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I don’t want nufc to lose. I want THIS version on nufc to lose.

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Your boy did well didn’t he. You’ll be having a celebration tonight.

We need a bit of luck

Nah, Newport are a great team, he's putting a strong team out there to give us a chance of a penalty shootout.

Interesting view from a sheff weds fan back at the time:

No moar goals

What, we need a bit of luck to beat Newport County?

We're not going to address the glaringly obvious issue we have in the centre of midfield are we. Hope the Longstaff's rediscover some magic.

Hope we sign him tbh. Remove any excuse Bruce has of Rafa being the cause.

No, it means Hourihane has more competition for a place. Grealish signed a new contract two weeks ago. He seems to do an okay job for you but Barkley is a massive upgrade on Hourihane unless he's completely fallen off a cliff Hourihane is a weird one. Scores goals, has a brilliant free kick on him and often provides assists. But he's one of those who when he has a bad day is utterly invisible. Like Shelvey, minus the bit about freekicks, goals and assists then.

Nah. They're not on the newcastle model.

It's incredibly frustrating and actually quite upsetting watching us. I know that ties to a club are deep but it's hard to justify even watching us these days. I just can't see an end to it either.

I'm actually hoping he bins every player Rafa brought in and then still uses that excuse. Unfortunately he decided that a few of them were good enough for longer contracts.

It's ok, we're being linked with loads of good players, we're bound to bring some more quality in yet.

Well Villa are already better than us this season without adding a midfielder who would walk into our team.

You've watched it in real time right? Because I have to assume you've only seen it in slow motion.

He practically takes his head off with his arm. I'm surprised you even noticed his legs in it

Gotta say I thought the Santos one was a worse tackle - watched the vid Wullie posted, and yeah, Thatcher kicks the shit out of his knees as he wildly swings his left leg at him. It is indeed an assault. But Santos, with malicious forethought, set out to butcher Johnson. He got off the ground, both feet studs up and connected full whack with Johnson’s trailing foot (and bonus style points have to go for Johnson’s fall). As a footballing tackle, I feel it’s worse...? ? It was the running elbow from Thatcher that was the problem. Thought it was more putting his shoulder into the kick and hitting with with the forearm. Not saying it wasn’t a horrific challenge, just saying why I thought Santos’ was worse. Didn’t think the arm was worth the mention. Eh?

Boosting our U23's I see.

I genuinely thought he'd killed him at the time. I remember Glen Johnson screaming for the medics to come on. He still claims that at the time he didn't even know what he did to him, it was only after someone told him after the game how bad it was that he realised he'd done wrong. Who was the commentator who said "now I've seen it again, he was a bit late"?

What does Kaka think though? That's how I measure success and failure of a player.

Bet we'll never find out.

Silly twat. He should just concentrate on AEW and leave football to people who understand it. I highly doubt he's choosing the players to sign. I was being tongue in cheek tbf

Silly twat. He should just concentrate on AEW and leave football to people who understand it.