James

Only Hayden has rescued him from putting in one of the worst performances in living memory. I’d get him drug and alcohol tested tbh.

What happened to his thumb?

Out of position really we really should have had Sterry in the bench

At least we are, Manquillo aside, not looking too troubled in defence. Manquillo and Kenedy should both be sent off, idiots. Not making one successful pass in the first half is criminal and Kenedy needs to be told to sort it out. Injury to Manquillo may be a blessing if it forces us to change things a bit

We should be beating these, This is a genuine championship side

Same. I'm 99% sure it's because of that weird video that came out when he signed though Perhaps after a full pre-season with Rafa he is going to be amazing and score 25 goals and then Rafa goes to Sky and says:’that’s why you sign players in Jane not August’

In that era between 1994 and 1997 the best players were distributed wider and more fairly across clubs but we rose to being one of the worlds top ten clubs. Of course Lee was bloody brilliant but we had other players too who were better than anything we’ve had post Ashley like Warren Barton, David Batty, Keith Gillespie

This is Sterry’s big chance would be great if he could grasp it

I think people get that but there are just so so so many midfielders and strikers that had more talent than HBA he should be nowhere near a best XI. That’s not saying he wasn’t a good player on his day but we’ve been starved of good players for so long that he is overrated to the extreme.

Can't remember much about Beardsley or Lee but Solano and Robert are two of my all time favourite NUFC players. They were great and entertaining players in the SBR years but their careers were nothing special outside of that little spell and in the end the SBR team won nothing either. Meanwhile HBA has won a countless number of trophies playing for the three biggest teams in France and had a great and entertaining spell here (when allowed). World must be a wondrous place for you if people putting HBA ahead Nobby or Robert in their all time NUFC XI amazes you. Can I please point out that Cacapa won more French league titles Did I put Cacapa in my all time XI? No but you were using French league titles as a barometer for saying that HBA was superior to Nobby and Robert so I was just pointing out that on that measure you can’t leave Cacapa out of your XI

Can't remember much about Beardsley or Lee but Solano and Robert are two of my all time favourite NUFC players. They were great and entertaining players in the SBR years but their careers were nothing special outside of that little spell and in the end the SBR team won nothing either. Meanwhile HBA has won a countless number of trophies playing for the three biggest teams in France and had a great and entertaining spell here (when allowed). World must be a wondrous place for you if people putting HBA ahead Nobby or Robert in their all time NUFC XI amazes you. Can I please point out that Cacapa won more French league titles

Have people forgotten how HBA disappeared in France for a couple of weeks and it turned out that he’d quit football and joined a cult only to be talked out of it? A player like that doesn’t deserve our time of day.

Shearer was the most naturally gifted player we ever had.

I do think there’s a good player there he just doesn’t have the confidence but perhaps getting a few more bodies alongside him rather than leaving him isolated up front will help.

Solano was way more talented than Ben Arfa a wand of a right foot and one of the best passers and crossers we ever had. Such an intelligent player too.

I think Joselu converged our only clear chance so can’t complain about him really. I think as a team we are doing OK but Spurs are just far superior in quality in all departments.

Looking at the first of the two Clark chances at the World Cup we would have got a penalty for a hold on Diame.

While what a lot of Stifler said is correct he has downplayed the impact of public responses. Public responses have caused several Gary Neville planning applications in Manchester to be rejected by the planning committee. Also statutory bodies for example highway authorities have to deal with a hundred applications a week sometimes, stuff gets missed, so a well written well informed response by just one member of the public can point out a missed consideration that might need to get revisited.

I don’t believe Rafa would put his name in that statement without duress aimed at either himself or the players.

Wasn’t it established before that the club was putting in contracts that statements could be produced on individual’s behalf without their expressed consent.

He’s better than Ake who went for £20m £20m man. Wtf are you on? That’s just the going price today. Crazy but is what it is.

Let’s see if we get a we tried club statement if we do we know full well that this was just PR spin after all.

He’s better than Ake who went for £20m

He seems like the ultimate ‘we tried’ player. Find a player on the French scouting database graded with only a small chance of obtaining a work permit. Get it rejected at 4pm deadline day then release a statement blaming the FA for their failure to sign players.

Can’t keep saying the next window is the real test. What use is taking an A-Level when you already failed your AS, GCSE, SATS, Spelling proficiency? The only test now is whether we can get Ashley and chums expelled ASAP before they can do further damage.