Begbie

It looked like Tiote got bitchslapped when he was down

I hope Ranger starts with xisco or nolan in support.

Not blinded, but he is a good dribler and normally works his socks off. He might even score a goal if he playes in the center...

Maybe Pardew is rateing Barton as a central midfielder. Wonder if Bentley or Barton would be any good at the left side of midfield? And Gutierrez might be better off playing AMC since he cant cross the ball. I think Kranjcar would be a better signing than Bentley tbh. I have a feeling that Bentley will offer the same as Duff did for us, dont know why..

I love Hodgson for destroying Liverpool like he does! I hope he doesnt resign and that they have to pay a shitload to sack him :D

Robbie Keane has been shit since he went to liverpool... If he can get his form back to pre-liverpool time then it would be worth it... but he is a massive gamble.

Did we even have a decent shot on goal?

We dont have any attacking game.... we havent had that for some while now, we are only going for the barton to carroll or carroll do it all by himself.

Our freekicks have been really really bad today... Cant wait for ben arfa to come back, we need someone that can shoot direct freekicks.

I think this is good news, he is a good backup for our right back and our central defenders. I still hope we will go for David Weather(havent seen him since boro where in the PL).

Think he is our best player

Think he did ok(rate 6.5/7 cant decide). Tried to challenge their defenders a lot of time and it worked. Think he needs to work at his crossing then he would be very good for us, he is always trying a weak chip into the box which is very easy to defend and very difficult for the striker to head in.

Bet it was a good xmas party yesterday for the players...

Van Basten

Konchesky, Poulsen, carragher, smith

When was the last time we won on boxing day? Boxing Day

When was the last time we won on boxing day?

Been watching most of the liverpool games this season, carra has been really bad this season. It doesnt seem like Hodgson has the balls to drop Carra, Gerrard or Torres despite beeing out of form. Torres looks in most games that he cant be arsed, unless Gerrard is hitting passes at him. My guess would be that torres is the first one out of the door, with him gone i guess gerrard would follow(its not the first time he would have handed a transfer request). One of their best games this season was the game against Aston Ville were none of them(carra, gerrard or torres) was playing. And I would love it to see the scousers go down to the championship..

Nile Ranger is 19yro and Andy Carroll is 21 yro. Looks like a promising partnership for the years comming.

I dont know why, but i feel hiring Pardew is like the Greame Souness thing all over again...

We are relegation fodder...

what about trying Barton in the "Nolan" role behind the striker? Then he can feed carroll with killer passes, he can shoot more often than he usually do, and we still have him for the freekicks.

Havent seen to much of Anderson the two last years,remember a friend of mine who is a man utd supporter rated him 2-3 years ago but now he says he is shite. It might be the right move for Newcastle to bring in Anderson and give him back his confidence. But its up to CH to judge if he needs him.. imo we should look at Annan at Rosenborg as a cover for Tiote, just got voted as the best player in the Norwegian League. He also has one year left of his contract and has also said that he is ready to leave the norwegian league for a bigger one.

He cant be worse than Smith can he? After seeing Smith give away the ball and not trying to win it back again, he should not be allowed to wear the Newcastle United shirt again.. Much rather see Vuckic or some of the other youngsters given a try instead, but that is my opinion.

I hate that we are always thinking that way.. It was also to early for Shola Ameobi until a couple of years ago. We should give him the odd game here and there when he is fit.. If you are good enough the age doesnt matter. He's not good enough yet, that's the point. That Shola point makes absolutely no sense either, no one used to say he wasn't ready a couple of years ago, they said he was s****. If Ranger is getting game time I can't see how Vuckic shouldn't get the odd ten minutes here and there. Vuckic was better than a Ryan Taylor, Routledge and Smith at least against Arsenal and those players are on the bench and around the first team. We should've given Vuckic more game time last season when we were cruising, we were beating teams by 3, 4 and 5 and didn't give any youngsters a chance. Now when we are thin on the ground none of the youngsters have any experience and so Hughton seems nervous to stick them in the team. Villa at the moment must be playing with about 6 players under 20, I don't see why Vuckic couldn't have been given 5-10 mins against Villa (6-0 up) or Sunderland (5-0 up). Vuckic was injured all last season man. There's no room/point in playing players for 10 minutes here and there in matches who need to be learning. Vuckic ideally would be out on loan, but our thin squad dictates that he needs to stay. So what you are saying is that you dont see Vuckic gaining anything from getting mins here and there in this league? Getting mins here and there imo will only give him confidence and experience.