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From another website: Has to be the Mackem factor surely? Can't fathom anyone that supports our club could still have any kind of respect for Colback!?

Got to be honest the signings of him, Clark, Sels (pointless signing IMHO) and Gayle (not a big fan) have not impressed me - I hope I'm proved wrong mind and I do have faith in Rafa so you have to trust his judgement. We've known for a while the squad was paper thin, I think a few of his buys have been "padding" players, also we know he likes to rotate his starting 11. Gayle I think will come good at this level with the right partner, he hasn't had the best managers utilising his skills so I'll reserve judgement until I can see what he can do under Rafa. The only one I don't understand is Sels unless we're losing Krul.

If Colback is anywhere near the starting 11 for this one I don't think I can even bring myself to watch it. Agreed, I think it should be Hayden and Diame in the centre, we need someone that can either come forward in MF or make that killer pass rather than knock it about the lines. Fulham made a couple of really neat forward passes that cut out our back line, I can't recall us doing the same at any point, slow, laboured build up play, left to right and back again across the lines then swing it in for a couple of midgets.

Stunk the pitch up AGAIN tonight, a constant undead representation of everything that's been wrong with NUFC for the past few years. Not even worthy of the deadwood label. Can't wait to get shot of the bloodless leech, stealing a living, I hope that's the last we see of it.

Not worth losing the will to live over, it was a killer though today was supposed to be a new dawn but it ended up being a hangover from last season. The same culprits as last season too, I think Rafa will learn from this and perhaps it was a wake up call to all involved, (a) it's not going to be a walk in the park and (b) don't play 3 DMs and stifle any creativity we could have had in the team. Fully expect Diame to replace Colback and hopefully 1 or 2 new players before the next game, striker is a must, in the absence of Mitro we need some presence up front.

Perez and Gayle can't play up front together, needs to be one or the other with Mitrovic as soon as he's available. I know Benitez likes to work from the back and is a defensive coach, but some games are just crying out for a bit more than that. I'll never get my head round starting a game like this with 3 DMs. Starting line up was all wrong, subs, as usual were spot on, but momentum was lost way before they came on. I trust Benitez to see the issues and change things, McClaren and Pardew would send out the same team week in week out hoping for change. With the new signings to come in and two good home games coming up we need to put this loss to bed asap and move on. I hope we never have to see that ginger twat again and Anita needs to be kept on the subs bench for emergencies only, he's a good utility player but never a starter. Richie will be our star player this season if he continues to play that way.

Fuck that shite, seriously need to pick our game up at home ffs. That was a poor display, we absolutely cannot play like that. Ref did us no favours, blind as a fookin bat, but we should have created more than that. It's not the end of the world but I hope that's the kick up the arse the players need.

Two blatant handballs missed, how do you miss two in one game ffs?!?

Finally! Fuck off you ginger vampire cunt

Fuck off Colback!!!

This is so frustrating!

He looked a different player as soon as Rafa came in, a liability before and he's made massive strides in his game, plus he was verbal to the rear end of last season when everyone else was whimpering away he came out swinging. The lad is full of pashun but he's gaining the skills to back it up, absolutely the right choice for me.

C because cutbacks, might even tweet from the hospital.

We should and probably will win the league.

Benitex has got this, a comfortable win I reckon.

It's been a while since I've seen a good whooshing!

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/latest-aston-villas-ciaran-clark-11694083 Is that some kind of medicine? Is Lee Dyder moonlighting?

so full of bile and vitriol Rattled marra

The fans on Twitter said they have 12 fit first team players, and 6 of them have handed in transfer requests. Ridiculous that tbh, I feel for Hull fans. Diame is a decent player, plenty of experience of the championship at 29 and scored 10 goals last year but hes a CAM and I'm not he can play in a 2 in midfield Even though we brought Hayden in, we need to bring a specialist defensive midfielder to replace Tiote. Lucas would be a brilliant signing but a bit of a pipe dream Hull are already relegated tbh, absolutely pointless season coming up for them. Was thinking the same, what in the living fuck happened over there It's like Blackpool all over again, how many loans did they fill the squad with that season?

Can't be, Colback has it in his contract to start every game he's fit for!?

You'd think he'd want to start with a near to strongest side possible. However Rafa loves a mash up so don't be surprised to see changes.

Hell some teams buy players just because they played in a WC or Euros... Guivarc'h says hi.

The twists and turns of the Ashley saga have only two chapters left imho. Appoint a figurehead or sell up. Even with the current fan apathy/malaise, even the idiots cotton on eventually and SMc will start to take some stick. Possibly even after next weekend because of the Pardew factor. He then either appoints someone capable of major cultural change OR another McClaren, Kinnear etc. He either wants a competitive club () or he doesn't. Those words from May will come back to haunt him soon. Lucky guess.