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Had one of his poorer games yesterday IMO.

Can't believe this guy will still be in charge next year, after this fluke.

Of course i'm proud, we've proved that we are a premiership club and always were. If it hadn't been for Ashley this sorry episode would have never occured but now is a chance to take what positives we can from our relegation and move on.... perhaps to better things. Forget the past, look to the future.

I voted Colo a while back (while Jose was injured) but i can fully understand why Enrique has taken the lead in this poll. Both of these guys have been our best and most consistent footballers since august and it is down to these two, why we have had the best defence in the league and remained unbeaten at home. Some may have come close, but no player has contributed more to our promotion than Enrique or Coloccini.

Nedum Onouha, can play ay right back and centre half.

Wasn't a bad goal for someone whos a disgrace eh?

Someday i hope we can be as big as Watford.

I hate to be cynical but when you sign foreign players you have to turn your attention to their attitude and mental strength. More Enrique's, less Bassong's. Even if Bassong is a quality player.

He's been playing the best football of his entire career this season. True but his best would have been for the previous three years had he not been an injury prone cunt. He's over the hill regardless of his form. One big injury (which will happen) and he's done. Good footballer mind.

Think almost our whole squad is premiership standard. Of course we went down with some of those players but imo we went down because of one accident after the other. Keegan resigning... Kinnear... Kinnear getting ill... getting Shearer instead of a proven manger... and so on. Under normal circumstances with that squad from 08/09 we would have never ever gone down imo. Agreed. All of that and more happened and we nearly survived. I also don't think the standard at the bottom has improved much.

Larsson is exactly the sort of player we should be signing.

Howay lads lets stop setting up blind dates and get back to the topic.

Rather than Bellamy being "out of our league", he's not the sort of player we will want to target. What would upset the rythm of our club right now? Trouble maker On huge wages Will demand a first team place Past his best

Credit to Davies who congratulated our staff, players and fans after the game.

Hughton's a little gem TBH, he might not make it as a premiership manager but he's the sort of guy and the sort of coach i want at my football club.

Sensible post. This year's team are lions compared to the pussy's of last year. Most of the things that we are worried about are the same things all the other team's in the bottom half will be saying IMO. Those thinking we are going to get 20m are on another planet.

I'd be suprised if we are not in for Micheal Johnson in the summer, which i'd be delighted with if he has sorted his drinking out. It's this sort of player who we should be going for and who we will go for IMO, players like; Cleverley, O'Hara, Van Aanholt etc. Robbie Keane is an interesting one, as i believe he has something to offer but i'd be suprised if we went down that route unless it was financially do-able.

I can see Hughton starting next season quite cautiously and play one up front for a few games, unless we sign a top striker. So going on that basis; Harper Taylor Williamson Colo Enrique Guthrie Barton Routledge Nolan Jonas Carroll Naturally i want and believe we will have new additions to the current squad, however i'm not prepared (or very good at) guessing. Centre midfield and centre forward are key areas.

BTW did the club drop Carroll earlier in the season after his nightclub incident or take some sort of disciplinary action? If they did, it would suggest they have at least taken a neutral stance on this bust up, or perhaps even sided with Carroll.... due to the fact they have taken no action this time. Either that or they are inconsistant.

I'm not sure about either players personality. From what i can gather (which is pure speculation), Carroll seems a bit of a loose cannon but is liked by most of his team mates, where as Taylor comes across as abit of a loser who doesn't take life very seriously. Loyalty to the club will win me over when it comes to these two.

Not sure how you can assume that; Lets give Hughton some credit and say that in the last window he stretched the finances to fill a number of holes in the squad. What's to say that if we had £15m and all we needed was a striker, Hughton would not go for a £15million pound striker? /or not, just seems a bit rough to make claims on Hughtons transfer philosophy after effectively one (pretty effective) window. I think you misundertand, i'm not being critical of Hughton. I don't think Hughton will be a big spender, nor do i want him to go down that route (unless a top player comes available). IMO Hughton will bide his time and wait until later in the window before securing bigger targets. If we had 15m i highly doubt Hughton would spend it on three players. You are entitled to disagree.

If we recieved an 8m offer for Taylor would you take it? I would and i rate him as a player.

Well lads tonights the night to put all that right, let's give them a good lesson. To all those who are attending, get your signing voices at the ready and let this be a memorable night.

Sunderland pissed away on shite like Richardson and Chopra which cost them 10m alone. We won't be going down that route, expect Hughton to be doing similar business to that of January.

Valerenga were nothing on NAC Breda, 5-0 down singing "always look on the bright side of life".