Match Day Thread نيوكاسل يونايتد v Sunderland AFC – Sunday 22nd March 2026 - KO 12:00

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Confucius said:
Oh I really wish our team was as good as theirs. Anthony Gordon has done the square root of nowt against us. He got a flukey goal which should have been disallowed and I cant remember anything he did at the SoL. He doesn't even understand that his comments make it sweeter for me.
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He skies chances more than owt else, yet he reckons we aren't as good? Brobbey would eat him for breakfast man!
 
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LAMackem said:
Hope somebody out there could help this old guy (me) on the interview with Brobbey and Xhaka interview after the game where Xhaka was presenting Brobbey with man of the match.....what did Xhaka say to make the both burst out laughing.....I keep replaying to cannot get what he says......lol....sucks getting old.....lol!!!
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No idea what its about as it must be a in team joke but he says "freestyle" or thats what I hear anyway!
 
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Smug in Boots said:
Gold star for you mate, spot on.

Having watched the second goal back the amount of space Brobbey gets, in a PL game, is ridiculous.
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They were gassed out mate. Mentally as well as physically. Xhaka, the best midfielder on the pitch given all that space to use that left foot. He wasn't going to waste it, and the scrambling rabble of those who could be arsed to get back was never going to be enough.

But they can't see this stuff.
 
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rowley said:
"Saved by the post" is one way of looking at it I suppose.

But the other way is this. They are a very good side very early in games, putting furious amounts of energy into it all, doing a load of closing down and everyone sprinting all over the place. The goal was an error but they can claim their pressing was part of it, and it was. They often get an early goal.

But no team can ever keep that up. Sheff Utd at Wembley? Same thing. Southampton under Poch? Same thing. There have been plenty of others.

You pay for that type of running and for rushing that high up the pitch so much. They often run out of gas, and they ran out of it again on Sunday, leaving the gaps we were playing in, including the winner, which, the more you watch it, was a very clever goal indeed, after they had given the ball away yet again, a sign of a team with a lot of good runners but few real footballers.

The team who has lost more points from winning positions lost to the team who has won most points from losing positions. 2-0 might have been enough. But it might well not have been.

It's not "all these games" they play that has them bedraggled so often late in games, the same was happening early in the season. It's the way they play them.
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I completely agree mate, I think they are no more than a decent team whose style of play can’t be maintained over 90 minutes hence the stats for points lost from winning positions.

My post was tongue in cheek but the comment that the post saved us did wind me up a bit, the goal is static so if you hit a post/bar you have missed your target and you may as well have hit the corner flag. The only thing that saved us on that occasion is that Botman missed the target.
 
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cumbrianmackem said:
It's a sad reflection on their supporters that plans such as this should even be a thing...
It's sad that attacks like this are even taking place
Its even sadder that very little of this is getting media time when they should be calling that club out from the rooftops.
It'll be interesting to see how much effort is out into catching the racist who abused our player....I won't hold my breath
The Scum fans have just dragged us back into the 1970s and the local press are dropping it like a hot potato.
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Sadly we're not dealing with normal decent people, they have lots of idiots.

If I'd been doing security for this game I'd never have brought the team bus through the middle of Newcastle ...

... no offence to whoever is responsible but it was idiotic, I said that before it arrived and we were next to it.

It's called 'reading the room' and someone forgot his glasses.

Newcastle have gone from seeing us as a daft lower league joke, to a 'soon to go down' play-off scraper ...

... to a team that won without fuss at the SOL and was coming to SJP with a decent chance of winning.

Their anger had been really brewing since the 1-0 defeat at Sunderland and it was bound to kick off on Sunday.

I said for weeks that they were dreading this game and the police clearly felt the same.
 
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Ayrton said:
What’s peoples thought on Ellborg then. Guessing we won’t see him till next season now Roefs should be back. Thought he did okay personally under the circumstances, young keeper with some stuff he can work on.
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For a 22 year old lad, brand new to the country and the league he's been really good. He'll only get better, especially his distribution.
 
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Ayrton said:
What’s peoples thought on Ellborg then. Guessing we won’t see him till next season now Roefs should be back. Thought he did okay personally under the circumstances, young keeper with some stuff he can work on.
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If, and it's a big if, we get a silly offer for Roefs then i'm confident he could do the job and take the pressure off the club in needing to panic buy
 
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Ayrton said:
What’s peoples thought on Ellborg then. Guessing we won’t see him till next season now Roefs should be back. Thought he did okay personally under the circumstances, young keeper with some stuff he can work on.
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put it this way, i would not be scared if he had to take the number one spot for a couple more games...and there are few past keepers i would have said that about, doing ok, lots to learn of course but looked calm and settled in the derby and that says a lot.
 
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Ayrton said:
What’s peoples thought on Ellborg then. Guessing we won’t see him till next season now Roefs should be back. Thought he did okay personally under the circumstances, young keeper with some stuff he can work on.
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Playing out from the back,i think Roefs would have had o9 out wider for their goal.and maybe the goal would never have happened.
 
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