Bethnal

It’s Moran, for me. He’s not cut out to receive the ball in his own half, with a press on him. Needs time when receiving the ball/fewer consequences if he loses the ball. Basically still playing kids’ football.

Cannot believe this is the same side (basically) as Tuesday. Chrisene cannot have been the difference-maker.

There are a few that you can see work their socks off and find the quality within themselves regularly, but there are a good few more than that who aren’t. You can forgive a lack of talent, you can’t forgive lack of effort/fight.

Swansea can put this to bed, here. One more and they’re out of sight and can rotate some minutes on/save some legs. We’ve got to pull at least one back this half if we have any desire of coming away with much-needed points.

Well, I’m looking forward to the “no excuses” explanation for going two down inside 20 minutes against a Swansea team who really are no better than we are.

Scott Wharton had to bypass them then to get something working. I like Scott, but even he would admit that we shouldn’t be relying on him to get the ball to the forwards.

Buckley and Moran playing today as we predicted they would on Tuesday. Absolutely nothing happening there.

Buckley corner that floated out of play, leading to a smart and quick goal kick. Andy Moran lets his man float by him before a bit of a calamity at the back meaning the one man in the box gets a scuffed finish past three men around him, including the keeper. Three really poor actions in a row, leads to a goal.

Good hold up play from Gallagher there. More of that.

Could scarcely believe how much application was on display in the middle, barely a foot wrong against - apparently - “world class” players. Absolutely buzzing, I’ll barely sleep tonight. I’ll be honest, post-January, post-JDT and some of the struggles recently, I’d really been struggling to find the desire to watch the rest of the season. I’m an idiot, so I always will do, but I am fully looking forward to it after that performance. There’s desire in that squad, which we’d probably all wondered about recently.

Haven’t felt as positive after a defeat in a long while. Newcastle did basically very little for a team assembled and financed to their level. We occupied them, they had little by way of an answer. They were lucky to be in it by 90 mins. Smashing, though, great performances across the park. Players deserve an extended rest to recover and we have to us this as a galvanising moment for this season.

Fully aware. He’s now chuckling away. Hope he enjoyed his day out at the only place he ever really achieved anything!

Alan Shearer sulking. Quite enjoying that, weirdly enougj

Where is Pickering?

Taking this lot to penalties, from where we are in our season is as good as a victory. It’s basically chance and negligible fluctuations in talent and composure at that stage. Extremely proud of this performance, cannot say it enough.

You should get one more in Extra Time.

Chrisene for Pickering. Have to.

This is a fucking scam, this ref wants a slap. We’ve been sensational in the second half. Really expected us to fold for entirely understandable reasons, but we’ve stepped up, entirely. Thoroughly better than Newcastle in all departments. Eddie Howe pulling this kind of performance out of the squad he has against our town team, 16th in the Championship on a torrid run. Fraud, tin pot. Extremely proud of the graft we’re putting in, but half an hour is a long while to hold on for, with one eye on the fixture list.

They’re going to cheat us out of this fucking game.

Yep, Moran has fashioned the two most promising chances for us.

Callum Brittain trying to show himself off to the cameras and - predictably - merely showing himself up.

Newcastle used the mini break to regroup, unfortunately for us.

It’s a cruel thing watching us do well in the first 15

Got myself properly psyched up on the walk to the train home. ”first 15 minutes, we could do a bit of damage and get them off their game” Their lineup against our lineup is a serious mismatch.