Sean

Probably just faked an injury in hope of not getting sent off Quite possibly tbf.

Any justice Puncheon will be out forever and De Bruyne will be ok.

Got this as a Christmas present. Got total faith in the man. Yes times are tough at the minute, but the manager and the players need our support more than ever to get through the rough times.

We could have had 2 or 3 players on the bench tomorrow ready for a massively important game. The clubs hands should be no longer tied. Let’s see how long it takes to sign someone and how important they will be. This window will be another Ashley window, which won’t be enough and we will be down. Yep, even if theres no sale Ashley should have realised how serious our position is and Rafa should know what he's got to spend. Just seems like were setting up for more of the same transfer window wise.

Shoot me down if you want (hope I'm wrong myself) but if it was done behind the scenes then I'd expect Rafa to have a signing or 2 agreed by now. He had deals lined up last January and this summer which didn't come off as we all know. Just starting to get a bad feeling about this, as we're all clinging onto the hope that we will do good business, if we don't then the comedown could ruin us.

Players aren't good enough to dominate a team, Brighton are there for the taking but we're not even threatening.

Well Im going to be back to pessimistic on all things takeover related until these shitty rumours about us struggling to loan players such as Kennedy and Willock are replaced by breaking news that we've bought Sturridge and loaned David Luiz :lol:

The only better day under Ashley will be when he leaves. Kinda feels the same in that I thought Pardew was here forever, and it feels like the fat one will never leave either. What a day that will be.

Aye because we all expected that the other night... And by that logic after a takeover we should be hammering the likes of City... Relax ffs

Well once we get taken over we can all agree that there'll be no need to be so defensive, we can go at Man City as equals... :lol:

Leeds brought 9,000 in the league cup didn't they? 2013/14? Apparently around 6,000 from .com "Backed by a boisterous 6,000 fans on L7, Leeds created the first chance of the game on five minutes..." http://www.nufc.com/html/2013-14html/2013-09-25leeds-h.html

Rafa will have agreed transfers before the 1st Jan, if he's being backed at least. Doubtful he will be though.

But we did and we weren't losing by 4 or 5 at half time. They didn't make all that many clear cut chances all game really and we had one or two that we could have scored from. It was undoubtedly s*** to watch and our players wasted possession a lot but had the hold up play been better we'd have executed the tactics perfectly and arguably not have conceded because the pressure wouldn't have been so relentless. It wasn't the tactics at fault it was the gap in quality. I totally get that we're Newcastle United and we don't wanna be seen to be surrendering at home and all that but the tactics were intended to be victory through a strong defence and just as we could have been hammered we could have easily have snatched something too. There simply isn't a right or wrong way to go City they're simply that good. We've not gained a result from City but that result was worth more for us comparatively to the remaining 18 teams in the division. I’m gonna accept it for this game only and hope it’s a one off. If we surrender possession to Brighton I’ll be massively pissed off. Start even in a similar vain and it’s again begging the opposition to score and keep scoring. I'd probably accept it away at these too. I don't think you'll see the same tactics vs Brighton. I think we'll play a lot more expansive football. I too hope. That is what worries me though, if Brighton sit back as expected I think we'll struggle to break them down. Though they are very goal shy, so as long we don't make individual errors we will be fine. That West Ham was such a weird game for how open it was. My concern is we're not actually that good at keeping possession tbh, theres certain positions that fail us in that regard (No 10 mainly, CM also although Shelvey and Merino together might help slightly there). How many times this season have we had more than 50% of the ball? Must be a handful at most.

Sadly I think we all know how this would end...

Seen someone saying they think this might be a record number of away fans since the stadium capacity was increased...not sure if anyone knows better?

The guy saying this probably had a few too many Christmas sherries tbh, not sounding like a reliable source if he doesn't even know what he's trying to say...

Its almost as if the game is as easy as '442, attack them'. We did that last night it would have been 4 or 5 by half time. We don't have any real quality on the ball, its that simple. Rafa knows this.

So are we expecting a busy week of exciting incomings? Or more of the same?

I just think no matter how we played/defended last night they were always going to create a fair amount of chances. If we went for them more the chances would have more likely been 1 on 1s rather than us having bodies in the way for most. Simply put given the quality of the 2 teams they'll always create. Its shit that the Prem has become so uneven as a contest, but we were on a hiding to nothing last night and at the end of the day we could have snatched a point at the end.

This was my first thought too. Fucking hate Alli mind.

Can't believe we lost to Man City. Can't believe we tried to limit them scoring as well. Can't believe we were so negative. Can't believe it almost worked. Mainly, can't believe so many of our fans know the correct way to go about beating Man City with our current squad of players. Easy isn't it?

Fully agree with this.

Bournemouth get given that Wilson goal tonight and Gayles goal wrongly disallowed when we played them off the top of my head. Not a bad way to get points tbf

Well we're gonna get a good idea in the first week or so of January, if the noises are that Rafas got deals lined up and then it all goes quiet then its gonna be a repeat of the summer. Hopefully we can make a big signing straight away to signal to everyone that Rafas being backed.

Do a better job than Diame :lol: Not that Diames great, but this is Colback ffs