HaydnNUFC

Really? I thought it was canny. The crowd realised what we are and what we had to do as a result that night, I thought. The booing like from today isn't on though. I can understand boos if players are blatantly not trying, but this bunch of players are. They're just not good enough, that's not their fault.

How much time?? If we only have 25 points going into april is that fine? Seeing as you've been lambasting him for a while now I assume you want him out. Who'd you bring in if he left/got sacked then?

We didn't but our defence nullified their attack and we actually forced their keeper inot making a couple of good saves. Clean Sheet, and clean sheets will keep us up if Fat Sham is to be believed. True, but walking out of the ground today I couldn't find anything positive about that other than the fact we didn't get beat. Onto Stoke and all the rest of it, but we desperately need additions to the front 6.

I almost always agree with you Figures, but we didn't look good going forward today like.

Southampton away and Lascelles probably.

He's scored 1 league goal in 8 games.

Basically, in broken English, "Rafa's staff have been told to gone home, Rafa's in office in meeting with Charnley".

Ok.

"Lacking finishing" doesn't mean "having a go". We lacked finishing against Bournemouth, Watford, Everton, Huddersfield yet I doubt many on here will claim we "had a go" in those games.

You'd think employees of 20+ years would at least be moderately literate. Ah no, it's really weird attention seeking.

Brighton were more progressive than us in the first half and must have had more possesion than us. We got deeper and deeper as the first half went on. Could say the same for us in the second half. They came for a point today. They got it due to our lack of quality.

They’re the away team you expect that though. You don’t expect that from the home team but we are every single time. The way they set up is similar to us and has been all season. I'm refuting his point that Hughton is "having a go" at teams this season, when he just isn't. At home they certainly have more of a go than we do though or they certainly have in the games I have seen. They set up like this in the game at the Amex when they beat us 1-0. Have struggled past Watford at home 1-0 and Burnley 0-0 in recent weeks. Must've "had a go" at Liverpool though, seeing as they got dicked 1-5.

They’re the away team you expect that though. You don’t expect that from the home team but we are every single time. The way they set up is similar to us and has been all season. I'm refuting his point that Hughton is "having a go" at teams this season, when he just isn't.

Can't lie. Was shite today, utter shite. Was like some of the Championship games last season where teams came here and set up for a point and we couldn't break them down.

Did you see how Brighton set up today? Like fuck is Hughton "having a go" at teams this season.

You an avid watcher of Liverpool in 2004-2010, like? In which they won a CL, got to another final, another semi final, won the FA Cup, challenged for the PL title in a season in which they went 38 games with only 2 defeats? His Napoli signings are the main reason why they are where they are in Serie A.

He does decide because Rafa aint got 100mil in his back pocket to sign a prime Fernando Torres. He gives a budget just like any other owner/chairman who runs a business and then the manager works with that budget. He does not decide who is recruited with that budget. Rafa chose to sign these useless f***ers he was not forced to what cant you understand about that *breathe* Right... Example time Rafa wants a 15mil striker, a 10mil LB and a 15 mil CM. 40mil is not much in todays market. Ashley counters with a budget of 18mil. Rafa then has to buy a 5mil Joselu, a 5mil Manq, and an 8mil Merino. If he doesn't buy them, we have no LB to cover the injured Dummett, no CF he trusts other than Gayle, and 2 CMs in Hayden and Jonjo. See the problem? Or would you rather he bought nobody and we play Mitrovic at LB? Are you trying to tell me that even with 18m to spend there wasn't better options for 3..players than Manquillo,Joselu and Merino We had Mbemba and Hanley as cb cover neither are any worse than Lejeune,,,,so there is 7m wasted We had Darryl Murphy who is no worse than Joselu,,,,theres 5m wasted you don't go and blow your budget on bodies just for the sake of filling a hole Please stop posting on here and stay on RTG.

Most journalists positive the takeover will happen...apart from Luke Edwards. Imagine my shock.

Right, let's just all agree to disagree and focus on a huge game for us later on today, aye?

If we had shown the same application as they did or we did against Liverpool or Tottenham or City you would not have heard a buzz from me even if we had let in 3 or 4. Nobody is denying their quality and that’s exactly why I am saying you don’t allow teams like that to be allowed to walk the ball into our third of the pitch without even a challenge or a token effort to put pressure onto their team and to not give them the time or space to pick their pass. The last 15 minutes is exactly how the previous 75 should have been played as we then started to put the pressure on and the challenges in. We were chasing the game at 0-1 down, their defenders were tiring and we put pacey players on as subs in Gayle and Atsu. I think it's quite easy to say "we should have played like that the whole game" but it just wouldn't have worked like that. We would've tired with them playing passes around our press we would've gotten done 3 or 4+. We tried rushing Man Utd, Bournemouth and Leicester and ended up getting dicked after 20 minutes (well, 45 against Bournemouth). It's likely City would have double fisted us. Personally think the Bournemouth and Leicester games were a bit different than us being dicked after 20 minutes mind, but I agree with your overall point.

If we had shown the same application as they did or we did against Liverpool or Tottenham or City you would not have heard a buzz from me even if we had let in 3 or 4. Nobody is denying their quality and that’s exactly why I am saying you don’t allow teams like that to be allowed to walk the ball into our third of the pitch without even a challenge or a token effort to put pressure onto their team and to not give them the time or space to pick their pass. The last 15 minutes is exactly how the previous 75 should have been played as we then started to put the pressure on and the challenges in. We were chasing the game at 0-1 down, their defenders were tiring and we put pacey players on as subs in Gayle and Atsu. I think it's quite easy to say "we should have played like that the whole game" but it just wouldn't have worked like that. We would've tired with them playing passes around our press we would've gotten done 3 or 4+.

When the f*** did we put pressure on their team, You can't really. You can't commit to a press in midfield or with the players they have they'll punish you by exploting the space. We did. Flat back 5, bank of 4 and Joselu pressing, sitting deep. Get ball out wide to pacey wings to carry possession forward. The players' ball retention in the first half was shocking. You can't put that down to tactics: passes and touches going astray etc.

Haven't you literally just described our gameplan on Wednesday there?

I'd like to keep Hayden and Yedlin as well too, mind. The former because I think he'll mature into a decent player, maybe not a starter but a nice option to have, and Yedlin because he'd be a great backup full back to better quality counterpart. I'd keep Lascelles, Merino and Yedlin. To be fair, we could keep a fair few from our side as back-ups though, if we have a good starting eleven. The only issue there will be that they're used to starting and will probably throw a fit from being relegated to the bench/being squad players. I don't think Hayden would throw a hissy fit. He's still young and is nowhere near a finished article yet. He'll get better.