Dr Venkman

That was a razor sharp finish like, was impressed with him again today.

Still maintain we'll beat them, 2-0 at half time. Form goes out the window etc, it's Sunderland, they'll bottle it.

Let's just stop talking about Hughton? There's huge question marks over Pardew and what we do going forward, Hughton's the past.

In one. We shouldn't be judging Ben Arfa on his tracking back, he should be sent out in a team that plays to his strengths, we don't need 11 defenders. For all that was a generally poor performance from him he still made himself space to shoot and missed narrowly twice, I didn't see anyone else make themselves a yard and shoot in the second half. Again he's been brought on late and is under massive pressure to deliver, Ian's right, we can't judge him properly unless he's had a proper run. Even without that he's got assists and goals this season.

Indeed. I'm unhappy with Pardew's mentality, Hughton doesn't even need to be mentioned.

Have to say I can't understand the criticism of Tiote, he did his job well all day.

would've been 6 points ahead of 7th if we'd won that as well The irony is I've been criticising Pardew heavily for this and then I look at the table and think that I'd be delighted if we finished where we are right now. I just can't shake this feeling that he's stumbled across a formula this season that we can't continue with any success, we're not gonna have a striker in form as good as Ba's, every year. At the minute it looks like the only thing that's gonna improve this team is better players. Shouldn't we be expecting the manager to make us better? He doesn't even make the signings, we may as well have someone who's gonna make the team better then the sum of its parts?

the team mentality comes from the manager.

Upgrade in the summer (fwiw I reckon it'll happen the summer after). If we continue to sign players of the quality we have recently there'll be no excuses left. We're having a great season but I just want to see the back of it now because it's plain to see we have no ambitions of playing any football. We're not going anywhere unless he changes his plan.

It's only right midfield where he even had a decision, no? Ian man, there's more to football than picking your best team, and he can't even do that. We dont play football, he sends us out to not concede, every single week.

Do you think that Pardew should take some of the blame? He had two weeks to get us into shape to go out and attack Wolves at home. We made one chance in 90 minutes. It's not good enough, we didn't want to play football and it all stems from him, I dont know if you've noticed but we haven't wanted to play football for the majority of the season.

A Gary Bennett of Mackems.

It would seem to be the perfect game to go out with an offensive mindset and try and get our attack functioning. But we'll get more of the same, narrow as fuck, don't concede and aim for the Demba's. We'll still win like.

That's a cracking name, I endorse this signing.

does anyone know if this means the Chelsea game won't be moved? Or have they still not decided?

Long balls + John Terry. We were unlucky and they were lucky but he was fantastic.

Not sure he'll go anywhere in the summer like, I genuinely think the disaster of a signing Carroll to LFC has been will make people think twice about giving us massive fees. I know it's for a totally different player who's proved it over a longer time btw, I just reckon there's an automatic suspicion (sp?) about paying us huge fees now. Carroll will always be in the back of your mind if you're offering us big money.

Fwiw I reckon the Eduardo injury was a massive setback for them, he looked a phenomenal finisher before he broke his leg. He should've been replaced like but it's not always easy.

The thing is, Ben Arfa's the sort of player we need to take us up a level next season.

When you see a team like that (not sure about Jonas) it seems such a shame that Enrique left. Put him into that team and we'd be challenging even higher for top 4 this season.

Shit, you're right, everything's mint. Stop posting lads, EVERYTHING'S mint.

Who are you waiting for? Steven Taylor?

Looking forward to seeing him play at home after a bit more time to settle in.

Through his insanity I think Bob's stumbled across one of the possible 'reasons' we'll be told it's staying the SDA. Everyone thinking of investing was put off by the graffiti,it's your own fault you daft geordie bastards.

why? it won't last any longer, it's about sentiment not the quality of the art.