OTF

Was Hayden not just kicked in the back of the leg/foot in the box there?

It doesn't matter, the ref can stop play anyway especially given the location of where the incident occurred and the nature of it, only a prick would play on with two players down in the middle of the box.

Aye, they're beating the team running second to last through some of the worst sportsmanship of the season.

How does Jota not get a yellow there? Fouls and then shoves our player?

There's the laws of the game and the spirit of the game, collectively they've said fuck it to both when really they were most likely to go on and win it anyway.

Mike Dean, fuckwit.

What a joke

Not sure why it took so long to get Ritchie on there.

Lewis has had enough eh SMB?

He practically winked at the camera when smirking talking about playing as a forward for Newcastle and the expectations of a big price tag.

Well well well what is this? Jonjo

It's screaming out to not be watched.... and yet...

It will hurt having to pay overs for players to end the season whichever way it goes, most of all if we're still relegated as we'll have paid huge wages with no return and they'll all have release clauses to get out of here in a hurry for cheap. But the chance of staying up mean they have to at least have a go of it. We've watched us play, we know we've been a relegation standard team for more than a season. We've improved with a new manager but we need players to stand any chance of surviving and the only way to sign them when you're in this predicement is to pony up the big bucks. FFP takes the biggest hit if we're relegated, we've got room to spend so it's therefore possible and I'd also say the responsible thing to do would be to have a proper push at staying up.

We've only just got you back! Get well soon, Tree and Sapling.

As much as I want Lascelles put of the side it would be brutal to Fernandez to bring him in against Liverpool away and then Man City so Lascelles should be given a couple more chances? And if he's not up to standard Fede can come in against Man utd at home.

This is what was most worrying, we had enough of the ball in semi-dangerous areas but consistently did nothing with it, looking far from cohesive. When we inevitably turned the ball over they had plenty of space to move into. We ended up playing into their hands in the second half.

Blatantly reheating left overs or worse, if there was any chance to big up what he was 'cook'ing the self congratulatory phallus would have.

Our defense is absolute muck of course but we also can't forget that the closest we came to scoring was an overhit back pass of theirs. For all the ball we got into advanced positions nothing came of it except for space in behind us for them to attack. Howe sold it up for some reason (no doubt not wanting to dent our confidence too much) but this game was a wash both defensively and in attack.

I think we'll let it slide but maybe save it for its intended purpose.

Agree, but still looked reasonable compared to this. Setting aside the incorrect penalty the ease with which their second and third goals were scored is what sets this well below the Arsenal game.

Burn the scarf.

I'd go so far as saying that this was the first time since Howe arrived that we've looked like relegation certainties on the pitch.

Going to be an embarrassment really. It will be interesting to see how Howe sets us up in those.

Constantly, was terrible the way we fell off at the end, they had bodies everywhere we were strolling about heads down.

We started ok and first half was an even affair, second half we lost our shape and discipline and all our frailties were on display.