Mick

Is this based on anything more than a figment of your imagination? Post-Ramadan goals scored by our strike 'pairing'... Ba + Best/Shola WBA: 2 Swansea: 0 Norwich: 2 Everton: 0 Stoke: 3 Wigan: 0 Spurs: 2 Wolves: 1 Blackburn: 3 Villa: 1 QPR: 0 Ba+HBA Chelsea: 0 Man Utd: 1 Man City: 0 Blackburn: 0 Nothing scientific by a long shot, but it's more than plausible that the extra 'big unit' up front creates a bit of extra space for Ba to work his magic. Good point, those teams are all of comparable quality.

Do you not think Vuckic did enough yesterday to get another start? I'm sick of looking along our front line and seeing Best standing yards off-side, yesterday he cost us a goal but other times he's costing us posession when going forward.

Best has done nothing to justify starting and everything to justify being dropped.

Play the right team and we'll win this.

Vuckic is a 19 year old kid who was making his first Premiership start, in that respect he played well and did enough to make a case for further starts but probably in a different position to last night.

You don't need to go to the club shop, just go to Specsavers.

From my seat it looked like Ben Arfa saw the pass and went for it.

I think that's a bit unfair, against Swansea he played well and got shots on target from crazy positions when he started with his back to goal.

Did Kadar play against Gateshead? I'm sure that he wasn't even in the team. He did nothing wrong against Liverpool when you rightly say he captained the team to a good win.

When have you seen Kadar play for the reserves?

He didn't have to magically create one, he just had to pick one.

His passing when he came back into the team at the start of the season was no different to how it's been since he returned from injury.

Replace Perch with Williamson and I wouldn't have a problem with that, I'd go with Vuckic and give Jonas a break, he looks wrecked.

I hope we're looking at his contract.

I thought that the two games away in Manchester were good games and I took more positives then negatives out of them. Chelsea at home should have seen Santon in defence to go up against Sturridge because he was always going to take Taylor apart, which in my view is inexcusable. We've always had injuries and always will have them, he had no excuse for playing 4 full-backs against norwich.

You're right and I think people are seeing too much in his poor performances.

Why play him off the main striker at any time when he can't shoot?

I can't see why he's stuck with the system and Personnel as the wheels were always going to come off the way that we were going. He should have been proactive instead of waiting until his hand was forced before changing anything. Even last night he was looking lost on the touchline and only brought on Ben Arfa when the crowd started chanting his name and by doing so having a go at Pardew.

Coloccini was poor last night, it's probably a one off so wouldn't spent too much time trying to pick his performance apart, move on.

Ba is outstanding so I know you don't doubt that he's ahead of Best. I'd rather play Ben Arfa before Best but Ben Arfa can probably take Obertan out of the team to better effect. After last night I'd play Vuckic before Best, it may or may not work but Best isn't doing anything to keep his place.

He won 8 headers against Swansea, not one of those went to a Newcastle player.

I don't think Vuckic is ever going to boss a midfield, what he brings to the team is a bit of creativity and that's what we've got to make the most of.

Best was as bad against Swansea as he was last night, Pardew should have seen that.

It should be no surprise that Best was offside for the Ba goal that wasn't given.

I'm not disagreeing with you but I can't say when I think we'll turn things around as the last 2 games were perfect for that and we have blown it.