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I liked him when he first arrived and perhaps up till last season. He was absolutely woeful yesterday. Surely the coaches have to be responsible, they've fucked him right up.

CT, why do you always latch onto the outsiders , the players on the fringe / unplayed? Have Mitro and Perez been that bad? Just wondering, you're always backing the unplayed .

85% possession last 5 according to the stream I'm watching

fuck me, whats the forum become? Bedwetters R us? 1-0 against the league leaders after 55mins.

I know right, Slayer. It's fuckin infuriating how much sharper and more enthusiastic they look in this first 15.

Compared to the football antichrist Allardyce, Rafa looks like a messiah, maybe that's the mackam view?

Bit harsh on anita here, as usual. He's not so bad. What I want to know is what Tiote is doing in training for successive managers to omit him.

Yeah, the pessimist in me wouldn't be surprised if Rafa does keep us up , then Mike Ashley tells him to sling his fuckin hook at those wages and control and appoints John Craven. Hopefully Rafa's signed a 3 year with only the relegation break in HIS favour and no clauses for Mike to fuck him about should he stay up.

It wont be the last one, just from memory, when did we play a top 4 club and play shite in the last 2 years?

it's bringing me back to being a whippersnapper this like, when Ozzie went. I can feel a revival in me bones.

I don't know, I always fancy us when we're playing the top 4. It's like everyone gets their price tags on and hopes to fuck they'll get spotted. Same today, might well squeak a result here then lose against the mackams. God fuckin forbid.

As much as I backed McClaren, it was the belief that people like Rafa were way out of our league. With Rafa being interested, they should have moved McClaren within 5 minutes of the call.

Its true David , it was his coach that said he could play anywhere, and him that added that rm is probably his "best" position. Prob got it in my favourites at home, it was a hell of an article, it made him out to be one of the national teams future heroes. And yeah DK, good point about "next season". We'll stay up though I hope, even with McClaren and the "old way" of club structure I still held hope of us not being quite shit enough. btw - I'm going to chance my arm and say hes going to play 3 at the back (or 5 with two higher wing backs). I'm glad I'm not manager though as I've too many possibles on the left. Taylor, Colo/Dummet, Mbemba / Colback Janmaat Aarons / Mbemba Tiote / Anita/ Colback Perez / Gino Shelvey Townsend / anyone else but Gouffran. Mitrovic - Gino / Perez

The reserves mean nowt, not to me for a new signing , he should be at least making effort to get on the ball. the video I saw he looked like he was ready to fuckin sleep. But I'm going overboard, I'm not saying he's shite - but Perez is , in my view, a really good player who's only getting better. Mitro and him deserve a chance to gel together. I'd rather play our actual players than someone whos probably not going to be here next season , and think Mitro Perez are more likely to score the goals we need. Perez is quoted as saying RW is his preferred position also, I don't see why we've stuck with Sissoko tbh. Perez on right, Mitro up front now we've got effectively 4 strikers on the books. Much prefer Perez on the right though, but he seems handy playing behind the striker too.

CT doumbia has played, for the reserves and was shockingly ineffective. Perez not a natural goalscorer? That's harsh, he's had a very hard job in his time here - he needs support like any forward, or to be played consistently in his other favoured position, on the right.

I don't think he can/will play that formation. So I'm not playing.

Its still not McLarens fault, it's Ashley. But surely getting Rata means a change of strategy and admitting that the way we were running the club was shit. At least I hope so.

Look, you've all read me banging on. I don't care about any clauses, it's still a big reputational risk for him, it's a challenge. I never in a million years thought we'd get a manager under Ashley with the pedigree that Rafa has, so if he keeps us up and stays, I'll be loving it.

Cheers for posting that. good article.

well I feel like a cunt .... fuckin get in.

Whoever said he could be a legend , the similarities between him arriving and Keegan arriving are there. If he saves us on the last day of the season I'm flying back to Newcastle for the piss up. Hopefully Bigg Market will have the red phone boxes back ready for the boirds to get their jebs out again.

They'll say yes to anything to stay up. as long as they don't try and power play him once the seasons over .

fuck. I should have double sheathed this morning, its 9:41 here and I'm sat in my own spunk explosion.

I'm jus saying that him selecting the players we are most likely to never be able to offload is strange. Gouffran just seemed weird - we all said when he came well he's done well cos gouffrans not even on the bench, then he ends up playing him when hes got better on the bench. And yes, anything to do with NUFC I will blame on Ashley, because it is down to him, all of this shit - if we do (and its not even fuckin done yet) get Rafa , I'll cream myself , but I'll be very surprised if this bunch of fucknuts actually get him and retain him. FWIW - I see Rafa as a massive step up from McClaren, but I'm not sure he's the same guy he was 5 or 10 years ago. Pretty much lost it in his last job.

I tend to believe the story on nufc, I reckon he was told who to play at certain points. Hope we do get Benitez after all this