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How long has rafa got left if they loose this?

It doesn't matter how many goals he's scored or not if we keep drawing/loosing. We need to play him where it's best for the team to keep shape and get results, even if it means sacrificing his goals for that reason. Generally the team looked better and played better with BA on the left. Of course that means Cisse would need to score more, but playing him on the wing is a waste of his talent. At least BA has some experience of playing as a wing forward for both us and in germany.

The manager (he can still prove me wrong). It's very clear that we have no style of football ourselves when it comes to having the ball apart from hoofing and disrupting the other team. It works ok when everyone is fit because we rely on ben arfa to do something special etc but it becomes very apparent we haven't a clue when we get one or two injuries.

I haven't watched MOTD for weeks.. I usually can't watch it unless we win.

We'd only confuse them

While we were better tonight, we are still awful in possession and seem scared whenever a player closes us down. If we could actually hold onto the ball for a period of time it'd give our defence rest because quite frankly we invite teams onto us way too much and when you have Williamson back there it's a recipe for disaster.

You staying over? At least you can enjoy a cracking night out. Aye, i think quite a few beers may be needed, preferably enough to make me forget our performance no doubt.

And I'm coming over for this..

lol it's ok.. I picked wigan as one of the games to see this year. I know how to pick them..

Our team looks scared and they have no idea what to do when they get the ball.. it's like every man for themselves at times. The fact it's this way after him being manager for coming up to two seasons is dreadful. Has to go or we are going to get absolutely smashed by man city etc.

We weren't bad, but we have no idea how to attack at all..

I know the formation isn't the be all and end all, but seriously 4-4-2 doesn't work for our team.. but yet he continues to use it. Is he just being stubborn now because everyone keeps pointing out he's wrong?

If we play 4-4-2 we honestly have no hope. We're giving up chances by the bucket load, we need to flood the midfield whether its a 3 or a 5.

No, we already have 2 strikers who basically do the same thing. We need a striker who can link the midfield and can actually play football.

It's quite clear we do no attacking training at all.. A lot of our players just hoof it because they don't know what to do once they get possession. For example we know Williamson has no footballing ability so why is there no midfielder offering to take the ball off him? We can't even do the basics of keeping the ball.

Implement a passing/possession footballing philosophy throughout the whole club so it makes it easier to complete in games were our bigger players are missing. If Swansea can do this when they were falling off the face of the earth footballing wise, then so can we.

We have to play 3 in midfield and hope we can control the ball somehow. We offer zero attacking threat at the moment so a draw would be a major improvement.

All 11 of Barcelona's players on the pitch right now are from their academy.

No matter how small our squad is, we should be able to do the basics, pass and move etc. Teams with a lot less talented players are embarrassing us to be honest.

This magic crap he talks of is what annoys me the most, it's like he's relying on one player to do something special every fucking game for us to win.. nothing about great team play etc.

Can't stand him now.. that interview just pissed me off.

There was a point at 0-0 and he just received the ball, turned and started running towards the goal and instead of passing to the nufc player in space on the right he tried to shoot from ridiculous range. You can't call us a team at the moment.. it's frustrating watching other teams all working as one for each other and then we get what we had today.

I could accept the defeats if we showed signs of improvement, but we aren't improving at all.. we're getting worse week by week. Can't pass to each other, no movement, no-one making runs and to add to that we get 90 minutes of hoofing it upfield. Every time one of our players receives the ball he's on his own, no-one offers to help them out, they just stand and watch so we hoof and loose the ball.

We can't actually create one attacking move I was all for giving him a chance, but he has to go.

We're getting dominated so instead of adding an extra midfielder, he changes a winger for a winger..