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I'd have rather seen us lose 6-0 than like this. Sickening.

It is one of those days, definitely. Proud of the team though. If only we could beat the poorer teams as we should be doing. I watch the team and we shouldn't have a problem staying up at all, but if we keep messing up against poorer teams we will suffer.

Would love a draw between Liverpool and Blackpool.

So encouraged by our play, but at the end of the day we can't keep failing to capitalise. We had to get at least a point today. Simply because of what happened with Stoke and Blackpool at home.

The early injury to Hatem would have been a downer, but we stayed with it. The non-penalty was a downer but we battled through that also. We do well to get forward after they take the lead, and get denied a clear penalty. So hard to take.

Disgusting refreeing. So he's denied us a penalty and gifted them one. This is what makes me fed up with football more than anything else. What is the point of watching this game sometimes?

Nolan shouldn't have hit that first time. Unintelligent play.

Adam Johnson is silly good. Piss take.

Tiote is a beast man. Jonas is great when he plays like this. We look tired though and I think we will lose.

We do look tired at the moment. We've worked really hard though. Carroll does a great job of tracking back, I would actually bring him on for Nolan rather than Shola, and have him play off Shola tbh.

It's ridiculous how comfortable Tiote has been from the outset. With all the worry over not keeping Ben Arfa if he had stayed and had a good season, I'm actually beginning to worry more about keeping Tiote.

Adam Johnson would be very bad news for us. Hope they don't have him on the left running at Perch.

Can't believe Milner's joined City without assurances of playing in the centre. He's back out wide and he really stinks at it. Just look at what he ended up doing just then from the position he was in. Comical.

Tiote is great, lets hope he stays fit 

He is the most important player for us by a long, long way. He absolutely has to stay fit. If we lose him it's a double whammy. Not only do we lose a really good player, but we also bring one in who actually improves the opposition.

Classy play by Campbell just then.

Terrible news about Ben Arfa. I turned the game on at 10 mins in so I missed the challenge. So can't comment really. Was it a really bad challenge?

 

Anyway, regarding the game Newcastle have been outstanding so far. Tiote has been the best midfielder on the pitch, despite all of City's big names. Shola has been really good and so has Jonas.

 

I saw a few comments regarding relegation, due to the Ben Arfa injury, but as long as Routledge and Jonas stay fit they will see us through just fine. Hopefully the injury doesn't keep Hatem out too long.

 

Agree with all of that apart from the Shola comment. He's been isolated up front and so has done f*** all. Not necessarily his fault.... but really, he's done nowt.

I just thought Shola did some good things holding the ball up, but yeah there has been a lack of support up to him for sure.

Terrible news about Ben Arfa. I turned the game on at 10 mins in so I missed the challenge. So can't comment really. Was it a really bad challenge?

Anyway, regarding the game Newcastle have been outstanding so far. Tiote has been the best midfielder on the pitch, despite all of City's big names. Shola has been really good and so has Jonas.

I saw a few comments regarding relegation, due to the Ben Arfa injury, but as long as Routledge and Jonas stay fit they will see us through just fine. Hopefully the injury doesn't keep Hatem out too long.

Surprised someone like Fulham or Wigan haven't taken a punt on him on loan or something. Wouldn't be surprised if he did alright in the prem.

Comical keeping

Arsenal through and through it seems. Could easily have been Almunia or Fabianski just then.

Nothing overly special about him, but always liked Iaquinta. Would have liked to see him in the prem. Think it would have suited him. Sissoko look smuch improved from his Liverpool days.

Great goal. Fantastic ball from Yaya.

Not sure how much of this malaise is down to anything Hodgson has done tbh. I just think a rot had set in at Liverpool and it is festering. The best thing Roy could have probably done was flog Torres for the ridiculous prices being offered and made extensive changes to this side. The team just looks like it's past it's sell by date. Just completely spent.

Wolfswinkel has got really good movement. Unlucky not to have scored yet.

Joe Cole is horrendous right now.

Hodgson again playing Meireles wide right, while persisting with the rather woeful Lucas in the centre. Strange stuff.

Rashidi Yekini

Embarrassingly biased coverage of the Spurs game on SSN.

Just talking about this with some friends who I'm watching the game with. Really irritating how they carry on. Desperate for them to get a good spanking.

Looking forward to seeing Twente. Janko and Ruiz in particular. Would be nice if Bernard Parker gets a run out at some point too. Come on Twente!

Busquets>Mascherano.

 

I will say it now it was a pointless signing. Too high profile to sit comfortably on the bench and worse than Busquets given the way we play.

Agreed. Mascherano is quite limited technically. Very much a player who hustles and harries and goes after the ball, but outsid eof that he's quite average really. Not a good fit, and another expensive mistake by Barca.

Martins threatening Barca late on. Wonder what he would have been like under Hughton, and playing alongside Carroll.