Ashley17

The international break coming up would give them chance to get a replacement in, it's an opportunity a few clubs might take.

I suppose it was still Hughton's team with different characters in there like Barton and Nolan, we might have better footballers now but definitely have less............something missing. Commitment.

Yeah, I was pretty lazy then thought about it and worked it out. We were practically cavalier in those first 6 months compared to how we are now.

Didn't we score 4 against Wolves a couple of seasons ago too? Or is that more than 88 matches ago? Edit: It was, comfortably.

Fans turned on Hughton a bit yesterday, just because he subbed Redmond

I'm not sure it'll be that weak. We don't play again until Monday and Pardew could probably do without the flack of getting beat here. We've gone back to back away games after this, then Liverpool at home and the mackems. We need every win we can muster. Think it'll be something like: Krul, Debuchy, MYM, Williamson, Dummett, Tiote, Bigirimana, Marveaux, Sammy, Cisse, Gouffran Maybe someone better than Bigi, no shortage of options in Anita/Sissoko/Gosling/Vuckic even if Cabaye is out. Think he'll play Cisse because he just needs a goal from somewhere. Expect Remy & HBA will be on the bench for an emergency, and Shola is injured.

Thought Santon was pretty shit today going forward, don't remember him making any defensive errors but pretty sure it was him giving it away which led to their third.

Crying out for a plan B, which should have been Gomis but will instead be Shola if he gets over his latest "knock"

He's pretty detrimental, it was bad enough when he wasn't scoring but now it's like the other team have 12

Krul - 5 Debuchy - 5 Colo - 6 MYM - 5 Santon - 4 Anita - 6 Sissoko - 5 Cabaye - 5 Ben Arfa - 4 Remy - 9 Cisse - 4 Garbage second half, didn't look bothered in the slightest.

Honestly, the only thing that has me seething more than the "performance" was the fat fucking "woman" Hull fan in the Milburn who was going nuts when they scored the 1st and third goal. She missed the 2nd goal as she was probably having a pie. Had it been a man, he would be dead now.

Just got back in. We were shit. Except Remy, Remy was mint.

What do you think your back 4 will be when everybody is back? Johnson Sakho Agger Enrique?

All of the quickest men in the world are about his size. I'll never get why so many comments like this exist. Years of Shola "running" have ruined our perception.

I particularly enjoyed this on Milner: "Or Milner come to that......a reserve played out of position for his club.....a similar level of signing to Johnson imo" The same poster started the thread and wanted him to be signed as a central midfielder. I know this forum has debated the merits of playing Milner in centre midfield (when we had him) but it's never really happened for any prolonged period of time.

Just had a glance at RTG. Wtf is this!? http://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/mccarthy-and-milner.810470/

My worry is that he seems to be a decent motivator, the derby and their second half performance yesterday showing that. It's no fun them being shit if they beat us.

Only played them twice plus two cup ties the same season and we've yet to win. Should have won the Cup tie at their place iirc. We should have beaten them in both cup games but some spectacularly wank finishing meant we didn't.

Reminds me of when that Nicky chap posted on here in delight when Stevenage beat us, even though he was a Newcastle fan for 364 days of the year. Why the fuck would you do that?

No.

We haven't won a league game by more than 1 goal since Southampton last season. That was our only league win by more than one goal last season. This lot will be organised and Bruce will be seething after a series of big fat head/cheer up Steve Bruce chants, and Abdoulaye Faye will doubtless score past us again. Not going to be a walk in the park sadly.

Let's be honest, we're playing him down because he's playing for sunderland and some are bigging him up because he's American. He's not awful, he's just average. As TT says, Fletcher is miles better.

That's the problem leading into Champions League week.

Villa have 4 forwards on the pitch..

Oh Tim