Howay

Same, we're also playing Brighton and Huddersfield sides that will be coming at us rather than sitting deep looking to hit us on the break.

Aye howay Noelie man, we're top of the league and we're not going to win every single match. Aye this is a shit one to lose but if Barnsley equalize we only give up 1 point on Hudds.

Aye he sounds hopeless tbh. The issue is we can't comfortably say Diame will be much better. We needed a goal before the half tbh, I can't see us getting back into this as we're really lacking the creativity to create against a deep sitting side. If we're still 2 down at the 60th minute I'd take Ritchie off to make sure he can play next game.

I'd have to see the chance to really be fair to him but I'm sick of hearing (or seeing when the match is on telly) Perez getting put through into what sound like 1 on 1 type chances and it ending up being saved by the keeper. We need to be putting those type of chances away and our forwards seem to be seeing them saved an awful lot. Agreed Gloom, really need a goal before half time to have any chance. If they're 2-0 up at half time Bristol will spend the 2nd half sat in their box lugging balls forward to their big men up top.

Why? What happens if we go on to batter Huddersfield and Brighton?

For fuck sake man.

We don't do well when we go down like. Bristol are going to sit even deeper than before. It may work better having a target man on like Mitro rather than Gayle in this sort of situation though. Sounds like our lot are complacent as fuck.

Mitro and Atsu both start. Atsu in place of Gouff. Rest of the line up is the same as usual (Perez in place of Diame, hard to say who the usual one is in that position) including good old foul waiting to happen in CM.

:lol: The fact that utter fraud is still in the running for PL jobs is absolutely ridiculous (even if it is just bookies).

Nah I know you're one of the people confident of promotion. I get what you're saying that the more grinding nature of our wins is leading people to worry. Rafa has always been fairly pragmatic as we've both alluded too and even though they've not been spectacles we've dominated the majority of games this season. Agree with what you've said. We looked better last time as I think the squad had a better balance to it and we had more creativity in the side, which is what I think a lot of people have in their mind when comparing this season to that one. I'm happy enough to wave my willy about as it's about the only time we've had any sort of cause too for nearly 10 year.

Aye I think my level of hatred for them two had me thinking it was more but those were the teams I was thinking of. Yeah I'd be more than happy with them 3 going down now and Rafa the Gaffa (as the mackems kept calling him at the end of last season, still don't get it) has us up as champs.

Tbf that's the majority of games in the Championship. Brighton have regularly been pissed on for 80 minutes before bagging 2 late goals to win 2-1. We're a workmanlike side that's lacking much quality/creativity but we're good at grinding out wins. As long as we keep Shelvey on the pitch we'll be fine.

Aye agreed, I know they're struggling a bit but this is where they were when he took over and would perhaps have been the whole time without him. I've seen articles and comments asking when Vardy will get back to scoring loads, it's this sort of inflation of what some of these players are that has led to this sacking. Vardy only got 5 goals the season before they won the title, he has 5 already now so he's actually doing better than the last time they were in a similar position. Mahrez was always going to be marked tighter. I mean the way some pundits talked about Danny fucking Drinkwater last season was absurd, it was clear all along how brilliant Kante was and it's clear as day now that Drinkwater is back to being a below average PL player who mainly does 5 yard sideways and backwards passes. Their defence is Wes Morgan and Robert Huth ffs, did people honestly think these players had just suddenly become unbelievable players at 30 it was a big purple patch and Ranieri did a fantastic job managing it and keeping the season on the tracks. I'd say I hope they go down but there's too many cunts I'm wishing that on this season anyway.

If we were 5 points behind people would be moaning about how far off we were, now we're 5 points clear (which is really like 6 because of GD) it's as if Huddersfield are about to catch us. I'm not worrying about us slipping up tbh, we're top because we've been the best side in the league so far. Huddersfield might slip up, in which case we could be 8 points clear, then if we beat them we're 11 points clear. I don't see how that is any less likely than us slipping up and then losing to Huddersfield. I think we'll grind out another win here against a side in poor form.

Iirc Toni Kroos is a massive fan of Robbie Williams.

I've heard from a few people that Lazaar has apparently been building up a bit and trying to adapt to the country, if there's any truth in that I think it's possible he was brought in with an eye on being our left back in the PL with Dummett tasked with playing the bulk of the games in the Championship so we weren't just hoying a young, foreign full back in at the deep end. If so I suppose that's a 'new' player in a way, if he is up to task I'd be more than happy with Yedlin and him at full back. I think if that was the case we could go out and spend good money on a centre back and have a capable enough defence for first season back. Then I think the left wing and 'number 10' roles would need looked at. So 3 quality players would do it imo. Obviously it's not what the fans really want as we'd see Colback and co still starting a fair number of games but I reckon Rafa could get survival with that (as well as having the Jan window to improve) then look to move up the table the following summer. Again it's all contingent on fat boy going along with it.

We really need to be a bit deeper/more assured at the back and have a bit more creativity in the side. The aim for first season back is pretty much survival and if we can be a bit more solid defensively and rely less on one player for creativity I'd be confident of that. Rafas always seems to get results even when he has some right clips in his team, just one look at some of the players in his Liverpool side shows that. I think he knows we need creativity and was clearly frustrated we didn't add any in the January window. From a personal stand point I'd love to see us get a CM or two so we don't have to witness Colback in the PL again.

Aye nightmare that tbh.

Aye they love that. To be fair to them it is fairly miraculous that one of the tramps was able to save enough giro to get a trip over there. I'd be happy to see them relegated and stay down. There's no enjoyment from those games tbh, lose and it's like they've won the CL grown men crying etc, beat them and they turn into the mopiest fucking sods and aren't even fun to poke fun at "you still going on about that? It's been two days man". I hope they're losing to Burton And struggling in the bottom half this time next season.

It was Derby at one point in all, they were all getting excited that McClaren would knock us out the automatic spots as he went on a little run but that sharp ended. Honestly man for a support that were giving it the big one about how little they'd bother with us just a few months back they're paying pretty close attention to the form of mid table Championship sides. I guess without their completely against form wins over a shambolic Alan Pardew team to get them excited they've realized just how utter shit they are.

Another good, solid, unspectacular win. It's good that we're showing we are capable of grinding wins out recently as you really need that in this league. Always good to beat Villa and even better that the utter fucking cunt Lansbury fucked up on the line.

Aye that's fucking awful to carry on like that. Ignoring that awful point scoring attempt I fucking hate that type of argument as it makes no sense, if that was the case then why would anyone do anything other than raise money for things? There's a lot of really awful stuff going on every day so shouldn't people be raising money for all that stuff rather than ever doing anything else?

Do they want us to like them? I don't see the point in them thinking we should get over it unless it's for us to like them. Regardless of that incident I think they're utter boring cunts. It wasn't the banners themselves it was the fact that a fanbase, from a club that is one of the most likely you'd forget if you were asked to name the PL clubs before the embarrassment, I never was really arsed about had such venom towards NUFC. That is what people have a problem with imo, it's like some bloke you barely know in the office coming up to you and saying "I'm glad your wife left you, I think you're a cunt" a day after your wife walked out on you, you'd never like that bloke and from that point would always take pleasure in seeing misfortune come to him.

Isn't that rumour repeated every couple of years? I've definitely seen them bickering over it in the past.

Very true mate. I was in a foul mood earlier so think I just needed a bit of a rant and they're always an easy target to drone on about.