Jawdee

As much as I'd love to see him and black and white, City is an absolute no brainer if he's getting regular game time

Big club debates are so subjective, they're pointless. It means absolutely nothing if you haven't won **** all for ages too.

It's less delusion and more blind hope, I've just moved from London, I enjoy visiting but I hated living there. I can imagine being paid millions of pounds might have enhanced the lifestyle a touch though.

It's in hope more than expectation. I don't think anyone (apart from an excitable few on Twitter) genuinely expect him to move in January. If he has no intention of signing a new contract with you boys, it'll be a busy market for him in the summer. Given our behaviour of tracking targets over multiple transfer windows, it'd be surprised if we didn't test the waters again. Always get the feeling a bigger fish will come in for him though.

It's all pretty redundant because a penalty should have been awarded for the Burn shirt pull. I just think the second shout was really soft, I'd be saying the same if it wasn't Newcastle.

At that point Trippier hasn't made a challenge. The offending foul was the follow through that catches Reid on the heel.

I'd say firstly, if it's not given on the pitch, it's not a clear and obvious error as per the (ridiculous) high bar rule required for VAR involvement. My view of the actual incident is that Reid treads on Trippier, then Trippier catches his heel with the follow through. Reid then theatrically throws himself to the ground. It's extremely soft. As I've said though, Burn's shirt tug probably should have been awarded, so can't grumble too much.

It probably was, but Burn should have been penalised for a shirt pull about 30 seconds beforehand, swings and roundabouts I guess.

Surely Southampton? Wouldn't want Man United near a trophy.

I was quite taken aback by just how poor Leicester were last night. It just seems to have got to the point of no return for Rodgers, the longer he clings on the more toxic it will get. As far us decent display. After over a decade of publicly ****ing off the cups, it's nice to have a good run again. We probably won't win it but it gives you a bit of hope.

I honestly don't know. I don't think our minority owners would, but PIF call the shots and ultimately we're just an investment to them. I think it'll be the US ownership the drives any Super League though. Chelsea, Arsenal, Man United, Liverpool are all US backed now.

No idea what all of that is about, I don't pay any attention to the social media personalities linked to the club. Wrath, the Geordie Dentist, Pearson, etc. They're all absolute weapons. I'm all for a wage and a spend cap, I'd ban state ownership too. It's a real shame that we didn't implement something similar to the Bundesliga's "50+1" before things became too far gone. The league is the way it is because the relevant authorities view the Premier League as a commodity , our ownership is just a symptom of that.

The Profit and Sustainability rules bite too. It was a belt and braces from the Premier League to make sure no one could sustain a challenge on the "big six". They're now slowly chipping away at how you make your commercial revenue too. I think you lot winning the Premier League put the shits up them. Then our majority owners have come along with their grotesque wealth which has seen more rule changes. It's massively anti-competitive and it'd be really interesting if it was challenged in court.

I am puzzled by Chelsea's spending though. Did they just get a clean slate after Roman sold up?

From a Newcastle perspective, we had a fair bit of leeway after years of next to no net spend under Mike Ashely. Mike Ashley also left us with a skeleton staff running the club. The new owners are still beefing up the commercial side of things, but we're years behind the better ran clubs in the league. Until that area of the club is grown and our commercial revenue increases, we won't able to sustain massive spending figures.