Beren

His comments on Ranger were pretty disgraceful IMO. What did he say? http://www.nufcblog.com/2010/12/24/pardew-not-satisfied-with-nile-ranger-application/ Nothing heinous, but to say that to the press in the way he did means that Pardew would have to swallow his pride to start him. You just know Ranger won't get a game now, even if it's the best thing for the club.

His comments on Ranger were pretty disgraceful IMO.

For the love of dear sweet god, play 4-4-2

didn't see many people blaming him for the city defeat...... but today he made a shit and crucial decision to jonas off. We needed someone to stretch them......... that wasn't going to happen with tiote and smith on the field. Because Jonas was so effective in the first 65 minutes.... Honestly forgot he was playing. People can question his starting XI, but it's hard with 2 games in 3 days. If we dont get results against Wigan and West Ham then it's time to start worrying, but losing to a top 4 side away from home thanks to 2 pretty decent goals is nothing to be worried about. http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/172/udnercarpet.jpg

Enough's enough.

Urgh. Blow the full time whistle.

Awesome save. Is it just me or is this ref a bellend? A fairly flagrant two-handed push on the back of Tiote and nothing given with no other distractions going on?!

Stoke/West Brom double.

:lol: Really wants that tenner, I guess.

Both teams to score for our match today is only 8/11 - skinflint bookies, man.

All my mates have brought in and captained VDV - I couldn't bring myself to do it AC9 ©!

Switch to 3-6-1 with Routledge and Jonas as wingbacks and Ranger/Barton/Tiote/Smith () along the middle.

Ambivalent. Good business decision/housekeeping. Pardew's comments intimate he's first choice, and from what I've seen of the four defenders, Williamson and Colo are the best - they also have a sound partnership/understanding with one another.

Just saw this, from Mancini:

Let's save this thread, shall we? Might come in handy one day.

My eyes just did a cartoonish "jump out of their sockets" when casually glancing across the forum threads Seriously, wtf?

Carroll had a free header straight after we conceded the second - can't help but wonder what could have been. Giving away two goals is certainly a mountain to climb, but I don't feel it was insurmountable by any means. Had enough of talking about it though! Onwards...

A man can dream, Niel!

NUFC vs Barca - exhibition match! Rocky IV Apollo (Messi) vs Drago (Carroll) style.

Carroll would rip Pique to shreds tbh

Defoe

Man City -.-

Perhaps but the lax manner of his pass really lingered - probably some not-so-subliminal hostility about his mistake today reflected in that marking!!

Well, that was the definition of annoying. Desperate to see NUFC play for what feels like weeks and we're 2-0 down at home in four minutes. Appraisal of team selection: We'll never know how good a selection that would have been because of another two gifts of goals at home (cf. Blackburn game) early on. ManCinti changed their attitude and sat back. The team Pardew picked did create lots of chances and Carroll especially was formidable. Barton continued to provide and Jose worked hard to attack/come forward/gamble since we were chasing the game - and run back for last-ditch defending. It felt like nothing seemed to be falling for us and we were unlucky, but I'd put that largely down to Nolan being picked up/marked out. When we switched to 4-4-2, Nolan had plenty more chances (which he was profligate with, admittedly). I really don't see the argument for a 4-5-1 formation with our style of attack. Not in the slightest. (Nolan isn't a striker btw - he just plain isn't!). Routledge, to his credit, played really well in the opening half hour but began to fade quite quickly. He was helped by Man City being content to sit back/absorb pressure, naturally otherwise I think he really would have struggled. Balotelli and Johnson confirmed themselves as twats, and City have just stormed to the top of my most hated list driving me to such extremes as hoping Bolton or Spurs get a CL spot ahead of them. Sad times. Really quite flabbergasted we have so little reward for our games against City this season, but this is life, we have to be less puerile and move on. It's a shame we had to chase this game so hard too and for so long. In this congested fixture list, we could really see some tired second half legs at WHL. Gutted but positive looking forward. Krul 3 Simpson 6 Taylor 4 Colo 7 Enrique 8 Routledge 6.5 Barton 7.5 Tiote 5.5 Jonas 6.5 Nolan 5 Carroll 8 [/iMO]

We were 2 down against Wigan, keep the faith lads. Remember Hughton!!!