The social media team has been quite savy in recent times. Not sure they would have this kind of build up unless it was a good signing or two.

That bennet thing is leading to a 5 minute warning I reckon. Brace yourself people, armstrong, chapman, maddison, gallagher and messi all about to sign ? ps scrap messi, he didnt want to come as bradleys backup

When do they release the away kit?

Dunno, over the past few seasons a few have seemed like they had 2 left feet to me

Sweet left peg. Looks like he has a bit of swagger also

Only the rich clubs get all their business done early. The rest all struggle as they look for good deals and try to make their budgets stretch. As that deadline gets closer all parties get a bit more reckless and the deals start flowing. Its the same most years and every year fans of all clubs get twitchy

Could go in the directors box. Thats always empty. Has comfy seats, is right facing the tv cameras

FFP was a good idea with decent intentions, but it simply doesnt work. Time to scrap it and let owners put whatever cash in they want

Seriously have some pride in you're profession. Shocking, pathetic journalism

Even if it was true, no way the club leak it with season tickets about to go on sale

We must of heard 50 interviews with TM in the past few weeks and not a single sentance he has uttered has even remotely hinted at this. No way this is true. Will be nixon or someone on a windup

The thing is bad managers always have excuses. 'The club was rotten' 'I wasn't given time' 'I needed more money' 'They weren't my players' etc etc etc The good managers get on with it and win football games. Find a way to get the best out of bad eggs. Change attitudes, galvanise the troops so to speak As someone said previously you couldn't get much worse than west brom, yet they change managers and he gets a tune out of the same players With these bad ones, its always about how they and their agents can spin it and stay atop that luxurious managerial merry go round.

Not sure tbh, but if chaddy says 2 I don't doubt him. There are some really poor sides in that premier league. To muster 1 win in 14 with anybodys players is pretty poor imo

You say stoke are better tactically under lambert, yet they had a better points per game ratio under hughes than under lambert. 1 win in 14 is pretty bad tactics no matter how you dress it up

Agreed. Smallwood, Evans, whittingham and bennet had 6 goals combined all season in a year when we pretty much dominated most teams. We will certainly need more than that from centre mid if we are to have any success at the next level

For me the key to 3 at the back is being brave and making it more of a 3-4-3. If you are not brave it quickly becomes 5 at the back and your 3 in the miiddle get over run by the 5 most other teams have these days

Most teams in league 1 have shown us a ton of respect and a plenty have parked the bus. Next season teams won tear us like that and not many will park the bus. Its going to bring some different challenegs for some of them players. Dack will probably have a lot more space at times next year, but he will also spend more time defending. I think armstrongs skill set was nullified a lot this yar with teams sitting deep. I actually think he'd be even better for us next season when teams attack us more. I just hope whoever mowbray signs they have some real pace as this team does lack that. Lacks it bigtime if amrstrong doesnt return

You look at the players we have and 3 at the back makes sense. It does seem to suit our key players. But for whatever reason its been pretty poor whenever we have played it. Also if we cant get it to work in league 1, its certainly not going to get any easier in the championship

Its really the main key to recruitment that he makes a clear choice on this. No doubt he wanted to play 3 at the back this season and thats why we had no width or wingers this season. Now we are crying out for wide men, but they would be a waste of money if he again reverts back to 3 at the back

Lambert is like a lot of others, had success at 1 club and is milking the managerial merry go round for a long as he can on the back of that 1 good job.

Errrrrrrr NO!!

Players like smallwood are always undervalued. Its only when he's not there you will realise his worth. Does the dirty unfashionable work that goes unnoticed.

Whats the 1st line of the song about Dack? We got ........... We got Bradley Dack

From a player on the edge of the team who had never really locked down a place or looked like he had a prefered position, we now could do with 3 of him. He is arguably our best RB, CM and RW now. Add in his rallying of the troops and his fan interaction and he is possibly the 1st name on the team sheet these days.

I'll never get tired of newcastle fans saying that. Fingers crossed rafa thinks that also. Be excellent if we could sign up on a permanent deal