Toon away

[Buzzell]

7 hours ago, Ian Nacho said:

Best case scenario is Maddison does his ACL so has to rot with us in the Championship for a year. 

And we make no money on him. Good thinking.

[ftfagos]

Must win.

[Aus Fox]

As sad as it makes me sound, and despite all I’ve seen this season, I’m still hanging on to the smallest amount of hope and will do until it’s mathematically certain.

Leeds, Forest and Everton to all lose this weekend then a point for us here and there’s hope on the final day.

It’s a long shot, but it’s a funny old game and who knows.

Keep what’s left of the faith!

[Your Honour]

Not watching this, not going to do it to myself.

[Dames]

This will end up as the worst result of the season and quite possibly the worst result in our history.

 

Results will go our way at the weekend meaning there's pressure on the players and we all know how well they all cope with it.. 

[whoareyaaa]

can we beat Newcastle and knock them out the champ league spots baring they don’t beat Brighton
 

I would drop Maddison as he will likely want Newcastle to win as he may well end up there next season 

[splinterdream]

Looking at our approach under smith we can only play 5 at the back 1st half, play the low block and hope to shithouse a win

[LVFox]

Torn between only starting those who could be here next year, or starting all the prima Donna's who will **** off and let them face the embarrassment.

 

Probably the latter.

[AKCJ]

If Newcastle beat Brighton on Thursday then I think they will demolish us - talking 5 or 6 nil.

 

Because in that scenario we'll be guaranteed down and they'll be guaranteed top 4. Absolutely no chance does this set of soppy ***** stand up to the heat up there.

 

It'll go 1-0 after about 25 minutes and then the floodgates will open like they always do.

[Stuntman_Mike]

Another day another thread containing comments like "want us to lose 7-0", "hope Maddison gets injured and we lose out on a massive transfer fee" 

[Mickyblueeyes]

I don’t think we have a chance. However, would be hilarious if we cost them champions league.

[SouthStandUpperTier]

Wishful thinking but maybe Nacho might be back and he has one of those games where he pulls something out of his ass from nowhere and we scrape a point.

[HybridFox]

19 minutes ago, SouthStandUpperTier said:

Wishful thinking but maybe Nacho might be back and he has one of those games where he pulls something out of his ass from nowhere and we scrape a point.

Point is no longer good enough. It's win or bust 

[Chelmofox]

So this is the 'must win'?

[KrefelderFox666]

1 minute ago, Chelmofox said:

So this is the 'must win'?

Strictly speaking we won't know until after the Everton match on Saturday.

[Lako42]

1 minute ago, Chelmofox said:

So this is the 'must win'?

Yea, for Newcastle to get CL football. 

 

 

Will be a massacre

[SheppyFox]

10 hours ago, jim5000 said:

The only question is how long into the first half will it take for us to be 2-0 down.

 

We are a complete disaster of a club at the moment. The entire city is resigned to relegation, there is zero confidence or belieft anywhere in the club, the city, the county, or the national fan base, that there is any possibility of survival. The entire mentality of the team is broken and the management and playing staff need a complete revamp over the summer. Unfortunately with no budget.

 

5-1 Newcastle (Barnes)

I believe.

[Finnegan]

Iversen 

Ricardo, Souttar, Cags*, Kristiansen

Mendy

Maddison, Tielemans, KDH, Barnes

Iheanacho*

 

Keep it fairly safe, don't do anything stupid, they score a lot of their goals on the counter but they lack creativity in the middle of the park. 

 

Nobody wants to talk about this because we're refusing to be optimistic and everyone is depressed af but any one point from the Newcastle and Liverpool games would probably give us a good chance going in to the final day of an unlikely escape, unless Arsenal really melt. 

 

It's not beyond us to get a point at Newcastle, most of the teams they've stuffed lately have fallen in to the trap of chasing the game to try and win. We don't need to unless Forest get a result against Arsenal and/or Leeds win at West Ham and then we're fvcked anyway. 

 

(*are they fit? If not Evans and Vards I guess. Faes needs dropping for his own sakes.)

[Chelmofox]

3 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

Iversen 

Ricardo, Souttar, Cags*, Kristiansen

Mendy

Maddison, Tielemans, KDH, Barnes

Iheanacho*

 

Keep it fairly safe, don't do anything stupid, they score a lot of their goals on the counter but they lack creativity in the middle of the park. 

 

Nobody wants to talk about this because we're refusing to be optimistic and everyone is depressed af but any one point from the Newcastle and Liverpool games would probably give us a good chance going in to the final day of an unlikely escape, unless Arsenal really melt. 

 

It's not beyond us to get a point at Newcastle, most of the teams they've stuffed lately have fallen in to the trap of chasing the game to try and win. We don't need to unless Forest get a result against Arsenal and/or Leeds win at West Ham and then we're fvcked anyway. 

 

(*are they fit? If not Evans and Vards I guess. Faes needs dropping for his own sakes.)

Madders needs dropping.  He will overplay in this. If Nacho is available put in in Madders spot and stick Vardy up front.

[Aus Fox]

Let’s go up there and be what Bournemouth were to us in 2020.

[Daggers]

Do bookies even offer odds on certain defeats?

[TrickyTrevLeftPeg]

Smithies 

 

Castagne

Evans

Souttar

Soyuncu 

Ricardo

 

Mendy

KDH

Ndidi

 

Barnes

Vardy

 

We should play a 3-5-2. Newcastle utilise the wings well so we need to shut up shop. They have players who can run with the ball and strong athletic players so no matter what side we put out we are on to a loser as we simply don't have that. 

 

Smithies comes in as let's get some experience in the back line. He can't be no worse than the others.

 

Ndidi has been poor but we need some sort of strength in midfield against joelinton. I'd rather have him than soumare who puts in zero effort.

 

Mendy to literally man mark guimares and shut him down. 

 

KDH as although not great I want someone in midfield who's going to run non stop.

 

Sit back, defend but  Transition on the break  Quickly with Barnes and vardy and KDH to support but we have two up top so we still put the two opposing  centre halfs under pressure when we do get the ball.

 

Barnes to come short and vardy or even daka to run in behind to stretch the play. If nacho available he starts instead of vardy

 

Let's at least have some sort of plan on how to approach the game.

 

Maddison youri all on bench as quite frankly they couldn't care less

Edited 16 May 2023 by TrickyTrevLeftPeg

[Lako42]

I can't offer a team for this. It's impossible to write one down that doesn't contain complete wasters or absolute shit. 

[South Shire Fox]

Will get absolutley bullied by Callum Wilson then midfield left for dead by Joe Willock. Will be rabbits in the headlights

[PhillippaT]

Still doomed...