Hughesy

The more I hear from Phil Neville, the less intelligent he appears to become. I had previously thought he was relatively analytical and would speak a bit of sense, but at the moment he seem to talk utter crap.

Love a cross like that - very Solano-esque.

Much much better on Saturday. Looked far more alert and lively and was running at players again.

Would welcome Townsend back - he's shown he can perform in the Premier League and that's all I care about.

You can't say that Brighton have been lucky - they have deserved their results and are a team with a better mind-set and more experience of fighting to get out of this league than are Newcastle. We were only unlucky at Forest - the rest of the results were deserved because we cannot break down teams that park the bus and compete. I watched the whole Birmingham vs brighton game and they deserved a point at best but got a last minute winner. They got lucky yesterday with Fulham missing a penalty - that's two that spring to mind and they've had a few other last minute winners. Most games we have lost, we've dominated possession and chances - so I'm fairly comfortable in saying we've been more unlucky than Brighton.

Not sure why ppl seem to be getting so worked about the number of defeats we've had - the points total is all that matters. Completely irrelevant how those points come about. Still think we'll go up - Brighton won't keep winning as they seem to be enjoying a great run of luck at the moment and arguably we've been incredibly unlucky in nearly all of our defeats. Very few of them were deserved defeats.

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No doubt we need to improve in general this season and especially if we go up, but I'm amazed at the extent to which people seem to be overestimating the gap between the bottom half of the PL and the top half of the Championship. Think I was watching Watford vs Palace and the standard of play was abysmal. Absolutely no way we couldn't compete with those types of teams even now. And to be honest we should have beaten Hull comfortably in the cup. Rafa's got this..

As if Anita was the problem today.

Still not sure how people can write off a bloke so quickly who scored 9 goals in 34 matches at the age of 21 in his first season in the Premier League. Is he as good as I hoped? No. He's clearly not crap though.

Would be stupid to sell Mitrovic for 15 million in today's market.

Based on nothing more than youtube highlights and reading about him, I'd love to see us make a statement and go out and get a highly rated winger like Leon Bailey at Genk. Been linked to bigger clubs than us and would set us back quite a lot, but one can dream..

Interesting to see what the written statement says, as there does seem to be a level of ambiguity in the evidence that the media have reported. Also not sure what the standard of proof is for FA matters.

Really strange that he's had such a dip in form as he looked a level above at the beginning of the season.

Interesting to see how he gets on as I understand that McPhee is supposed very highly rated as well.

Also think there was a handball by one of the Forest defenders in the first half - clearly moved his hand out from his body towards the ball.

That video of the player being told he's going to be a dad by his teammates 20 days ago is just devastating to watch.

The difference between us and Norwich in 6th is greater than Norwich to 23rd place.

Always thought Bruce is one of those managers who isn't actually as bad as people like to make out. Always has this reputation as a joke of a manager, but his record is reasonably good. Memory could be failing me, but he leaves most teams in better shape than he found them.

Not sure that disagreeing with you means people don't understand football.

Yeah - his sprinting speed is good, but he quite often seems to be in the wrong position to utilise his speed when someone's attacking him.

Don't see it to be honest - I think his positioning is pretty suspect and he struggles against pacey wingers (although in fairness most full backs do).

Blanking out last season then? He didn't do that badly last season. He should have scored more but at 21 he scored 9 goals. The same as Rondon and Benteke, two fewer than Pelle and one more than Rooney and Bojan. I suspect he compares fairly well on a goals to minutes ratio as well.

Spot on.

Playing it pretty fast and loose with the word 'defend' there. To listen to people talk about his defensive ability, you'd think he's the next Maldini.