Wolfcastle

Amount of times they go down holding their heads try to con a stoppage only to get up when nothing's given is worth a booking, no different to a dive

Just Pope, Burn, Bruno, Wilson and Trippier under the bus so far. Keep up the ace support

Its been one and half games not 'always' that they've got to us. We did the same to them in the game prior - completely discombobulated the manager as I recall.

Might have got minutes on Wednesday, attitude notwithstanding, but in hindsight that would have been a mistake.

plus no injuries and I'd take that too.

shut up shut up shut up

Seems you have to be some fraud to not have West Brom in the play-offs.

If Sheffield United miss this pen, they're cursed, no doubt about it like

Had lines Rooney

Having just wondered about that conspiracy theory at least three late equalisers fly in

Noticed there's hardly any draws in the FAC. Nobody wants replays anymore.

Sheffield United. Season's going to be utter hell.

They're a bit reminiscent of us under Dalglish. Turgid CL campaign and clung on to the coat-tails of the leaders until December before the shit performances more consistently got the results they deserved. Fingers crossed it pans out the same. Though ironically we played well at Old Trafford twice that season, which Man U are yet to do this.

Bracewell too. He'd have played before Clark. Clark, Watson and obviously Mathie, Nielson and Jeffrey were not first team players then and how many of those players were out of position that did play? I was there and cant remember where Beardsley played or Jeffrey, but clearly neither up front. Craic was we'd done the hard bit and by the replay they had the injuries, but won.

Nah Mike Jeffrey and Alan Nielson were mainstays

Injury depleted Keegan side went to Manchester and played well in this comp. So you never know. Alan Nielson setting up Mike Jeffrey for our goal depleted.

I don't understand stadium acoustics admittedly but you hear how roofs help and yet when there was a completely open Gallowgate and half demolished open Leazes the atmoshpere was fine. The same lay-outs of stadiums have alternately been jumping and subdued. For example I've never heard it said once or thought it myself in 30years that the City Ground has a good atmosphere until the last 2seasons. Its more about who is in ground surely and its just not coming back to how it was.

Bet we go into a must win against Dortmund without Wilson, thus any forwards. Bit like it was under Dalglish except not by design.

The only money he'll allow to be reinvested into the club is whatever percentage of what they make anyway that he feels like at any given time. Doesn't even have the threat of losing Premier League participation money to motivate him which was the only reason he allowed anything above a pittance to be spent here. Their fans used to celebrate goals on the terraces like a boundary at the cricket - can only imagine the atmosphere when they realise the plan is to do the bare minumum forever.

Whatever a clubs natural weight is, then if people running it under Ashley achieve that, heads will roll because it means scope to scrimp and save and not enough corners are being cut and that there's plenty of room below that level to fail but to do so without raising suspicion that the clubs being pillaged. Quit the opposite of a plan to build or grow, its to suck the thing dry with the least amount of reinvestment from the money he's making out of it. Other clubs Derby, Reading don't even have the reputation or size constructed by previous era's to sustain the club in spite of him like we did.

Outside the bottom three and Everton they're probably the most consistently bad team in the league. Even when they win its disjointed, unimpressive and fortunate and usually against Copenhagen, Wolves, Brentford at home. On Ten Hag this. Not even fluking a few good performances by this point takes some doing. Ole would have blagged at least a couple.

West Ham - dead Man United - dead, okay its to be expected but it is against City. Its more just the way it is and has been for a long time in the UK now except for the odd crest of a wave thing like Forest last season where its typically one of the worst places.

Deflected late equaliser odds?

Provided the same people grovel at his feet for what he's achieved in the bigger picture that's fine

Which were the others in this non-existent cavalcade?