Away Toon

Didn't realise we had sold Sels, where did the money go?

For the level we are at and the lack of ambition from the club he's okay starting for us. Wonder if Rafa will look again at Sels when he comes back, he bought him (presumably) and he's having a good season in France.

It's just such a bad goal to concede, foul on Almiron, or it looked like it anyhow, not stopping the cross coming in, not one of our defenders with their feet off the ground, and Dubs not electing to punch the ball. Still for me what's worse is that we continue to give teams possession all the time and rely on them not being good enough to get past our defence. How about we try and impose ourselves on the opposition, take the game to them, try and get more than 40% possession and use the attacking players we have to try and win games, not score 1 against the run of play and then defend for the rest of the game.

After the goal Dubravka was arguing with Lascelles not appealing for a foul

This is the kind of shit from Dubravka that gets you relegated. That's a probable three points he's lost us.

Cheering a Southampton equalizer against Cardiff, what the fuck have we come to?

Hope Cardiff stay up after what they have been through. if we go down instead well Ashley fucking deserves it.

Well we all have different opinions. When we try to get and keep the ball and attack we actually look a pretty good team, we just don't do it very often, against any opposition not just the top teams.

So Dubravka costs up 3 points. Still concede possession and let yourselves get battered for 90 minutes its what you deserve.

I'm never getting used to or want to, watch us play like this. We permanently look as if we are about to concede, have virtually no possession or goal threat, it's 90 minutes of agony

I suspect that for a lot of fans we have done enough to quieten down the albeit feeble attempts to pressure fat Mike into running a proper football club. So Ashley stays, Rafa probably stays and we remain a bottom battling relegation candidate for the foreseeable future. It's a terrible transfer window on so many different levels.

Unless we go back to 4 at the back which we shouldn't there is no place in the team for Dummett, certainly not as a wing back, that would be tragic.

You need to rephrase your question. Who would you like to see replace Rafa? Well how about Pep, Klopp, Eddie Howe, or pretty much any modern forward thinking manager who is committed to entertaining attacking football. The question should be which manager would accept working for Ashley with all the same constraints as Rafa currently has nd would be better than him? That's harder to answer. Though if they are going to be paid the same salary as Rafa is reputed to be paid 6m a year there will be no shortage of volunteers.

At this point it would be fucking tragic if Rafa stayed unless he has cast iron guarantees in writing about investment in the ground, training ground, academy and players. I cant imagine that Ashley would ever put that in writing and then it would be even less likely he would follow through with it. Rafa staying stops the supporters doing what they need to do, whether they will if he goes who knows.

If Fulham buy some defensive reinforcements before the window shuts they have a chance of getting out of the bottom three, otherwise no way.

We are so far behind both Wolves and Leicester it's embarrassing. Thanks you big fat cunt.

I thought Rafa was meant to get us as supporters? Who gives a fuck if Mike Ashley's team stays in the Premier League and what has the 130m got to do with anything, nobody is getting that except fat Mike, Rafa certainly isn't. Fuck me, pick your best team and try and win something, plenty of smaller clubs than us have won cups since we last did. 1969 for those of you too young to remember.

Manager Rafael Benitez says Newcastle will struggle to "have a go" in this season's FA Cup because of their position in the Premier League. The Magpies fell to 18th in the league on Saturday after defeat to Chelsea. Benitez said he will rotate his squad for the third-round replay against Blackburn on Tuesday, as he did when the teams drew 1-1 at St James' Park. He said clubs have to be "realistic" about their FA Cup chances when deciding to prioritise the competition. "Who has a chance, a realistic chance? Teams in the middle of the table because they can have a go because they are safe," Benitez said. "The other teams, you have to manage it really carefully." Fellow Premier League strugglers Huddersfield, Cardiff and Fulham went out in the FA Cup in the third round to lower-league opposition, while Southampton were taken to a replay by Derby. "Why you see these teams and they were out? Because the Premier League is massive," Benitez said. "You have £130m guaranteed if you are there. So everyone is trying to manage the situation. You have to be realistic."

We all know Ashley is the principal problem, but if Rafa sets us up like he did against Fulham and we spawn ourselves a 0-0, he's going to get a lot of shit from a lot of people.

Anybody criticising a young local player who has made an excellent debut and who showed that he has most if not all the attributes to be a success at this level needs to go and fuck off and support a different team.

Doesn't want to break his contract or some large financial penalty if he does is the most likely reason. At this point with Ashley's continued pisstake showing know sign of ending, Rafa being here is not helping.

Honestly anyway you look at it, he'd be mad to come and sign for this fucked up club unless he's been guaranteed we will have new owners this month.

Lets hope we don't embarrass ourselves as usual against these fuckers.

Send Kenedy back and get Drinkwater in for half a season and we might stay up.

He doesn't need to resign, he'll be out of contract