Howay

Sels is a bit of a flapper and doesn't seem to grab anything from what I've seen of him, I will be a lot more comfortable when we get Eliott back there. I suppose Sels is young so he has time to improve but I'm not all that convinced he'll be a PL keeper.

Agree, I think if/when we get promoted Rafa will make a fair amount of changes to the squad.

Their entire team is shit tbh, Kone's looking like it was a purple patch, that Kharzi is a total nightmare of a player and I'm not even going to discuss that players like Donald Love and McNair play somewhat regular for them. Fucking hilarious really. "In the PL though ftm" it's in name only in all honesty as they're sure as fuck not competing in that division.

I think it's really hard to tell due to the standard of the opposition being far lower. I'd agree with others, putting the lower opposition aside, that Gouff, Shelvey and Lascelles look the most improved, especially Shelvey who is actually becoming pretty consistent now. I think Anita has always been somewhat useful at right back so I'd attribute his decent form to be more due to the drop in division and playing consistently at RB.

3-0 to the cunterheads.

They also seem convinced that Allardyce 'had them on the right track' despite the fact that he was manager for around 30 games last season and they were a point above relegation.

I like the first reply, saying West Brom are worse as they're a team who are always shit but not shit enough, completely ignoring the facts that that describes Sunderland and Sunderland finish below West Brom basically every season or at the very least spend most of it below them.

They're total fucking shit, finally in the right division tbh.

:lol:

Mostly depends on the level of investment. If we can get promoted without spending any more in January Rafa should have a large sum of cash to turn the current squad into a capable PL one and he'll be able to clear out a lot of the Championship level players to the relegated sides / promotion pushing sides. I wouldn't be surprised to see a similar season to the 1st season back under Hughton where we're challenging top half positions, confidence does a hell of a lot and Rafa would comfortably be in the top 10 managers in the PL.

I've always thought the Championship is full of utter dross tbh, when you have a league that a bloke like Cameron Jerome can get 15+ goals in a season in it you have to figure it's canny shite. Plus look how utterly fucking god awful we had to be last season to actually get relegated, that comes from the fact utter bilge gets promoted. I was surprised when people (meaning pundits and outsiders here, our fans I'll excuse because we were so bad last season it was hard to see us beating a conference side) were talking about how tough the league is, half the time they made it seem like it was harder than the Premier League (saying Rafa had no experience of it etc, despite him managing to prevail in the toughest competitions in club football). I've noticed the referees aren't as lenient with physical play as they were last time we were down which tbh plays into our hands as well. I was shocked when we lost the first two and thought I might have underestimated the league, it seems the players did as well. I'm actually glad we lost those two games looking back as the players are under no illusions that all they need to do is turn up but they also know that if they apply themselves and play to their ability we can fucking hammer sides, if we had won every game so far I'd be a bit nervous of over confidence but Rafa will be pointing to those two games as an example that they have to stay professional.

So we're once again record breakers like Pardew's sides, the difference is this is actually the sort of record you want to break.

Can't wait to beat Wolves 10-0 on Saturday.

Can Armstrong play against us? I know you used to be able to say they can't play you if there's no fee.

Hudds losing to Brighton now as well

There you go Rayvin

It's fucking brilliant, we're mullering them and then bring on Atsu and Yedlin imagine how demoralizing that would be.

Hope this ends up 7 or 8-0 tbh, get the confidence sky high.

Loving this, QPR are a right bunch of wanks. Ritchie is top class and this is how good Shelvey can be if he applies himself.

4-0 Sounds like Clark, these are total fucking SHIT.

Get in there Jonjo, set up by Ritchie

I've got the stream of that NUFC Toon news fella on and whatever he's streaming from is the usual local muppets. Hopefully 5 Live isn't using them for your sake.

Aye I agree, shit league. With any luck we'll be out of it soon but this season is going to be fucking shite listening to these jokers who regularly forget that the audience can't actually see what's going on.

The lad has whacked it up now so usual place for radio stream for today's 1-3 win.