Shays Given Tim Flowers

Yabba Dabba Do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

Come on Mitro! Did think if he didn't get on today he'd definitely be getting peddled.

Joselu drawing some inspiration from Shola with that touch. Get Aarons on.

What an absolute Star out manager is. Look at the names of the XI out there today and imagine how shit they'd be under most managers.

Ritchie has been a collusus today.

Where the fuck was manpillow in the build up to that West Ham chance?

Got Rice bitch? Got Rice?

I love Rafa, he's so calm.

Nice fucking goal

We certainly don't look like chronically shit relegation fodder. The issue is a lack of quality on the pitch.

Ritchie needs to sack his barber.

If only we got £2m more for Gibson we could have had a goalkeeper.

Can't help but feel it would have been better to say and the late Cheick Tiote.

He could get the money he has put in, including purchase price and 'loan' easy, hell probably interest on it all too. He doesn't want out, he wants to hold onto us for his own benefit, all whilst not running Newcastle United as a football club.

Why has our commercial performance been so poor under Ashley's tenure?

Why doesn't the club receive revenue for Sports Direct Advertising?

Why did Ashley have to loan the club loads of interest free money?

Why were we relegated in 2015.

Why is Ashley NUFC's only line of credit?

No. If it's not Mike Ashley's money I don't want it.

Didn't we get a £40,000,000 parachute payment?

Ashley doesn't care if we get relegated. It may well cost the club money but as long as we come back up he doesn't care. There is no ambition. If he cared we wouldn't be arseing around with recruitments at this late stage. We wouldn't be jeopordising league status by insisting the dead wood goes first, or insisting our player valuation is correct with no ifs, buts or maybes. Expecting Rafa to abandon his ambitions is ludicrous. Ambition is not the same as expectation. We don't demand a team that wins we expect a club that tries.

We must be looking at him for number 10. If we were to get him still a worrying lack of goals in the team.

As has already been mentioned, it's concerning. But you have to consider he's a #10 playing in a new league. And was deployed in a wide midfield role in a 442 diamond or as 1 of a 3 in the middle of a 433. Not exactly his natural or preferred position. After watching a lot of YouTube videos of him (I know), I think Rafa wants him for work rate alone. For a #10 he's constantly hassling and niggling at players and when out of possession is chasing back and often, regaining possession before playing it forward quickly. The issue is he would be here too.

Fucking hell