Mick

45 minutes

can we not start with 10 men?

Anyone know what is about? Jesus wept, talk about being paranoid.

Since Pardew is a professional and experienced football manager, isn't the former more likely? Just saying.

I would love to see him do it during a game as long as the ball ends up in the net. It would be the ultimate piss take.

I've never said that it wasn't a factor that I can remember.

The main reason for us being where we are in the league has nothing to do with our squad size as far as I'm concerned. We've tried to play a style of football which has us where we are.

It's always good to get assurances from Alan (“They can put together whatever they like. He is not for sale. I am going to say it for one last time, he is not for sale”) Pardew.

At what cost?

I was quite happy with his performances on the left of a front 3 and just think he was unlucky. He was still getting shots off on goal and they just weren't coming off for him.

We should be looking to build a team around our 3 forwards instead of our back 5. Ba is class and it's amazing how people are so quick to accept that we might lose him, not just this coming window but also the last.

Players like poor managers as well as good managers.

By Monday our injuries should amount to Cabaye, Ryan Taylor, Vuckic and Steven Taylor and Gosling.

Yes it was, we doubled his ban.

Where does it say that?

He'll more than likely be the same type of player as his big brother, who he resembles as a player at the same age.

I now see why he's out on loan.

What did he say?

I'm not sure if he had a go at Williamson on Monday night, I was at the match.

So why hasn't he done it?

He's hardly going to blame them is he? He hasn't got the balls to have a go at his senior players because he'll know that he could lose the dressing room that way so he takes the easy option and blames kids.

A new one, he blames the kids. I'm really struggling to like anything about him or his football philosophy. We were no worse tonight than we have been in most of our senior games this season yet the coward blames that on the kids. Why didn’t he have a go at Williamson in public? The simple answer is that he hasn’t got the bollocks. The plain truth is that he isn’t up to the job and when one of the fans has a go at him he's told to shut his gob. Maybe it's time for Pardew to take some of his own advice. It’s also time he grew a pair and accepted some responsibility for what is going wrong, he’s the manager for Christ sake, not some random bloke who just turns up and watches us every time we play.

A negative, his performance. A positive, another 90 minutes of football.

I'm the same, our problems run throughout the whole pool of players.

I'm not bothered in the slightest about the result, it was secondary. What does bother me is the standard of our football. Most of the time our first 11 play poor football then you see a lot of our younger players coming through and playing the same game. We bring players into the club who are supposed to be good, young and hungry players and they put on a performance like we've just produced.