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Not Colback and Gouffran. If they start Monday Rafa OUT.

Anyone else not seeing it? Working fine for me. Issue on mobiles I think. Makes me feel awesome watching that. I am so fucking happy.

There is some logic to that. Under the current rules of engagement I would tend to agree with them.......but should he keep us up and go into the summer with Ashleys backing in the tranfer market then such sentiments would be laughable. To be fair, the way Rafa coaches and tactics he employs he's basically a much more advanced version of Sam.

Planning on taking Tuesday off. Well probably lose as he will have only had 2 sessions but I think we'll see alot more effort and commitment

That's got me moist as f*** A highly enjoyable read. Certainly different to the opinions fans of Pardew's or McLaren's former club. I just hope we stay up. If we stay up, my god, I will have the best fucking summer in terms of awaiting a football season I think I'll ever have had. Im not discounting Keegan and Bobby bring in charge but the feeling from what weve had the last few years when for the first tike in my life I got to the point where I didnt care about football and it was debatable if I actually would say I like football to people I meet. Rafa will probably not be able to achieve what they did, he may and he certainly can as a manager but he probably won't have the resources to do so. I was thinking about it before and I am literally flabbergasted we got him. Its interesting that alot of people here were saying chuck a load of money at him to keep us up and we have. Its probably one of the first times they have actually done what the fans want. It would not surprise me if Charnley has an account on here and they went after him because their way had not worked.

If they'd done this when he was sacked from Madrid we'd have a much better chance. Good move but can't understand why it didnt happen earlier.

We should have a lot of players back from injury for this. It will be interesting to see how Benitez lines up

Can't actually believe this. From Pards,Carver, Mclaren to Benitez. It's mental.

I wonder how much money they've promised him. It would be interesting if we gave him 80 Million because to be honest if you strengthen the right areas ( 2 CB's, LB, a creative Winger, Holding Mid and a striker) we would have an extremely solid platform. We have to stay up though which is a massive if.

1 point from safety with a game in hand. I don't think so. With McClaren we'll be lucky to pick up a point at all though. Fine margins. It's the gap above that which concerns me. Any team can go on a crazy run and Norwich or Sunderland could. We could win 6 games and still go down.

We've only ever had 2 non-British managers - Ardilles and Gullit. http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/68204000/jpg/_68204857_joe_kinnear2.jpg Hughton as well.

No, closest is Ardilles. Looking through it we have only had 2 (Gullit and Ardilles) outside of the British Isles if you count Ireland as part of the British Isles.

First foreign Manager since Gullit I think. KEEP BRITAIN BRITISH

I havent looked at the table much recently and realised how adrift Us, Mackems and Norwich are. I reckon we might have a change of catching palace though.

Can't fucking believe this like. Hope it's not too late to save us this season, I fear it might be. Having a champions league winner as a manager is ridiculous after the last 2. IF we stay up I will actually be able to enjoy being a fan again.

Its more logical than him staying on as head coach. Since they will go the most illogical route possible I am suspecting Paul Jewell in as Manager on an 8 year contract.

I'm fairly sure the first mention of Rafa was on here hypothetically. It won't happen. I doubt Mclaren will br sacked either. If we get Rafa before the next game I will enter robot wars next year and the robot will be called Bafa Renitez.

Please be true

If he is still in charge at our next game we have no hope.

Asking for the sack. I literally think he might be trying to get sacked.

Massive defeat. 9-1 to stoke.

It's a joke about how people keep referring to him as "Aaron's" because of phone autocorrect. But Aaron's wouldn't mean there's more than one of him, because apostrophes denote omission or possession, not pluralisation. Fair play.

How many Rolando Aaron's are there? Should it not be Rolando Aarons? Most likely giggs.

Because Shelvey is better than Guthrie?

It's actually an excellent site if you move away from the Pure Football threads, with some really knowledgeable, intelligent posters. PF is like an asylum mind. so big fat sam as expected has got yous looking like a team that is hard to beat, if you stay up, and i expect you to more than us, what do you think he can do next season? europe? Get back to rtg