Tiotes Witch Doctor

Actually starting to think these might go down, they seem to be constantly riddled with injuries and are too skint to buy reinforcements for an already poor squad and starting 11. Please let this be the season.

when I read the article, hopefully nothing in it, but it would be so Ashley. I suppose it depends on how it would be sold to Benitez, they could probably persuade him to just bring in predominantly young talent aslong as he was given the funds to bring in top talent and not just no hopers from France.

That assist was gorgeous and from all I've heard he did well by all accounts but to say the criticism of him has been unjust is just wrong in my view, hes been poor virtually all season and his lack of effort has been even more saddening. Lets hope today is the start of something better as hes bound to get a run of games with Diame/Atsu being away, hopefully the player we all thought he would be this season is still in there somewhere.

There hasn't been much of a plan B really though it has to be said, we've lost every game we've conceded first in haven't we? We do need to improve in that area, whether it be a plan B or sorting out the mentality of the players when going down first in a game.

Costa out Aguero in Hazard out Coutinho in Sitting 3rd 20 points off top in a league where there's a couple of hundred quid up for grabs if I can top the table come the end of the season

Back up to a 7 for me, we're effectively 7 points clear of third and our next few games are ones we should be winning, still worried about our squad mentality when we go a goal down though, and how toothless we can look without key players.

Hes came in and did a job and I think he would be a decent signing for any team in this league really, but I just can't see him being good enough for when we go up so wouldn't sign him permanently.

Would be happy with a winger and ideally two CM's, especially if we lose Tiote, would love to see a scenario where Colback is completely forced out of the starting 11 for the rest of the season and not fully convinced by Hayden yet, hes a work in progress I feel.

shit like what you tool? my pic was from the bbc website, is that aloud? are we aloud to laugh at them? As long as we laugh out allowed.

Nothing to worry about...

Cracks have been there even when we've won though, we've hung on and been a bit lucky in some of our wins, now its similar performances without the W. I wanna go back to being shite and winning man

Second half prediction, long gruelling half which ends in us conceding in the late 80's and losing the game.

The stream is fairly decent for a fan one I thought, usually you cant make fuck all out. Enough to see we are absolutely shite once again

Lazaars crossing

People only need one chance against us in a full game at the minute and they're scoring.

Tiote looking decent, imagine that.

Yep Will be impressive to see what new feats are brought up in his defense by his fanbois then. "Once fed 71000 with only 1 fish and a loaf of bread during halftime of the 1978 world cup, which he also won by himself 1 v 11. Can't believe rafa would rather persist with 4-2-3-1 than our lord and savior Mitrovic" Just the fact he has close to a 1 in 1 goal record under Rafa but still gets slated is all.

Yep

Anita is the better defender and Yedlin likes to get forward, so I would say on the surface its obvious but who knows with this wacky lineup.

Lineup is grim and shows our squad isn't as huge and wonderful as people think.

Wonder how many of our fans will want Mitrovic sold if he doesn't score tomorrow. A cup run was a great idea when we were also performing in the league, but I can't see it as anything more than a hindrance now we're faltering a bit, maybe I need to give my head a shake.

Wonder how many losses it will take before people start to worry? 10? 15?

We could have made 500 million profit and the fact remains we spent close to 50 million on players and our manager isn't currently getting the best out of them and they aren't giving it their all. The mentality when we concede says all you need to know.

We cant spend 3-4 seasons blaming managers for how awful we are and not criticise Benitez for the utter shite hes served up lately. The man is stubborn and has the team playing in one way and one way only, he needs to adapt and be flexible with the expensive squad HE put together. Make subs to influence the game BEFORE we concede would be a great start. Outfoxed by Owen Coyle twice in the space of a few months....

6. The performances are declining further and we look truly clueless, if we get dragged into the playoffs we will 100% not go up. Would bet my life we will be in top 6, but if anyone is certain we will be top 2 after that I think you're lying. Clueless from all involved.