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Hehe! That shot of Tiote sitting on his backside on the turf looking up like an errant schoolkid!

Nolan next goalscorer £1.

Been in really good form for quite a while now - though some refuse to see it.

Fantastic by Guti!

You are aware Lovenkrands has scored right? Yup - glad he did too. Ranger might be better equipped to capitalise/induce mistakes from Birmingham defenders on an unacceptably poor pitch though. Should we not take Best off then? Best offers a good physical presence up front (and at the back when we'll be defending set pieces later on). Loven doesn't IMO. Oh no I get where your coming from, I guess I'd just feel a bit bad taking Loven off considering he's scored. Well, you're a very nice man then mate I didn't mean to haul him off as punishment for scoring btw Just a tactical change.

You are aware Lovenkrands has scored right? Yup - glad he did too. Ranger might be better equipped to capitalise/induce mistakes from Birmingham defenders on an unacceptably poor pitch though. Should we not take Best off then? Best offers a good physical presence up front (and at the back when we'll be defending set pieces later on). Loven doesn't IMO.

You are aware Lovenkrands has scored right? Yup - glad he did too. Ranger might be better equipped to capitalise/induce mistakes from Birmingham defenders on an unacceptably poor pitch though.

I'm sure Ranger would be sliding around on his backside a lot on such a slippery pitch, but I'd still bring him on at half-time for Lovenkrands. Also, Best still needs the offside rule explained to him.

No wonder they have such a good record at St Andrews, no one can wade through that shite pitch and play football on it!

Definitely need to slow the pace, hold up the ball and not attack so quickly.

This game is a comedy!

Classic double clothesline, double count out situation between two icons of the industry.... if you smeeeeeeelll... what Colocinni... is cooking..

Fuck you Ronaldo

Excuse me if I've missed something here (which is a very real possibility, I willingly concede) but has Enrique/any source of substance actually prompted Pardew to come out and make these statements? If not, what happened to keeping certain things in-house?

We score an average of 1.3* goals per half - even with Ameobi out and Carroll gone. [based on the last three halves of football]

He did nowt man. Utter nonsense. That's a pisstake if you are being serious Towelie. Did he set up a single chance today? If he did, I can't remember it. His two shots were both pathetic. He was average and carried by Enrique, who had a fucking subliminal game. Wow neesy knows he has hit the big time when you get parody posts knocking about!

He did nowt man. Utter nonsense. That's a pisstake if you are being serious Towelie. Such a worn, tired and lazy stereotype. Our whole team was actually pretty top notch bar Best/Loven.

Pardew starting Lovenkrands and bringing on Ranger so late were horrifying decisions IMO.

Feels like another two points dropped (to add to the Mackem and Spurs games).

Ref

Good strength by Ranger there

Get Loven off, man.

Really good half I thought. Don't think it's going too far to say we dominated them - and with style too. Like that we're mixing up the range of short and long balls too. Jose is unhappy I gave Tiote GOD status on his thread and is putting on a helluva show to address the injustice. If things continue as they have been going, I'd like to say we're bound to score and go on to win the game, but our strikers could be out there all day without really making any smart runs/getting on the end of these wonderballs as they're playing now. The referee concerns me, Blackburn's oafs are getting away with murder in their hacking, elbowing and dirty play with Colo - and he is looking to the ref instead of standing his ground. I do like that the ref is letting things flow mind you, but that situation looks like it could be bothersome. In short, I'm very happy with that half.

Hulk is the strongest there is, he can handle it. A strong finish to the season, a Waffa spot, Ben Arfa showing some flair, a few more high profile results against a perceived top side or two... and a significant wedge... and we might be able to tempt him I hope.