It’s the right decision by Newcastle, although it should have been done before the World Cup. I said this in 2024, when the likes of Howe and Frank had very strong reputations. The reality is that if you want to consistently break into the top six, like Villa have managed to do, the mid-table overachiever profile based on excellent out-of-possession coaching is not going to cut it. You need much more control with the ball. As for Jaissle, it feels more like a sidestep. Do Newcastle’s decision-makers understand what the issue with Howe actually was? Why did his approach, and the heavy bias towards out-of-possession attributes in profiling, lead to stagnation? Why did Newcastle struggle against weaker teams, especially when they sat off very zonally? I’m not convinced they do. Jaissle would not be the young coach I would have appointed. From what I have seen, Jaissle has many of the same issues as Howe when it comes to generating control with the ball. His Al Ahli side are comfortably top four in the league for squad quality, yet they still struggle to consistently control games in possession. On paper, the decision-makers will probably look at his defensive record and be very happy. My concern is that those strengths will not scale to the Premier League in the same way and will create other second- and third-order issues. The only way I see Jaissle doing significantly better than Howe is if he makes substantial adaptations to his approach, which, based on his previous work, I think is unlikely.

I love @AldiUK it’s tiles not squares.

This is Newcastle 0.2 not 2.0… Pathetic.

Do Newcastle execute a good press high? No. Do they keep possession well? No. Do they defend well then? No. Well they must be good on the counter? Also no.

Newcastle have just enquired whether the lad with glasses who scored at half-time can play up front in the second half.

Going to be a long season

Lumping it up from Horníček again 😬

I defo saw that he was injured. lol starting line up is it 🙈😂

Has there been any update / timeframe on Osulas ankle injury?

Is Twitter okay? Caught some absolute whoppers for making a light hearted social media comment about some Arsenal fans (who the whole pub agreed were embarrassing). DMs, quoting irrelevant tweets from 6 years ago & a ton of sexualised & sexist comments. The lot.

Watching the Arsenal match in the pub. Lads next to us keep calling the players by their first name ‘Noni didn’t deserve that’ ‘cone on Jurrien’ and it’s proper icky.

Just donated what I would have won for my chosen charity @actnforchildren ❤️ ❤️ amazing cause 😘🙏🏽

Anddd 2010…. Who was this? X

2011 was fun. Apparently…

I’ve been a huge Alan Carr fan for so long. Thrilled that he was so good on the Traitors.

Boycie is Halloween ready

In #CelebrityTraitors the shot of Romesh’s initial reaction, following James A confession that he had been recruited, includes a chalkboard with the letter J. 1. Why would he have written the name before James confession 2. Voting had not yet even began Evidence of editing

Utterly heartbreaking. A must watch.

RIP Patrick Stewart. What an actor. I still can’t believe he agreed to do this scene. And he didn’t even mind when I ruined every take. Legend.

Matthias Jaissle furious in his post-match press conference. "It's shocking and it's frustrating as well, and therefore I probably need to scream more. "You need to avoid these mistakes, be more mature, more clinical in these situations, just clearance, a pure clearance. "This is a learning process, but you don't get the time, and we need to learn fast, especially with these young lads." #NUFC