AlanSkÃrare

These so called formations are doing my head in. Not a good sign that we always change things around. Vurn our best player again. Tiote is a fucking liability.

What about Falcao and Cavani - they seem similar in stature and Cavani having enjoyed a similar progression in terms of goalscoring. I've seen far more of Cavani. VI - how do you rate Falcao compared to Cavani?

I think we probably would. b****** of a time to be that good. Look at his record at Real, look at his last season with Manchester United. He's up there. He's up there amongst the very best? Please enlighten me. Scoring tons of goals against lesser teams and disappearing in big games doesn't really help his cause tbh. The part about him disappearing in big games isn't true, not anymore. The most recent example was his performance against Barcelona earlier this year. His performances at the Euro's would also suggest the contrary. His goalscoring against lesser sides is on par with Messi's as far as I'm concerned. The difference being Messi adding to his tally against Champions League teams a bit more.

Debuchy would still excite me.

I think we probably would. b****** of a time to be that good. Look at his record at Real, look at his last seasons with Manchester United. He's up there. He scored 60 goals last season ffs.

It's definately going to be harder guesswork now that we can't go to the training ground and just find it out 7 days before every game.

Not even any interest among the other Swedes on here, I can confirm.

Anyone know what is about? Seems weird. He's often dropping hints to the press himself about tactical issues and selections.

I want Cheick to be at it tonight, seems vital to the rest of our season. He's been instrumental in winning us points away from home in the past. We've missed his performances like hell.

I've been singing this around my mates for years. They've grown somewhat fond of it, but nobody can ever get round the fact that you always end up going "BAUWADAMY" instead of Black & White Army. It's turned into a case where most of my friends, not Newcastle fans at all, randomly burst into "BAWUADAAAMMY" wherever we are, whenever in whatever context. Bizarre. Hoping it picks up and becomes a thing.

I hope to god we turn up tonight. We'll need it going into the rest of December. Pretty sure Jonas will be back, meaning Marveaux dropping to the bench. Excited to see Anita with Tioté again. He's been a real positive as of late. Hope Tioté starts to smash shit up again.

I don't like the "he's going to put the ball at risk there". So what? He's probably less risky than say Tiote who is in a more dangerous position Less risky than the dead certain loss of possession that Williamson provides when he launches.

Last year it was "There's no value in January". Yeah, maybe they'll come up with a new one this year, how exciting! We did sign Cissé mind..

Last year it was "There's no value in January".

You taking the p*ss? How so? The consistency in his goalscoring is far beyond them. Obviously not Pelé, but he never played in Europe. Well you did mention Pele there. I just need to clarify once again that South American football back then had better standards than European football. Pele's Santos went in 59' to Europe and played I think 15 friendlies, (these were of course not REAL friendlies they were competitive games and that's why his friendlies record always comes to consideration when talking about his goalscoring records). Pele and Santos played Inter de Milan twice in the space of three weeks. Inter which the year after would go on to become one of the best teams in Italian history and he scored SIX goals against them in two games. Losing the first 3-2 and then winning the second 7-1 and he took the complete p*ss of Inter. And just to show how good South American football was back then, Santos lost 5-3 to Real Madrid which was the best team in Europe at the moment in 59' but lost 6-2 to Colo Colo. In one month of friendlies Pele went on to score 25 goals playing teams like Inter, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia all teams who were successful back then, as well as Real Betis who would have its best finish ever in spanish football in 1963 as well as Hamburg who would reach the semi-finals in 1961' in the Champions League. People need to get a perspective of what Pele really was, he was a King amongst men. And I do respect people rating Messi over, however saying that his goalscoring was beyond any of them is for me a ridiculous statement. At the end of his career we can judge him. I mean Di Stefano himself didn't have a much worse goalscoring record than Messi and he won 5 straight Champions Leagues too. What Messi, Maradona, Pele and Garrincha all have in their favour though is that they won things and were dominant in the way they did it. Garrincha and Maradona each won one world cup completely on their own. Pele and Messi basically won everything (Messi probably will, will probably dominate the World Cup in Brazil and shut my mouth ) Fair enough, I stand corrected on that point. However in todays climate and what the sport represents today I still don't find their goalscoring comparable.

You taking the p*ss? How so? The consistency in his goalscoring is far beyond them. Obviously not Pelé, but he never played in Europe.

Well, he's been out injured for about a month, but as far as I'm aware he's fit again. He's been suspended since the mackem game.

You mean the Ajax midfielder valued at £25m?

I'd argue Anita and Steven Taylor are above average in terms of ability. We've got Clint Hill and Dean Whitehead starting at other clubs.

Playing Hatem in that role would probably mean a free role where he can move however he wants. It also puts more burden on the remaining three midfielders as we'll have no cover on the wings. I've not been impressed when we've tried this earlier. Cabaye being pushed right, Jonas left. No threat.

Unprecedented in his excellence now. Sure we've seen players like Maradona, Pelé and Ronaldo be far ahead of their time and dominate the game, but Messi has added the most insane part of his game to that dominance. His goalscoring is far, far beyond those players, even Ronaldo who you'd argue had goalscoring as his main asset. And goalscoring is the most vital asset, it wins him games and titles, on an individual level but also in terms of Barcelona, probably the best team ever on club level. His goalscoring is the crown of that team, what makes them click.

Good on him. Deserves a chance when Sammy, Abeid and the rest of them aren't taking theirs.

Six points off 4th if we win tomorrow. Still going to need a complete turn of events for that fact to matter at all.

Just realised today I'm going to hate Jonjo Shelvey for 10 years.