Opinions continue to pour into The Mag as Newcastle United fans debate the various issues affecting our club.
Always plenty to talk about at NUFC.
Newcastle United fans with the latest collection of opinions below.
On this occasion specifically in response to Sunday’s derby match.
Contributions are sometimes too short to make into a full article, so we’ve collected some recent opinion submissions (if you’d like to submit something, long or short, about Newcastle United, please email contribute@themag.co.uk):
Dear Mag,
Some pretty critical stuff from Steve Pearce (‘I’m sorry but it’s time for Eddie Howe to go’) on The Mag this morning.
It’s true that Newcastle haven’t looked at their best this year, but still in enough competitions and not in the worst place in the league that things could change before the season ends.
Look, apart from Arsenal (even they’ve dropped points lately) all the top clubs have gone through a bad patch at some point this year and after everything Eddie has done for this club. Calling him up to feature after what was a truly poor display against the Mackems seems too harsh to me. It was bad because it was Sunderland.
But take heart, because as bad as we were, the mackems were no better. Virtually no goal attempts and won by an own goal.
But look how delusional they are, celebrating like they’ve won the Premier League.
I tell them to make the best of it, because from now on I think this will be just as good for them.
Realistic Geordie
Dear Mag
I will try to keep emotions out of what is essentially an emotionally charged affair disguised as sport; football.
Maybe that’s the problem here, the reason I feel compelled to commit to a written page, why a man should lose his job.
Newcastle United is such an emotional football club that perhaps an open-top bus parade to win a second-tier domestic trophy, in the only country that has two domestic trophies, with thousands of people taking part, is the problem.
The team members are put on a pedestal, adored and adored. yet the reward for such worship is terrible.
For example, Liverpool FC has won 34 (thirty-four) major trophies, among Newcastle’s winning trophies. that’s right, 34 (thirty-four).
We travel all over the country, book trains, planes and cars, add a hotel or two and you almost get what it is like to support a football club. we support the tone, well, you can’t help who you fall in love with, right?
Now is the time to quote Sir Bobby as he climbs the stairs, we all know that.
So here’s the problem.
We do not pay courtesy rates. we don’t show up every week to accept an excuse, a period of reflection, an overused cliché at a pre- or post-match press conference. even from the spoken mouth of a nice guy it’s starting to wear thin.
We just want a plan.
Where talented individuals can live together in the same locker room for a common goal. Sunderland succeeded on Sunday, with far less talent, man for man, than the expensively assembled squad we possess.
The recently departed Mitchell was banned for comments about transfer policy; not fit for purpose. Eddie Howe is a nice man, so the press, who love Eddie Howe, turned it into Mitchell v Howe. well, there’s only one winner.
But the point is that Mitchell was right; ramsey £43 million, wissa £55 million, elanga, £55 million, gordon £45 million, where do we stand? £200m and none of them, £200m worth of talent(?), have kicked a ball for us in the Premier League this season. None of them.
Listen, read, digest the captain’s words after Sunderland, remove the emotion and then ask if we have the right man steering the ship.
I’ll leave it at that.
Mark Laurens
Dear Mag,
In four years we could be on the verge of three finals.
What do people expect/demand?
I work from home, so not having to walk to my old site and face the mackems was a real blessing.
Mold
Dear Mag,
I went to bed on Saturday night and dreamed of Nick Woltemade scoring the winning goal in Sunday’s derby.
Maybe I should have been more specific in my dreams!
Sunday yielded many negatives.
Of course the result, but also the manner of the defeat.
We’re used to seeing Eddie Howe’s teams in action and battling against the opposition, but on Sunday it was Sunderland who had the biggest wish (that was hard to write).
We lost not for lack of skill, but for lack of desire.
But while players, supporters and management are currently low, this was the normal position before Eddie Howe arrived, but our expectations are now much higher.
Sunday can’t be resolved until the two sides meet again, but hopefully from Wednesday it will give everyone the desire to push and play with confidence and commitment.
It’s time again to work together and see where we end up. If anyone can make it happen, we have the man to do it.
Greetings
Rob the exiled Geordie
Dear Mag,
Am I the only one who thinks the player recruitment last summer was complete nonsense?
None really made an effort and none seem worth the money we paid.
I think the club need to look closely at their recruitment team as well as Eddie.
Tonali plays like his mind is somewhere else, back in Italy, and Eddie looks very tired and out of ideas.
Glenn.W.Dawson
Dear Mag,
We know how badly Newcastle played on Sunday,
Keep it in your memory for the second leg.
This group of players will remember the elbows in the back and the cunning tackles.
But what they should really keep in mind is the post-match mockery.
Pictures on the pitch and the happy reactions from the Sunderland crowd, plus the London press having another field day,
I and all my fellow supporters around the world will be there, even if it means standing outside a packed St James’ Park.
Doddy
Dear Mag,
They were two teams that played very poor to average football on Sunday.
Neither side made a serious effort to achieve the goal.
No one deserved to win and I felt sorry for all the neutral people watching it.
Sunderland were lucky, that’s all.
They can enjoy their victory, experience their moment.
However, we lost the game simply because of that strange moment, Sunderland didn’t win the game because of anything they did.
JT
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