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Match Day Thread Toon v Barcelona

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  1. Rum & Black for 2

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    If you want to get personal. Playing left side striker is up front you bed wetting tart. If that’s not what you meant then learn to use the English language correctly.
     
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  2. Sucky

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    Great game for the neutral

    If you bury those early chances it's a different result.
     
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  3. Obi Wan

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    Good overall effort from the lads on the pitch. But a different starting 11 might have changed the result for us. We'll never know.

    Their 2 goals were pure quality and that was the difference. ****.

    Great effort and the atmosphere in the stadium looked absolutely awesome. Ultimately, it's 0 points but against one of Europe's finest teams. These are the fixtures we all hoped for boys (and girls).
     
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  4. Sucky

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    @Roy Munson. Do geordies really say the word plonker?

    I'm suspicious
     
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  5. Charlie Dogscock

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    ToxicRabbit on the BBC reminds me of several folks on here:

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  6. G4rdToonArmy

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    100% this! Thought we were in the game today, competitive and if we’d taken our chances in the first half it could have been a very different game. 2-1 vs Barcelona being a disappointing result just shows how far we’ve come in the last 4 seasons.
     
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  7. Roland Deschain

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    Who looks at Harvey Barnes and thinks “yeah, he’s the guy for me”. Seriously.
     
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  8. Obi Wan

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    Not me.
     
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    The selection was and has been below the best possible all season. If there's a plus it's that we can all see Botman and Thiaw are about two leagues above schar and Burn, but how much longer will we need to see it before Howe changes it?

    Hall? Being frozen out again.. I don't think Howe likes him tbh.

    It wasn't an embarrassing result, but if he played the best 11 possible I think Newcastle could win that game, but we'll never know now.

    Fair play to Barcelona they completely outclassed us in all honesty
     
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  10. Obi Wan

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    Thiaw looks classy and composed mind.
    He will make a difference if he gets a run of games.

    I really hope we revert to Tino and Hall as full backs, but Eddie seems to have a love-in with Tripps. Even his overrated set pieces.
     
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    We have had to spend our way into this position. Barcelona have one of the most established and successful academies in the world and huge pulling power for players. We went toe to toe with them tonight and sure came up a little short but so might any side in the competition. We might have even taken something on a different night. Howe has been unbelievable for this club and done way more right than wrong.
     
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  12. JesusChrist Allmighty

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    We went through exactly the same ****ing thing last season with Howe trying to get Barnes in his side and the same thing with Lewis Hall.

    I don't think trying new things is bad, but going back to things that didn't work is really daft surely?
     
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  13. Eddie's British Plodders

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    You're talking to someone who wanted Howe to be replaced by Amorim.
     
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  14. Obi Wan

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    Barca's squad value must be mental. Whatever we have spent this summer, they have had decades of success behind them and we'll take years to catch up. No competition on that front. So we've done well.
     
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  15. G4rdToonArmy

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    Schar will be out with concussion and Tripps came off with cramp so hopefully we will have a back line of
    Tino-Thiaw-Botman-Hall

    At some point soon potentially even as soon as the weekend. All under 25 however, so you could have 10 years to get that back line playing together.
     
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    But you’re married already.
     
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  17. Obi Wan

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    And?

    If you'd said Scarlett Johanssen, Alexandra Diddario, Ana De Armas, or Margot Robbie, then I would have said yes.

    OK, so I'd be in very big trouble, but I think it would be worth it. Hopefully.
     
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  18. Gangsta Ginola

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    Yawn. You’re sometimes a plonker. Get over it. He went to LW as Voldemort went to striker.

    Gordon isn’t a striker. Just accept facts. It’s easier this way you old fart.
     
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  19. Somebodys pinched my sombrero

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    ****ing hell man, have a day off being a negative twat!
    We play like that against the lesser teams, we’ll do OK.
     
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  20. JesusChrist Allmighty

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    That back 4 could have played 3 or 4 games together by now.
     
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