Ronaldo

Take away the Villa game and we've scored 4 goals in 6 games. We rarely create chances, don't commit men forward from midfield, and sit back like old men at sunset and hoof it when we're satisfied with the result. We also play Kevin fucking Nolan, which is as cynical as it gets.

It is very negative.

God almighty.

They're hardly going to include us keeping the ball well in a highlights show, in fairness.

I considered posting that earlier tonight.

We're absolutely fine at playing out from the back, what a load of tripe.

Would never have happened if he was playing in his rightful position. Very sad.

He did OK at times. Positioning is mostly poor, though. The lad barely seems to have a clue how to play RB.

Have to win it. If we fail to beat this lot in addition to Stoke and Blackpool, the writing will be on the wall for all to see.

f*** off. That was the most inept performance i've seen from one of our lot this season. Easily on a par with his no-show at Swansea last campaign. He failed to get involved in the game in midfield, and when the ball reached him further up the park he either miscontrolled, misplaced his pass or hid behind the nearest defender. Like I said 6 months back, utter disgrace of a footballer who has no place at this level.

He was fantastic today, like.

Yeah, because he was often rested last season, when we were playing an extra game every other week.

Great athlete. Gets caught in possession too much and makes some atrocious passing decisions. It's the kind of thing that could be fixed, though. Racist.

We were never going to anyway, for obvious reasons.

I often wonder what the hell you watch.

I know it was tough for him. But he just does all of the basics wrong.

The little dickheads are embarrassing like.

Yep. Shola was absolutely terrible.

I agree.

Abysmal. Out of his depth at this level.

Terrible.

Krul 8 Perch 6 Williamson 6 Coloccini 7.5 (Campbell 7.5) Enrique 7 Routledge 5 Tiote 8.5 Barton 5 Jonas 8 Nolan 3 Shola 4

A '6' for Nolan?

We were keeping the ball brilliantly by playing football high up in the first half. Came out in the second to sit deep and launch the ball.