Ashley17

Just seen the goal, its no more from a set piece than Ba's vs City

Add Tiote and Anita to that I guess, maybe play against St Mirren on Tuesday?

Banned for friendlies

Why is it shit? Its a glorified kick about. We go through this every year ffs.

He's a fucking arsehole like, shouldn't be anywhere near mackems games for commentary

Who missed the pel?

Surely playing Brown & O'Shea as your centre halves is just asking for trouble against any team with pace?

Fair to say if it was a Premier League game it would have been called off.

Aguero/Negredo/Jovetic and the perennial 4th choice Dzeko, just so much scope for rotation

I think it's going to be a strange old seaso, with lots of teams taking points off sides you wouldn't normally expect. With major changes at most teams, there's going to be a lot of bedding in and the effect of new players and a new start may well cancel each other out in a lot of cases. The promoted teams do look exceptionally shit though, Cardiff are having a go at spending some money but Palace are relying on Holloway playing mental attacking football like he did at Blackpool, whilst Hull have Steve Bruce.

Of course, bit of an oversight on my part.

Seems all the more obvious now that Bent is the backup plan if Cisse leaves. Cisse, Gomis, Remy & (sigh) Shola is a decent quartet of strikers. Bent in as a replacement for Cisse won't be too bad if we have Gomis and Remy.

Their season starts in 8 days

Radio Newcastle said we were in for a defender called Bakary Kone, that was on the 8am news

I was pleased with the second half like, it was all us pretty much. Jonas calmed it down much like he did against Anzhi, but it is a lot easier for him against European sides. Tiote is still a disaster and some of the more established players were disappointing but I expected far worse after the red card. Maybe my expectations are just very low nowadays.

Ivanovic didn't get banned for his red card in the Community Shield, so I'll be amazed if Colo gets banned from this.

Golos 1

There's only this forum who can go ballistic about the manager during a game where the captain has been sent off for strangling an opponent

Our talented players playing around our non-talented oafs

He knows what we need, I'd much rather he focuses on incomings than outgoings

He can and would in that scenario, unless he dumps Sissoko wide to stick with 2 from Cabaye/Tiote/Anita in the CM roles

Short passing and movement on Gouffran's goal, unbelievable scenes.

He was a good partner for Ba, and he really stepped up when we sold Carroll. Never going to be prolific though - unbelievable that he didn't score for us in the Championship when we were getting 3 or 4 at home most weeks.

Just realised this is on Tuesday. Looking forward to a defeat and a massive overreaction as usual Their season starts 2 weeks before ours and it's not their first friendly, worth bearing in mind.