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Love that photo of him getting bear hugged off the ground. One of my favourite NUFC photos of recent times. Rafa getting to experience some special moments at St James'. There will be ups and downs and will be a rocky road but this man put his reputation on the line joining us and we are so lucky to have him. Deserves success.

Best one is how they think mag is some sort of derogatory term as well when we sing it ourselves.

Not getting carried away after that wolves game but think we will win 0-2 and it will be the start of a good run for us.

Rotherham, Brentford, Ipswich, Preston Cardiff leeds coming up in the next 6 weeks or so. A good haul from that lot will have us top by then and we will stay there.

48,000+ for a midweek championship game again. Sickens the mackems off knowing they can't get near this even in the premiership. Embarrassing

Such as? The only attacking central midfielder with passing and vision and a great shot on them we have had recently that I can remember is cabaye

He is massively overrated by our fans and isn't going to get lots of goals but as I always say he is vital to us in having a focal point and someone to win knock downs etc

The only other possible alternate in that 10 role is Perez. It's like Chelsea playing kante just behind Costa.

Said last week 4 points from villa and Norwich or just don't lose either and we have a god run of games after that. In our hands to be top 2 in December but lessons still need to be learned. Had it on the radio didn't even celebrate more concerned with what went on before it

Madness. Needed that. Huge turning point Still issues though that we need to learn from this

All this deep squad talk. It's ok having a deep squad if it's full of quality. Ours is not. With the exception of 4 or 5 players our team isn't better than most the others at the top.

Likes of Liverpool and city play the same formation with no big striker. Aguero and firminio are similar stature to Gayle. Just they don't have a donkey behind him

Was glaringly obvious back in the summer we needed a playmaker. Teams who play 4-2-3-1 all have a creative player in that number 10 role, de bruyne coutinho sigurdsson etc. We have Diame who I don't know what he is.

Nail. Head Funny how you've popped up again as soon as we go on a somwhat bad run. Popped up again? I've never went away. I've been to matched supporting us and have said here several times in the last week I still have big faith in Rafa and that we will be top 2 by Xmas time and I still do. Just agreeing with a very valid obvious point

Nail. Head

Also to be the best team and win the league like we thought we should you need a team that is far better than the rest. If darlow dummett colback gouffran were playing for any other team in the league they wouldn't look out of place

Inadequate and insufficient attacking signings

Can't keep up with all these dembeles these days

Perez had his best game by far when he did play behind the sticker at QPR. But back on the bench for Diame who has been crap Agreed. Perez is our best bet there even though he can be hit and miss. Needs Mitrovic playing though for him to be at his most effective but he's not reliable enough to have as our only striker

We do when only a few of them are any good F all goals or creativity in most if not all of that rabble

Nah, just need the manager to sort this s*** out. Not really, I would say he has sorted us out. We look solid, just not taking our chances and struggle to break teams down sometimes due to a lack of flair. I think we all knew we needed one more quality winger and a playmaker or at least another proven goalscorer

No other number 10 type players to replace him though. Perez possibly but he hasn't been great. Definitely left ourselves short of creative and goalscoring options

Rafa Benitez Rafa Benitez and a Rafa Benitezzzzz

Who is going to score the goals we need!

Our biggest problem