Chicken Dancer

What's the talk locally regarding Messi @Village Idiot? Is he coming home? Would be nice to see him back - you never know, I might even get to see him at St James' next year regardless!

Appreciate the confidence of many. Proud to admit I'm a bed-wetting fanny. PTSD indeed. My mate said to me the other day; ' if we were 9 points behind with 15 to play for, would you fancy us getting in?'. The answer is of course not. It's just hard for me to shift my mentality - hopefully will come in a year or two when we continue to win games

Does anyone have the game when we last actually beat Allardyce? I'm struggling to recall. Surely not when he was at fucking Bolton

Gutted this pig is going to be there next week. Hopefully we can continue to break our curses (BT & Saudi top at Everton) and beat this lump into oblivion next week. Shame as I don't mind Leeds at all, really torn now between them and Everton. Hopefully both drop.

I've been losing my shit about Liverpool the entire way, however if we win, I think the chances of us losing 3 out of our last 4 are incredibly slim. My cigar will be out of the packet, but the lighter will stay in the draw until we beat Leeds or Brighton.

We will beat these. They're a fantastic team but I think it'll suit us down to the ground that they have no choice but to win. They'll definitely score but we will too. They'll be fired up from the battering last season but they still look vulnerable. If West Ham & Southampton can get a result against them, we definitely can. However I'd take a draw - looking at the next 4 games in 2 pairs - 4 points from each and we're there.

That depends on Liverpool overhauling our GD, which if they win their next 5 you’d assume it’ll be very tight.

It’s a shame Maxi got injured to be honest. Was starting to look really effective and I think he’d be hugely important in the run-in if we can get him fit. Fingers crossed he’s back soon.

This is exactly me. Never felt this stressed fighting relegation. It's because it's completely alien to us. My lass is beyond sick of me, I'm chewed to bits. There's no denying that that lump going to Leeds makes next week a tad more difficult - yes I know they're awful but look at Everton in Dyche's first game (I know this will be Jabba's 2nd). They beat Arsenal. We definitely should have enough to beat them but it definitely makes it harder. Hopefully Man City stick 5 past them. That being said we were a Lucas Moura clearance away from being home and hosed. I reckon internally, Howe and the players will be targeting 3rd.

Klopp has shown himself to be a right cunt on a good few occasions to be honest. When he first came to England he was this shiny new fella who constantly smiled and joked on, and as time's went on and they've enjoyed success he's became a proper twat - perfect example of the mask slipping. Imagine an opposition manager done that to a Fourth Official at Anfield ffs He goes on like Liverpool are proper hard done by - biggest load of shit ever - West Ham should have had a pen in added time last week and their first at Leeds shouldn't have stood. They get the rub of the green more often than not in that's probably because officials are scared of this big bully. Bullies reporters after the game if Liverpool haven't won, bullies officials before, during and after games to get his own way. Can't wait until we're playing Champions League and this cunt is crying about it and Liverpool's 'ceiling' every week. Fuck him. Cunt.

Aye but remember Liverpool could also catch Man Utd. Is a bit of a pisser we will be playing Leeds who'll have Allardyce there. I know they're shit and we should be beating them comfortably, but that big lump seems to have some Voodoo shit going on since we sacked him. Can't stand the bloke. We 100% should quite easily get 7 points from 5 games, but I will still be shitting myself when Liverpool are inevitably 3 points behind us before we play Arsenal on Sunday (granted with 2 games in hand).

Didn’t we go in for him in Jan for like £20m? Could be someone else.

Gallowgate (top row) stunk of skunk today mind.

Said I’d be confident to the point where it’s done if we got 7 from Spurs, Everton and Southampton. Here we have 9 and I’m still shitting myself man. Sick.

They’ll win the day, Watford are a shitshow. It’s fell nicely for them so far, results have certainly been going their way. Watford and probably Preston will have nowt to play for either.

Needs to be rocking from the first whistle on Sunday, which is the least we can give the players. Southampton are fucking crap too. Thankfully they need to win.

Trent handball at Leeds too. I know they won 6-1 in the end, but the first goal is nearly always pivotal.

I think Man City at home back in August was when I thought 'fuck we might actually have a cracking season here', but for enjoyment levels I think the Man Utd (H) game was the best. We battered them as much as we did Spurs, we just didn't take the chances as much. Most important win of the season (so far) was Wolves (H) for me. It'll get swept under the radar a tad but we weren't great, in the middle of our poor run and we scored a relatively late winner which started this new run. I suppose Forest (A) scoring a last minute winner will get the plaudits but if we didn't win this it would have put us in a sticky situation with tricky games to follow.

It's funny but you can absolutely relate I'd definitely advise him to not chuck it...who knows what the situation will be in 24 months - use NUFC as the prime example!

Aye - I do completely sympathise with that to be fair like. There's nothing worse when you feel like you have no connection to the first thing that you ever felt in love with. They do have a number of helmets online, however don't we all? I think a season or two outside of the Premier League will be a good thing for them as fans to build back that connection. For all the faux rivalry that's been created, they are a proper traditional club and it's a shame to see them ran into the ground. Crazy to think not too long ago this lot had the Don as manager with James Rodriguez in the line up

Was fucking hilarious seeing them all frothing at the mouth when the third went in The only sickener for me was that Gordon didn't wrap it up with a 5th. Ultimate trolling by Howe to bring him on at the end and I'm all for it. Being booed on by 25 fans

Should be a comfortable win, hopefully the kick-off time & opposition don't have a detrimental effect on the atmosphere - SJP should be rocking and rightly so, but we (fans) have history of being a bit passive when we're expected to win. Atmosphere like Man Utd/Spurs and this lot will buckle. They got a cracking result at Arsenal so shouldn't be underestimated, but let's not pretend Arsenal couldn't have scored a few more (and they were gifted their first goal, although a cracking finish). No set-pieces around the box for them either. An early goal and they'll crumble - they need to win. A point does fuck all for them. That should suit us down to the ground.

Slightly off topic, but one thing I've never understood is how Thursday - Sunday is any worse than Wednesday - Saturday?

You're quite right Teddy, I had missed your previous post saying that you doubt he could make it in the Premier League. Please accept my most sincerest of apologies - I was just flabbergasted at your following post where you argued he isn't shit because your managers in League One and the Championship speak so highly of him. My bad, my man.

Come on mate, you’re a proper reasoned poster to be fair, and I have no doubt O’Nien is a trier. But ‘every single manager that’s had him here’ has been in League One until this season He shouldn’t anywhere near a Premier League side and you know it.