Decky

All this talk of the players respecting Hughton etc. Where was the respect when they bent over and let West Brom walk over us, effectively costing Chris his job? The players need to take a long hard look at themselves after this. Some of them just werent interested yesterday and if they respected Hughton so much then perhaps they should have been.

Jonas Gutierrez: "Thank you Chris Hughton for believing in us when nobody believed in us."

Hughton gets the boot after doing a good job here. What manager worth their salt would even attempt to work for Mike Ashley? After this latest mess I feel like the only managers we can attract is jokers like Joe Kinnear.

He sacked Hughton because he is a clueless fat cunt.

Smacks of KK going this. You just know Chris will be replaced with some clueless cunt and the club will be in utter disarray again. I cant imagine what the players are thinking right now, they are probably fuming just like we are. Im up to a 10 until i see our next manager and our first couple of games.

Fucking disgusting. The man got us promoted and had us on 19 points at this stage of the season which all of us would have took in a heart beat.

Less than 30 points with 3 and a half months of football left isnt good enough? Slightly harsh

That cunt Savage reckons we are overachieving. Is it really asking to much to be on 19 points at this stage?

The first 2 games of the new year could well be the biggest of the season tbh. Anything less than 4 points is an absolute disaster.

This is the thing that sticks out for me the most. Both West Brom and Blackpool have beat us this season, the latter and more weaker even beat us at home, even though a few months before that we destroyed them at home. Its like we are afraid to go after teams and hammer them about 3-0, which we are definitely capable of doing against the likes of Blackpool and Wigan at St James' Park.

Injury or not Shola has proved time and time again that he is shite man. Im sick of waiting for him to hit form and for him to finally be the player we had hoped for years ago. The fact is he is simply not good enough, injured or not the likes of Ameobi should be no where near the starting 11.

Trust that cunt Gerard to be back for this. The wanker is a cert to score too.

I dont know where our next win is coming from tbh. I dont think we will win again in 2010, although the way this season is going we will probably beat Liverpool and Spurs away or something. Hopefully we can get something from Brum in 2 weeks but other than that I think we have to look at our first 2 games of 2011 for points. 25 points on the 5th of January would be brilliant though. If anything our form might make Ashley and Hughton buy in January, which would be a huge positive, but if we win our first 2 games in Jan then they will probably think we are alright No one said this season was going to be easy, it most definitely isnt.

Against one of the bigger sides. Im guessing some of the more spineless members of our squad will be up for this, you know, the ones who cant be bothered when we play the likes of West Brom?

When are we going to get rid of this guy? It seems like every season he plays well for a game or 2, tricks people into thinking he might be decent all of a sudden and then he just becomes absolutely terrible again. The guy is a joker, it seems he only plays well to get into the starting 11 then he just cant be bothered anymore. I've had enough of him, we may as well start Ranger if we are to put 2 up top. What were the club thinking not buying a striker in the summer? Utter madness and we're paying for it now.

Christ I dont even want to think about this one.

We have definitely seen B.

You have to look at the players as well. At the end of the day there was a decent side out there today and they just didnt turn up. They were gutless and pathetic, smacks of the relegation season and its no surprised most of this lot played for us that year too. Hughton has his share of the blame for not getting the players going of course, but at the end of the day they are 11 grown men and professional footballers, to walk out there and not even bother is ridiculous.

He wont get a new contract if he doesnt sign a new striker and possibly make another couple of signings. A few injuries and suspensions and we are absolutely awful, the results just wont come.

Good corner

Mick Lowes made a good point there. Our fans made there way down to West Brom in these terrible conditions and our players reward them with this shit. Its pathetic tbh.

Mentioned this in the match thread, but does anyone think we are missing Nolan's leadership? It's been said before that he is a good captain and it seems like we are missing someone today to rally the team and get them going, they just dont look interested today. Hopefully he gets back asap.

Bar about 5 minutes we have been awful like. I think we're missing Nolan's leadership.

Theres no excuses for playing like this. Smacks of the relegation season, players just dont look interested in busting a gut and getting stuck in. They need to sort it out or we're getting nothing here.