George Bailey

Palace : think Woy will be gone after a few more games. Swansea: seem to be not playing at all for Clement for some reason and I still think Huddersfield will fall short. Stoke look piss poor too but should have enough. Bournemouth will be there or thereabouts too imo

Watford look a canny side to me.

Top eight finish with this current squad and in particular the striker options we have should see Rafa piss the manager of season award. IF a takeover happens and we can get forward options in January then different kettle of fish altogether. imo

2-1 win. Rafa will have the players sorted for Zaha and Townsend. Nullify them and we are fine.

Our deficiencies are plain and until Rafa gets a chance to address them then this sort of result/performance will be the norm. Our strikers are all 'adequate' squad players and no more in this division, our keeper situation is less than ideal and we lack real quality in parts of the pitch that are key. Once we have funds from a new owner (please god/other fictitious deities...) then this utter quality manager we have will have us as a real force to be reckoned with in a short space of time imo. Until then we ride this out.

"Good luck with the book!" Going to watch Father Ted all day now Very friendly bunch in the pic behind...Lad holding his mates hand in top right hand corner. Lots of touchy feely going on...

is the correct answer, sadly.

Wonder if Charnley is a giver or a taker.

Has promise but is young, inexperienced and could do with a senior pro to guide him. Lad will be a good player given time and good coaching imo. Lets hope Rafa is the man to do it.

Agree sadly. Loss by at least two goals.

Yep we certainly can and the lad has done far better than many would have thought but when weighing him up we have to be honest, some of the chances he has missed have cost us already, despite his desire and honesty. he certainly has added to the way we play but his job is to hit the onion bag and he isn't.

Don't think there is really. No one is slating the lad, or the majority aren't anyway. it's clear he has ability but he is simply playing as his valuation suggests. Missing chances that could and should put us ahead as he isn't anywhere near a good enough striker to be 1st choice at a club in the top flight. He's honest and will score a few but his limitations and level of 'class' is pretty obvious sadly. He's been far better than I expected but still way short of the answer to what we need. As are the other two unfortunately.

And that is the sad and brutal truth of it. Seem a likeable bunch: Gayle, Joselu and the rather eccentric Mitrovic. All perfectly honest and hardworking, but each with their demons and each not good enough to be first choice in a top division at this stage in their careers. It's a damn shame but the difference between comfortably staying up and winning games we should be is as simple as someone reliably putting the ball in then net, rather than a foot either side of the post or over the top. Let's hope between them they can have enough patches of luck and being on their games to do the business.

Agree, the lad is top class on his day, which is more often than not. I think he will move abroad myself. \I can't see him staying at Spurs, I think this team will break up after they win nowt again this season. It's whether he ends up at a Manchester club or in Spain for me. Hope it is Spain personally (for England as well as protecting Shearers record.)

Not the 2 points that most of their weekly predictions had us on? :lol: Stelling had us down for a 2-1 defeat last week as 'Newcastle are in turmoil'... Utterly clueless morons, all on the old pals act gravy train...

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For me he has improved our team and our team performances. Lad will score a few, and miss a few but he is far better than I had anticipated and fair play to him. Seems a likeable, good sort as well. Good start for him imo.

To be fair that's true about most clubs fans

Thought they played OK yesterday, looked tight on the highlights. Scoring enough goals will be their main problem all season I suspect...maybe like us (though I fancy Joselu to score a few: impressed with the lad so far) 4 points from next two would be dream, would be happy with draw.

Hockle on it...

Fancy a win here today for us....... feeling rather confident about it which is worrying.

The manager is not the issue. It is if it's a lick spittle cunt like Pardew or Carver: not main issue of course but big part and I hope if it is the return of the king or his like he gets fucking zero support. Hound the cunt as much as possible. He will be Mikes puppett and a legitimate target. imo

Heartbreaking all this in all honesty.

Makes zero sense in footballing terms and I cannot imagine Rafa would be happy with this... It's happening then.

His last manager's job in Finnish top flight ended like this: He sacked two of his assistants Same day the owner said he had no power to sack anyone and sacked Kuqi instead. One of the assistants was hired as the manager. That's the way the Kuqi crumbles I guess. I chuckled.