Mick

Yes, you're right it is Sammy. He looked good with the ball when they were knocking it about and looks like he could be a decent player when I've seen him playing for the kids and reserves.

Did anybody notice if Tommy Ameobi having a kick about before the match when the players were warming up?

I noticed the argument, I'm not sure it was about defending. It came out of nothing and isn't the first time those two have had a go at each other.

He shouldn't play another game this season, we're safe and hopefully need him for the first three games of next season.

Jonas and Simpson were two of a limited number of our players who looked bothered. I thought Simpson did his best work today going forward and put a lot of good balls into the box which we failed to build on.

He should have had at least 45 minutes today, Shola and Lovenkrands were a joke.

I normally agree with how you mark players but I don't understand how you get your marks for Simpson or Jonas.

And he's the only forward ever to miss a sitter.

True and irrelevant in the context of this thread.

The point is that Ireland has been here since January and done nothing, we should stay well clear of him.

Ireland isn't worth the risk, we need to bring players in who we can rely on, he can't be relied on at all.

Ryan Taylor has done more for Newcastle than Ireland has.

And a stupid head band.

George (Mavis) Reilly.

It's his first full season in the Premiership, he'll learn from it.

We'll not spend £30 million, that would only leave £5 million for wages.

Lua Lua still could have had a future, he refused to come back once his loan was over when we had massive injury problems. We also asked Caldwell to come back from Leeds and he did even though he knew he was probably finished at the club.

Yesterday we looked like a team who were just seeing out the final games of the season before going on holiday. The only player who was showing any passion for the game was Jonas and he's unlikely to win us too many games on his own. Other than Jonas, we had absolutely no creativity and our forwards didn't know what to do with a football. We'll be playing against a team who are one defeat away from a relegation place so have to fight for the rest of the season.

It doesn't look as if he was trying to talk him out of it.

He couldn't control the bids coming in, he did have a role in the written transfer request though. "He mentioned he wanted a new deal, otherwise he wanted out and to talk to Liverpool. I told him he had to put that in writing and he did," stated Pardew.

Yes, and he played no part in that.

I love it that the person who was responsible for weakening the squad now complains about it, how does he think we feel?

£6 million by the looks of it.

How does Nolan come out with these two lines? "It's worked out better for us that Andy has gone although we'd love to have him still. "If he was here we'd probably have a few more points and would be able to build a great team around him."

They get £50 million and spent it on two good players transfer fees, let's see what we get for £35 million which goes on players and wages.