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Colback looked pretty downbeat after his goal.

Saw Steve Harper a few nights ago at the Brandling in Gosforth. He'd either been on holiday or had been applying copious amounts of fake tan.

We were at the Junction and exactly the same thing happened. The entire bar went quiet, it was surreal but very cool.

Defensively he was very good. Consistently tracked back and helped the team. Offensively less so, he should have arguably scored when he went through on goal, and a lot of his passes and touches gave the ball away. Saying that he got an assist, so not all bad.

Silly foul by Townsend.

I think the main issue here is that we're not even improving. We're actually starting to look worse. What do you do in this situation? It really seems like the majority of the team genuinely can't be bothered to fight for the slight chance of survival and are content to go down. I don't think anyone can save us, it's over.

Hope to never see the cunt again. 90% of this team aren't even on the pitch. You could barely call them professionals.

Janmaat

Taylor and Shelvey doing their utmost to put our 3rd choice keeper under pressure

It's done, man. It's over.

I think Ashley's reign as head of this club has demonstrated that there is little to no planning here. We were lucky with Hughton, Nolan, Carroll and co last time. I don't think we'll be as lucky next season.

Really glad I made the effort to watch that. Grim. Just grim.

This is such an important game, not sure I can stomach watching it. I've not been nervous since Villa away in our relegation season.

Mbemba running down the pitch and taking a ludicrous shot from about 30 yards out

If they end up going down this season

amazing

Surely Wenger is getting sacked if they go out and fail to win the League again.

It's an 8 for me as we still have problems at CB and LB. If Rafa had been hired a few weeks earlier I would be a lot more confident, but I can't see us beating Sunderland at the moment (I'm a pessimist). With two relegation spots open and effectively three teams battling it out for those spots, losing to Sunderland would a huge blow. Our players have shown little mental resilience in the past, and that game is going to massive. Had Rafa had a few games to get a run going I would have been far more confident about beating the mackems, and in turn our survival. Swansea will pick up a win against Villa, they also have Stoke and us still to play. Stoke's form is all over the place so I can see them getting something there. As or us, I don't have a clue what kind of team we will be at that point. Palace have Norwich and us as winnable games. I can see Pardew getting lucky enough to pick up a few more points which should keep them up. It all depends on how quickly Benitez can turn around a team which has been floundering for years.

Very late to the show, but I'm over the moon with this. Still might go wrong but fuck it, it's nice to have something to be optimistic about. http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u289/Dinomasic/ZCjDCtN_zps9w1ofcnj.gif

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Iu2axEdxvq8/VeNBsDg4KUI/AAAAAAAAQ5A/JdB37p4ju0g/s1600/wait_for_it.gif

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--nfKUZ1-r--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_320/ewscibnte5emupat3cbp.gif :lol:

The ban on criticizing Dalglish was funny.

Sam Allardyce has never been in the shit as badly as they are such an incorrect myth like. they're looking far more likely than us or Norwich to stay up.

I don't subscribe to this idea of experience in a relegation fight. A manager should concentrate on winning, regardless of table position. If Rafa can get them playing like theyre challenging for the Champions League then all the better. The issue is low dressing room moral. If Rafa can instill some belief in this team we can maybe get away with having a terrible back four (or three).

Sam is a proven manager in a relegation fight. I've not looked over his records but I assume Benitez has never been in this kind of situation, so it's not completely a stupid statement by the mackem.