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Yeah it'd be good if we got out of the relegation zone this weekend. But other teams will still have played an extra game than us—so hopefully they all lose anyway. Shit, just looked at the fixtures and there are some points to be had for the rivals. Come on Wolves, Palace, Arsenal and Leicester. It'd be typical if they all lose.

Why do you think our squad is so much better than Norwich's squad? They got promoted as a well-oiled, good team last year. We had to buy a whole new team and do everything on the fly—purchasing a load of players in the process who had obviously never played together and who had on the most part never played in England.

We bought Engels in July. He was obviously bought for the Prem.

What did you expect him to say? We also went out and spent on average £9mil or something on each player. The premier league is full of teams who have had huge investment season upon season. Then you have the likes of Sheffield United, who have been a consistent, well-honed project over years—the exact opposite to us. We are where we are for many reasons.

My Newcastle friends thing Saint-Maximin is quality and one of the few reasons why they keep getting these jammy results. He has genuine pace and can beat players—you can't say the same for many of our players. Imagine if we had a genuinely pacey winger we could use to counter attack with. It would make all the difference.

This goes without saying, surely! And you do realise we're playing Leicester with Vardy fit and Chelsea right?

I agree, but there's no way we'll be playing two up top for a while. I don't think Davis can handle more than 30 minutes at the moment due to coming back from injury. If he's pushed too much then he'll only get injured again. I think Smith said similar about him before his last injury. I rate him though and think he could still make a difference in some games. We need to give him a new contract.

Davis and Samatta up front for me. We have no hope as it is and have to try something different.

It's spelt Heil.

Ignorance of the highest degree? OK. I'm not sure how to describe what I just read, but whatever—it's Friday.

I'd probably recommend taking the point of view that we're ****!

He was nowhere near Long for Southampton's opener. It was basic defending. He was great against Leicester in the cup though, so hopefully, if he plays this weekend, he's somehow amazing.

This Brighton game you talk about isn't a good one to support your point. We were awful against 11 men and we dominated against 10 men (they did get some counter-attack chances though). The word disgraceful is hyperbole anyway. Your prejudice would be less obvious if you toned it down a bit. That's not me defending anything, just suggesting that using ott words undermines things. I ultimately agree that it's a shame that we didn't manage to capitalise on a lot of those opportunities. How we could have done with those points now—but as has been pointed out in another thread, those teams are full of expensive players and have had years upon years of constant investment in maintaining Premier League quality. Playing against ten men against good teams is often, as we all know if we take off our angry glasses, a challenge—especially when you are one of the weakest teams in the league. For example, Arsenal have players on another level of quality to 90% of our team—in fact, they all do. So, yeah, it's not disgraceful, but it's a massive **** shame we couldn't get more from those games. I wish we had more points so much—I'm feeling pretty pessimistic about our chances.

I really disagree with this. You know Drinkwater is there, and he wants the ball.

He's one of our two best fit CMs. I'm actually surprised at the hate on here—I thought he was OK on Sunday. He got badly outpaced one time for sure, but who was that against? His calmness is on another level to Nakamba's.

To be fair to Spurs they have very dangerous and quick wingers. It's their strength. I'm not sure a DM could have done much to stop them there (apart from obviously hassling away some through balls).

Jack has stats better this season than some of the best players in the world—and he's doing it in the Prem at a struggling team. I think you're being negative for no reason.

Haha this genuinely always seems to be the way. **** sake, let's just get a win.

Ha ok.

Your obsession with Davis is weird.

I'm sure there are loads of us doing it. It's nice to get behind more effective teams for a change

Nah it's just been Nick no here for a week telling everyone Davis can't score.

I have similar concerns. Other teams have taken points off top-half teams and we're going to have to start doing it ourselves now. It is a tragedy we gave Bomo 6 points. They didn't deserve it either (based on the first game and Heaton's moment of utter madness). We need to play like we played against Leicester in the cup in every game now.

Once again **** Real Madrid. No Jack. If you see someone in Madrid who looks like a dick it's guaranteed they're a Real supporter. Because they're a dickhead club. The stadium is literally named after one of Franco's favourite fascists.

We are missing McGinn to be fair. I think back to when we were linked to Kalvin Phillips—I think we would have been in a much better position with him. I agree that the inexperience at CM has put us in a bit of a bleak position. Nakamba and Luiz have both had good games, but they're inconsistent.