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Work-rate. Incisiveness. Nous. I don't ask for much. This is how it's gonna be. Build from the ground up. The first game of 2024 then, against the only team to be decimated by injuries if you believe the press. Beheddie has picked pretty much the same starting XI regardless of midweek European excursion or weekend domestic fare, and there's a feeling that some of the players have been run into the ground. Their players go down with cramp every 5 minutes when they play us so it's pretty hard to tell anyway. It's a team full of cunts as it is. Trippier and his 'low-level crim from Line of Duty' attitude. Joelinton barging into players and feigning injury. Guimaraes who despite his ability has a lot of Fellaini's elbows about him. Gordon the diving cheating fuck. Their cuntishness came to pass in this fixture last season. It was our first win of the campaign and it came about in hilarious circumstances when we scored the winner in the 9th minute of added time. Time that the ref had to add as Pope, Joelinton and co. feigned injury repeatedly in an attempt to waste time. The Geordies had gone ahead through Isak in the first half, and he'd had another ruled out early in the second half when he was adjudged to be offside. Correct call. Both were very tidy finishes though. We were struggling to muster much of note, with the best chances falling to Lucho. It was Bobby who brought us level with a composed finish of his own into the far corner after being teed up by Mo. The winner came from new signing Carvalho, who swivelled and fired a volley in off the bar from a couple of yards out after a corner led to a goalmouth scramble. We love a last-minute winner against this lot! On the injury front, the same names will be unavailable for this one. Diogo returned at Burnley, and his ability to find the net will be very useful while Mo is away at the AFCON later in January. Not sure if Mac is close to a return as I've not seen anything to suggest he's back training yet. Should be a similar line-up to the one at Burnley, with perhaps Lucho coming in for one of Cody or Darwin. Whatever we do, let's make sure the motivation, concentration, attitude and application are absolutely on it from first minute to last. 3 points please, to kick off 2024 in the best way possible. Get it done!