Sean Longstaff

Like, at what point can Newcastle just say goodbye to Jolington? Now, he goes off.

Sean Stewart comes on.

Doesn't really make much difference.

But, you know, you're giving up an hour.

Still no real reason to panic because this is where you were last season.

But definitely questions to be asked about the manager's choices at centre-back and Jolington.

I'm sorry, you've got Sean Stewart and Eladji Bamba sitting on the bench, both of whom are much better than him as central midfielders, better than them as footballers, frankly.

Joe Willock starting over Jacob Ramsey is not something I'd be in favour of, but look, Jacob Ramsey didn't do himself any favours last night, came on in 75.

with a few mistakes as a keeper and as you say James the stakes are very high but I would like to see Trafford now start playing a little bit safer with his feet he nearly got caught out a couple of times and he needs to be a bit smarter now in the short term not get caught out again like that we probably don't need to be taking chances hitting balls into Tanaka from goal kicks you know you've got DCL up front the top header of the ball in the league if you ask me so let's maybe go a little bit more route one on that but I do still see that Team Trafford is an unbelievable keeper, but I just don't want to see any more mistakes.

On Rocco, and probably more a bit on Dave Thornton's side, I agree with you, Rocco, yesterday was definitely the players, because, as I say, it was a case of missing chances, and we were on top, and then we allowed the impetus back in, and it was an individual error, or two individual errors, really, if you count Longstaff for the second goal.

And Farrakhan cannot legislate for that

at all, in any way, shape, or form.

He's not realising, I think he already knows he needs to use his squad to try and pick apart teams in games, the difficult ones.

There were some changes in the second half.

Longstaff came on.

It kind of felt like we were going to see more of Boyer after that rant last week.

that was

disallowed, I can't, really remembering them overly testing Petrovic whatsoever I mean they had the ball in semi-dangerous areas which when you've got a narrow margin it's always going to make you worry because look we've got muscle memory against Leeds right but that Sean Longstaff goal when he came on us

yeah exactly that's

still etched in the brain for me and I could almost picture the scene now of them putting the ball in the net and their fans going away like with limbs and me walking away from Dean Court with another disappointment but But you know what? We kept him out.

What was his fucking name again, though?

Longstaff.

Longstaff, yeah.

Longstaff came on and finished as their third highest rated player.

He was the only one that was coming on.

I could see him coming on and

We were chasing it.

And again, I think it comes from a similar thing of like Sean Longstaff is looking for an option, isn't he? And then try sort of then looking for a foul and maybe goes back to the tactical genius.

Yeah.

conversation where it's like at 1-0 what are the options because he seems like he's you know played his cards with the team selection and then when it came to subs we did something different didn't really work because we lost the width and then it was like well what there wasn't there wasn't another card to play

It was just, let's just pass it to the other player and let them score.

And then Longstaff at the end just got dispossessed so easily and then tried claiming for a free kick and, bam, they counter and score.

Well, yeah.

I mean, you should always play it at whistle and... that's how i was taught you play to play to the whistle so even if you think it's a foul even if you feel it's a foul just keep going until that whistle goes um and assume it's not a foul but i mean i were a bit aggrieved at that because it were like those those kind of tackles and those challenges were being given the opposite way earlier on in the game so i'm like and and i get Long-staffed frustration, probably thinking, like, come on, ref, you know, you've been giving these all game, so what about now? But that's, like I say, play to the whistle and, you know, don't give it up.

Yeah, there's something not ticking, especially going forward.

But we will...

I'll touch upon those areas when we get to them in the pair ratings, especially Wilson, James and Stack and Longstaff, who all came on.

What about Goodmanson, mate? How would you rate him today?