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Aye, they're stepping up a bit

Great ball from Shelvey

Hopefully he'll watch it at half-time and feel obliged to even it up in the second half.

Dohnt think so Lets not start the duff puns, eh?

Bollocks, yer ma could see that was a foul.

Not even a free kick

Save big Dub!

Every pass Perez makes is behind his man, it's fucking infuriating.

The fuck's happened to Diame?

Living dangerously, at some point Lukaku's gonna connect with one of these.

He generally is unless he's scoring. His all-round play and link up game has never exactly been his strong point.

Hope we can keep this pressing up. Doing ok but just a shame we've got no cutting edge.

HTL

In 13 home games we've won 3, haven't won in 8 at home and have failed to beat Bournemouth, Leicester, Brighton, Swansea and Burnley in that run. We'll get beat tonight, draw at best if we're lucky.

I love Shola, he's mint. Possibly some slight question marks over his suitability as a PL striker but he had a great chest pass on him and his escapades in the innovative fruit and bicycle combination field were ground breaking.

Tight bastard wouldn't give up a couple of months interest on £300m.

I don't reckon a Texan billionaire needs any help from us, like. He can eat the loss and they can do it FC United style if they're that bothered. Don't mistake the company for the club. If every NUFC fan switched their allegiance to Newcastle City, which one would actually be our club? The one that represents our city?

Their biggest mistake was assuming they'd always just stay up, hence none of their players and especially the big earners had relegation clauses. If they go down again and he' still there, Rodwell will be on the same money in league 1!! And they also have Kone in the team who looks like he doesn't want to be there, and plays as such. Bet they wish they'd taken that bid from Everton for him now. Almost exactly the opposite of reality It's well publicised that the whole squad except Rodwell had 40% wage drops in the case of relegation.

If it was a one-off then, yeah, maybe the other team just got on top and pressed us too much but it's not. We've seen a few games where we score and then suddenly sit back.

They weren't having a go before that?

I'm not really buying that tbh, ON. Up until we scored it was back and forth and then we just seemed to collapse back into our own half.

I have an intense dislike for Nasri, he's a complete nob and ordinarily I wouldn't want him anywhere near our club but short term to the end of the season this doesn't look bad as a front four: Slimani Kenedy Nasri Murphy

I don't think you can blame Clark for that pel, it was as soft as they come. Even Benteke didn't think it was, he thought he'd been pulled up for fouling Clark. The Shelvey one later, aye, that was a bit more blatant but the Clark 'foul' happens on every pitch up and down the country every game and very rarely gets punished. It was that dickhead lino who was quite clearly thrilled that he got to do something, twat.

I think the results in isolation haven't been too bad but there's a definite feeling that we've been throwing points away which could come back to bite us in the arse. Our inability to go for the throat and put a game to bed after going ahead has meant we're getting draws where we could have had wins, hopefully Slimani can provide the cutting edge we so sorely lack and we can start turning some of those draws into 3 points.