HaydnNUFC

Liking him so far.

Would go with this as well but isn't Diame more of an attacking midfielder? If so, either swap him with Tiote or Perez out, put Diame there and put Tiote in DM with Hayden.

Get in the bin.

First ever thread. Beginner's luck? Must win. Get the season up and running. 2-0.

Nicking that. Nee bother.

Two home games in a row up next. Need 6 points there.

Middlesbrough had one win in their first four last season and they went up. As did Burnley.

I'm not convinced at all of that. He's got a long way to go.

http://i.imgur.com/pYiOkHR.jpg

How long till De Jong is fit like?

Thought he was very poor tonight, thinks he has more time on the ball than he does and panics when there's man on. Get him off set pieces for fuck's sake.

Another winger and striker please Rafa. Maybe a LB too if Dummett is planned to be ahead of Gamez in the pecking order.

Agreed. Gayle will only be decent on the break, and we won't be counterattacking many teams in this league as they'll put 10 men behind the ball like Fulham did in the last 15 minutes.

Gutted but a kick up the arse might not be a bad thing. Two home games next up, should be 6 points. Maybes a point at Ashton Gate and then we're up and running. Gonna be a long, hard slog, this season.

So a 5-1 next game?

Damien Duff off the bench.

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Only two blocks in the Platinum Club are now relatively unsold from what I've seen. With Huddersfield bringing 3.2k up, and if we win tonight, it'll probably be 51,000+

When he was talking about Keegan.

There was one game at the end of last season I don't recall which but Ayoze was 1 on 2 and there was a player in space who probably would have scored had he passed it to him but Perez chose to go alone and ended up losing out. We won the game though think it was Palace and at full time rather than celebrating with the players he came straight over put his arm around Perez and was explaining the mistake to him and presumably giving him some advice, I'm relatively certain he will improve with this level of coaching. Was Palace aye.

Aye. "Chancel Mbemba, (either Mohamed Diame or Vurnon Anita) Shelvey & Perezzzz"

I was thinking the same. Just by judging from the training pics and videos, that doesn't seem like it is still the case. I think he has mellowed even further as he has gotten older. His demeanour seems more friendly now, I think. Have to say, probably one of my only gripes with Rafa. Is how methodical and sometimes boring his football can be. What Bellamy is saying there kind of backs it up and I know former players and Liverpool fans say similar. That said, he is still light years ahead of anything we have had in the last however long. I also love how meticulous he is. I wonder what Carver used to say in team meetings I think it's when we were watching Liverpool vs some other PL team at the time, Rafa's style can be boring to watch, but when it's your own team it's great.

Agreed.

Not on the fucking wing though