Memphis

When you need that extra yard of pace and inspiration away from home, you definitely think about Nicky Butt. /hughton

Tactical fucking wizardry here.

It will be a miracle if we can hold on to a draw here. No ambition at all. No energy. Just absorbing pressure with our almost entirely second choice back 4. Recipe for disaster.

Apparently quite a few of the seats at the Riverside are virgins too, having never had any human contact.

The way this commentator goes on, you'd think Scott McDonald was Cristiano Ronaldo.

Guthrie and Nolan have been absolutely abysmal in the center of the park. Just horrendous. We scored on our only actual moment of quality in the half - credit to Jonas for the pass and a tidy finish from Lovelypants. And fair play to Colo, who has been solid as normal. Kadar looks as good as you would expect a 5th choice CB plaing out of position to look. The pitch looks dodgy as hell. Bobbles all over the place.

This is just miserable football. Neither team can string two passes together. Glad we got an early goal. Just kick it around the rugby pitch for 40 minutes or so and get the hell back home.

but did manage to put the van in van Aanholt this time. Sounded like he did it under protest, though. "Patrick......VAAAAAANNN.......aanholt"

Colo is fucking class. Everyone else is awful. Despite that, we are still much, much, much better than they are. Ladies and gentlemen, the Championship. Horrendous football.

fucking annoying that he keeps missing the 'van' off 'van Aanholt'. I kept trying to figure out when we had signed someone named Arnold...

Renaming of St James’ Park is a flawed notion which must not and cannot stand

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Andy Carroll cannot play any worse.

That was coming.

There's a part of me that's amazed we can put in performances like this - offering virtually nothing - and still be fully capable of winning every single match...and leading the league. The standard in the Championship really is quite poor. That said, Forest should be at least 1-0 up, probably 2.

That was actually a halfway decent move by us.

Their movement up front is really quite good - running circles around the statues we've got placed in midfield.

How did Harewood not put that in the net?

The commentator just got it absolutely right: "Nolan...forward ball to nobody..."

Looks like half the team is still on break. We look as if we couldn't care less.

Has Alan Smith ever stayed on his feet when making a tackle?

Eye-gouging football there.

Only hypothetically speaking of course, but would this potential announcement serve as a definitive end to the sale process? Or would it merely be a recommendation or advisory message or some such, and be therefore open-ended?

What a brilliant cross from Enrique!

If Barton's going to play like this, our midfield is going to be shocking all season. He barely looks interested. And of course Smith's going to get another yellow card. If Graham Poll were referring, he'd get 3 today.