Andy84

Still think he will score north of 15 this season. He is struggling to lead the line at the moment but at lot of it has to do with the general dysfunction of the team, he should have scored that early chance. Suprised at his pen like he is normally lethal when I've seen him take them in the past but at least he put the rebound in. His pen definately smacked of someone low on confidence, far too early to write him off as s***.

i disagree. Last week 2 definte defensive CM's with another in the team. Today 2 players sitting with a hardly attacking Anita with them. Took him till hallf time at home to Huddersfield and a goal down to tell Shelvey to push on and even then he took off width to do it. I love that Rafa has made us a football club again but he's given me no confidence in 12 games. No confidence in 12 games? We spent half of those on an unbeaten run, no? Perhaps he doesn't trust his defence yet and, judging by the evidence, rightly so. They also need drilling for the new style. Don't think today was 2 sitting midfielders, Shelvey has attacking quality in this league (see the last time he was in it, tore it to pieces), he's not some sitting duck that doesn't contribute going forward. Anita I agree with, I don't like that situation - we need balance and quality on the flanks. Unbeaten run ? We beat Spurs afterwe'd been relegated and they'd exploded after losing the title. T Am I being mental here or did we not go 6 games unbeaten at the back end of last year? That's half of the current managers total games for the club, in which he's had to impart his ideas onto new players twice... Those games...we were poor V Palace amd WBA, crap teams and we weren't better than them, Villa away, must win and at no point did we look like doing it, Liverpool couild have been out of sight by half time (that first half was as bad a 45 as I've seen NUFC play in the premier). If you look coldly at results we done well. If you look at performances....well thats something different. We were an abomination last season, to get us as close as he did was an achievement, 2 games more we would have still been a PL side. Turning NUFC around from top to bottom is going to be impossible without time.

We were just far too deep, Shelvey was picking it up on the edge of our penalty area a lot of the time. With Mbemba in the side and at this level we should be 10 yards further up the pitch. Huddersfield got hold of it early on and realised there was f*** all to worry about

It was s*** but we should have got something like, totally dominant second half without any cutting edge. Our left side is the problem, no doubt about it. We lack balance on the left and it needs to be sorted. Still think we will be top 2 but obviously we need to get our f****** act together, we look like a side who really haven't adjusted to the level at all.

Left hand side is the issue, literally f*** all down there

Doumbia

Loans can be really productive for clubs in the Championship, people need to remember the situation we are in here. FWIW Douglas has said we are potentially going to use the loan market again for a winger.

One of the main reasons they stayed up was because of Kone. Has a goal in him aswell

If I see this bloke at SJP on Saturday getting done by Huddersfield whilst giving away needless free kicks I might actually lose it

The more Saturday 3pm kick off's the better

Hope the winger we are after is a real game changer, ala Knockeart. A lot of this is going to depend on moving Moussa on, hopefully we can do it soon because it's turning into a real saga

Mbabu won't feature this season, Haidara? Are we still counting him as an option?

SSN showing Mangala's stats v Stones. Mangala's are almost all better

Stones to Man City within 24 hours according SSN

Played LB when Baines was out last season

Sels Galloway Mbemba Lascelles Jaanmat Anita Hayden Diame Ritchie Perez Gayle

Is Kone off? They would be mental to sell him

A quick YT scouting mission and he appears fast, tenacious, can tackle and likes to bring the ball forward

Imagine supporting Hull FFS . Actually feel sorry for them

F****** get in

A proper mobile LB who can play football will transform us

Weren't there stories about him ditching his holiday and loosing weight in pre season determined to come back stronger?

It's stepping into the unknown this like, no disrespect to Huddersfield but the vast majority of us just don't know what they will offer on saturday, It will be clear after 10 minutes what the standard of the opposition is. We might be s**** away but we have been very good at home for a while now as proved by the back end of last season. I suspect that coupled with the fact the players WILL raise their game means we will win.

Pretty confident Colback will be dropped for Diame

That midfield is woeful