Mick

I disagree, if he'd gone for the corner the keeper would have saved it. He scored because the keeper was already diving and Ba put the ball where the keeper couldn't make a clean save.

He's threatening to smash his own face in, isn't he?

I agree that he could do more when we attack down the right, having so many different players in front of him can't help. People use Jonas ans Enrique as a measure for Simpson and whoever he has in front of him. Jonas and Enrique had the best part of 3 seasons together. In that time Simpson has had Guthrie, Ryan Taylor, Routledge, Lovenkrands, Barton and now Obertan in front of him.

I'm sure he'll learn what runs our players are making once he's had some time with them during games.

Once again not responsible for any goals against.

Do you still think that Simpson cost us goals against Wolves and Blackburn?

What was our movement like when Ben Arfa was trying to walk through players?

I honestly don't know what you see in him but we’ll see.

He was.

Ben Arfa needs to start and have movement around him, he came on and tried to win the game on his own.

He's right, Shola will more often than not let us down. Him scoring once in a blue moon and doing reasonably well about as often means he should rarely get any game time.

We've let in 6 league goals and you think he's played a part in 4 of those? Which ones?

He spent most of the first half protecting Ryan Taylor and was our best leftback, he can't be in two places at once.

Aye, Marveaux who would have replaced him has none of that.

Of course he has, QPR didn't happen in reality.

I defend him because he's not as bad as some people make out. We conceded two goals today and none were his fault. He gets blamed for us letting in goals when others have had more of a direct influence on us letting the goals in.

90 minutes, why?

He was by far our best defender, it's unreal how good he is at playing the ball out of defence. He'll drop the odd bollock when he tries it in too tight a space but it’s worth the risk as it works more often than not and we retain possession.

It must be, I also forgot that he almost burried one into Kruls top corner, I thought that it was going in.

I can't believe that people think he was excellent today. He was as weak as piss for the 2nd goal and Jonas was our best left back in the first half.

Get Best and Obertan off, they are doing nothing to help any flow to the game.

We'll probably beat Spurs today and drop points to Wigan.

Aye but Shola has played 37 more games in Europe than Sunderland so they have a better goals record per game than he has.