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We have zero chance if they're out of the Champions League yes.. If they were out of the Premiership title race and still in the Champions League we'd have a chance. Their Champions League game would be only a couple of days after our game and I wouldn't put it past Benitez to drop basically the entire first team in that situation

I'd have preferred Liverpool to win. Partly because I hate Chelsea even more then Liverpool. But also because I think it would help our chances against them if they were still in the Champions League, especially if they were out of the Premiership race by then.

He's clueless so I wouldn't be too interested in what he says. I mean he admits to having not seen Newcastle's games leading up to that game and then announces that Shearer made no difference

Until Taylor makes his next big mistake then he'll be the shittest player in the world again, and the kneejerk scapegoat culture rolls on..

Boro are not totally lost yet either though, they've got some good looking fixtures coming up and also a couple of games against the top 4, but they've got this knack of beating them. They've got one win out of six games against the top four teams this season, not really a knack like

I remember people on here talking about Zaki when he was at the height of his hype asking why couldn't we find class players like that. My reply was lets wait till the end of the season at least before we even start to think about him really being a class player and lets wait until he's been consistently the best for years on end before we compare him to Shearer.

Well that's one way to look at it, but another would be that they've lost very few games at home and are in much better form then us. They might not have won three in a row before but there's a first time for everything. If Shearer can motivate the players to play against Stoke like we do against the bigger sides we should get something, but I'd still see them as favourites personally.

Stoke fans make the Spuds lot look down to earth, total and utter delusional cretins. Stoke City themselves are a shit bunch of players, but their system works and they have to be favourites for this match considering our form. Still I think we can get a result.

Wasn't particularly directing it at you. I'm more getting at the amount of stuff about them in relation to Newcastle's position. Yes it was unlucky they let the lead slip but that's that. Also, I don't buy into the "they beat Team X so they should beat Team Y". Every weekend some teams are gonna do you a favour, and sometimes things will go against you. There seems to be a constant feeling on the board about how results always seem to go against Newcastle. That's just my perception of it, anyway. They don't always, but they've been pretty shit lately. I hate the Spuds regardless, have for a long time, so its quite annoying to me that they managed to beat Chelsea last week 1:0 but couldn't hold onto a 1:0 lead again Blackburn. Why the fuck couldn't it be the other way around

Doesn't matter, they wouldn't allow it even if you wrote Man, and WB..

Yeah obviously that's it, I was blaming Spurs for us being in the bottom three. Jesus christ All I said is that I didn't expect anything against Chelsea but I expected the Spuds (who beat Chelsea last week) to take three points off Blackburn when they were 1:0 up with 10 minutes left. So for them to then throw it away at the end, putting our nearest rival out of touch, has pissed me off, is that ok with you?

I didn't expect any points against Chelsea. Its the points for other teams that's pissed me off most today. Especially our nearest rival being 10 minutes from defeat only for the Spuds to give them 3 points, god I fucking hate them so much!

Can't fucking believe the Spuds let a 1:0 lead slip to a 1:2 defeat against Blackburn in the last 10 minutes of the game. Fucking pricks!

Who takes you out by the way?

Didn't know you were into that kind of thing..

Well yeah obviously you picky bastard Just making the point that we need to gain 4 goals on them to go ahead.

Only if we win 2:0 and Sunderland get beaten 2:0 (or 1:0/3:0), currently they have a better goal difference then us.

The ref was Styles. What'd you expect? To be fair should that not be the linesman's decision?

What's particularly bad today is that the two teams with worse goal difference then us have pulled away, Sunderland and Portsmouth are now the two teams we can realistically catch and they both have better goal difference then us.

Will Bassong and Taylor be back for next week?

Taylor was at fault for Manure's winner, he was also at fault for the second today.

He seems to have lost confidence badly, I'm still confident he'll be good in time, however we don't have time so he should be dropped until its sorted out.

He played Malouda onside The amount of times he screws up the defensive lime is staggering for a defender of his supposed "intelligence" Enrique let him run when he was supposed to be marking him, but Enrique's too much of a favourite for criticism so put it all on Coloccini, seems to be the trend. Enrique's one of my favourite player as well, but I'm not going to ignore any mistakes he makes. Who are we going to play instead of Enrique? What? I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm just asking who to play instead. Why would you want to play anyone instead, Enrique's a good player who made one fucking mistake!! Ah, right. Misunderstood. Thought you were slating him. He's not the best, but we've got no better alternative. No of course not, he played ok defensively today, and as I said he's actually one of my favourite players. I was just saying that I felt he was to blame for that late chance rather then Coloccini. Colo's making enough mistakes lately without having other people's mistakes put onto him as well

He played Malouda onside The amount of times he screws up the defensive lime is staggering for a defender of his supposed "intelligence" Enrique let him run when he was supposed to be marking him, but Enrique's too much of a favourite for criticism so put it all on Coloccini, seems to be the trend. Enrique's one of my favourite player as well, but I'm not going to ignore any mistakes he makes. Who are we going to play instead of Enrique? What? I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm just asking who to play instead. Why would you want to play anyone instead, Enrique's a good player who made one fucking mistake!!