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Bit pointless if the game gets called off though.

Ah well, looks like some weird little muppet has probably put a stop to that.

definitely worth a 10er that.

Rafa probably wouldn't buy Ben Arfa, but if he had him he wouldn't be starting Ryan Taylor ahead of him. I genuinely think Alan Pardew is the only man alive who would.

Juventus v Barcelona is so mainstream. BVB v Monaco is the hipsters choice.

pretty much what I was trying to say just in better words. There's deffinitely things we can complain about, but you have to look at the picture as a whole.

He keeps a spare 40 grand in crisp 50s under his hat at all times.

He's been asked to play there a few times in the past couple of month or so when Colback has come off and has generally been pretty anonymous. It's not like he was coming back from injury or anything either, he's been fully fit whenever he's went into the middle.

Aye, pretty easy pick at those odds that. (I expect it'll shorten by kick off like)

Do you think Diame's genuinely been better than Colback in the middle? EDIT: I've wanted to see Diame in the middle all season but now that he's had a run out there he's been no better than Colback, and we've been no more threatening going forward as a side than we have been with Colback. I thought the same with Atsu over Gouffran but we looked no more threatening then either. Rafa's just choosing the 'safer' of the shit options.

In fairness it took him about 40 games to be proven right about Diame in the centre. Same with Atsu and Ritchie on the wings together. I have an inkling that if he stuck Mitrovic and Gayle up top it'd be a similar story - we'll just look the same as we do with Perez/Diame behind. It's pretty clear that most of how we play (good or bad) - more than any past manager - has more to do with what we're doing in training than the team he picks on a weekend.

http://i.imgur.com/PjNoG17.jpg :lol:

Rafa must be an absolute nutcase.

This is it. Dummett is a perfect example of someone who completely hinders our play. We're really missing Yedlin imho. Yet Rafa bought a LB and refuses to play him, who's at fault for that ? Admittedly the player might not have shown enough but Rafa picked him out to buy. You can't legislate for every buy nor every player being suitable for English football tbqh. If Rafa is the problem then he's a great problem to have tbqh. Rafa's not a problem, he'll get it right of that i've no doubt (if the club give him the funds he needs). My point is, he keeps getting defended by the poorness of the players, yet he bought a fair chunk and now doesn't use those. He should be immine from stick in that regard. He bought (or loaned) most of those you mentioned as back-up though, which they've been. We saw in January the bullshit he has to deal with.

Why would Murphy start ahead of Gayle anyway? Fucking hell man

Rafa clearly fucked up with Lazaar and Sels, anyone expecting his transfer record to be 100% is completely mental.

I remember when I was laughed at for sugesting Brighton might have a better team. We massively overrated our squad after that run like.

He was really good for like a month. Starting to see why Rafa hasn't been starting him ahead of Colback in the middle though

I RECON WI SHUD BORN THE CUNT

Disappointment? A good old shafting

The squad is miles better than all the other squads in the league You say this with very little clue about the squads of the Championship like.

Shef Wed have been really good in both games like, for different reasons. Suprised they haven't picked up more points.

It's pretty clear. He looks at the GK first and moves into him. no

How is that a freekick man

They onviously won't be a partnership next season like. Dummett might stay LB but no chance Goufran is our first choice LW.