Mick

Do you live on another planet? Board members of our club have said we don't want to be in the cup competitions, why do you think the opposite is true?

He'll probably get a trip to Dubai or somewhere now that we'll have a free week.

A shit manager getting a shit result is no real shock, he's totally clueless and shouldn't be anywhere near our club.

Is it?

Players should be rested, they should have been rested earlier but we've got 8 days to get ready for Man City and 3 players are automatically rested because of injury and a suspension.

We've had the 3rd round of the FA Cup at this time of year since the competition was first played.

Campbell has looked reasonable when we've given him a chance, it's just a pity he hasn't been given more opportunities to show what he can do.

Good point, the last time I was in Peter Beardsley was in the bar so seeing a former player in the bar is possible.

I usually prefer a higher seat for a good view, you should be OK.

The seats are comfortable but the leg room isn't, I've got much more leg room in level 7.

Probably a bit of rectangular paper with a barcode on the end.

The headlines on the back page of the Chronicle "No need to panic." The sub text "Defeat will not change our thinking says Pards," now I think I might panic.

Remy has only scored 3 goals while Shola has been on the pitch.

He doesn't want to play him, if he did want to he'd be playing.

The bit in bold stands out, he obviously doesn't want to start him or he would as he's the only person with any input into that.

This season so far and who has had the most game time? Ben Arfa scored 3 assisted 4. Sissoko scored 1 assisted 4.

All players make wrong decisions, every single one of them. Also, against Arsenal I remember him defending almost on our goal line and he was doing the same yesterday. That's not what he should be doing though, he should be looking to win us games not defend, especially when we usually have so many players behind the ball.

Thank God for that.

Shola did start, whether he should have or not. He did what he usually does, nothing. I don't understand why Pardew has an issue when he doesn't have the same issue with other players. He makes his own rules as he goes along.

Is that the best you can come up with? The manager complained that we had tired players and dropped a player who has hardly played while others who have played virtually every game played again and you think Shola is an alternative? You're trolling now.

You're arguing this the day after Shola was given a start and did nothing positive for 76 minutes, giving a player a free role is no worse than playing a player who does nothing.

Are you trying to act daft, last year he blamed Europe for player tiredness while virtually fielding 2 different teams. This year he claimed tiredness after the Arsenal defeat and made 1 change a couple of days later, he dropped one of our least used players and brought in Shola.

It doesn't appear that everybody knows.

We did virtually play 2 squads and the manager did say we were tired because of Europe.

This time last year he was blaming tiredness because of European football and we were using virtually 2 different teams. Our last European game before Christmas had us fielding Elliot, Tavernier, Williamson, Perch, Ferguson, Abeid, Bigirimana, Marveaux, Sammy Ameobi, Ranger and Shola. The following league game had us fielding Krul, Simpson, Williamson, Coloccini, Santon, Anita, Tiote, Gutierrez, Cisse, Ben Arfa and Ba which means 1 played in both games. How does that one work?