Mick

I can and did for the reason mentioned, he goes down far too easy.

Coloccini had an excellent game, his reading of the game meant that he just strolled around and did everything he had to do while making it look too easy.

I don't like him as a person but as a footballer he's improved a lot but he still goes down far too easily when he should be fighting more for the ball instead of looking for a free kick. Almost every time he went down play was waved on because the ref knew what he was doing. He needs to learn to stay on his feet more and he will become a much better footballer if he can do that.

Did I mention his aerial ability? You don't only head balls when you're on the end of a cross.

Was it him or the Blackpool number 6?

I thought that his goal was an own goal, Lovenkrands did a lot more up front today and should have scored a s*** load.

I heard them sing Blaydon Races a few times and other than that they made some noise but I have no idea what they were singing.

Not very good when he's on the end of them though.

I'd be surprised if he would take one, I would think he would understand that he wasn't going to draw a big crowd, he'd get less than Rob Lee did.

I read "this will" and thought that you thought something was actually happening.

He hasn't got one yet, this is all speculation.

I hope the positions he's trying to fill according to that article are bullshit, 3 defenders, 1 midfielder and 1 forward. We are set to lose pancrate, Butt and Hall so we would end up with a net gain of 2 in defence, 1 up front but fewer players in midfield which doesn't make sense.

Did you get permission to use the lift?

1-1 is a good result, I think I'll go next Friday.

1-1 now.

Yes they do count, why wouldn't they?

That's a good interview and he actually sounds like a manager who is comfortable with his current position, it's possibly the best I've ever heard him speak. He's got no ego at all and wants others to be given the credit for what has happened this season.

Danny Simpson could probably do it so I wouldn't worry about where he plays.

Dallas?

I think most people understood what you were getting at.

So you are saying that a group of players stood on lookout knowing that Carroll was going to batter Steven Taylor? That it was all premeditated? How do you know this? I thought that he was taking the piss.

I agree with what you say but if Hughton isn't up to it then changing a manager before the season would be better than during it. We'll not be getting rid of Hughton so we need to hope that he is good enough and carries on learning like I think he has during this season. He has his faults but I think his good points have out numbered them as the season has gone on and whatever he has done so far has worked. I think we'd be mad to rush out and replace Hughton with somebody like Hughes as he wouldn't be much of an upgrade, if at all. I don't think we have enough to offer anybody who would be classed as a top manager as we need the same type of job which Sir Bobby had to carry out when he first came here. A new manager usually expects loads of cash to spend so that they can buy a team and we're miles away from being in that position, we need a builder, not a cheque book manager. If Hughton manages to build something he’ll be shown loyalty by the club and he’ll be given time to do what he thinks is right. We had far too many managers and caretakers last season, something which I don’t think anybody at the club wanted and something I don’t think they‘ll want to repeat. Ashley and Llambias do have a plan for the club and they will be far happier if they can see that through with the same person so that we’re not trying to build a new team every season. Hughton will not have the sums of money to spend that some are predicting so he will have to get the best out of a lot of the players already at the club. I would be surprised if our net spend is anything more than £10 million and that will have to be used to bring in at least a forward and central midfielder. If he sells anybody then he will probably have more money to spend. I think Hughton has to spend his money well if he’s going to remain here and I’m not sure how well he’ll do in that respect. Butt will almost certainly leave, Pancrate is out of contract and Hall is due to head back to QPR so we’ll be 3 players down before we sign anybody. If Hughton thinks that Leon Best is the type of player we need then I think he’s got problems and will struggle so Hughton will need a lot of help to get the right players. Danny Simpson will need to improve a lot to be good enough to play in the Premiership, we can carry him in the position he plays as long as we have a good team around him. Steve Taylor could do a job on the right side of our defence but he’s just as likely to go as he is to stay and I don’t blame him if he leaves. Other than right back we should have enough in defence as Coloccini isn’t as bad in the Premiership as some people try and make out. He had some dodgy games last season but he also had some very good games, a lot of people thought that he would fail miserably this year and for most of the time he’s been excellent. Williamson looks good enough at the back and we have good cover in Kadar and Taylor if he stays so the defence doesn’t need much work, if any. Enrique is more than good enough for the Premiership and I just hope that we can resist other clubs if they come in for him. Our central midfield will be nowhere near good enough for next season. Butt will almost certainly be gone, good. Smith just doesn’t offer anything and hasn’t looked good in the Championship for most of the season. Nolan has offered goals but very little else when not getting goals, I hope that the added challenge of the Premiership will bring something extra out of him because he’ll not get the goals he has this year. Barton isn’t somebody we can rely on, he’s got to be one of our worst ever signings and I would love to see the back of him if somebody was daft enough to take him. Guthrie looks to be our best central midfielder and he’s not going to be good enough if he hasn’t got anybody decent next to him. Our wingers should be good enough but again, that depends on who they have around them. Our forwards are not good enough, Lovenkrands could do a job for us and Carroll might be able to if he carries on improving but he’s another Joey Barton and his next brush with the law will always be just around the corner. He’s the type of person who will probably end up doing time as he seems to be lacking any self control. Shola will probably be injured more often than not and no team should try and rely on him scoring to keep them up as he’s not good enough and has the fitness level of a corpse. Ranger hasn’t had enough playing time, it was going to be either him or Carroll and we went with Carroll.

Sorry, I don’t believe that catmag could be so devious and manipulative.

This isn't your argument so keep out of it. I've never witnissed a domestic which has been carried out on a forum before.

The City of London Police thought something was wrong and raided the club and removed computers, they also raided the house of a former employee. They didn't take matters further but that only proves that they didn't find enough to go any further, it doesn't prove that nothing was wrong.