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Pleased to see Shelvey starting as well, need his quality in a game like this. Looking for a big game from him.

Good side, right to start Diame over Merino in my opinion. Only change I would have liked to see is Joselu instead of Gayle who has been poor lately. We'll win this.

Looking for a Junior Hoilett thunderbolt from range. He can hit them well given the time & space.

Reckon we'll win without too much hassle. We're better than them.

An honest attempt from the lad, foot on the ball but momentum means he rolls over it, probably looks bad to the ref at a glance but really isn't a bad challenge. Oh well

Harsh red that imo.

Sunderland's goalkeeper is rough as fuck. Their backup is even worse as well.

Any good?

This is exactly what will happen and we can all see it a mile off. So frustrating when we can't do anything about it. At this rate, we're going to get relegated and all the hard work done by Rafa/players in the Championship has been for nothing. That's not being dramatic, it's just very realistic. I wouldn't be so sure, at this current rate we would stay up given our points tally/form. Another couple of wins and we would all start feeling very confident of staying up. I don't think we're getting relegated this year personally, new signings or not. If we however start flogging key players like Shelvey, that's when I'd start to question our chances a bit more.

That Charly Musonda looks good I reckon, fwiw. Though I wouldn't be surprised to see him loaned out to a Southern club rather than us, Bournemouth/Brighton for instance.

Ah yes, that was a lack of concentration for sure. Good shout.

Yes

They are by far is biggest weaknesses - he makes game changing mistakes that cost goals. These aren't due to his technique more often than not. Most notable for me was at Burton away last year in the small terrace and very close to the goal so I could see him up close and he was shaking like a leaf with nerves every time he took a goal kick. If he could cut them out I think he could become a decent Premier League 'keeper. Might have just been cold Any other examples? I'm interested in your perspective but still can't recall that many occasions where his concentration/focus has glaringly obviously let him down to be considered a huge problem. Ipswich away last season? Everton at home this season? Everton was more positioning than focus imo.

They are by far is biggest weaknesses - he makes game changing mistakes that cost goals. These aren't due to his technique more often than not. Most notable for me was at Burton away last year in the small terrace and very close to the goal so I could see him up close and he was shaking like a leaf with nerves every time he took a goal kick. If he could cut them out I think he could become a decent Premier League 'keeper. Might have just been cold Any other examples? I'm interested in your perspective but still can't recall that many occasions where his concentration/focus has glaringly obviously let him down to be considered a huge problem.

Hmm, interesting. Not really sure he struggles with them in particular. You might see things differently like.

Just got a text from a reliable source saying the same thing. You're both really bad people.

He looks ravishing man. Great head of hair. Needs to shave his feet though.

People seem utterly convinced we're going down without the takeover happening in time for substantial investment this month. To be fair I might have said the same a couple of weeks back. Bit more relaxed about it now. We do need some signings, but we've shown we're capable of getting results even with the current squad. Suppose what would change that is if the other strugglers bring in their own improvements and we're left behind. What worries me the most about relegation is how our performance against Stoke was probably us at the ceiling of our ability. 1-0 winners against a very poor Stoke outfit who had some very good chances. It wasn't like, we've played better than we just did against Stoke earlier on in the season. We were very good against West Ham & Stoke at home off the top of my head.

Ben El-Mhanni, now free of the paper chains that held him, can burst onto the scene, cement his place in our first team and keep us up with a bicycle kick against Chelsea final day of the season.

We should be signing that number 68 in red. Great anticipation & reading of the game.

Yeah judging by some of the names being discussed (albeit mainly all speculation) we may as well just go with what we already have. I don't think we're short on numbers really, just quality. So unless we're adding players who are better than what we have in their position, then I wouldn't bother personally.

Proper charva handwriting that like

He'll probably be a decent keeper when he's in his 30's aye I think so. Whether we can wait is another question. He will need first team action if he's to grow so it's a tough balancing act.

Behind both Schlupp and Van Aanholt I guess. Hard to know why though... neither of them are very good left backs.

Not sure, I know he got a really bad injury a few years when Pardew was there though, maybe he's just struggled to find he way back into the team with them signing quite a few in his position under Allardyce.