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You have to ask ourselves if we'd been at home today and gone down to ten men after 30 minutes would we have come away with anything other than a comfortable defeat? I think we all know the answer.

Did you miss that they had ten men for an hour?

My take is that we played well and were the better side against eleven men. The sending off should have meant we'd push on, put them to the sword and take the three points. Instead, we gift them a goal then huff and puff with no plan B and come away with nothing. Failing to get anything against ten men for 60 minutes uses up all the credit for playing well in the first 30 minutes. This is an unforgiving league and we were a soft touch today giving Newcastle 3 points on a plate.

Madness that RM refuses to even contemplate deviating from the one predictable plan. Needs to learn and quick.

This is a poor poor effort against ten men.

We don't have the players for set pieces and corners. Dead easy to defend against us.

Amo is a better option but RM doesn't seem to think so.

Maybe left it a bit late.

Tall Paul might have been a useful option today.

They have always been well drilled at the back so gifting them a goal when down to ten men was criminal.

The way I saw it his options were limited and he panicked. The safe option is to put your foot through it with half time just around the corner.

Indeed. And they score from their only shot on target which we gifted them.

The issue for me is that he clearly had nowhere to go and rather than hoof it the first thought which has been repeated into his brain again and again is pass it don't lump it - hence he made the wrong option.

Don't think people are turning on him. Just pointing out that a goalkeeper shouldn't be made to feel obliged to try to play out from the back when cornered. RM's blind insistence that we do this leads to bad decisions and it has cost us a pathetic goal today when we should have been going in level at half time and confident of getting at least one point if not three. Now it'll be very tough for us.

Got to be creating more chances though especially against 10 men.

He panics - pure and simple. If you play this system and your goalkeeper panics you're in big trouble.

Trouble is, he gets a free pass for this cock-up because RM won't be giving him a bollicking for doing what he's told.

If he needs someone to tell him where to play it he should be sat at home doing a fucking crossword.

What a prick!

There you have it. Going to be tough now and typical of us to shoot ourselves in the foot. We're never great against 10 men. Got to sort this goalkeeper position out. What a time to concede.

Be insane if he has.

Looking forward to seeing the surprise RM said he has up his sleeve. He said we didn't use it pre-season because he didn't want to show his hand. I'm intrigued.

Trying to work out when Wood overtook Edwards in the pecking order - I thought it was Edwards who was receiving all the plaudits. Strange that he's suddenly behind Wood now.

Excited to see how he does for us but confident he's going to prove a very shrewd signing.

Indeed 🙂