Jayson

It's our moment

Come on!!!! Can't believe this is happening

Come on lads!!

It genuinely doesn’t seem like either side here has just won the champions league. Underwhelming game to win. Half the pool players aren’t even smiling waiting to get the trophy.

Poch got the Kane/Moura decision wrong for me. Kanes a top striker, but he hasn’t changed big games like Moura has recently for a while now. He played similarly at the World Cup. Kane was higher quality a couple season ago imo.

Holy fuck It’s a solid free kick, but no one seems to have noticed it kicks up off Gomez’s shoulder subtly which helps it get the lift. Best angle is 1 min in. Very good but a bit of luck involved.

When Shelveys on his game we're a better side. He and Diame outplayed several central midfield pairings last season and were a big part in us doing well. His ball to Perez was an example of what he can bring. The laziness in getting back seems to have creeped in again however, which he seemed to have worked on a lot last season aswell as his fitness. He's had injuries and missed quite a few games, which likely leads to things like the Pogba tackle due to wanting to get on the ball more. He's always lacked control to a point. If we can get the Diame & Shelvey from last season, with KI also we should be able to win games. But you could say similar of Kenedy & Ritchie. The main thing missing to me is the boost of confidence/feeling of progression we got from actually making some signings last season and bringing new faces in. Rafa can't replicate that feeling of excitement in the fans and players in the same way. As Ritchie said in his interview, most of it is probably about belief.

To be fair, we'll probably sign/loan some players in January. Mike Ashley's history is that he does something when we're struggling. It's just either not enough or just enough to keep us up. Then we either go down, come back up and lack investment again. Or we stay up and lack investment again. It's circular and pointless.

Why are we even watching anymore. I know we all say it but it's so bad :lol: You have to laugh. Suppose it's something to do. I do hope things actually kick off if Rafa goes. We surely don't have many more chances for change any time soon after that.

Hayden gave it away, Shelvey jogged back again though and left an open pass for Sanchez.

It's just the margins, we've probably created more than they have yet can't do anything with it. They get a free kick, rashford probably adds some swerve despite having a relatively poor game and that singular bit of quality with one of our best players having a moment and we're a goal behind. Nothing Rafa can do about that, though they'll have a go again if we lose now.

Reminds me of the time I made up stories so I could get angry and then bookended it with more liquid faecal matter based on my preexisting prejudices because I despise people who I don’t class as real men. Enlighten me on how I’m wrong then? Well to start with he wanted to join us permanently, not go back to Chelsea. So there's that. Not been regularly googling Kennedy's latest quotes I'll be honest, but last I checked he specifically did an interview in September stating he wanted to go back to Chelsea after the loan and become a champion for them. Perhaps that's where Odin is getting the impression from? I think that's probably fair enough, but was a fairly stupid thing to say in an interview ahead of a new season with a different side. Aside from that, he's one of our better players.

Came from a shocking pass from Manquillo that.

Did well defensively. Needs to keep things a bit simpler and sort his control a bit to stop causing counter attacks.

Bournemouth next, gotta get some form going now

Superb from Kenedy

GO ON AYOZE

I think you'd see a difference if we got any sort of result. Players dont turn awful over night, Diame and Shelvey were superb at many points last season. The sides confidence is obviously an affecting factor. Only really in last 3rd of the season. Yeah when we got a few new players, who came in doing well and lifted the general outlook of the players. Kenedy especially lifted the players confidence, we largely have the same midfield. They're not doing well, i still expect they're just very low on confidence given our poor run. If any of our strikers start scoring actual goals, the general performance will improve.

I think you'd see a difference if we got any sort of result. Players dont turn awful over night, Diame and Shelvey were superb at many points last season. The sides confidence is obviously an affecting factor.

I've not watched a game this season yet, this is my first one. Can see how out of confidence they all are. Main positive was we are catching them out in promising positons, just poor decision making afterwards. Muto found a few nice positions but could have done more afterwards.

Combination of new players finding their feet, very hard fixtures to start with, playing a high quality of opponent so time on the ball is limited, difficult to gain confidence due to time on the ball and results again due to opposition, unfortunate finish to game against Cardiff for one of our best players etc etc It makes sense that we would not start this season flying. We have no reason to have momentum yet.

Point away from home against Palace is only a good result. Rafa is a pragmatic guy, you can see we set out for the point from the get go. He will see the fixtures individually and not get caught up in the "NEWCASTLECANTWINGAMESagainstthetopfour" nonsense. The media builds stories where they can as that's what creates the drama. If you're sensible you'll see there is no drama atall. Only poor result so far is Cardiff & even that was OK.

Yeah and we will likely have Sooty and Sweep as Manager and assistant, so is there really much point in worrying/caring? The object should be try to appease Rafa, till we can get shot of Ashley or at least pressure him into providing more financial backing. There should be a big campaign in the run up to the January transfer window really, as it will be the fans last chance to affect Rafa's viewpoint in terms of whether he can achieve his ambitions at this club. He likely wont think so currently and if Ashley doesn't budge what would there be to follow anymore? Yeah I know, but that's the point I'm making. I'm saying because people are saying "under rafa" and I'm saying he won't be under rafa for more than a season. I agree with what you're saying, was just pointing out that the problem is we then have these players under the next joker they get in. There is no problem with who we have under the next joker though, as we'd have the "next joker" undermining things anyway.

Yeah and we will likely have Sooty and Sweep as Manager and assistant, so is there really much point in worrying/caring? The object should be try to appease Rafa, till we can get shot of Ashley or at least pressure him into providing more financial backing. There should be a big campaign in the run up to the January transfer window really, as it will be the fans last chance to affect Rafa's viewpoint in terms of whether he can achieve his ambitions at this club. He likely wont think so currently and if Ashley doesn't budge what would there be to follow anymore?

Rafa's clearly not happy from them quotes. Basically saying well the club's run like shit but we know this by now so nothing new here.