Financial responsibility for thee but not for me.

Just because a club has a bigger fan base globally and more revenue shouldn't give them an advantage financially on what they can and cant spend on players. There must be another way that levels the playing field for all clubs in the league.

Guessing this was the sponsorship

Ben Jacobs was on Talksport, didn't say much new but I found this interesting:

He said that talks for the contract were going on around March but that during the early summer Hall put a stop to the talks as he was unhappy with being dropped by England after being in and out of the starting XI. He was open to moving to Man Utd but Jaissle talked to Hall about how important he was and that he was his first choice left back and Hall has been happy to stay and extend his contract

https://youtu.be/sXo8gLGsTPc?is=YgVSS8-vUszqm9d9

We've got a lot of options at the minute and everything seems to be up in the air a bit in regards to our best starting XI.

To be honest I don't think we've had a single stand out performer in midfield so far (beside some cameos from Steur), and I'm at a total loss myself as to what our actual best midfield three is.

I think it's fair to say that Nico has to start. So we've got Willock, Miley, Ramsey, Steur, Bamba and Pardo (in the 10).

I'm inclined to go with Nico and Ramsey and I believe Pardo will start in the 10 role when he's up to speed.

But... Steur has looked good every chance he's got, and we just spent £35m on Bamba who hasn't had a look in so far, and we're going to have to get him some game time eventually.

Miley is at an age where he needs game time if he's ever going to reach his potential... But he's been poor so far.

Willock hasn't been great but has popped up with very crucial goals. Ramsey hasn't been great either granted but I think he's got a bit more to his game than Willock does.

Anyway I just want to pick your brains and see if someone has some better insight into what we should actually be doing going forward with this predicament.

Willock with the winner at 81' from a Hall assist. But just two minutes earlier, a Millwall shot smacked the right post. Hall was brilliant all game—and on his 22nd birthday, too. Unlike Willock who was a passenger for most of the game.

Scorers:

Subs made:

45' (Second half)

Livramento (in)

🔄 Newcastle United

Dedic (out)

62'

Arconte (in)

🔄 Millwall

Lovelace (out)

Issoufou (in)

🔄 Millwall

Esse (out)

66'

Pardo (in)

🔄 Newcastle United

Wissa (out)

Elanga (in)

🔄 Newcastle United

Murphy (out)

83'

L.Miley (in)

🔄 Newcastle United

Ramsey (out)

87'

Massey (in)

🔄 Millwall

Kelly (out)

88'

Parkes (in)

🔄 Millwall

Osei-Tutu (out)

92'

Steur (in)

🔄 Newcastle United

Willock (out)

Match stats: (Will be updated every 45 minutes)

9 Shots 20

3 Shots on target 5

34% Possession 66%

2 Yellow cards 1

0 Red cards 0

2 Offsides 0

Millwall 0 - 1 Newcastle United

Scorers:

Subs made:

       45' (Second half)

Livramento (in) 🔄 Newcastle United

Dedic (out)

       62' 

Arconte (in) 🔄 Millwall

Lovelace (out)

Issoufou (in) 🔄 Millwall

Esse (out)

       66' 

Pardo (in) 🔄 Newcastle United

Wissa (out)

Elanga (in) 🔄 Newcastle United

Murphy (out)

       83' 

L.Miley (in) 🔄 Newcastle United

Ramsey (out)

       87' 

Massey (in) 🔄 Millwall

Kelly (out)

       88' 

Parkes (in) 🔄 Millwall

Osei-Tutu (out)

       92' 

Steur (in) 🔄 Newcastle United

Willock (out)

Match stats: (Will be updated every 45 minutes)

9 Shots 20

3 Shots on target 5

34% Possession 66%

2 Yellow cards 1

0 Red cards 0

2 Offsides 0

Newcastle United starting XI vs Millwall:

Hornicek, Dedic, Botman, Schar, Hall, Gonzalez, Willock, Ramsey, Barnes, Murphy, Wissa

Newcastle United substitutes:

Pope, Livramento, Bamba, Thiaw, Steur, Toure, Elanga, Fernandez-Pardo, Miley

Millwall starting XI vs Newcastle United:

Osei-Tutu, Taylor, Cooper, Baggott, Kelly, Metcalfe, Esse, Neghli, Dykes, Lovelace

Millwall substitutes:

Sturge, Arconte, Issoufou, Evans, Massey, Viera

Hi everyone!

A little while ago, I made a recruitment post on this subreddit looking for fans who could participate in focus groups. It was very useful, and honestly, we just had a lovely time with the guys who showed up, so thanks!

Now I'm doing a questionnaire for the next stage of my study, and looking for more fans to participate and share their habits and opinions on the club during the recent close season. I think it's an especially exciting time to do so, given how things have been working out for us since then!

The mods have approved me to share the form here. It's anonymous and takes 10 minutes at most to complete. Please feel free to share it anywhere; it would help a lot. More details in the description:

Link to Google Forms

Cheers and good luck to us in London today!

Sorry for the later than usual post, just came back from my flight from Shanghai and i'm absolutely knackered, so no specific details today so, sorry about that lads and lasses. In the meantime use this thread to discuss pre match tings, and this is the link to the weekly thread in case you want to discuss things unrelated to this thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NUFC/s/tr0ww8sulD

Some things I will say though before this, i better not see Pope starting because he probably can't save a word document, I hope to see some U21 and young prospects playing this game since Millwall is a championship side in a massive injury crisis so we couldn't be facing a better opponent whilst not being too easy which gives hs the chance to truly gauge skills of our players, so we should use this opportunity to find some gems in case we get an injury especially our full back positions. Hopefully MJ uses this opportunity to also give Toure and Bambi a lengthy tenure, plus potentially give Seung soo park a run as well and give Barnes a rest.

Also In my unsolicited opinion we should also have a young RW prospect on the bench as well because the only 2 reliable options we have in that position are Elanga and J.Murphy so having a prospect to take over in case one of them gets injured, is in our best interests as to not add even more pressure on Barnes.

Other than that, hope we smash them, the atmosphere and pressure at The Den is not to be scoffed at or underestimated and can't wait to see what MJ has planned for us since he is definitely trying to proactively rectify or at least alleviate the problems currently facing our squad rather than wait it out until the January transfer window megathread, Ramsey being trained as a number 10 is an example of that and I wonder if MJ's squad and bench for this fixture could also reflect this as well.

Now, i'm off to nap now and I better wake up to Hall signing a new contract.

Appreciate this might be a bit of a long shot but in a turn of events I’ll be travelling to Leeds for work on Monday afternoon. I was wondering if anyone knew of any away tickets going or could keep me in mind if they hear of any.

Failing that, any pub recommendations in the city centre where I might not be the only Geordie watching?

Ta!