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TELT YOU WE'D BE SHIT IF HE WERE DEAD

me too. Was a ridiculous challenge.... Still not a red like.

I don't think we'd have a great chance of survival with the squad in it's current form like.

Even worse, I heard he LOVES Muslims.

Did you mean to post this yesterday?

Loan a central midfielder better than jack colback?

All much better options than Colback then. And Ameobi. We're going to see very little of Ameobi in all likelihood. Colback meh, if he's got Shelvey beside him we'll still dominate. and if he doesn't?

All much better options than Colback then.

All of the top 6 signed or loaned a few players. Not sure whether they're just adding depth, or trying to get more quality, but either way they could all claim they've strengthened. Brighton signed two players on loan from Chelsea & Arsenal. Reading signed Jordan Mutch & Reece Oxford.

No meltdown for me, but just a little disappointing. I think we're unlikely to finish top now, and I think we'll need some good luck with injuries and suspensions to stay in the top 2. And lets hope Rafa agrees with this strategy somewhat.

i've always thought the funniest jokes are the ones that are repeated 10 times even when they didn't get a laugh the first time round

Sky want you to keep watching their inane drivel

He doesn't know any more than Pete graves tbh

You said that at the end of last January too. This time I'm right though yes? If we're panicking now, with the best manager and squad in the league and an excellent position in the table then it just seems like it's a permanent state of affairs. Of course fans always want more players but logicially it's always going to be hard to sign the right people for the reasons we all know about. Getting top-half PL players to join a championship team (in January) has to be one of the toughest transfer tasks around. We're never going to have two Gayles or two Shelveys. It's brilliant we've got one. best manager and squad, yet not best position in the league.... I'm not asking for two Gayles and two Shelveys, but we have no-one in the midfield anywhere near Shelvey in style or quality, and it will cost us if he can't play every game.

I guess I just missed the part where we got promoted already. We should sack Andros off asap, no matter what Rafa wants.

He also wore that awful T-shirt

classic Ian W. #wait

Probably not. But why risk it? There is a huge drop off when Colback plays. He's not the same type of midfielder as Shelvey, and we have no-one else who is. And this is ignoring the fact that he's dogshit at his natural role too.

Haven't they both just been injured/banned? Aye and look how awful we looked without Shelvey. If we were to lose him for a lengthy spell then I would have major doubts about us. Same with Gayle. Murphy is doing a job right now but whether he would be able to keep it up with limited service for a lengthy period of time would again be questionable. Oh, you mean if we lose them both for the rest of the season? What I'm getting at is that we have lost Shelvey for quite a while and we're still comfortably in automatic promotion. Aye, if we we're to lose them for a large number of games then i'm not sure we would have the team to consistently pick up results. We may still be in the top 2 but we won only 2 of the 5 games and we didn't look convincing in any of them. I'd simply feel a lot more confident if we got Townsend in but what will be will be. Was 2 in 4, not 2 in 5 to be fair. Unless you count Birmingham where he likely wouldn't have played anyway So whether through suspension or not, when Shelvey doesn't play, we are far worse as a team. If our form without him was stretched to the end of the season, it would lead to us not being in the top 2. Playoffs anyone?

Silly PL football inflation must be accounted for though. It generally outweighs both form and age.

We also lost at home to 5th, 6th and 23rd. All teams involved will lose some games, including ourselves. Some teams will go on good runs of form. Our form right now is something like 6th or 7th in the league. If it continues as such, we won't finish in the top 2. If anything happens to Shelvey, we're screwed. We need to push on, but we're clearly not arsed about doing so. It's a very dangerous game. As it stands, I imagine we'll finish 2nd, but I'd be much happier if we strengthened and fought for 1st.

We'll need some luck to be a Premier League club in 6 months time if we don't strengthen our squad. Anything happens to Shelvey and we're fucked.