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But how would Janmaat help the situation if fit?, the mans a disaster.

They have 13 points from their last 6 games, including victories over Arsenal and Chelsea, we're on a completely different planet of shitness to this lot. We'll lose this comfortably. Benitez has only had one game at home so far and that was the draw in the derby, hardly enough to see what we'll be like at home under him. Swansea's form isn't bad, but we just have to go out and win this or obviously we're 100% gone, no ifs and buts or second chances. This is the definition of a must win game with no exceptions.

Most of them are tools.

Tell you what, you can accept it and other people can hope for the very slim chance of escape and talk about the chances of that happening, hows that?

Or Villa instead. Norwich losing at this point is best, but Palace losing could open them up as the team to catch considering their form and the teams they have left to play.

we'll be gone before that. If Norwich sink Sunderland this weekend coming and they beat Palace, then its all over. Alan can walk into SJP like a king. Norwich aren't playing Sunderland this weekend, its Norwich/Palace. I'd be happy for Palace to win their first game against Norwich and Sunderland to beat Norwich as well. But IF Norwich beat Palace I think they could still be catchable themselves. The three fixtures they have before us are Everton (H), Arsenal (a), Man Utd (a).

Aye, and the fact he gets on the ball and gets shots away can create chances as well, like the one that rebounded to Cisse on Saturday and should have been the equaliser.

Hmm sound like anyone we already know. Massive spring onion head & French? You aren't trying to say he's no better than Obertan are you?, because despite his limitations he's still far better.

He scored 9 in 45 appearances. Mitrovic has 8 in 27.

You have to be on a wind up, most mental comment ever if not.

He did look good there at the end of the Sunderland game, and he's been terrible going forward away from home so maybe worth a try. Big risk in such a important game though.

But then who plays at left back? Is Mbabu even fit?

Is it not "you're too thick"? I don't mind a correction from a man of your age wisdom Mick.

If Taylor isn't good to decent defensively most of the time I've got no idea how to describe Janmaat. He's either nowhere to be seen defensively or he's arriving too late to stop a goal attempt. I remember one moment last game when under no pressure at all, a number of Newcastle players in front of him, he calmly headed the ball straight to a Sunderland player. Steven Taylor would be fucking massacred on here if he was as bad as Janmaat has been, and theirs been no sign of improvement under Rafa either. The most positive thing you can say about Janmaat is that he regularly receives the ball in a offensive position, unfortunately he regularly does fucking nothing with it.

You'd prefer Steven Taylor to Janmaat at right back is what I see? Or is there some hidden message to your post? Why would you be amazed that someone doesn't want to persist with a a guy at right back who hasn't been able to defend this season and has recently stopped offering any attacking threat to boot. I don't see why its so incredible to want to try someone else there. I've never been Taylors biggest fan, mainly because he makes crazy mistakes occasionally and is made of balsa wood. But most of the time he can actually get on to the field he's decent to good defensively, which would be a big step up from Janmaat at the moment.

I don't care man I just log on here to read a bit of news and give an opinion occasionally. Anything beyond that doesn't interest me.

Nah its more the fact you're to thick to get what I've written.

You first, I mean nearly 11k posts in 3 years, you desperately bored or what?

Jupiler league is better than Norway's top division and Lukaku was 17 when he was banging goals in for Anderlecht, not really comparable to a 21 year old scoring some goals in Norway like..

Aye its Norway though to be fair, also 10 of those were in the Norwegian second division. Looks like he's getting more consistent recently like, but still its Norway so hard to say how good he is.

Would rather play captain fist pump at right back than the tin man anyway, at least Taylor can defend most of the time.

Over the full 90 no we weren't. Also the derby is no normal game. I think if we'd played anyone else around us at home we'd have won comfortably. Goal keeper injury is worrying, but I'd still be more confident of getting a result here then against the Mackems who just have a Indian sign over us now.

This is a concern. They'll be relegated long before they play us. Right now they can get a maximum of 37 points if they win every one of their remaining games. Lose the next two against Chelsea and Bournemouth and it'll likely be official.

He probably is better than Elliot, its not his potential ability I'm questioning, its his lack of match practice that worries me most. I hope he can prove his quality obviously, I'd just have much prefered the safe option. A keeper I know will be ok rather than a unknown quantity who might be good or might let the ball under his hands.

I really hope a few days training in the first 11 will make him less nervy but I'm not hopeful unfortunately