The Hall-Gordon axis and 'suspect' Pope - your thoughts

We asked for one thing - good or bad - that no-one is talking about regarding Newcastle United.

Here are some of your comments:

Peter: The partnership between Lewis Hall and Anthony Gordon has started to flourish and could be vital for both club and country for the next 10 years. A testament to Eddie Howe and the coaching staff.

GD: What people are not talking about is how much they moaned about 'why have we bought Lewis Hall and we're not playing him?' And: 'If he's not good enough, why have we bought him?' etc. For a lot of last season there was constant complaining about our recruitment. Not so vocal now, of course. Those doing similar regarding Will Osula should maybe bear this in mind. Have a bit of faith in the recruitment team and Eddie's ability to develop players into elite athletes

Duncan: I can't help worry whenever Nick Pope is between the sticks as he has always been suspect. He can be a good shotstopper, but the rest of his game is questionable at best. He very rarely catches simple shots, his positioning is suspect and some of his decisions outside the box are lunacy.

Westy: I've seen many people blame Howe, but I think it's important to remember what he's done for the club. For me the blame lies with profit and sustainability rules. We've seen what happens to teams who try to keep to one system. The other teams work them out and find ways to counter their play. Teams like Manchester City are able to buy in new players to tweak their style of play. I've seen City make some transfers and wondered why they need that player. but it's to offer something new. That's something Howe has been starved of.

Liam: Through all the hysteria about poor form etc, we're still only three points off sixth and four points off Man City. There's just under two thirds of the season to go and we're in another League Cup quarter final. The naysayers and the doom and gloom merchants need to rein it in.

Richard: Alexander Isak is definitely going and so might Bruno Guimaraes along with several other players in a bid to raise £200 million to spend on about four or five young developing players Who will thrive under Eddie Howe and take the club forward and make the squad worth a lot more over the next few years?