Ronaldo

I can't imagine him being anything like a very good player at Championship level, mind. He's so slow and weak both aerially and otherwise you'd imagine the better Championship strikers will have a lot of success against him. We've seen it happen at NUFC in the cups.

Gayle's just shit. Nothing to do with Pardew in this instance.

That's what sticks out to me. He'd be talking to the rest of the defence throughout the game to offer encouragement and ensure everyone knew what they were doing. The type of defender who sees it as his job to solely ensure his side doesn't concede goals. Just a shame his athleticism and natural ability were never anywhere near Premier League class.

Pellegrini's always so dignified. Impossible to dislike.

We will definitely still struggle to score, like. Totally reliant on teams giving us the opportunity to play counterattacking football to get goals.

Can't question his commitment? What about the time he got deliberately sent off when we were in danger of going down? I hope he's found out even in the Championship. Is it all a wind up or is this actually your level of intelligence, man? Anyway, terrible footballer, but a model pro in a lot of ways. Good luck to him.

Aguero's a fucking joke, man. How many times does he put half chances away when it matters most. Just an incredible striker.

Scored enough to get us 5th once and keep us up twice, like. He's not the answer but stupid posts like these this place can do without.

I think it's clear that some people on here actually want us to go down due to some sort of delusion that it will get rid of Ashley/serve him right. If anyone wants us to go down it's because these cunts deserve it. The owner, the 'board', some of the players and a big portion of the fans. It's difficult not to wish massive failure on all of them. Especially when you consider that watching us play Premier League football stopped being a positive experience years ago.

He's changed a bit. I hope he hasn't been through a heartbreak. I've never been happier in my life, thanks. Yeah, I was jesting.

This. Don't mean to be harsh Ian but you've got your head in the clouds on this one.

Polic thinks he's right (he is, on this occasion) all the time, mind. The arrogance sickens me.

One of the worst sides in the Premier League based in the unfashionable North East and extremely frugal yet we can basically steal away any player from France who doesn't play for PSG. No wonder they hate us. We're a constant reminder of how inferior their league is.

Two completely different players who play in completely different positions with dissimilar attributes. It's stupid that there's any sort of 'either or' component to this, especially relating to Perez.

Basically we're comfortably the worst side in the league against teams who don't come at us.

Insulted, man.

The most notable occurrence of which coming when Lowes asked him if we were signing a striker a few weeks back.

Course. Just wish he had better things to do than play devil's advocate for the sake of wasting folks' time.

We've got arguably the worst defence in the league and no proven goalscorer available. Be quiet, Ian.

Is he fuck better than this. He'll sink as low as humanly possible to achieve his aims.

Tiote's proved time and time again that he's a defensive liability who contributes nothing in the opponent's half. He's got no place here, the odd good game in 20 not withstanding.

So Ujpest rates Riviere and thinks Wijnaldum's shite. Probably worth considering next time someone wastes their time debating with him.

3 We have 15 game left, were a point off Swansea and everything just got a lot tighter down the bottom, a couple of wins and we'd be out of it. Anything more then a 5 is pushing it imo. then again I may just be reading the scale wrong, as in my eyes an 7-9 means we a almost certainly down, which we currently are not. Spot on. People are very good at hyperbole. I wonder how quickly some people go from 0 to 10 and back again. If I thought we were 8/9, I'd be snapping the bookies hands off at the minute. The answer is not very quickly at all. We've been in the relegation zone nearly all season and on January 23rd it's abundantly clear we've still not addressed two of our main problem areas, nor do we seem to have plans to. NUFC54's worse than McClaren for the utter fucking bullshit when we get beat.

Christ. It's not what we expect from him, it's what we expect from our main striker. We aren't getting it from Mitrovic, we haven't all season and it's one of the primary reasons we look like going down.

£4m for Charlie Austin and we're stuck with this lad trying to be something he's years away from. We couldn't deserve relegation more.