HawK

Kevin Nolan is only noticed when he scores imo.

Which is why SDJ is vital for us, the only attacking player we have who can control a football and make a pass.

vs Leicester too.

eh?

I like that Kaka is typing everything for me atm.

SDJ on and instantly our completed passes in the opponents third has quadrupled. How he can not start absolutely baffles me.

We need a fucking poltergeist to get the ball in the net the way we're playing.

For fucks sake.

Any other manager would get crucified on here if they did that Sissoko's been shocking since October.

SDJ is one of our best players. Says it all

I think he feels sorry for him.

Just waiting for the return of the baby crawl ball control.

Would love to be in that dressing room right now. I think this team has even broke Benitez and he's gone full hair dryer. By gods we need it.

Almost a full season of getting games you'd expect some improvement from day one. None.

SDJ and Cisse for Mitro and Perez please.

Love the way they've accurately portrayed how all the little footballers are running around in different directions without an ounce of a gameplan. Quite masterful, actually.

Shelvey has got to play deep to get time on the ball, it's from there he can win us games if Benitez gets our forwards to actually move off the ball.

Even more mental that he got man of the match the other night. I thought he was very average. But he's had an excellent season and therefore deserves an International call up. Should have been Kante by a mile.

Mitrovic doesn't deserve a starting place at the minute as he's bringing nothing to our game. When the ball is lumped up to him it bounces off his chest and heads back towards our own goal. He never seems able to try and turn his markers because he's nowhere near the ball after its bounced off him. You can say that we've made few chances for him but he can make his own chances, or not in his case because he's not clever or quick enough. I would love to defend against him because he does most of the defenders work for them by offering very little. Totally, totally disagree with that. If anything, his hold up play has been the strongest part of his game. He doesn't look frettinin enough at the moment, Pardew would drop him for Kuqi His hold up play has been his strongest part but that in itself is still nowhere near good enough for a striker that has no pace. He may improve but after 6 months into the season he hasn't improved one iota despite being offered lots of game time.

I think Cisse has to start if fit, he's a pure poacher, and now with the way we're playing we might see the ball in the box a bit more often. Why are all our strikers so bad

As if a genuine reporter has not researched this properly. We've been in negative net spend cumulatively for over 6 years until this January, including the purchases of those players, and without a drop of investment from the owner or using the TV money to purchase players. Bringing spending back to sanity would have meant we'd have bought double the players we did or at least better ones.

Pearce did a job for us tbf, I liked him as a player on our team.

Sounds like a 2 up top solution then. But we got Rafa so nevermind

And how to hold the ball up And how to win free kicks