Newcastle travel to Brentford today after tallying a well-deserved point against league leaders Liverpool on Wednesday. While it’s been a rollercoaster start to the campaign, Newcastle can do themselves a lot of good with a victory over the Bees; a club they’ve had a lot of away success against recently.
This is the team Eddie Howe has selected for today’s clash. It has two changes from the midweek draw with Harvey Barnes and Sean Longstaff in for Anthony Gordon and Sandro Tonali.
Today's team to take on Brentford. ? pic.twitter.com/DHyS5TJgVP
— Newcastle United (@NUFC) December 7, 2024
Here is the side Bees boss Thomas Frank has named.
? Your Bees to take on Newcastle pic.twitter.com/ZHfqOzjzLb
— Brentford FC (@BrentfordFC) December 7, 2024
A win should see Newcastle comfortably placed in the top ten with a platform to build upon. However, the Brentford will be eager to carve the same path for themselves. A top performance is needed to get Newcastle on track for a push for Europe.
Howay The Lads!
1,067 comments so far
Mund
Dec 8, 2024 at 9:16 AM
Comment #281đ ah Ratsworth
I wonder if he did such a great job he had to leave.
Remember the arse lickers on here!
Well just about every single one of them has name dropped me in the last 24hrs so go fish
Munster Mag
Dec 8, 2024 at 9:19 AM
Comment #282274….but you never shut up about it Jail. As with Rafa, zero criticism accepted. And you saw what happened with Rafa.
Strange cult membership approach to being a club fan
Mund
Dec 8, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Comment #283Bad second half yesterday however youâd think by some we were playing Birmingham not Brentford who have the best home record this season and havenât lost a gameâŚ
Mund
Dec 8, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Comment #284Munster
I think the craziest thing for us normal fans is the fact you truly believe you know what youâre talking about and speak sense.
Mund
Dec 8, 2024 at 9:38 AM
Comment #285Raj
Nice to have you back.
Please stay and bring some sense to the placeâŚ
Yes I said that đ
lesh
Dec 8, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Comment #286Ah, Mund’s honouring we mere mortals with his presence and The Blog’s average IQ’s dropped 10 points!
It’ll drop further when his hero manages to get out of his pit.
Mund
Dec 8, 2024 at 10:00 AM
Comment #287The IQ level may of dropped however at least none of us target and abuse woman.
I can hold my head high
lochinvar
Dec 8, 2024 at 10:26 AM
Comment #288Sky reported it. Red in a bed BBC have yet to do so. Probably because they’re crying in their pillows.
Ashworth leaves after five just months’
Dan Ashworth has left his role as sporting director at Manchester United after just five months, according to The Athletic.
The 53-year-old’s move from Newcastle has reportedly “not worked” and his departure was agreed in a meeting at Old Traff
Mund
Dec 8, 2024 at 10:28 AM
Comment #289Ratsworthâs stock has well and truly fell
But but but he was the best in the business
lochinvar
Dec 8, 2024 at 10:39 AM
Comment #290Jimmie the Ratcliffe is on record praising Ashworth. âDan Ashworth is clearly one of the top sporting directors in the world,â said Unitedâs co-owner in February. âI have no doubt he is a very capable person. He is interested in Manchester United because itâs the biggest challenge at the biggest (basket case of a ) club in the Salford (the world)
RUNAWAY777
Dec 8, 2024 at 10:49 AM
Comment #291Nice win last night on lottery 3 numbers on hotpicks ÂŁ800 makes up for yesterday’s disappointment.
jimiley
Dec 8, 2024 at 11:11 AM
Comment #292Club has not been the same since Mandy was forced out. Eddie is in a very dangerous place
Raj of Hailsley
Dec 8, 2024 at 11:22 AM
Comment #293Who said Staveley as forced out?
Solano slice
Dec 8, 2024 at 11:31 AM
Comment #294Interesting to see if Howe is backed in transfer window.
Last 2 windows we signed nothing of note.
Aspiring clubs need to be signing decent players.
Eddies hands are tied, much of the squad is same as Steve Bruce had. Would have thought we would have had more of a clean out and rebuild by now.
Wondering if the top brass never really wanted Eddie in first place and had him just to steady the ship and then will back the next manager to take us to next level.
Sick of hearing about PSR
Mund
Dec 8, 2024 at 11:39 AM
Comment #295Raj
She wasnât, however it doesnât stop people making that up. Same names every time.
onmeedsun
Dec 8, 2024 at 11:43 AM
Comment #296Karma re Ashworth, absolutely hilarious. Makes both parties look clueless. Perhaps Amorin doesnât think heâll gel with him and wants a DOF he can work with. Perhaps Jason Wilcox can do what Ashworth was meant to do. I suspect his lack of direct involvement in transfers has revealed him as surplus to requirements. Heâs a consultant whose work can be done in 6 months, aligning departments. Glad we donât have him now and weâre ÂŁ10m better off. Football success is all about decision making, on and off the pitch.
IrishRob
Dec 8, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Comment #297Mund do you still have a Boner for Howe or are you starting to see sense yet?
Mund
Dec 8, 2024 at 11:52 AM
Comment #298Irishrob
What always got me about yourself was you cover youâre bases.
For example youâll go about how we are going to get battered etc before a ball is kicked and if that happens you go âi told you so!â however if we win you say you knew we would and you only said weâd get beat for psychological effect so we win.
Youâre fckn crackers lad.
Mund
Dec 8, 2024 at 11:53 AM
Comment #299I like you better as Toon Irish đ
IrishRob
Dec 8, 2024 at 12:07 PM
Comment #300Exactly right, I cover my bases. You’ve never spoken a truer word.
Just like when I argue about howe out I cover my bases with facts about why he needs to go instead of living in fairyland and just blindly beating a dead horse with your head in the sand at the same time because Howe is a lovely person.
People like you are the most asinine and idiotic fans on the planet because you base your beliefs on emotions rather than facts and what’s looking at you straight in the face.
And you create emotional posts to engender arguments against other people for the popular vote rather than having an actual spine and saying how it really is.
Mund
Dec 8, 2024 at 12:09 PM
Comment #301Irishrob đ
If you think youâre the voice of reason then we are all truly fckd
Mund
Dec 8, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Comment #302And covering your bases is called sitting on the fence with no reality of what is going on
IrishRob
Dec 8, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Comment #303I’m the voice of REALITY. A word you probably don’t even know existed until just now. That word doesn’t pop up very often in fairyland I’d imagine……
IrishRob
Dec 8, 2024 at 12:14 PM
Comment #304Wow that’s scary it seems you do actually know the word reality. I stand corrected you just used it.
So you’re just special needs then obviously….
Mund
Dec 8, 2024 at 12:22 PM
Comment #305Irishknob
When you come on talking about boners and telling us your going to have a wank and then take the piss out of people with special needs says it all fella.
Carry on
jimiley
Dec 8, 2024 at 12:25 PM
Comment #306I think Many was forced out.
You do not think so.
Nobody knows. Itâs all opinions
Mund
Dec 8, 2024 at 12:26 PM
Comment #307She didnât tho
She was always going to leave at some point
You can say itâs an opinion but itâs wrong
jimiley
Dec 8, 2024 at 12:27 PM
Comment #308Mund
You think Eddie is an elite manager.
Many on here no longer think so.
What we think is irrelevant.
Arabs will decide
jimiley
Dec 8, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Comment #309My opinion is wrong and yours is right?
Well there you go.
Mund
Dec 8, 2024 at 12:31 PM
Comment #310jimiley
The state of the likes of you and this blog ffs
You think you can say what you like and just run it as truth.
Show me one single post where Iâve said Eddie is elite and Iâll put ÂŁ1000 in the SBR foundation right now.
Youâre all sad little bullshitters making stuff up as your lives must be so boring,
Iâll wait patiently for the post however it wonât come đ
jimiley
Dec 8, 2024 at 12:31 PM
Comment #311She was always going to leave at some point?
Letâs hope the Arabs donât leave at some point. Next week would be real bad timing
jimiley
Dec 8, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Comment #312Mund
You are Eddies biggest cheerleader.
Tell me then how highly you rate Eddie
Raj of Hailsley
Dec 8, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Comment #313.Howe obviously addressed two area’s that we needed to add to in the summer, a RW and a CB. Due to PSR and a failed pursuit of Guehi we got neither. All our competitors bar Liverpool spent heavily. The squad needed refreshing and it wasn’t. As everyone screamed about the sh!t show of a summer it was always going to be Howe that had to pick up the pieces. There is not a single event, that started with the Ashworth saga that can be blamed for what happened during the last window. Staveley leaving, Howe linked with England, Mitchell coming in, AG ‘head turned’ PSR nightmare, every player returning to training not knowing whether they’d be sold, Eales laying down a marker for Europe after a ‘transformative’ transfer window then not delivering. Tosin going to Chelsea scuppering plans for a marquee RW??? All of these events contributed to an unsettling summer and again, Howe is left to pick up the pieces.
Rotonda heights talks about all these top managers we could get, Spurs with a revenue twice ours got turned down by Slot, they had to settle for Ange, mate! Would anyone swap him for Howe, given the tools Howe showed he was capable of getting us CL, absolute madness to chuck him under a bus after hanging him out to dry in the summer. Luckily the owners will have more patience and understanding of the situation than those calling for his head on here.
Mund
Dec 8, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Comment #314jimiley
Struggling to back your words up fella�
Bunch of Jackanoryâs
JohnJ
Dec 8, 2024 at 12:36 PM
Comment #315I must admit I feel our fortunes have been more on a downward or rocky trajectory since Amanda left NUFC. đ
jimiley
Dec 8, 2024 at 12:37 PM
Comment #316Mund
You have only praised the manager .
You are quite correct. You have never said he is elite. But you have never said anything. You never do
Essex Geordie Bill
Dec 8, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Comment #317Perhaps ‘Wor Dan’ can be persuaded to come back to us and we can give ManU a refund!
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Joking! đ
Essex Geordie Bill
Dec 8, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Comment #318Lasses kick off in 20 Minutes
Mund
Dec 8, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Comment #319jimiley đ
Have you heard yourselfâŚ
Youâve just admitted to bullshitting.
Carry on
jimiley
Dec 8, 2024 at 12:41 PM
Comment #320Mund
Tell us all how good Eddie is?
Where do you rate him?
You never do owt except slag posters off. That is your existence