Loki679

Townsend is going outside a lot more now, good to see.

Lascelles is a god

Mitro 72 minutes, 2-1.

When you're playing out of position with a large proportion of the team that simply don't give a fuck it's probably pretty easy to let your head drop. As far as I can see, Rafa has come in and identified the wasters and the mongrels and now for the most part there's 11 men on the pitch who do actually give a shit and who will put in the work and effort. That's got to be a lift for any player worth their salt as well as being played where he feels he's most effective and wearing the captains armband.

Makes a good right back

Fucking 3am, 2 kids and the wife in bed and i'm trying to contain myself looking like Arnie in Total Recall on the surface of Mars

VUUUUUUURRRNNNNN

Caught in two minds in a high pressure situation, can't blame the lad too much for fluffing that. Worked hard to create the opening for himself anyway.

Look at the line of our back four, man, beautiful. Could lay bricks with that.

Nice corner

Unlucky, good work from Townsend going outside

Sissoko central Ayoze left?

HTL

Possibly using some kind of conveyor belt?

What did he say?

'Were just discussing what pub to head to when this weird looking fucker stinking of piss came up and started gobbing off about ovens and trolleys. He was pointing up the road and just going 'heeeeeeeed, heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed' over and over so we told him to fuck off. '

This is the worst bit. The flicker of hope before the NUFC jackboot descends upon its face.

Canny funny considering Foluwashola Ameobi built his entire Newcastle career on never doing exactly that. He did, and got dogs abuse. I look forward to your name change. Champion. Bit of a shit name but we'll allow it.

Best bet is to try and stay compact and deny them space I reckon. Problem is players like David Silva tend to be able to create a yard out of nothing. Hopefully Townsend and Sissoko can display the same sort of energy levels as they did yesterday and keep getting up and down the pitch as whatever happens we need to try and hurt them too. Sitting back and inviting pressure is suicide against this lot. Try and get at them, get the crowd going and see what happens. I'd rather give it a try and lose than go out with a whimper.

If we go down it'll be the Norwich and Sunderland games to blame closely followed by the wins at Spurs and Liverpool.

I would rate that post at least a 9/10 but you disappointingly neglected to mention the device and software application used so i'm knocking it down to a 2/7. WNB. Oh, and on topic, 1-3. We never get anything out of these buggers.

He'll ah Can't blame him for that, everybody likes a good ah now and again.

What did he say? Sent from a galaxy far, far away using the Force

After we scored the 2nd Rafa going straight to the technical area and getting instructions out to the players. No getting carried away, just seemed really professional and calm as he pulled a few of them over and told them the plan. The players actually seemed to listen too which was nice.

Thought he made a big difference to the defence along with the absence of Captains Colo and Fistpumps. We looked a lot more solid with a proper defender there and, as Ron said, he came inside and covered very well when the ball was on the other side. Hopefully him, Lascelles and Mbemba can stay fit for the rest of the season because they've looked our best bet so far.