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It was right in front of me. It was a difficult chance, tbh.

Which is the last time I can remember him having a good game, besides the mackems at home. 50+ PL appearances and a sum total of 1 goal and 5 assists. Enough's enough, he isn't up to it at this level.

We put plenty of balls into the box today so the wingers did what they could. One of them did. The other managed one decent cross in the entire game.

Is Nolan suspended or not?

Below the belt.

It bounced off Nolan because of a thoughtless ball from Tiote.

Krul Simpson Taylor Coloccini Enrique Routledge Barton Tiote Jonas Carroll Ranger

I'm resigned to the fact that Nolan will always play. Against the better sides i'd rather not have him in CM.

We barely looked like scoring, though. Nolan was invisible and left Carroll isolated (yet he still did brilliantly with what he had). As soon as we went 4-4-2 we put them on the back foot and actually looked like making a game of it. Surely you don't think this 4-4-1-1 business with Nolan in the hole is actually worth persisting with? You were dead against as far as I remember. In general, yes. But against certain teams I think it's a decent option. It's worth remembering that we don't really have a partner for Carroll, and we can't afford passengers/strikers who pose no threat against teams like City and Spurs.

We didn't lose because of the system. We were the best team on the park for a good 60 minutes with 4-5-1.

It wasn't the system that gave the first goal away.

This arguement has persisted for too long. We all know the score; Nolan is a poor footballer and a poor athlete who reads the game well and is the best finisher at the club. When he isn't scoring, he's generally very ineffective, as Mick says.

Barton Tiote Nolan Routledge Is one player out of position.

And why on earth would Shane Ferguson be a better option on the LW than Routledge?

Needs to learn how to cross the ball more effectively though. He put it right on Carroll's head at least 4 times.

I know. Madness isn't it. Jonas being in the team is madness. In this form he offers nowt.

Routledge was our best player apart from Carroll. I really like the lad, he's got loads going for him.

I was, but you don't need to be. The fraud can't even strike a football.

Enough's enough. Terrible footballer.

We have two keepers the wrong side of average. I'd probably go with Harper for the rest of the season once he's fully fit, but there's an arguement for Krul, too. His kicking is absolutely abysmal, though.

He was Ok today. The defence wasn't really the issue.

Krul 4.5 Simpson 6 Taylor 6 Coloccini 6 Enrique 6 Routledge 7 Barton 7 Tiote 6 Jonas 5 Nolan 5 Carroll 7.5 Ranger 6 I thought we played well, but wasted a lot of chances and basically pissed the game away before the 5 minute mark.

Routledge is a good player. Smith and Guthrie aren't.

Good team. Quite impressed.