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Love how people prefer a player like Ritchie who runs round pointing, leaving his man, hitting the first defender with every cross and the athletic ability of a sloth but he tries. Maybe Perez gets caught on the ball as he literally has no one to pass too and doesn't just pass it backwards for the sake of it. But what do I know! When your playing crap the first players to get criticised are the footballers and not the plodders like Ritchie and Dummett both of who have done fuck all this season

He would be better in a team that tried to play football

Rob Lee in his prime someone who will support and run beyond the striker

It's like having Jack Colback with tipped hair on the wing

Agree all three are solid defensively but as a team if they are part of the reason we can't function or retain the ball it needs to change. Agree again though that it won't

Shelvey plays deep because Lascelles, Fernandez and Dummett can't pass the ball. We massively miss Lejeune. I'd give Schar a chance instead of fernandez or lascelles or we might as well be playing Shelvey as a sweeper

hardly were given a run for their money were they? No agree but those two are literally our only hope going forward.

I thought him and Shelvey were our best players by a mile

Hits the first defender with his crosses way too often. Takes awful set pieces. Points and shouts a lot which is mistaken for effort. In the team as we have no one else

There is a complete lack of confidence in the team. Lejeune is a huge miss the back four can't pass the ball. Ritchie runs arou d pointing and shouting but does nothing. The crowd love him though as he runs round pointing and shouting. His set pieces were awful never missed the front man. Shelvey sprayed a 60 yard pass leaving him one on one and he turned inside knocking it twenty yards back. We are woeful only shelvey and Kennedy have My creation. Our bench is dire this can only go one way

I've got hope back after yesterday. Benitez needs to play strongest team every week no tinkering. Lascelles and shelvey need to stay fit get Lejeune back sign Messi in January we will be sweet. Oh and Ashley to die of asphyxiation after stuffing too many sausage rolls down his fat neck at Christmas

When he broke in the second half and failed to pass it seven yards to Shelvey. You could see exactly what was going to happen before it did. Tragically bad. I can't believe Aaron's or Roberts didn't deserve a chance ahead of this guy

Really like him needs to be in the team every week and should have been in before now

Just doesn't look like a footballer him and atsu were awful. Ashley to blame our bench was woeful

I think he just went for his weekly hand job from Lee Charnley

My dad is 71 and been going for more than 60 years. He used to go watch them train we would go up benwell every Saturday morning in the 80s to watch the youths. Now he won't set foot in St James Park as in his view this is the worst it's ever been. That's what Ashley is doing to people. Ashley flogs tickets in the Universities and Colleges cheaply. The people going to the match have changed and apathy rules

None. Needs an 80s style riot

Take fucking joselu off

Brilliant sub! Not rafas fault though

Almost as sick of Benitez as I am Ashley which is ridiculous. Why did he buy Schar or Muto or Murphy? Yet Joselu plays every week ?

Benitez is not better than Robson. We finished 3rd with Dabizas and Any Obrien playing as our centre backs. Half the players in that team probably wouldn't get a game for Benitez. He would play Ritchie over a Robert type Which players are getting better under his coaching. Lascelles and possibly Shelvey (more disciplined) who else?

It's not now and again. There are probably three types of managers. Those that are pragmatists like Benitez, Conte and Allardyce. They have a set system and players must conform to it or their out. Managers like Robson, Keegan. Wenger and Sarri that give players a platform to perform and adapt their style around the players. Then managers like Carved, Pardew and Kinnear who are just total clueless plums. In the pragmatist camp a number 10 Will struggle to flourish as the team don't attack. Not many options, runners around them so creativity is stifled get caught on the ball etc. Whilst Benitez is without doubt the best we have had for a long time. Gets the city and fans I personally don't like his approach. It's still preferable to the inevitable yes man dimwit that Ashley would replace him with

I'd rather my centre forward scored goals than ran round like a moron chasing shadows whilst the rest of the team defend 50 yards back. The football we play is horrible and it was pretty bad in the championship

Got to be worth a try! I wonder if pubs in Town would all put a large poster up drawing attention to it

I got asked at work today by a guy who is a season ticket holder why I'm protesting. His view it's totally pointless and will make no difference. Too many fans are completely apathetic I'm all up for a peaceful pitch invasion. Everyone just walk on calmly sit down and refuse to move. Can't arrest everyone. Ideally do it on the early Sunday match so it knocks Sky's entire schedule Problem is you'd probably have three quarters of the crowd booing.