James

Anyone know where to watch this in North Korea?

Don't think we will have many issues with Janmaat defensively this year. All the Pardew wannabes in the Championship will be wanting their winger to man mark him.

Should be (assuming fitness that I haven't checked) Sels Janmaat Lascelles Mbemba Dummett Anita Diame Ritchie Perez Aarons Gayle

Quite a rise from two years ago where he was dropped by Stuart Pearce from Championship Forest.

I would have preferred that they buy with an obligation to loan his missus to whoever wins the halftime raffle every week.

WHAT ABOUT THE PASHUN???

With the players not knowing who to mark, you can trust Rafa to take the feedback and work on it. Unlike this bunch: McLaren: puts head in sand and says the defending was "magnificent" Carver: accuse Daryl Janmaat of deliberately trying to get substituted. Pardew: Scapegoat a winger with no man marking responsibility. Bring on two left backs. Hughton: keep things simple. "We are a group of lads marking another group of lads" Kinnear: "Which one of you's is Darren Janmaat? You're a cunt" Keegan: Will just out score opposition. Allardyce: rigs up man marking instructions on PA at open training session with elaborate system involving Alan Smith. Roeder: "will look at marking when I've finished looking at Dirk Kuyt" Souness: Brings in some proper English players to do some proper English marking. Bobby: "Carl, you go back post" (to Shola)

Haven't seen one like that for a while!

I feel like last season is starting today.

I think that is a very arrogant approach to take. Fulham should be a top 10 side are at home and it's the start of the season where neither team has found a rhythm. To win this league, you should win the home games, win the away games except against the top 10 where a draw is acceptable, and do whatever we can to avoid losing (we will get away with 6 defeats) The above equals 100 points. So it isn't a downplaying of expectations, but we as a fan group should be prepared for a bit of humility - we shouldn't expect to walk the league, but we should try to win every game and expect to win the league after a long hard season.

Likewise think it will be a draw. We usually lose at Fulham so a draw is acceptable. Worked out well when we drew at West Brom first game last time around.

Has been sacked by/resigned from approximately 4 million clubs. Leaving Al-Nassr and going to Al-Nasr was a real low point. Took years to get over his loss.

Must be the Middle East connection. Doubt he will do well.

To be honest given the quality of clubs trying to sign him there is no reason we can't keep him if looking from a quality perspective only.

Saw Southend play once. Had Leon Cort in defence and Tesfaye Bramble up front. Was hilarious.

I know managers like getting their excuses in early, but Sam "Need a Winter Break" Allardyce takes the biscuit.

Might be a good game for Mitro to find some confidence, given his Belgium record.

Seriously though, I remember someone posting on here a while back that he had some clause in his contract that he had to play an 'x' number of games per season if fit. Starting to think there might be some truth in that if even Rafa Benitez keeps playing the useless clogger every week. I don't believe Rafa would allow that. Colback would be a Hull player by now, or we would simply renege and let him be released. He cost us nowt after all

He is a useless cunt and will always be a useless cunt and has a high proportion of blame for our relegation. Looking forward to see the Liverpool fans turn on him. Hope he ends up bankrupt, destitute and loveless - it is better than he deserves. Good riddance. Onwards and upwards now.

To be fair to Allardyce, I think that his record at Bolton, Blackburn, West Ham and Sunderland is on the whole fairly credible in terms of working with what he had when he joined these clubs. On the other hand West Ham had to get rid to continue their progress while he should never have got near the Newcastle or England jobs. Just goes to show how far England has fallen.

I like to focus on the positives, we have brought in Ritchie who was the leagues best player two seasons ago so he should be head and shoulders above, and unlike the other three, motivated. Similarly with Gayle who doesn't have the track record in this division, but should be the best striker. So we'll replace two Cunts with two quality players, and lost Townsend.

I used to do a top 5 best looking NUFC players every year after the summer transfer window closed but after a few years received death threats so I stopped.

Damn autocorrect

Liverpool fans will grow to detest him. They never took to Owen because of his personality but at least he got goals for them. This shitstain is 1000 times worse.

It's not about who played shit, it was about who gave a shit and though we had a number of problems with Sissoko's consistency and effort, he would put a shift in for say 1 in 3 games even when we were struggling. He even played left back under Rafa and did a good job when he could have sulked. Wini just pouted and sulked all season