie

​@@BrianPinas9Walker left spurs because Trippier was getting picked more and more ahead of him in his final season. He's miles better than Aurier. Spurs haven't had a right back as good as Trippier since he left the club. Laurier was shite for years. Trippier had one bad season at Spurs in his last season and was discarded way too quickly. He's been poor this season but he wouldn't have been playing week in week out under Simeone if he couldn't defend.

Dubs (not my No one) stopped at least three goal chances and was not at fault for their three goals so what did he do wrong last night ?

​@@stephennutkin2477R u joking? He was at fault for the third goal and could have done better with the second...He isnt good enough!

Dubs was not the reason for why we lost last night go look else we’re ffs did you watch the game 🥴

Dubravka is our best keeper

@@stephennutkin2477 Pope saves the second and third. Without a doubt

Only difference is I would have started big Joe and brought Anderson on at 60 mins rather than the other way around. Joelinton adds so much to the middle

​@@JJSpence15pope for a start

@@JJSpence15 Just for a start, Pope or Karius for Dubravka and Joelinton for Longstaff, but there again due to Longstaff being injured and playing with injections, Eddie has been throwing him under the bus.

@@JJSpence15 Then why put him on the bench. Even so Karius is a better keeper than Dubravka who has singlehandedly cost us a dozen points and a place in Europe. Eddie is going to have to start being ruthless next season or I can see the owners losing patience with him.

Nonsense, he was a crucial player but how his time is over as the starter on that side. Liveramento is the better option when he is back but we couldn’t have done so well without Trippier

You haven't read what I said mate

He played away mate

So the rumour goes. Something definitely happened as the drop off has been sad to see

Exactly. We haven't kicked on. He's spent £400m and we still have Dummett, Matt Ritchie, Lascelles, Targett, Longstaff, Dan Burn etc

​@@BrianPinas9Disagree. How can you say we have or have not? We have had unbelievable injuries this year. Most in the league. We went far in both League and FA cup. Had the group of death in CL. Yes, we have had bad results this season. Yes, we should question some of Howe's decision making. It's impossible to fully judge this season. Our form up until last night was one of best in league. We've not had our best Defence since October, we've not had our best Midfield since October. We rarely have two strikers fit. Our bench is woeful. No depth at all which under the hood is a squad that was only 2 years ago a relegation side. Next season Villa, Spurs and Chelsea will be spread thinner. Liverpool will be dealing with a post Klopp era. We should have moved on the Dummer, Ritchie Dubravka, Wilson,Almiron and maybe even Longstaff. Replacing that with younger and more talented replacements. If we fail to capitalise on that then I'd back what you're saying. Last night individual mistakes cost us. Joelinton and Pope are not fit enough to trust and risky given they're coming back from serious injuries. It's not fair on them. I'm as annoyed and frustrated as anyone but to say another manager wouldn't have some of the same issues is highly unlikely. It's taken Arteta 3 years to get them competing and Arsenal had a far stronger starting point.

Murphy was bright. That said, it was a poor night. We need a clear out and some very good signings to improve all over the park.

I’d of rather have Murphy RB than trippier

💯

I somewhat agree but don't think Murphy belongs on this list however Krafth does

Anderson hasn’t shown enough quality imo

The same Murphy who got the assist? Don't lump Longstaff and Dubravka with him, You need 10-12 elite players, 5-6 rotation players and 5-6 squad players. Murphy is a brilliant squad player, he supports Newcastle and you won't find a player like him who would stay on the bench if it was best for the side (like Dan Burn). You NEED these players for squad harmony, players are humans don't forget. The only reason I would let Longstaff go is simply because we have Miley and Anderson, we don't need Longstaff anymore and could probably get £15m+ for him as he's a good player for lower half EPL teams.

@@phoenixfire6559 did you watch the game? Just because he got an assist doesn't mean he's any good, he kept losing the ball and the amount of times he would cross when literally no one was there. Longstaff has scored in the last two games previously, does that mean he's world class now? No.

@@phoenixfire6559 the same argument you used for Murphy you could use for Longstaff, we have almiron and Gordon that can play RW/RM. Both players are average premium league players, and I'm sure they would be happy to be bench players but if Newcastle wants to compete then they need better players that don't just randomly cross constantly or lose the ball because they panic

You mean the happy clappers

Can't afford £50m on a keeper , money would be better spent on replacing Wilson

Thats a ridiculous price. I haven't seen much of him but the best keepers in the world go for that price. His valuation is around £20m (€25m) and thats the price Atletico are looking to pay. Recent stories linking us have some unreliable Spanish media bumping up his price, because we're seen as money bag EPL club, to start around £35m (€40m) and work down from there. Max we should pay for an unproven La Liga keeper for a mid table team like Valencia is what Spurs paid for Vicario which was €20-25m. At a push, we could go a bit more but I personally would be worried if we spend more than that.

Exactly. Blame the foreign players and not the underperforming British players. Dubravka has done well for us.

So what clever plans could he chose instead?

if I hear that Sean long staff is "one of our own" I'm going to snap. So what cockneys aren't like the scousers aren't like this so why us?? Very weird.

​@@Michael-me6qupope for a start

And yet , Despite this shocking Manure team they are still in the top 7 & they are playing in another Wembley final. If only Newcastle had had half the luck this season that Manure have had . Most of the games we have lost we deserved to and we won we deserved to. When the football gods are on your side you get an insane number of cup draws at home , you get an insane number of decisions go for you and the latest was when they (Manure) played Notts Forest, Forest get two pens turned down and last night Var couldn’t see a pen against Gordon even ex Manure captain Keane saw that it was.

He won't make it to next season. He'll be sacked next week

The last two results have weakened Howes position considerably. The conference is little more than a consolation prize and won’t attract or help to retain top players. He will be under pressure now from the get go next season and a bad start will increase that. All I see is a mediocre English coach, who wouldn’t figure in a list of the top 25 in world football. I so hope I am wrong, but I don’t see Howe as the man to take us to the next level.

@@1702PK I agree with you in the first part of your statement regarding keeping top player, s and has weakened how's. position but I do believe he is top coach and has improved players greatly just will he get the time to change the squad totally ??..so many players are not good enough ..let,s put it another way arteta been at arsenal for 5 years and won nothing and his starting squad was far better finishing 8th twice !! they are now genuine title contenders coming 2 twice and a lot of arsenal fans want him sacked !! so is he a top coach or not ??

You are entitled to your opinion about Howe Alan and you often make good points. I’m afraid I do not share your view on Howe. Arteta has won a trophy has he not, whats Howe won. No English coach has ever won the PL and it must be a while since any trophy win. 433 with no proper dm has seen us ship goals on transition at an alarming rate this season. To me he makes no attempt to resolve glaringly obvious issues. I hope you are right and he takes us to the promised land, personally I can’t see it and think there are far better coaches out there. Time will tell who’s right, next season will tell us one way or another.

It's cost us this season. No way should Anthony Gordon be starting at left wing ahead of Miguel Almiron

Have to remember Craig was only "on our side" cos of Bruce. He's a daily mail reporter FFS and all reporters are toadys.

@@BrianPinas9 lol what is wrong with you. that's the worst take I've heard all season!

They're championship players

I’ll normally defend the defence but today they were poor. Even the commentary team pointed out how Amad was unmarked again just before he went on to score

Exactly what I said, we ALWAYS bottle it, at the crunch games. As for Notts Forrest, Luton and Palace games were terrible.

Glad you enjoyed it!

If Bruno and Isak want to play champs league and are good enough they should be taking games like this and Brighton by the scruff of the neck and driving the team to win, Bruno especially goes missing in big games when we need a leader.

@@paulyoung5514 Bruno isn't a leader, he's a talisman like Joelinton. We have no heartbeat leaders in the team with enough quality. Burn is a leader but doesn't have enough quality. Declan Rice is a leader with quality and we need a player or two like him. Trippier is smart but he doesn't have that warrior mentality to do what a leader needs. We've been linked with Diomande as a new CB but the more I watch him, the more I like Antonio Silva at Benfica. He's a natural leader that could be a John Terry like player for us. One of our signings should be an elite level future captain this summer because the dressing room has no winners in it.

@@phoenixfire6559 I don't particularly want talismen, I want leaders who will drag us through games. You're right, in the mould of Terry, Gerrard, Adams, Keane and in the modern game Rice or Rodri.

Chelsea just needs at least a draw against Bournemouth to secure an European spot, yes it’s over. Better luck next season for magpies

@@Scw-hw5np yes but there’ll be no European spot for the 7th

@@zk3009 There won't be a european spot unless you think man united will beat city in the fa cup final

@@JordZz1981 Man U next game will be up against Brighton. Even we assume magpies to level points with Man U, as long Chelsea gets at least a draw, no European spot for magpies :/

You realise 7th is a European spot in conference don’t you? And ain’t no way Man Utd beating Man City

Spot on, sums it up perfectly. As a whole if you had said top 8 and cup two decent cup runs it would have been seen as a good season but this has just been a slog of a season with injuries, scatter gun form where you have no idea which team is going to turn up. The sooner Sunday is over and it's done the better

Actually, Isak should have dummied and then finished. He's a great finisher and the shot was cleanly struck that it may well have gone in. The problem was Gordon's pass, he did not drag Amrabat away, instead he allowed Amrabat to stay between both Isak and him which gave him the ability to cover both. Instead he should have carried on straight and if Amrabat did not commit, then he should have shot - if he did commit, he could then square it for a tap in.

Sad but true

Don’t agree, schoolboy errors in defence cost us, a clear cut penalty that wasn’t given.

Hes a great player but i think he needed time to settle in, just like Gordon did

⁠@@JJSpence15load of tosh that is if Botman and lascelles weren’t injured Burn would be playing left back regardless whether hall was Eddie Howe ‘fit’ or not. You’re acting as if Hall hadn’t had a good game of football until Howe got to coach him when you could argue he was Chelsea’s stand out player last season

​@@JJSpence15What a ridiculous comment. You don't sign players on loan to not play them. Howe was frightened to drop Dan Burn. That is his major problem along with his inability to attract decent players in the transfer market

He'll be sacked next week and rightfully so

Actually, we just had to not lose and we would most likely get European football as City will probably beat them in FA Cup and they won't catch our goal difference. Oh well.

We have the elite midfielder back next season which is massive for us but christ we are lackluster at times longstaff is piss poor Murphy has always been shite and Martin dubravka thought he was still playing for man u

If we buy an elite striker are you selling Isak? Howe plays one up top, it's hard to keep two elite strikers happy. Football as Warnock once said, "The art of it is still 80 to 90 per cent man-management". We need cover for Isak not a replacement. Pretty much every club with a top striker only has one. We need to keep our best players. We need an elite CB, CM/ DM and RW. Those are the three spots in the starting XI that need immediate upgrading. We also need a future captain/ leader for the team.

Well said mate 👍

It's not a case of not playing well (which has been a case against bottom teams like Everton, Bournemouth, Palace, Luton, Forest etc), its a case of a lack of quality in 3 or 4 positions. Midfield needs an elite level player, need and elite CB, need an elite creator/ winger. Then we need a couple of depth options at GK and Striker. But the key is the starting XI, we must get Two or three starting XI elite players this summer.

@@phoenixfire6559 I agree with you apart from midfield maybe. What Eddie has done with this group is amazing. There's several players who've played lots of games for us who are not top 10 standard, good lads trying their best but lacking in quality.

Favoured Dan Burn for most of the season though

No you and Craig have got it completely wrong… Us not beating the likes of Bournemouth, Luton, Everton getting piped at home 3-1 by Forest. That’s the reason why we’re in the position and have a strong chance of bottling Europe. You type of fans will do anything to cope except point at the actual reason why.

​@@Geordieboy16Yeah, you're right. Craig mainly targets the blame on foreign players and sticks up for Eddie Howe. He's completely wrong. Nick Pope, Trippier, Dan Burn, Botman and Longstaff have cost us this season

@@JJSpence15 The same Brighton we couldn't beat at home? The same Brighton that lost at home to Chelsea? I think United will get a point and we'll lose to Brentford - maybe pessimistic but based on our away form and United getting players back, that's the most likely result.

Dubravka was shaky but he actually made no mistakes. You want him to save some of those goals but a lot of keepers would let them in. He shouldn't be that low. Trippier was by far the worse player on the pitch, he was at fault for the first goal and then constantly out of position, he should have the lowest mark. Longstaff was average but was nowhere a 3. Murphy did more than Bruno with a great assist. Agree with Gordon and Hall as the best players.

On holiday in pub watching and even Man U fans said he wouldn’t change it for at least 60mins, that’s how predictable we have become!

Nope. The last players he tried to sign were Kalvin Phillips and Phillip Billing. Apparently we're signing Lloyd Kelly? He's a Championship player and Bournemouth reject

Exactly. He will leave if we don’t get Europe, and I don’t blame him at all.

Anthony Gordon is off to Liverpool. No brainer to sell him for £100m. Overrated

@@JJSpence15 Howe is on the verge of being sacked. He will be sacked on Sunday. Amoron will replace him

@@JJSpence15 @BrianPinas9 is a mackem-trollbot and daily,for the last few weeks, is on all the regular NUFC-related YT-vlogs like Craig's,ie TTR,Pearson,Roobenstein,Ever More,etc.,spewing nonsense and just trying to derail any meaningful debate/analysis.🙄

@@JJSpence15 Yep,defintely.👍