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The gameplan was "We can't compete with their squad, it's impossible."

Where are goals going to come from? Where are clean sheets going to come from? We concede, we give up, we score, we try to defend the rest of the game and let them batter us until they inevitably break us down. We have a manager that makes excuses before the game's kicked off, and we walk onto the pitch already defeated. Where are the points to keep us up going to come from?

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11661/8879230/

We could easily have been about 5-0 down after 20 minutes man Alan

Well there we go, 60 points. Should have put a fiver on it as well.

"Key plank of Newcastle's central defence" Plank is right. How much of this Herbalife stuff has he been smoking?

@bbcsport_david Cabaye travelled with #nufc squad to Manchester but returned home as not in right frame of mind after Sunday's £10m #afc bid #bbcfootball How does that endear you to your new employer? Oh, sorry, I can't play football when I'm not in the right frame of mind.

"Pardew might be tempted to bring on Ameobi - or a striker"

Put my predictions league banker on 4-0, looks like I had my black and white specs on.

Piece of piss. Could be 3 already.

Ben Arfa at a ground where he broke his leg. Uh, who broke his leg?

Ba wicked you into oblivion, iirc. Aye Ba and Cabaye scored but the point remains, you expected to lose and won. Just swap Ba for Gouffran and Cabaye for Sissoko and voila! We never win in Manchester period. Oi, no need to call him a period.

Ba wicked you into oblivion, iirc. Aye Ba and Cabaye scored but the point remains, you expected to lose and won. Just swap Ba for Gouffran and Cabaye for Sissoko and voila! Yeah, and against Liverpool we expected to lose and were crucified.

Like foxhunting is a sport...

The scoreboard might explode when it has to do double digits and give one of them a nasty burn?

Manchester City have loads of money, we can't compete with that. And we have to play them twice a season, at least.

No he didn't Col. The "I have to pick the team I feel will get us the result" stuff seemed to be trying to say he didn't pick him because he didn't think he'd play well, with the implication being that was because he was unsettled by the bid.

If you had to give him the benefit of the doubt, you'd hope he meant on a season basis, but it's still a fucking stupid thing to say. Pretty much the entire league can't compete with man City financially, you don't hear one manager per week bemoaning the fact they have to play them and how it's unfair and they have no chance.

"We can't compete with their squad. It's impossible. But it's 11 against 11"

Trying to imply he dropped him because his head wouldn't be in the right place?

City players all warming up in Trautmann keeper kits. Doing that daft thing with a laccy band tying their calfs together.

Not even at the stadium.

Seems to have joined twitter to hawk some supplement pyramid marketing scheme he's gotten involved in Massive game for #nufc tomorrow, chocolate oranges are available from Rawlinsons.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11661/8877092/

Collins, Amorebieta, M Turner, Vlaar.......cant think of many others Garrido and S.Taylor aswell Luna at Villa? Look likely to be starting left-back, 4.5. Three horrible games to start the season though.