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Forestieri has been very impressive, think he would be an improvement on either or diame or ayoze

Can we buy Roofe from leeds? Solely for the chance to sing: the roof, the roof, the roof is on fire!!!

That's an away team, keeping solid and structured before the flair and creativity. fair play to rafa. For all the colback haters, his experience will serve us well in a cualdron atmosphere, there is a slight risk in hayden for this type of game (although do believe it's overhyped - Leeds have nothing else to look forward to tbh...)

Wor lasses lookin' geet canny!

When hayden is fit why would we want to move mbemba. I thought he's looked great in defence for us at times, give him a break...

Ayoze away from home is not what I expect Rafa will do, expect Diame with more ariel threat and power instead of Ayoze's trickery and guile.

Honestly don't think any of our lot will want to abandon ship, great team spirit, we'll be back in the prem in six months time and Rafa will have us competing in a couple of years time.

need a goal to finish this, would be typical nufc to allow them a lucky one via set piece or something

Speaking with a mate yesterday, who is a manu supporter, and he pointed out something which holds ground; when we lined up against Fulham he thought we had a team of midgets, that we would get bullied easily (in this division), he also chipped in that teams will be playing for set pieces against us becasyue we don't have any big players bar Lascelles. Had to give him credence to be fair. Let's change Ayoze for Diame and get shelvey in the middle aswell...

-------------------------sels------------------------------- Janmaat------Lascelles-----Mbemba----------Anita ---------------Shelvey-------Hyaden------------------- Aarons----------------Diame------------------Ritchie ----------------------Gayle------------------------------

No way should Anita be anywhere near the first XI unless it's as a right back. Agree 100% on Anita

I don't think it has anything to do with the players, the manager had a shocker. All of you, please go back to page one of this thread and look at the line up, nobody expected that line up and tbh it is very negative. It reminded me of Pardew (baulk!). Rafa made a huge mistake as far as I am concerned, we had various players on the pitch that had no reson to be there. Any other manager apart from Rafa and they would have got slated... He fu~~~'## up, that simple! Next match let's start with the players who looked decent in pre-season and get some more attacking fret (baulk) such as aarons on the pitch from the start. We got beaten through a set piece, which can be looked at either positively or negatively depending on which way the wind is blowing. I hope Rafa mixes the match selection up next week, I want to see aarons/mbemba and don't want to see anita/colback/dummet...

Could even shift Mbembea to left back and shove Hanley into centre with Lascelles???

------------------------------Krul--------------------------------- Janmaat----------Lascelles ------Mbemba-----------Dummet ------------------Diame-------Shelvey------------------------- Ritchie--------------------Ayoze---------------------Aarons ---------------------------------Gayle------------------------- Sels, Tiote, Anita, Hanley, Mitro, Hayden, De Jong

I don't think his ball control is that bad, you have to take in to account that he is normally running full tilt when he receives the ball, which makes it ten times harder to control precisely. The main problem with him is that he is utter crap and dissapears in games for long periods and only has a good game where he is influential in a ration of about one in four...

--------------------------------Krul-------------------------------------- Janmaat----------Hanley------------lascelles------------Mbemba --------------------Tiote-----------Shelvey---------------------------- Ritchie---------------------Ayoze-----------------------Aarons --------------------------------Gayle--------------------------------- Subs: Elliot, Dummet, Mitro, Thauvin, Anita, Colback

I am enjoying Rafa put his stamp on NUFC and the fact that he is getting his signings wrapped up early, also liking the fact that my interest levels are at there highest for a couple of years now... but one thing that is worrying me is the distinct lack of goals we have up front. I wonder whether Gayle, Mitro and Ayoze have enough goals in them to get us into a dominating position. I like them all but not one seems to be a twenty goal striker, which is what I think is needed to guarantee our promotion. Would also like a striker to cement their position and stay there for our return to the prem. Your thoughts...

Typical Newcastle result and Sunderland fight for their lives and get a good win against Chelsea. We are down, no two ways about it. Only thing that would cushion this is if Rafa stayed...

yOU COULD TURN THAT INTO A 433 EASILY ASWELL...

In a relegation scrap the defense needs to be the first priority, then when that's right we can start to think about nicking a goal: I would go for quick counter attacking formation with a "solid" (all we've got) rearguard: -----------------------Blobby-------------------------- Janmaat------Fistpump-------Lascelles------Mbemba ----------------------Tiote (Saivet)-------------------- Sissoko--------Jonjo---------DeJong-------Townsend ----------------------Doumbia m'lord----------------

Is he alive/training/dropped or what?

Just had a look at Sun/Pal/Nor reamining fixtures and it looks like we will need at least ten points to be safe. We need wins against Norwich, swansea and Palace and to scrape something from another of our fixtures. Not looking very likely as I just can't see the goals coming unless Doumbia turns out to be the loan of the season!

When I saw the line up yesterday before the game I knew we would be knackered for pace. Pedro, Willian and Hazard with costa buzzing... recipe for disaster. Colo was abysmal, taylor always in two minds whether to cover coloccini or pick up his own runner, made the wrong decision every time. Put a youngster in at left back, albeit the only one who could perhaps compete in the speed stakes (wrong!), and you get comeuppance.

Aarons was a mistake, he was well off the pace. He did a couple of things down the wing but Defensively he was wandering what to do and where to position himslef. Why he didn't just keep the 4231 and shuffle the back four, god knows...

yep. he's walking and very half hearted today...