Polarboy

So by those metrics you must think that Murphy was the second best player on the pitch for us?

Yes Captain semantic, but it's also the correct opinion. Or did I miss another player who very nearly scored a screamer and got an assist?

Ah, the vague non response, response. 😄 The facts are that Murphy had the most quality of any of our players tonight when he came on, or do you not comprehend that?

I understand the feeling that you'd rather we lost badly to get rid of Bruce and I'd normally agree, but Ashley doesn't look like sacking him even if we're relegated. If we're going to even scrape to safety every point counts, and scoring a late equaliser after such a cuntish own goal will hopefully have given some of the players a much needed lift. I said before this game and Brighton that we needed at least four points, so we just have to hope that Brighton are their usual wasteful selves, and that one flies in off Big Joe's arse next week.

Are you actually a Newcastle fan? You seem more preoccupied with slagging a player so you don't look foolish for writing them off.

🤣 Which is more than Big Joe has looked like doing, or Ritchie when he's been given the chance. Nearly scores straight away, oh but he he hit the post like 😉

Sorry mate but you're talking out of your arse if you think Ritchie has shown more than Murphy this season. At least Murphy has a goal and assist playing from right wing back when he's actually got a run out, and was one of the few who looked decent, apart from ASM and Almiron, in our very short cup runs. Ritchie's career at premier league level has been done for a while. And all this isn't to say that I think Murphy anything more than very average, but compared to Ritchie and Joelinton he'd be getting in my team.

😂 Yeah Ritchie has been a world beater lately all right, but it's my credibility that's shot. Murphy has looked like he can actually run and effect that game when he's been on. Ritchie on the other hand has to put in about 100 shite crosses for one good one, and hasn't looked like scoring in about two seasons. In fairness he was switched to wing back for a while.

Who else are you playing out wide with the injuries we have? I'd rather we had Ziyech off Chelsea to stick out the right, but its not happening is it. It pretty much is down to either Joe or Murphy.

Murphy has been comparatively good, when compared to other players in the squad, when he's been given the chance this season, and a damn sight better than he used to be before he went on loan. He certainly offers more than Joelinton, or are you saying you'd rather Joelinton to start over Murphy?

I was about to give faint praise to Joelinton and point out that his ball retention and hold up play is actually decent, he looks very awkward to get the ball off. That of course was before those two diabolical missed opportunities to pass when people were on. Our only hope is to ask the wizard for a footballing brain for Joelinton.

I know people are struggling to care, which I entirely understand, but here's my team for the craic. Dubravka Manquillo Lascelles Fernandez Dummett Hayden M, Longstaff Murphy Willock Fraser Gayle I'd give Anderson a good half an hour or so in place of Willock if he isn't on it. Of course Bruce will play Shelvey and Joelinton and they will likely do their usual charade of effort.

A point maybe if Grealish isn't back, which he probably will be.

Joelinton didn't hit it cleanly you say, well that's a collector's item isn't it.

I fall into a genuine sense of extreme confusion when I try to figure out who's going to score from that line up.

True, but even Shelvey has about 4, or 5 decent games a season. In fairness against Wolves while he was generally pretty poor he did make two very important last ditch tackles. But again I agree that he's generally been very poor and should be sold at the next possible opportunity. I'd bring the Longstaff's back in, in the absence of anything better, but Bruce seems to have some weird slight against them, probably because he's a naturalised mackem twat.

Leicester doing us a favour, so that's all the teams below us and the one above us having lost their last game. We have to capitalise and then use our game in hand advantage, it's as simple and difficult as that with who we have running the club. It's there for us, and we'll just have to see if cabbage head has inadvertently united all the players together in opposition to him thereby they produce a spirited performance against West Brom, or whether he's just took a dump in the cornflakes box by blaming the players for all his mistakes.

The association that make decisions over South American international fixtures has postponed the upcoming World Cup qualifiers that would have involved Paraguay, and subsequently Almiron. So that's a bit of good news at least. Having Almiron perhaps just fit, or half fit, heading off to South America to perhaps get injured, catch Covid, and then have to quarantine for 10 days after he returned regardless, would have been a nightmare.

Osmosis is a euphemism for when you break out your footy pyjamas, tea, biscuits and really take in a show isn't it?

😄 Hopefully it's that and not some vapid soap or reality show that I've absorbed by osmosis.

I know bugger all about the law, but I'm sure I've heard it was the case that if a solicitor gives advice to someone on one side of an argument, they have to recuse themselves from further involvement on the basis of a conflict of interest. Maybe it's more of an Americanism in terms of the law, but then again I'm sure they follow English common law. Granted I know about this from hearing that rich US couples race each other to get advice from the best divorce lawyers so the other can't hire them, so admittedly not the most highbrowed or relevant of sources.

I'm not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing that Fulham are playing well but not getting the points that perhaps their play has deserved. It's all about whether their luck in front of goal breaks for them. You'd hope that given that it's been a season long problem it won't.

It should be massive pressure either way. Either we have keep our three point advantage, or we have the chance to go six points clear of them. I won't count my chickens, but so far, touch wood, Spurs are looking quite good.

Or players like Lascelles will make it clear that there's no point in cutting our nose off to spite our face in the middle of a relegation fight by downing tools to get rid of the cabbage. I'd say it must be nice to live in such a binary world as Edwards, but he likely thinks himself, falsely, quite the Machiavellian.

Benitez is in no way perfect. He's definitely a PR craftsman to the extent that it can be purely self serving at times, but the crucial thing is that he's a great fucking coach, and for the vast majority of the time he uses PR so the team, and obviously be extension him, are successful. In other words Benitez is a very smart, if perhaps a little too calculating at times, man, and Bruce is a fucking cabbage headed muppet.