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We won’t go down as long as Rafa is here, he played the same against some team last season. We were also missing 5 players who would have been in the squad at least. We were a never penalty and a deflection from getting something, mental the stick he is getting

It's controversial, troops, but you're starting to win me over on this issue.

It's not a positive. Nobody's happy seeing us play this way, it is however, pragmatic with the personnel he had for Sunday and the team he was up against. It's not giving Rafa a free pass as I can imagine he was as pissed off as we were that's how it had to go.

Big, big difference between our game v Chelsea in May and our game yesterday and if you think it's just down to Rafa then you're letting yesterday's disappointment cloud your judgement. Ah, banana-cock, I'd totally forgotten about you. Funny how your brief appearances usually occur when there's a bit of NUFC negativity. Slagging Benitez as well? The stench of Hendon is strong in this one.

He’s a great businessman though apparently

And we’ve got one of the best managers in the league. While not much fun to watch, it’s hard to criticise Rafa’s tactic. He doesn’t set them up like this every week.

I agree strawb. This was the same type of shut up shop tactic he made against Man u last season, which turned our fortunes around. Not pretty to watch, but I thought we defended brilliantly and only undone by unfortunate decisions or deflection. Obv Id not like to see this against teams we can match.

Well, it's not like we were expecting things to be any different this season. Fuck knows what chancer we'll get when Benitez leaves

Aye. Not even September and already hoping there’s 3 worse teams

You need footballers to play football.

I'm not even watching that stupid cunt spout shite but Benitez has been absolutely dignified and pretty much gotten on with his job. He even agreed to be involved with that joint statement to try and pour oil on the waters after the window had closed.

There are 3 worse teams than us, but that means nowt when we play like we did against Cardiff. It's groundhog Day. We will be in or around the bottom 3 come January and we will end up buying 2 or 3 players to try and keep us up

Why did nearly 52000, me included, turn up yesterday to watch that garbage. After the game. the media said that Lascelles didn't play because he had a clash of tactics with Rafa. So Rafa, to justify his position, dropped him. It turned out that Lascelles was objecting to playing 3 centre halves in the middle with Schar a left sided player told he would play on the right. Shelvey 'injured' at the last minute yet he turned up with his wife and 2 kids. Was Rondon the only CF could have signed. A striker who hardly scored 10 goals last season. If Rafa is such a great Manager who can do no wrong with the fans, not able to work his magic with Mitrovic, who can't stop scoring.