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Smith soon found his level with Notts County. Wonder where Fistpump will end up. Guest columnist in the Chronicle as well I'm sure

This doesn't apply so much to Depay but for me, players like Wijnaldum and Anita are so used to their teams dominating games that they get totally unstuck when on the backfoot. PSV might have the odd hard game but mostly it'll be the opposition with 10 behind the ball. Now he's at NUFC it's 10 behind the ball when we attack Not excusing him for a pathetic 2nd half of the season but he clearly doesn't know how to adapt his game

Took about 12 months I'd say

You keep saying this bollocks but we had Woodgate, Speed and Shearer through the spine. Soft? Nah. Correct but invariably we played 2 out of Dabizas, O'Brien and Bramble

Every chance he'll be dropped for Colback against Swansea imo

Love how he conveniently doesn't mention he was the coach of this underperforming team

Pearson is a good shout. I'd be stunned if Moyes took it

Benitez always has come across as a really good bloke. The support he gave the Hillsborough Campaign was fantastic and while some people will put on artificial tears, those pictures of him at the Memorial look as genuine as you can get. He HAS to get something out of this shower of shite

Heads and volleys, spot, 5 a side...any more? Score pick a partner

And how to hold the ball up

Imagine John Carver's pre Derby team talk. "Fucking smash them lads!"

Only fair to credit him for this appointment. Think we all expected David O'Leary/Gary Megson etc The penny may have finally dropped that the manager is the key to everything

Blackie did a motivational presentation at my work a couple of years ago. I've never seen so many PowerPoint slides in my life, he talked for about 2 hours with the most uninspiring slides I can just imagine him doing that with a bunch of our foreign lads just thinking shut the fuck up

Still can't get my head around the fact that Mike Ashley's Newcastle United have appointed a top class manager. I think Benitez will be fantastic for us. Great network of players, organisation fantastic etc. We have been utter shit this season but he must be looking at those games and thinking he can get 5 wins.

Basically this. This is like NUFC of old. Fair play to the board (whilst not forgetting they should have done a move like this years ago)

Who gives Carver any credit?

Shearer in "understands the club" shock horror. Legend

That probably is exactly what is going on TT, but it's quite hard to find a manager willing to work for £50k plus a Sports Direct staff discount card

Definitely Craig Hope. Used to work at NUFC and has been very critical in the Mail recently. Good on him for confronting it, Lee Ryder would never dare

That's always been Anita's problem.

It's hard when science is against you, be fair

Has there been any indication of what the 2 charges are that he is contesting? I've heard the ones he's pleaded guilty to but then just keeps saying "two other charges"

Good question, dreadful answer

Struggling to get the photos up on my phone. Someone else please do