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We look a far better team with an up for it and on his game Tiote in it. Shame he's hardly shown that form for the past couple of years.

Crying shame he wasn't brought in a bit earlier.

Aye it's a bit much to expect highly paid professionals to give their all when they turn out once a week or occasionally twice. It's just not human nature. Whatever your job is, you need to feel a sense of purpose and have some positive influence coming from somewhere. Absolute tosh. Take in a Northern League game and you'll see players throwing themselves into challenges and playing like their lives depended on it with nothing really at stake and for little more than their travel expenses. 100% effort is a minimum requirement and a lot of players haven't given that this season. Yeah but that would imply that success is the aim. Explain success? Success for an Accrington Stanley player probably means something different to success for a Man City player. 100% effort should be mandatory regardless and if that had been given all season we all know we wouldn't be sat 2nd bottom and staring relegation in the face.

Aye it's a bit much to expect highly paid professionals to give their all when they turn out once a week or occasionally twice. It's just not human nature. Whatever your job is, you need to feel a sense of purpose and have some positive influence coming from somewhere. Absolute tosh. Take in a Northern League game and you'll see players throwing themselves into challenges and playing like their lives depended on it with nothing really at stake and for little more than their travel expenses. 100% effort is a minimum requirement and a lot of players haven't given that this season.

Aye it's a bit much to expect highly paid professionals to give their all when they turn out once a week or occasionally twice.

Great performance and desire from the players but all this proves is that they've been tossing it off and mugging the club and it's supporters all season. Too little, too late. If we'd played the way we've played in the last couple of games all season we'd be in the top half.

Shelvey, as bad as he's been lately, for Colback would have been my preferred team. Otherwise happy with that.

Never done it for a league game though, not even in the Championship and our ground has 10,000 more seats to fill than theirs.

Could have closed one years ago and nobody would have noticed. Fair point.

Just seen on twitter Villa have already taken the decision to close one of their stands for next season

Personally never had a problem with them. Been to Anfield about a dozen times watching NUFC and always found them decent even after the 2 times I seen us win there. Certainly far more pleasant than the supporters of the team at the other side of Stanley Park, again just speaking from personal experience.

Evidently not. For the record we played Liverpool in the away game previous to Villa. I was at both games and the reaction was completely opposite at both stadiums. Liverpool battered us 3-0 which in truth could have been 6 or 7. Everyone at Anfield that day knew we were down but the reaction of the Liverpool fans outside the ground that day couldn't have been different to at Villa Park. Handshakes outside the ground and every single Liverpool fan we spoke to afterwards had genuine sympathy for our plight and wished us well for the future. The hatred before and after the match at Villa Park was just bizarre. I don't think it could have been any worse if we had been at Sunderland that day.

That must be why a year later the Plymouth fans were celebrating our promotion with us even though they'd just been relegated themselves. A team we've played 22 times in nearly 125 years of existence and have had nothing to do with at all beyond that. We're widely derided amongst fellow PL supporters: deluded, boycoutt, horsepunching, SSN wongaloids, jealousy, rank individual after rank individual being associated with the club, 'hounding out' English managers. You've got your head in the sand if you think otherwise. Again you take too much notice of social media and the like. Match going fans of other Premier League clubs, with one or two exceptions, don't dislike us anymore than anyone else. In fact if anything the opposite is true and a trip to Newcastle us widely regarded as a favourite one which is the reason why we see so many away fans drinking in and around Newcastle with home supporters which doesn't happen at a lot of places. Likewise when I used to be a regular away traveller we were always well received by home fans with only a few exceptions. The problem these days is places like this, twitter and Facebook give the minority a voice to spout rubbish which in time becomes gospel but when you get out into the real world it's a completely different scenario.

That must be why a year later the Plymouth fans were celebrating our promotion with us even though they'd just been relegated themselves.

I don't, they f***ing loved us going down and had a big show of it. Hope they fold. This is a myth though. A few of their fans took the p*ss, that's all. A myth you say?

What a fantastic article.

We've got zero chance of staying up regardless of the result of the Norwich v Beasts game. Hope Norwich hammer them but got a sneaky feeling the beasts will beat them.

At least the £40m we got for him can be reinvested in the squad for next seasons promotion push. Oh wait a minute...........

Severe case of cowardice. Expected to last until the end of the season.

You keep saying this bollocks but we had Woodgate, Speed and Shearer through the spine. Soft? Nah. They are defensively better though. The amount of clean sheets and 1-0 wins they've racked up is what will win them the title.

50,000 people will applaud these gutless cowards onto the pitch next week. Just think about how ridiculous that is for a moment

They literally couldn't look less interested if they tried.

Same here.

As bad a decision that it was it wasn't just the sending off that went against us. He allowed sunderland and clattermole in particular to kick anything that moved time and time again and amazingly didn't book a single one of their players during the entire game. Almost unheard of in a fiercely contested derby game. If ever a referee directly influenced the result of a match then this was it and he shouldn't have been allowed anywhere near another NUFC match again. We're garbage enough without refereeing performances like that against us

Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse the referee has been announced as Robert Madeley. It will be the first time he's refereed us since his disgraceful display of bias against us at the stadium of sh!te back in October. I've changed my prediction to a 4-0 loss with a penalty and a sending off against us thrown in for good measure.