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Merino and Darlow,shocking

Joselu already produced more than Perez, nice work Rafa

I wouldn’t have thought so, isn’t Ritchies strength crossing?rather try Merino there with Ritchie on the bench could do with a rest

Take me, Johnson. Dr ying fu wip wang shong..... Freethepaedos Quite apt for the thread

I don’t really understand he blew over half the budget on Murphy agruement,do we not think fatty moved the goalposts as the window progressed. I find it very hard to believe after we won the championship, Benitez sat down with fat Mike and he said right Rafa uve got £20mill to spend in the summer and Rafa said that’s great Mike sign me up for another season!

like the ones that wanted 442 then we get ripped apart on the break, u think they would shut up after that.

Diame was fine at centre mid, started to fade later. Ritchie is normally defensively sound, how could he predict how awful a match he would have, stop talking shite

I have no idea why he is with us tbh, his previous job was Real Madrid ffs

Did Jamie Rednapp just say Rafa would of took that score before the game started, incredible

It was fine, just Ritchie and Lejune have had shockers

Lejune is awful

Diames played well, think team been alright just poor errors not a lot Rafa can do about that Lejune is becoming a liability

Thought Diame actually had a decent half

Would replace him with Lascelles when he's fit and keep Clark in. Agree

ill repeat it was head height

come on Darlow gota be savin that it was head height

they got away with one there. it was offside u plank

Sourness with his usual craic, hardest job hes ever had, fans too demanding, need to be big player to play there, crisis always around the corner

Diame aside it's exactly what everyone was asking for. If Diame plays the whole match I'll understand everyone's complaints, but it's unlikely. It's very unlikely that we're getting anything from this match, regardless of the line up. Aye, it's not like we've a plethora of options. Can see why Shelvey isn't in there when we're in for a chasing, plus he looked lively coming off the bench late on against WBA, nice option to have if we're still in it after an hour. This, it amazes me people think they know better than Rafa, the detail he goes into if Diames playing there will be a good reason for it

b Harsh on Darlow,looks in ok shape does need sort his barnet out tho 0-2 we have the 3rd hardest set of fixtures in December, massive month for us!

Did anyone see he also said Gary Speed rang him before he joined Newcastle saying ,what u doing don’t go there,why would that be? What he recently said that? Absolutely classless dickish thing to do from Nolan. Last month he said “A lot of people said to me ‘What are you doing?’ “Gary Speed said it to me on the way up there. Me and Speedo were close, and I’m obviously still gutted about what’s happened. I remember ringing and he said ‘Don’t do it Nobby, lad’.

Did anyone see he also said Gary Speed rang him before he joined Newcastle saying ,what u doing don’t go there,why would that be?

Not having any lefties on the left has crippled us going forward. Lost count, before Aarons came on, of how many good crossing opportunities were passed up because the winger/full-back had no confidence to play it in. I wouldn’t mind giving Hadaria another shot at left back now he’s fit, he certainly use to get forward and can cross a ball,still only 24 but maybe Rafa doesn’t rate him which is fair enough

Really poor last night, back to the bench! try Murphy there,Aaron’s on the left

This, think ppl are overly harsh on him,yes he’s not very good but there’s no lack from effort from the lad but even I think Mitro deserves a run now but if he gets sent off or banned, banish him till Jan and sell!