captainchris

What is your point ? Marcus was not a personal friend, family member or even an acquaintance of mine....

Batman - completely agree. When somebody dies - anybody, it is very sad but the grief levels expressed for famous people in football are way out of proportion....

This is a game of skill NOT ‘luck’

Makes perfect sense to most averagely intelligent fans but not our Manager it would seem .....

One hell of a lot of thoughts underestimating Newcastle. They are a better team than that...

About right. Money has wrecked the game aided and abetted by a top six addicted media. The homage paid to the top six clubs is boring the pants off the rest of us. The lack of effort and skill these days is also alarming... There are many things missing in football now and most can be traced back to money and greed....

Errrrr ‘Newcastle’ Not sure you can pin that terrible display on Hughes ..... That was rank terrible tactics by MP who was utterly clueless watching Shelvey destroy us for the whole game.

We must man mark Shelvey or at least close him immediately because he will destroy us otherwise...

Well in case you hadn’t noticed ..... We are a Premier League team so that is the level of skill we need. There is no point in running a reserve team to feed the lower leagues. The standard of player we have coming through the under 23s is, looking at last night disappointing and underwhelming and we cannot expect more than one to be good enough.....For our first team. There is clarification for you...

So you think they are all good enough do you..... A ‘Happy Clappy’ in the extreme in that case mate.

You could be right there....

Not interested really, are you? We have one player that could threaten the first team squad, the rest are a very long way off in my view. Not sure that is healthy ...

One player might make a professional Obefami.. The rest are miles off - light years from the first team....

Just turned it on ... Pathetic football from us... Our coaching is off the scale appalling !!!!!

Don’t have Sky Sports so England is now really of no interest at all. Money is wrecking the game or ‘has’ wrecked it..... Sounded like s good win but really am I boffered ? Not a lot...

You are entitled to your opinion......... ;-)))

His brother Paul was immense though !!! ;-)

If you are referring to my post then if you read it again it is about our old fashioned ways and lack of coaching...

I’m not so sure it’s all about recruitment, yes sure there is an strong element, however the top managers seem to be very good at coaching, take Poch who was/is renowned for it and Koman and Klopp etc. They all seem to be foreign admittedly but they can coach. Watching us against Chelsea it looks to me as though we currently don’t coach players. People on here - certain people, harp on and on about employing ‘football’ people to manage and coach us. The problem is these types are invariably stuck in a time warp and don’t have coaching skills. If you have coaching skills you can probably recognise the right players to recruit too... We need modern thinking, a focus on faster thinking, fitness of mind and body, psychology - God we lack belief which in this day and age is a crime of management and coaching in its self.....

If we worked harder, they would still have most of the ball, the difference is our players would tire faster and they would exploit it much more easily. Just playing devil's advocate. Yes but it doesn’t stop them closing down and because they do they win procession back quickly and are back in control leaving us getting knackered singularly, now and again and half heartedly chasing the ball again. We do not chase chase the ball down with purpose when out of procession.

We couldn’t keep the ball they hunt and close down very quickly in packs. This how the top teams play. However we sit off, sit deep and invite pressure. Why don’t we close down in the same way ? You don’t have to be Eden Hazard to be able to that and it’s critical to stopping these guys playing. Particularly not having the player quality that other teams we surely need to make them work harder. Time and again we gave the ball away because of Chelsea’s hard work closing us.

Hoedt obviously has too much influence over Hughes for what ever reason. This will cause resentment with the other players apart from the fact he is crap! Poor decision Hughes... A huge risk for Hughes too as he may lose the crowd if as is likely Hoedt doesn’t perform ..... Mystifying ..

If Hughes reverts to the same two central defenders then he really is behind the curve. No excuses, Hoedt needs dropping from the squad let alone the team.....

If we were to make a change this is a great shout....

Well thought through and written.....