Howay

Just about even aye.

Aye and NBC news over here chose to have Donald fucking Trump ring in and speak on the matter, his contribution was idiotic and in no way insightful as to be expected. Awful awful scenes again, they're saying at least 26 killed.

We desperately need Colo back, I can't handle watching that Lascelles lad playing while wearing his roller skates anymore, I honestly don't know if I've seen a player slip over as much as he does each match.

His timing is impeccable mind, as Palace hurtle from a position of relative safety to possible relegation.

Aye the bloke is completely full of shite, you're spot on regarding the fact the club could run well without him doing anything if he just appointed the right people but instead he appoints heed the baals like Charnley, the fact of the matter is he wouldn't have a bloke like Lee Charnley in a senior position at Sports Direct so why do it at NUFC? Fucking cock. If he is as upset about the club and wanting nothing to do with it anymore than why not just sell it and take a hit? He wont of course but he can't then stand and moan about being sick of it. The thing with Rafa's appointment is it was purely in panic and would never have happened in a stable situation, we'd have got some shite English manager and whether we stay up or not I don't see it being long before we return to that norm.

It was more Perez in the role that Wijnaldum is normally in with Wijnaldum and Shelvey behind him. Colback then went off for De Jong, Sissoko went to left back De Jong went to Perez's position (Attacking mid) and Perez moved out wide left. Townsend then came off for Cisse, Wijnaldum moved wide right, Cisse up top with Mitro and De Jong dropped to CM alongside Shelvey. Anita finally came on at RB for the injured Janmaat, so we ended in a 4-4-2.

McClaren really didn't know what he was doing though. Benitez sees things not working on the pitch and is willing to move players around and try and change the formation to exploit weakness, such as switching to two up top which allowed Cisse to occupy the CB's meaning Mitro got a favourable 1v1 on the back post against their fullback. McClaren generally kept the formation the same despite it not working and would have more likely than not subbed Mitrovic off for Cisse or Riviere and we would have lost.

Relegation would never make him sell up, the value of the club would significantly lower so why would he? He'd only ever sell us when we were in the Premiership or if we were in a complete mess and were languishing somewhere in the lower leagues and he was thoroughly sick of owning the club so was willing to take the hit.

Aye he does, it would have definitely been a loss under McClaren.

Aye joint 2nd worst defence in the league (tied with us ) and we only managed one goal at home against it, really struggle to see us scoring enough goals to keep us up.

And your lot are any good? You struggled to pose a threat to a defence consisting of 2 midfielders and a 22 year old Championship player.

Aye he was incapable of not grabbing the bloke he was defending today (as he is most matches). The oddest thing is he always seems in a rush as there was numerous times he had Borini trapped on the touchline with nowhere to go and instead of waiting for a chance to get the ball he tried to just force one, which gave Borini a chance to go over and get a free kick from absolutely nothing.

It definitely will once POV porn becomes available on these things.

He is aye but it was almost as if he was trying to get sent off today, pulling Borini's shirt while Borini was sat on the ground and Colback was already on a yellow .

He is aye but he's better than whatever the fuck Colback was doing today.

I think it's all a bit late sadly.

Rafa clearly doesn't rate Anita one bit mind, even played Sissoko LB to avoid bringing him on. Hopefully Dummett is back after the break so we don't have to play either one of our tragic "Central midfielders" at full back.

Man City's defending was shocking there, even our dross might stand a chance of scoring.

The mackems say a point is great for them but a disaster for us, not sure what their logic is behind that especially as they have the hardest run in. They seem sure they're in the clear despite them also looking complete dog shit today as well, odd bunch.

Their goal come from a long range shot as well, every fucking time we've played them recently goals have come from long range shots yet we still give them ample space on the edge of the box.

I'd like to see us try two up top next match, Mitrovic wouldn't have got that chance up front on his own as Cisse had 2 men on him allowing Mitro to peel off and attack the full back.

Nah Kone elbowed him, just threw his elbow towards the ball as he has been doing all match.

Kone can get fucked tbh, he has been doing that all fucking game and the ref has never penalized him for it. The ref has been a total joke today

Aye howay ref you fucking moron