Ronaldo

BTW, if he's earning £4K a week, what on earth is he doing spending £200K on a Lambourghini?

Aye, like Bramble's not a better defender than anyone we have in our squad.

Clark and Williamson?

Bassong swapped with G.Cahill then.

Quickly..... Reina Hutton Bassong Upson Bridge Milner Fabregas Arteta N'Zogbia Drogba Rooney

I have no idea how we played today so i cant comment on that. But we've been losing the ball cheaply all season by playing stupid long balls to Carroll.

It would help us keep the ball for one.

Apparently Nolan being part of this 'committee' stops him from hiding like he did last season. Not recently it hasn't, the lazy cunt.

Nolan is the best player in the championship.

Not really, just generally keeping the ball by playing to feet and getting players forward gradually. Thus, compressing the play and getting the wingers involved when possible and more than one or two of our lot in the box.

We play our best stuff by an absolute mile when we get the ball down.

We miss him when the backup doesnt perform well enough. You keep alluding to him being the best defender we have, theres no evidence for it. Hes valuable obviously. There's enough evidence for me, we were conceding a fair few goals without him in the team. He returned against Sheff Utd and we kept a clean sheet. Even .com recognized that he was the difference in that game. And again, the second he's out of the team the goals start coming back in, it's no coincidence, as much as you'd love it to be.

Colo played against Palace and Leicester.

Before the Cardiff game, Carroll hadn't scored a league goal since the start of November, he's been poor.

Jayson doesn't half make me laugh at times. We've conceded 9 out of our 20 goals in the few games that Coloccini's been absent, it's pretty fucking obvious how much we miss him when he doesn't play.

It definitely matters who is in our back four. We had a settled, quality back four and noone was scoring against us. When Taylor got injured earlier in the season we patched up the defence and dropped points to QPR and Forest. He's got injured again and we're dropping points again. Taylor played against QPR. Colo played with Williamson twice and we kept two comfortable clean sheets. It's pretty obvious we suffer most when both are out, but it's Coloccini that really holds that defence together.

When Enrique and Colo come back, we'll stop conceding goals, but that's not the real problem here. Leon Best is unproven and i'm willing to give him a chance, but what in god's name is going on when we're aspiring to be a premiership team come May and we're starting him and Andy Carroll? Lovenkrands and Shola have proved they're our best bets for goals, what the hell are they doing on the bench?

The one change a few would have made, as you say. Doubt it would have had a HUGE baring on the result though. You all know what I think about Carroll's constant inclusion. It hurts us, time and time again.

I'd have personally played Lovenkrands as would many. Our withdrawn and static attack invites teams to push right up the pitch and get at us. It needs to change.

Feel for bad for those who went down tonight.

How do you know all that?

They're top because they're better than us. Don't blame referees, blame our inability to beat teams when we have them on the rack and our inability to go away and perform. Something like 6 pens in their last 9 games. Then the decisions we've had against us. We're complete opposites in luck currently. Im sure if we were getting endless pens we'd do better away from home also. To get pens you need players with pace and a degree of skill.

This place is ridiculous after a defeat, calling each other names man.

Off a cliff. to be replaced by........ ? we don't have a decent central midfielder. A decent footballer there would be nice.