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Enjoyed the championship more last time with Andy Carroll and Nolan. This time its been tougher with arguably a better squad and more successful manager. I will miss the games coming thick and fast Mondays Tuesdays, and Friday night games being the best after work and going to the pub to watch us. Its a good time to evaluate everything in this division. There will be a lot of those lads celebrating last night who will never play for us again, they were here for one reason and one reason only (business) getting us out of this division and it has been achieved. Big changes ahead, I hope the future is good for us and we learn from this experience, but I have enjoyed it.

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His style of play and tactics are much more suited to the PL. Needs to be given funds and also complete control of the first team.

Shearer isn't key to keeping rafa.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39699186 Shearer, key to keeping Rafa, give him funds.

He was decent tonight. Those saying perez played well, he had two freak goals, one i think was more Clarks goal than his. Mitro played equally as well if not better imo. Ritchie was getting pissed at Mitro not going for his delivery. But Preston after his first 5 to 10 mins of Mitro getting a couple of chances doubled up on him in the box. And in the end it was Atsu looking for scraps that Mitro was being marked out of.

Good job De Jong wasnt there when they were popping champagne corks. http://www.sportreviews.com/en/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/file-7-620x360.jpeg

https://m.thepfa.com/news/2017/4/20/pfa-championship-team-of-the-year http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/10807996/efl-teams-of-the-season-announced-for-the-sky-bet-championship-league-one-and-league-two http://e2.365dm.com/17/03/16-9/20/skysports-championship-toty-team-of-the-year-graphic_3913247.jpg?20170320093102 PFA and EFL team of the season. No Ritchie or Clark Both include Shelvey and Gayle. I think Shelvey was good first half of the season. But Ritchie has stepped up with plenty of goals and works his arse off all over the pitch.

Gouffran with a massive Fred Perry tatt

Shelveys corners were wank tonight.

Mitro playing the pissed yob well.

Prestons game plan sit back soak it up and launch it. They will need to come out a bit second half. Can see us scoring again.

Pick your player/players of the season. 2 votes in case its a tough choice.

Would hope we might take a punt on Tomas Kalas. Noticed Fulham have him this season and are close to promotion. Last season he was with Boro. Would be a nice back up or push others in first team.

Didnt realise Rooney was younger than Ronaldo. Only 31.

Great news promotion. As much as i hate Villa i will be pleased if they do us a favour on the final game. And as long as we win all ours. ?

Jacob Murphy has 10 goals and 6 assists for Norwich. Could be worth a chance, with Norwich staying in the Championship

Rafa is a patient man. But the nature of that equaliser against Leeds will have driven him fucking spare. Maybe he decided to give it both barrels, though that's not his style. Usually he cuts players dead who won't learn or won't do a job. Maybe that's why Mitro was benched? Bizarrely Jack Colback can bypass this treatment then. One of the pitfalls in our drop in form along with losing the stability of Clark.

Replacement GK Anita/Yedlin Replacement CB Clark Replacement LB Ritchie Shelvey Replacement CM Replacement LM Replacement No.10 Gayle/Replacement back up ST Keep as cover: Darlow Woodman Dummett Lacelles Mbemba Hayden Aarons Perez Mbabu Get rid of: Krul Colback Hanley Lazaar Haidara Gouffran Sels Elliott Gamez Ameobi Mitrovic Rivière Saivet Armstrong Diame Murphy

We are pretty much promoted with a win here. Id like to think given the dreadful run of late we might just go for the kill. Give the fans a break from worries. The title is gone but to know promotion is sealed will be a massive weight off everyone's shoulders. Btw when is Rolando Aarons fit and available? Wasn't he supposed to be back close to the end of season

Just seen Abrahams goal today vs Blackburn

Yes he should of been backed but let's not forget he has spent 50 million which is crazy amount for the Championship. The problem is the formation, team selection and tactics are not right and have not been for months so yes criticism and questioning are justified. We sold all our best players and walked away with a 30 million profit. Imagine where we would be if we didn't replace anyone. And he still spent 50 million to replace them which by Championship standards is unreal so your point is? I give up. http://il3.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/11544743/thumb/1.jpg?i10c=img.resize(height:160)

Utter crap the spending in January excuses. Townsend would not have dropped down. And Fat Sam didnt want to lose any players. Need to stop the poor excuses. We should have been coping well with this squad. Worse case scenario recall some loan players that we sent out.

Im never sure whats so hard about picking the best players and changing the set up. Instead of keeping the set up and forcing players to play positons they are useless in?

Rafa doesnt do gung ho football. 1 up top predictable line up only and forever. Will be very interesting to see how that formation lasts in the prem,if we go up?