Andy

Bit of a one off. Generally, you won't find many wingers that will get the better of him. If he has any short comings, they tend to be of his own making - i.e over-doing it in dangerous areas.

The only reason I could think of bringing him on would have been if we were trying to hold onto a lead, even then it would have been questionable considering we finished with 10 men against West Ham. You may be missing my point, I'm not arguing that it was a regretable decision to bring him on, and had I been in Pardew's shoes I wouldn't have made that change. So on that we agree. My point is that there are quite a few who said nowt as he came on, some who even cheered his introduction but are now criticising that decision. Like I said wisdom in hindsight.......... A lot of people in the match thread criticised the decision before it happened and as and when it was happening. Was blatantly a disaster waiting to happen.

I will crawl down my own jap if that happens Going to be awkward to provide proof of that...

It would be tremendously unprofessional, but entirely possible at the same time.

The passing out of defence was made to look significantly worse due to the fact that our midfielders didn't drop deep and show for the ball once.

Colocini's performance reminded me of Boumsong's debut. Just didn't like the pitch, occasion and was incredibly nervous on the ball. Thought Colo was fine for the most part. Probably the only player who was, in all honesty.

Probably wasn't a red, but Pardew has received exactly what he deserved for a frankly ridiculous piece of management.

Exactly. You'd think we had a team of unfit sunday league players based on the whole "surely they can't play THREE TIMES in fourteen days without injuring themselves?" attitude.

More down to opportunities I'd say True I agree. But when he has had his chance he's not looked anything special. I'd say he's more of a gamble than Larsson. Agree totally, the thing is i dunno if Larsson would be happy being a 'squad player' which suggests to me, if he does sign, he will be a 'starter'. Didn't Pardew say earlier in the week that if any player was to come in, they'd have to do so knowing that they wouldn't walk straight into the team? I think Larsson will be aware that he'll have to put up a fight - especially if he wants to play wide right.

Much rather have Larsson in as a squad player than Bentley, who'd likely become unsettled quite quickly here if he was in and out of the team, and who would cost more in both transfer fee and wages.

I think he only did it to share photos etc., saves the hassle of uploading on them on Twitter AND Facebook.

If you want to talk about Sunderland, stick it in the relevant thread.

Which dickhead? @Gejon82

Wish he'd fuck off to bed. If he's shit tomorrow he'll be banned from facebook and have to go to fucking tumblr or something.

I noticed that somebody had made a comment on one of his wall posts saying "Pardew is a twat"... Two people "liked" it - would have been awesome if Jose was one of them.

Surely it would have made more sense to make a fan page than to use his own personal facebook profile?

So we'll stay up because we're not one of the worst teams in the league, huh? What a concept.

Most Declined Poster... At a guess, you were voting on the "Poster" who has "Declined" the "Most".

The majority of our better performances this season have come with Nolan in that role. Well maybe, but that doesn't mean it's the reason, or it's working. It does like. Nolan was totally absent from the Wigan game, for example, even though we played well as a team. It's a bit of a pointless discussion as we don't have anyone else decent for that position, but I don't think our good performances have much to do with Nolan - except maybe for his motivating influence. As has been said, we have nobody better in his position, it frees up Barton to play wide-right, he's scored as many goals from the center of midfield as any other player in the country, and other players seem to improve just for him being in the side. He might not boss the center of the pitch, but at the same time we've never been overran with him and Tiote in there. The advantages of Nolan far outweigh the negatives.

The majority of our better performances this season have come with Nolan in that role.

Shame about Carroll, because he's actually got the midfield right this week.

Happy new year everyone, and as Dave says, thank you all for continuing to make this one of the best football forums out there. Here's to 2011 and a Ben Arfa inspired top ten finish.

I hope he spiderman'd her. Shot his web all over her face, by the sounds of it.

Apparently he shagged one of their current Big Brother housemates one time or something.