Teasy

2:1 win

He made a mistake, everyone makes them sometimes. He's been good generally so he should definitely still keep his place unless Hughton thinks he needs a rest.

Not sure, maybe it was just me swimming against the tide but I thought he looked a very good player to begin with but by November/December the toll of playing every minute of every game in a new league, in a struggling side with no protection whatsoever from the midfield, did seem to give his confidence a thorough beating. I thought the same at the time and said so on here, but unfrotunately there weren't many on here backing him. I'm just so glad its worked out, for him and for us.

I'm not sure its worth mocking that poster, I'm not even sure if he's a real human being.

One paced? I'd have agreed a while ago, but he certainly hasn't looked that way recently, his first touch and close control has also looked very good. Just one year ago he looked like a totally raw player, excellent in the air but not a goal threat otherwise. Now he looks like a goal scorer to me, he's improved leaps and bounds on the ground, he looks quicker and keeps the ball better, he seems to be improving rapidly, so who knows where he'll be a year from now?

Either he's a Newcastle fan who's been pretending to be a Sunderland fan for the last 2 years or he's a Sunderland fan pretending to be a Newcastle fan to make his "Newcastle didn't win it, Sunderland lost it" view more credible. I'm going for the second option

http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=536855

He's got a 13 page thread all to himself

out of interest, when i follow links to RTG from here and have a look, its always easy to find a few nufc fans posting, but i dont think i've EVER seen one of them post on here. why's that? Because this forum doesn't allow idiotic apposing fans and that's the only kind they have. Check out any other NUFC forum and you'll find them.

That forum is the largest collection of cretins I've ever seen. I think I counted about 3 posters with any sense what so ever and I'm not sure all of them were Sunderland fans. I haven't seen a group of fans get so far ahead of themselves since Forrest last season, in fact they've probably got them beaten. They're SO much better then us man for man apparently that not even the most optimistic Newcastle fan could disagree about their obvious superiority Enrique is the only player who they'd take and he'd be back up for Bardsley Not being massively inferior to us for the first time in living memory has sent them all quite mad I'm afraid.

Yeah he's clearly all skin and bone like. http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01606/jose_enrique2_1606294c.jpg The camera adds several stone

That is sad like.

Thought we'd nick this, West Ham can't score goals and concede two per game on average, not sure why some people had it down as a cert for them to win. A case of focusing too much on our shitness and forgetting that other teams are shitter I suppose Anyway, crucial win!

It wont be Hughtons problem in less than 10 days. Is that when the world will end?

I'd assumed from his name that everything he says is a windup.

IMO it'll be a close game, but we'll nick it by the odd goal.

No loss of form what so ever in our last away game and shouldn't you actually take West Ham into account here? They've scored 4 goals in 4 home games and conceded 7.

Why do people keep comparing this injury to Shearers? It was in response to the post above saying that Ben Arfa isn't an unknown quantity. Ah ok, sorry.

That's rich coming from a Stoke fan.

All one big PR stunt. Create a problem that doesn't really exist in order to deflect from the real problems, solve fake problem, everyone's happy.

You bought a small donkey for 16m Euros? Wow that's bad business.

Why do people keep comparing this injury to Shearers?

Considering how much better we've done away from home and the team we're playing (probably worse at home then we are) I think this is a game we should be going out to win.

We play much better away from home, obviously you haven't noticed..

He commited quite a few fouls but none of them were in dangerous areas and they were often fouls that stopped what could have been a dangerous move. Not his best game, but far from a hindrance.