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This is absolutely right. Burnley finished 2nd in an awful league and haven't added PL quality.

Ivanovic is such a good attacker of the ball.

He made mistakes that played a part in both goals. That's all that's being said, and it's not wrong or stupid.

If Dzeko is Colo's man then he gets away from him far too easily anyway. It's amazing how many people just want to put their head in the sand and pretend we don't have one of the worst defences in the division.

Media work.

Your mate Souness described Colo's performance as 'solid' I've gone record saying if Souness was on fire I'd pass him some lighter fluid, so where this garbage has relevance is anyone's guess.

Yes.

To be fair, it's not like they've both been at the club several years and could have been coached into forming a reasonable understanding by now. Imagine John Terry not forming an understanding with his fellow CB and the coaching being blamed for it.

One of the reasons the team sit so deep is the fact the CBs simply cannot handle balls over the top or being isolated in one-on-one situations.

What did 'a fresh Aguero' have to do with Coloccini's ludicrous starting position? Problem is, people have forgotten what a good CB actually is. They stop goals happening first and look good on the ball second.

That maybe so but the errors for both goals were schoolboy stuff and can easily happen against other teams and probably will. And have, time after time after time last season.

Well if you're allowed to constantly decry it then surely other people are allowed to constantly suggest it? They are. I'd just like to think that type of stupidity exists outside of our fanbase.

Colo and MYM advocated again. Quality.

Perez ain't getting the nod over de Jong.

I'm quite confused why you have written off Haidara based on the little we've seen of him. I haven't. I've said in time with games on loan somewhere Haidara could be a good player.

Nah, I can't see Aarons being much good at chasing wingers to no defensive effect whatsoever.

If investing in potential is going to cost us goals down that side I'd rather not. Well, given that I want Pardew out ASAP, I'd be happy for it to happen, but from the perspective of wanting us to win games, stick with the most solid defender till Santon gets back. Haidara should be out on loan the second that happens.

It's the thing that does my head in the most on this forum. Santon's form was patchy and he's not pulled on a Newcastle shirt for five months or so, whilst Dummett has posted some decent, some shocking, some poor, but mostly adequate, just-par displays. And the sum of this is people lauding Haidara as some sort of left-back saviour, despite him showing absolutely nowt in our shirt. I could have put some canny crosses in versus 9 knackared Stoke players for frigs sake. Dummett did okay today, 'senior pros' Gouffran and Sissoko were far worse than him and once again, he's being dug out and called shite whilst everyone nails their colours to the Good Ship Haidara despite very little evidence to suggest he'll make it.

I'm quite confused at how many people seem to think Haidara's better because Dummett's only 'average' like.

I think I can live with an adequate LB, like. At least until Santon gets back.

As I said a week ago, he's brilliant on the ball and very adept at making interceptions but when physical attributes play a part he's totally there for the taking, be it Edin Dzeko or Leroy Fer up against him.

I don't have to. I was one of the biggest Colo fans on here till proved just how useless he is as a captain when we needed him most and his defending has been getting worse ever since. He's an absolute laughing stock with other fans now. You'll find plenty of people on here who rated him massively 2 seasons ago who no longer want him anywhere near the team.

The notion that leaders should lead. Ask any good manager about it.

He was our worst player today, no doubt. There's just no real quality in his feet.

And nowt to do with him being crap for the majority of last season and an utterly shit captain which leads to issues on the field with the other players.