Beren

De Bruyne ain't all that and a side of fries tbh.

You're gonna get an ulcer, man. Just being an asshole. I'm desperate for the EPL ref corruption story to break one day. It's going to be fucking magnificent. So much.

So good to see him happy playing football again. Class player was brilliant against Inglostadt.

The refs have to really fuck up egregiously for the pundits to break rank and contradict their decisions. It's pathetic.

The state of Adams. should be playing Legends.

Ridiculous commentary on MoTD. Depressing.

That Silva pass was class

Death, taxes and Pardew's second full season. Roll on 2016/17.

Absolutely.

The side don't seem particularly aggressive. It's not like they're Sunderland trying to kick the opposition off the pitch. A lot of it is clumsy and bad fitness IMO. Needs to be stamped out either way if you'll excuse the pun.

Lump on an overcompensating West Brom red now.

fucking Mariner

Slow feet but feel bad for him. Hopefully does him good long-term as TRon says. Hope he doesn't compromise on his physicality though.

Don't think they really got out of second gear in fairness. You can see they have more in the tank. NUFC seem to have a habit of trying to beat players in the middle third when it's easier to pass around them. Could learn a bit from Arsenal in that regard IMO.

Profile picture says it all. Attention-seeking pube.

Tiresome.

Thought Mariner might have waited until we were clean through on goal before blowing the whistle tbh.

Fucking hell man

As in Lee Ryder levels

Haven't been in the thread much and I'm sure it's been covered extensively, but Savage is a right knacker

Wow. Just saw the team sheet - I'm still not sold on McClaren - but very impressed at that selection. Almost perfect. It's still against Arsenal and the team haven't really found themselves, so the personnel means little in the grand scheme of things but still - impressed.

The first XI is potentially pretty decent but the squad is paper thin and the team don't have a style of their own yet. Given that, and that Cisse/Williamson/Colback/Anita/Taylor will feature heavily in all likeliness, 10th is the most optimistic I could see.

I keep forgetting we have an actual threat now. Yup, now he just needs to show he can be a footballing threat as well as a threat to the personal safety of the opposition.

Mitrovic would bowl Chambers over (if he plays like he did vs Liverpool).

Are you sure they didn't miss? I don't know. Surprised penalty awards against us weren't greeted with the opponents trotting back to the half way line for kick off.