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As a few pointed out last night, Pardew did look a bit down as if he knows his tactics/gameplan didn't work and that yesterday's defeat was his fault. For someone who apparently does things with attention to detail, last night was a big disappointment. Hopefully he'll now address the problems with his tactics and choice of personnel. I'm sure he can learn from his mistakes and rectify them accordingly.

Ever since we lost Saylor this season, our ability to defend from set pieces has certainly declined a bit. Sure we were conceding from set plays even with Saylor (a lot less though) but without him, it's now been highlighted as quite a major problem.

Well only geordiemonster and Ethi. Well I don't know what the Enrique body language thread was BUT the fact is Enrique's body language suggested he wanted to leave and it is an undisputed fact that he no longer plays for us..... Yes monster.... if this guy wants to leave he can i am not a big fan of people who can not pass balls accuratly his is the worst i have seen. 20 mil ha .... Mick's Helcophter should be used again... Are you on the wind up tonight?

Worrying about going down? Nah, sorry like but that aint happening. I'm worried our great start is going to be completely wasted, but that's about it. We're 4 wins and a draw away from the 'magical 40' and not even half the season is gone. There's no chance we're going down. None at all.

Where's the relegation-o-meter thread?

I don't think Simpson is that bad of a crosser tbh. He puts more crosses into the box than Obertan anyway which is somewhat worrying. I think Danny can still improve on his crossing though, with Obertan misfiring (and well delivering essentially nothing into the box), we need Simpson to deliver more consistent balls tbh.

I'll be nervous as fuck on the day but it has to be watched. Think I'll watch it in the pub, at least I'll have some drinks alongside me to calm me down....

If Simpson does need protection, you could switch Jonas to the right and start Ben Arfa on the left in front of Santon. Danny is probably missing Barton on the right tbh

Stick Vuckic in Best's position and replace Obertan with Ben Arfa, two problems solved. :fwap: Was just thinking that. That's quite a solution.

Well only geordiemonster and Ethi. Ah. Meh. I think everyone has to be realistic though and realise that he probably is on the radar of clubs like Chelsea or Man U (simply because he's a f***ing good player) and that they probably can afford to spend £20m+ on him and that there'd be something wrong with him were his head not turned by links to these clubs. Probably the most important thing is that he has a price and the buying clubs know that. Fair enough, out of the players who are most likely to go next month, Tiote is probably the most likely. But I personally don't think he looked like a player tonight who clearly wants out. Just looked short of match fitness to me. Pretty confident he won't leave next month but summer is another matter....

Absolutely agree with that.

Well only geordiemonster and Ethi.

Someone is going to leave in Jan, I see negative Tiote as being far preferable to Collocini, Krul or Ba (although it's not beyond the realms of possibilities that one or more of those might go as well). The £25m WILL be invested in new players, we'll get 2 "free" transfers and give them 4 year contracts at 40k a week and then when you take into account agents fees, that's all the money gone. Free transfers are this years expensive transfers...at least at Newcastle anyway. CoLoccini tbh. I don't think Collocini will leave simply because we will be utterly up s*** creek if he does and surely even Ashley can see that. I'm confident Coloccini won't leave, I was just pointing out his name is spelt as Coloccini, not Collocini.

Can't be a real quote surely?

Someone is going to leave in Jan, I see negative Tiote as being far preferable to Collocini, Krul or Ba (although it's not beyond the realms of possibilities that one or more of those might go as well). The £25m WILL be invested in new players, we'll get 2 "free" transfers and give them 4 year contracts at 40k a week and then when you take into account agents fees, that's all the money gone. Free transfers are this years expensive transfers...at least at Newcastle anyway. CoLoccini tbh.

Wow.....

Oh.....

It's more about keeping all the available options open really. I'm sure Ben Arfa will thrive in the number 10 role but it's still restricting to say that the lad is only that especially when he has played and thrived on the wing in the past. Our wingers are misfiring atm so we should adding Ben Arfa into the mix gives us another option.

Cocky t***.

Pretty much this. The sooner Williamson is back in the starting line up, the better.

Reassess Pardew, please reassess your view.

Hopefully he is learning that he can't just rely on average players because they overachieved at the start of the season. I hope so. I'm confident Pardew can turn it around. He has shown in the past that he can learn from his mistakes so hopefully he'll work on his tactics accordingly.