Mick

Don't forget all of the effort that went in to bringing in Ireland who has been ... oh.

I'm sure the match has already brightened up your day, you seem to have a high tolerance to mediocrity.

You do have a point.

I'd rather play Coloccini up front than Shola.

To be fair to him, he didn't pick himself.

He was a miss but we did enough to score more than 1 goal so I don't know if he would have donw enough to change the result.

I take it that you didn't watch the game, he was poor as were all of our forwards. We had loads of balls into the box and were awful in front of goal.

He loaned out a right winger without replacing him.

Pardew is a moron.

He's been poor even though he's scored.

Ranger not on the bench

Taylors arse licking has worked again

1 1/2 hours.

I have faith that he'll come good with a run of games, he'll need to get used to those around him, when to time runs, what passes others look to make, etc.

I hope that Ranger is starting, he seems to have done everything asked of him and deserves his chance in reward.

Best.

Who is?

I never said it was and you never said that I did.

He's not good enough and I don't care how often he plays with injuries. He deserves some credit for it but it doesn't make him and better than he actually is and he doesn't have a good 90 minutes often enough when played, for whatever reason.

I don't blame him for taking the job, I'm sure that he thought that he would be backed and able to take the club forward, that clearly didn't happen once Llambias became MD.

Keegan did know we were going to appoint a Director of Football and he knew Wise was one of three possibilities.

Go on then, I'll ask, what made him as bad as the other two? Where does the £4.5 million come from?

Ranger reminds me of a young Kluivert and that's the type of player I expect him to turn out like if he keeps on developing.