Mick

It wasn't meant to be taken seriously.

You can say that again.

Did anybody else think that we took an age to come out for the second half? I wonder if the players were voting on who would come off and when we'd make changes.

His heading has improved no end, last season he got on the end of a long ball and it could go anywhere. Today and probably the season so far has been a massive improvement as he's directing the ball excellently. Too bad the shower of shit around him couldn't get on the end of anything which he laid off.

He proved today in his short time on the pitch that he's not all hype, he's probably the spark that we needed for 90 minutes. To come on so late and still play the way that he did during that performance shows he’s a touch of class.

I wasn't on about you.

Only to be flagged up for being offside.

We did after we'd made the first change then I think we had 7 up front at the end, it ended up something like 3-0-7.

I think it's a bit shit that people can't express an opinion after a result like the one we've received today. If Hughton does well then people praise him and when he screws up people have a go at him, some people need to learn to live with that because it will always happen.

I'm not sure if it was respect or attitude, something was different and wrong.

I don't know where you sit or how good your eyes are but Perch was often bombing down the right and getting crosses in while I struggled to see where Routledge was. Honestly, I think you're confusing the two.

Agreed, the difference today from our first 3 games was that we rarely hassled an opposition player when he had the ball.

Harper 7, kept us in it on 12 minutes when Williamson was out of position and Harper had to make a double save. Perch 6, was often playing right wing with Routledge nowhere to be seen. Jose 6, tried his best but had nothing to aim at when he got forward. Coloccini 7, probably our best defender but could have been shown a red card. His tackle was one of those tackles which sometimes get the team going but he was playing with a very poor team today who just didn't react to it. Williamson 5, didn't have a good game and looked worried that he might be about to lose his place. If he has more games like that then that's exactly what will happen. Smith 1, Pile of s****, chased and rarely got anywhere near the ball. I counted him on the ball 3 times and the ball always went backwards or to the side. The rest of the time he was chasing shadows. Barton 5, he played far too many balls straight to the opposition but he did get involved and had nothing around him to lay the ball off to so was always looking for a pass which wasn't really on. Routledge 5, had a bit of a mare, I don't think he found a team mate today but he kept trying. He got upset over what looked like a nothing challenge. Jonas 6, he tried and was all over the place, he did try too much at times but he had nothing to aim at far too often. Both he and Enrique were struggling to find anybody in space. Nolan 2, he's an abortion of a footballer and although Smith was worse I think the position Nolan has been given and failed to play made him worse because we had no link between midfield and Carroll. Carroll 6, I felt sorry for him having to play with Nolan backing him up, or trying to. Lovenkrands 3, a stupid substitution and one which started us off looking lost. Bringing him on for Smith was madness as we had to try and change too much for 1 change. HBA 6, he looked like he had a good turn of pace but Messi would have struggled today, he must replace Nolan. Shola 4, why? I wouldn't even have him on the bench as he offers nothing and when we had 3 forwards on they were within a few feet of each other and we had holes all over the pitch. Playing 3 forwards resulted in us letting the 2nd goal in as we were like a group of kids having a game of kick and rush on a school field. Hughton 0, I can't think of anything which he did right today and he needs to do something different for our next game as we've just handed Blackpool a massive 3 points.

He must have been watching the same game as me because I didn't think he was too bad apart from his obvious dive which wrongly got us a free kick.

I still would take 17th.

It's not knee-jerk, he's shit.

I would have taken him off after 10 minutes, not that I'd have started him. He was so slow he kept running offside in an attempt to get to the ball first, he's embarassing.

if we start our next game with either Smith or Nolan then he deserves all the stick he gets.

Tiote has got white boots on.

he's getting his player of the month award at 2:45

That was actually enjoyable to watch and a good build up.

Club poet.

I'll settle for 4-0 today.