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PCP will be having second thoughts or at least should be, the amount of immediate investment needed is insane.

Again I will say it, this is yet another example of Rafa refusing to play Shelvey, Merino and Hayden together, I have no idea why he refuses to do that, we can't play 442 and our options at number 10 are atrocious.

Needs to be dropped, Shelvey goes through a tough patch and is dropped in a heartbeat, this guy has been pap for weeks and continually gets picked.

We’ve been told so many times that Rafa never changes from 4411, yet in this wretched simply wretched run of form he’s tried every formation bar it. Not sure what’s happened to the man, perhaps he’s just given up, like most of his players.

Seen enough now, should not be starting games, Mbemba needs to start if Lascelles isn’t fit. He’s just plain awful and is costing us points, could have done so much better on all the goals today.

8 not much will save us now, Rafa’s got nothing to work with but he’s also not helping himself. If LeJuene starts the next game, he’s lost the plot.

Fucking shit shit shit from everyone concerned.

We are going down like, absolutely no doubt about it, we'll not bounce straight back up again this time.

You're insane...but my god do I hope you are right.

We are frightened of the pace they have, that's fine but the longer the game goes with the scoreline as it is the deeper we'll sit and that'll probably not end well. Gayle has a huge part to play in this I feel, probably more reason to bring Shelvey on to feed him.

Gayle really needed to score that chance straight after the goal, would have changed the whole game if we had been 2 up.

Woeful.. these are games we have to pick up points from, a draw wouldn't be disaster, we don't look like we are capable of getting another so imperative that we keep a clean sheet in the second half.

You could say that about the 10 others in Black and White tbf.

Merino has given the ball away in crucial moments way too many times, talented player but very careless sometimes.

Joselu hasn't been our worst player for once, been perhaps best of a thoroughly bad bunch.

Awful corner yet again.

FFS decent corner for once.

Waste again

Need to score that Murphy, we won't get many better chances

Gayle should be doing a lot better there.

That was never a pen Man, in fact Vardy should have been booked for the dive.

This is fucking horrible, we are a relegation side, Rafa has no answers right now.

True, he probably took his grand kids along to all those cup finals at the crystal palace.

Watching these highlights, surprisingly the Brighton tweet may have had a point: https://www.nufc.co.uk/nufc-tv/latest-videos/brighton-fa-youth-cup-highlights-17-18?autoplay=true&isloggedin=true#

The main asset was SJP.