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Seeing the way he glides past people, you would think that playing him wide right, might actually suit. He has a lovely touch and turns and rolls his marker, really easily. So you'd think he'd have the attributes to play out wide. I agree with others, who were saying he'd be able to get back to what he did earlier in the season. Where he was ghosting into the box late from the flank. I didn't think he was that good yesterday. But he works his arse off, that's for sure. It's just so annoying when you see him skin 3 of their players in a flash. Then he disappears for the next 5 minutes.

Agreed. However, it was annoying that he wasted about 4-5 decent openings down the left channel. Usually he glides past players, but he seemed to keep doubting himself, or he wanted too many touches. Sissoko was just as guilty of this.

It was nice to have someone on the pitch, that actually showed for the ball and didn't seem shit scared. Unless they were totally unmarked or safe in our own half. None of our players seemed to want the ball. It was pathetic. I'm not a massive fan of de Jong. I think he's immobile and I'm not sure how we can get the best out of him? But Rafa obviously rates him and we were much better when he came on. When he was on, I thought we dominated. He does seem to try and link the play and make intelligent forward passes. Which is a massive improvement on most of our players.

A very good point. I like Lascelles. He's an absolute unit, seems to care, you often see him barking out orders and trying to organise and he still has time on his side. At this point, we know Colo and Taylor are past it and not good enough. So hopefully Lascelles can keep getting minutes and he keeps improving. I think he'll be starting next season if/when we go down. I think ideally, we'd look to get an upgrade, if we stayed up. We all know Colo will be back in the team when he's fit, though.

Scarily accurate. The bit in bold pisses me off. Especially as Elliot's kicking is so brutal. He just lofts it up in the air or slices it wide, all the while. I'm still at a 7. We did better than I expected last night. But it was similar to the Stoke game. We should have got something from the game, yet we came away with a 1-0 loss. Worrying. Disco called it right. Saw a lot of this again yesterday.

9. Still look pretty clueless going forward. I can't see us winning at Norwich and whilst it was nice to finally stop losing to the fuckers. Yesterday's result didn't help us at all. Especially as Norwich won on Saturday.

Early contender for worst post of the year. That's not enough. One month ban at the very least. Can ban me forever if they get relegated cause they blatantly wont I'll start praying. Double boost. You leave and Palace go down

Aren't there quite a lot of teams like that? Everyone has made a big deal out of Poch at Spurs, with his double sessions.

Mongrel.

Reminds me more of the rapey Dad from This Is England http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/thisisenglandpedia/images/a/a2/ThisIsEng.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150915195459

Surely they don't mean, they get 3 days off in a row? Just 3 days before a game, they get the day off? If I remember correctly. The week when McClaren finally got sacked. They had the Monday off and then the Friday, as well. As it was the game was on the following Monday. It's still ridiculous, like. I know a lot of clubs are going to give players days off during the week. But in our position. We should have had everyone in the building, working around the clock, trying to find a way out of this mess. Instead, we were just doing morning sessions and missing 1-2 days training a week.

Up tomorrow for this. Starting to get nervous now. At least with the game being on the Sunday. I can enjoy my Saturday in the Toon and the result won't ruin my day/night out.

He turned an average Ligue 1 striker into a left wing-back/holding midfielder and a promising box-to-box midfielder into a right-winger. Genius. Not to mention the HBA carry on, wtf was that bloke thinking man. "I don't give a f*** if you can scare the s*** out of defenders and take 6 players on, cover that full back and then be dropped because you can't defend well" What's more worrying. Is the amount of fans that lapped that bullshit up and now constantly use this as an argument against him.

Agreed. I can't believe people would want anything else? I have a lot of mates that support Spurs. So I'd be happy for them if they pull it off. But I'd much rather Leicester won it.

TBF, it looks a bit better with hollow man wearing it.

Incredible. Similar to home and car insurance. You won't get a pay out, if there is no forced entry and they've used keys. If you're drunk and lying there in an alley 'legs akimbo' it is basically the same thing. TBH, you deserve to get rogered That forum is fucking tragic.

Plus, he's always been shite.

Those Nike kits are grim. The French one in particular, looks like a snide that you'd buy off a dodgy market stall.

Don't agree with that, like. Put a finisher in our team and they were struggling to win the game, with their one shot on target. It wasn't like they got a two goal cushion and then cruised. Even though we didn't create loads of clear cut chances. We had plenty of decent attacking situations, that we totally fucked up. A finisher in the mould of Defoe, perhaps.......... This is why I'm so nervous. The rest of your team, looks just as bad, if not worse than ours. But you have a goal scorer, we don't

I have noticed this when reading bits about NFL teams. They usually refer to them as 'it' instead of 'they'. I've also noticed fans rarely refer to their team as 'we'.

I think they will, as soon as the odds come out I'll be sticking a decent wedge on it. I'd imagine they'll be somewhere from 20/1 - 50/1. Errr. I read Klaus' post as a joke? Like how Pardew and Ashley never wanted Europe?!

I want him to play. But like Saivet, they seem to be playing bang average/shit players ahead of them. So they can't be showing much.

I know it's clichéd. But the midfield battle is going to be massive, in this game. They currently play with a centre half and two holding midfielders. So I'd like to think we have the attacking edge on them! I certainly don't want to see Anita in there again. Up against that lanky German bloke, Cattermole and M'Vila, he'll be a passenger. No idea what's going on with Tiote and Saivet must look dreadful in training. As he's not had a chance since Everton away. Doesn't leave us with many options. I know it's a bit attacking and I've been against it in the past. But I'd be tempted to stick Wijnaldum a bit deeper. He actually offers something when he gets on the ball and whilst he's not defensively minded. He is mobile and doesn't appear to run out of steam. Shelvey has put a lot of effort in of late, compared to what we saw at Swansea and when he first signed. So I think him and Gini, could work. I guess it kind of depends who plays in front of them, though? As if we played Perez, it would be a bit too open and attack minded.

Same. I've not been getting nervous before or during games, either. But I was last night. Plus, I'm already getting nervous about Sunday. I don't think I've given a shit about a derby for the last two years.

It does fit. Liverpool fans used to sing it for him. We've managed to completely butcher it, though. Which isn't a surprise when you think about how we've managed to fuck up The Blaydon Races. It's our song FFS and we sing it too fast and with the wrong words