Ronaldo

You can almost understand it considering S.Taylor has been giving goals away all season

Shearer blames Steven Taylor aswell

Taylor's the bigger fool for not breaking his jaw if he was going to use his hands

How the fuck was smith cracking?

spot on

If Owen is fit, he will be a major help to us. Can score goals, and that's something we could always use. I hate him. If we are relying on Owen to keep us up then we will definitely be relegated. He's our top scorer at the moment and before tonight had scored about 1/3 of our league goals. I for one will be glad when he's back to be honest. He's also a want away who couldn't care less about what happens to this club as he'll be happily off in the summer. Started to be a complete passenger for a while before his injury. Obviously no longer gives a s***. I wouldn't drop Lovenkrands or Martins for him. Owen guarantees goals man. It's a shame there isn't a feasable way to incorperate the four of Jonas/Lovenkrands/Owen/Martins... we'd have a lot of pace to work with then. he certainly guarentees 1 goal in 8, if his record before injury is owt to go by

he clearly is

awful performance

the original ronaldo? it's an easy one to suggest because he was more a phenomenal indiviual than a great team player. However, post 2000 he developed a footballing brain to compensate for his slightly reduced level of pace. In his last 2 1/2 seasons at Madrid most will point to a lot of his goals as demonstrating fantastic awareness in the final third

Owen has a football brain, just not the tools that go with it to make a great player

Beardsley is the big one for me, Van Nistelrooy and Sheringham also notable

I'm far from a Taylor fan but come on, that's just wrong. Enrique failed to stop the cross, Bassong was marking nobody, Coloccini got caught in two minds, Taylor was nowhere and nobody tracked the runner from our midfield. It was s**** all round. How was Coloccini in two minds? He was the only one actually marking anybody. Mr Taylor, wandering around in the middle near nobody, why isn't he shouting for Coloccini to push up? He was caught in two minds (stick to his man or try and block off Gardner once he saw him) because there was a lack of communication back there. Which is yet another fault between them. You said Taylor was the only person at fault. I think that's nonsense. Having been a defender myself when I played football I can tell you that the one thing which used to piss me off more than anything else was players not picking anyone up. Coloccini might have had the wrong man for whatever reason but at least he was marking someone. Who was Taylor marking? From where I was it looked like he was stood by himself like a spectator without a clue who was around him. THAT is unforgiveable. while I dont believe Taylor, and only Taylor was at fault for the goal, this post is pretty hard to argue with. Far, far too many times we've conceded goals because the ball has been swept in from out wide and someone has met it from close range, with Taylor doing precisely NOTHING to help our cause, he's a liability man.

was aimed at Taylor, not you btw

He's a keeper though. And he's 25, hardly knocking on 27

fuck off

you also predicted that for Old Trafford

Did that come off the post? a yard wide

Have Bridges ahead of Shola tbh

to be fair, he isn't the first good defender to struggle with Davies. At least he didn't shirk the battle

Sibs has scored more than Xisco at Newcastle. come on man, really, give it up. What do you have against Xisco and the fact that I rate the guy?

Give it up spence, your stupidity is being shown for what it is tonight

More than Xisco. Worse goals to games ratio than Xisco.

aye, what the fuck are people going on about a fair chance for? He was our first choice LB for the best part of 2 seasons he said something to the effect of 'it's impossible to be a practising muslim in Newcastle, all people care about here is alcohol'

Except for the brilliant Butt

It would be harsh to put all the blame on Taylor, but the fact is he's one of those players that we'll get absolutely nowhere with, always will be