Rayvin

What a relief it is to have Mbemba playing...

We have to win this, there's no coming back from losing it IMO. Norwich are picking up too many points and while Pardew still seems intent on gatecrashing the party I'm not sure it'll be enough. Absolutely have to win it. No idea if we actually will though.

Skullfucking The key to victory!

I don't even get that one...

He'll play, it'll just be smoke and mirrors.

The kid is definitely leaning back as well

Now that's good news...suddenly this feels like a game we should cruise (famous last words).

Man Utd/Liverpool is actually a pretty decent game...

Yep, because they were really up against it in the last GE when Corbyn wasn't leading the party. Labour were so close to sweeping into power...

Classic clickbait headline. Not that the underlying stat isn't interesting.

True actually, I'm not convinced that City are all that good defensively when he doesn't play.

The Fish hoisted by his own petard by essembee no less...

the nuke it from space option...

We're gonna be right up against it here...

No way in fuck did we just concede to a bicycle kick

If McClaren was still here this thread would be 5 comments long, all of them depressing. Nice to be optimistic for a change, even if it does prove fruitless in the end.

Fish's position on this board is to occupy and vouch for the centreground. He's like old New Labour - campaigning for what he considers to be a left wing agenda (staying up last season and this season) only to be caught cold by the sudden surge of further left political thought (Rafa is going to turn the whole club on its head and we'll start moving forward at last) and thus finding himself sitting off on the right with a bemused look on his face and trying to temper everyone's expectations (Rafa has a big job on his hands and we still might get relegated - even if we don't it's no guarantee, etc.)

Good to hear!

CT is going to love that...

Haha you have to love rawk.

One of the Norwich fans I was speaking to said that the 6-2 against us unravelled their season. Apparently they were more about attacking prior to that (and during it) and the experience resulted in a fundamental shift to defensive strength rather than attacking prowess. They were doing better when they were attacking though. And that's that anyway. Norwich get a point. Well played to them but City fucking suck.

I dunno what it is, but I still don't see Leicester as a team of worldbeaters. As has been said, they have one good tactic that no one takes seriously enough, and it's got them into such a good position this season. They also work hard and have a high level of determination. That said, they're still a bunch of players around the same level as Danny Simpson at the end of the day. For me, we'll lose unless it turns out that McClaren was the problem all along. If the squad was in any way culpable (highly likely) then Benitez won't have been able to effect any meaningful change in time to do anything about this.

Hopefully City will be this shit against us...

It's gonna be a draw... City just can't get into the box, there's too many Norwich players in there. Good defending in fairness.