toontownman

What the heck is up with this performance. Some or the more creative and exciting play we have seen this year combined with some of the most nervous and at time nonscelant and ridiculously sloppy play. As Jekyll and hyde as it comes. Diame has been beastly at opposite ends of the scale and he is not alone. Need to calm the fuck down and think a bit more.

Exactly what I was thinking today. Weren't we talking 20m for him last summer. Barely worth 10 at the moment and is having a laugh if he thinks he will get minutes at Chelsea. Hope he can turn it around. It's not happening covering LB or LWB though.

We have less than a third of our team capable of passing a ball let alone retaining it. We are so fucking dreadful. If this window passes without the necessary reinforcements it will again be hard to see us staying up. We can only hope for another final wave of the Rafa magic wand to keep us up.

Very positive about this if it actually happens. Still not convinced we will sort a deal out and get him here. He is talented no doubt. Have to hark back to Hatem to see a player as skilled coming in. Prepare to watch us actually sign him and Rafa keep him on the bench until April just to bed him in

The one from Serie A years ago? Yep moved to the MLS while still in the Italian team and 27, turning down Juve and Arsenal in the process. So probably hope he is mental enough to come here. An absolute wizard still though.

Well no, Stiffs told us its Staveley.

I have watched a fair bit of him on tv. On an excitement scale its a 7. He is talented no doubt but untested in a really top league. He is definitely better than what we have. 1.MLS is more championship standard IMO. Weaker in many areas but stronger in others. The league is improving every year. It is light years ahead of where it was when I moved to North America 10 years ago. 2. He is definitely stronger than he looks good on the ball, clever and can hold it up. 3. He can take set pieces and get them on target. A bonus. He can create space and also work and create key passes and set up play without it. Goal keeping is the biggest difference between the leagues, there is some horrific keeping in the MLS. 4. He has the skill level and does have pace. I'm not worried there. 5. He would play AM most likely, replacing Perez. Definite upgrade imo. 6. I'd hope for nearer 18m but it is a crazy market. Alphonso Davies (just turned 18) just went to Bayern for 17m (his potential is scary though even if he is rough round the edges). I can understand Atlanta putting Almiron in a similar bracket, he has had a stonking season on the goal and creating side. I would have preferred Davies but Almiron at 24 is a much more rounded player and in the position we desperately need.

Until Stifler has spoken we riot. Then we riot anyway.

Been there done this. I look forward to the same excuses for not spending money in January and the consequences.

Literally the best collective set of central defenders I can remember us having. Great competition. I think 3 at the back is a formality. Rafa has talked about it. Dubs Schar Fernandez Lejune Yedlin Shelvey Diame Ki Kennedy Muto/Ritchie Rondon Should probably give Perez more love.

Lejeune and Fernandez I would like to see. Not sure about the lack of pace though. I think the depth and experience will be a blessing for lascelles he needs a bit of time off the pitch imo. He has had a ton of pressure on his shoulders and while being the captain has certainly added to his game it has also taken away a bit of time to learn without such pressure.

What a hero this guy is. Schar had a great game too but Fernandez was a different level again today.

Still a point away from the relegation zone but a huge opportunity with our upcoming run of games to try and build up some distance and points closer to safety.

Fine coming Charlie Austin's way. Cracking interview. Hard not to laugh as his voice gets higher and higher. Speaking the truth though.

Feck me. What a great competitive game with the result we needed and deserved. We needed those points given other results today. The pressure was on. Some real warrior performances. Schar and Fernandez were roasted for pace but put in some brilliant tackles, blocks and headers. Very impressed. Rondon obviously MOM. A complete performance from him the performance we were assured he was capable of. Can he play consistently like that? Probably not but Hopefully we see some more from him as he regains fitness. Ki again with a really impressive performance in the middle. Calm, composed and very useful. Ritchie and Yedlin combined well again as did dummet and Kennedy to a slightly lesser effect. Still not convinced Kennedy's head is in the right place but a great contribution.

I like him and if Schar can put in the same type or shift he did at the weekend when he plays we have likely got the best CB pool I can remember for a fair while.

BBC now saying a source close to the family confirmed vichai on board when it came down Very sad situation.

On the bright side this current Newcastle side has help me transition and will make watching the new Canadian Premier League feel much better than it is. Muto has to replace Perez behind Rondon IMO. I know that isn't his or Rafa's prefered position but he offers so much more than anyone else we have there. Having Ki back is a big boost too. Worrying times = normality

Get out of our club, get out of our cluuuuub, Here's my six hundred and eighty five pounds (or whatever) But get out of our club. To be fair the left far later than the players did. Zero interest from the majority.

Solid 8 Fat cunt will sack rafa before he accepts the tools he has given him are shit. Only a monumental change in personality and back from Ashley or a takeover can save this season. Seeing as neither will happen it's a championship derby with Sunderland next year.

Dubs having a bit of a mare. We lack so much quality. Shame the fat cunt will see it as rafa not getting the best out of the players when you can't polish turds. Shelvey is a slim light in a darks dark room.

Just to have three Ashley Out avatars in a row. That day will be celebrated as much as winning something.

Little point blaming players. Diame we knew had peaked and needed replacing. We needed a top quality striker Perez needed replacing We needed a starting LB We needed another RB to push Yedlin Without bashing muto who was great today, we didn't get any of those.

We are such a charitable club. I for one am glad we always think of everyone else's fortune than our own. We don't have the quality and playing defensive at this club has simply never worked despite so many of our recent managers trying it. Its not that it isnt a credible tactic either. There will always be a contradiction because its the reverse of what the fans want and they last saw the club consistently successful at. Players and managers end up sucumbing to it, mentally, subliminaly or otherwise which means the team can never be fully defensive in a stoke esq lower team way. Against better teams which at present is the premiership and parts of the championship we don't have enough quality in defense or anywhere else on the pitch to match what is thrown at us for 90mins.

On the upside there is never very much to get deflated.