Ronaldo

He looks every bit as bad with Cabaye.

Can you blame him? I'd kill half our squad for a player like Berbatov. Miles above any of our rubbish tonight.

He should be 5th choice.

Pardew hasn't done that, tbh. The idiots above him have. Not when you have alternatives in Marveaux and Perch that can arguably do a better job. Perch is every bit as useless as Williamson at CB. I beg to differ, it may not be his best position, but Williamson has had enough chances, I'd rather see Perch have a go. At the very least it would stop 80% of our long balls. It would just be Krul doing it instead.

Pardew hasn't done that, tbh. The idiots above him have. Williamson perhaps, but Jonas should be nowhere near the starting lineup right now with the options we still have. He shouldn't have been anywhere near the starting lineup when we got promoted, either. No ambition, no investment, no replacements.

Pardew hasn't done that, tbh. The idiots above him have. Not when you have alternatives in Marveaux and Perch that can arguably do a better job. Perch is every bit as useless as Williamson at CB.

Pardew hasn't done that, tbh. The idiots above him have.

I agree. Me too. We just lack... something. Did we create one clear-cut chance like Fulham did for the second goal? We never force the keeper to make saves, and without that you don't win games or deserve to do do. A defeat was well deserved tonight.

Quite incredible what happens when bad footballers start getting old.

He isn't worse than Alan Smith or Amdy Faye, like.

Good idea but surely a lower ball so he can get a boot onto it instead of his head, canny distance to get header in. He nearly scores every time we do it, man.

Viduka was as good imo. No chance. And Viduka was bloody brilliant at it.

He was never up to it out wide, either.

Helps that neither one of them is Cheick Tiote or Jonas Gutierrez.

The most depressing thing is that when Cabaye comes back, Jonas'll still be in the team with Anita on the bench.

You must be mistaking him for Anita.

Or we could just play with the system that's worked in practice.

Which chances are these?

Bobby was past his best by that point but we could've achieved something with Kluivert and Bellamy up front like he wanted it.

In our shirt I can't think of too many better. That goal on his full debut against Villa, man. Class.

Great player who should've signed off his career in style at NUFC. Oozed class.

Banned from driving? Scum.

I'm content too, but I don't think you can use pedestrian-paced Europa games against pretty poor teams to suggest the squad players are good enough to fill the gaps in the league. I've been pretty disappointed with some of them, actually.

We've defended well for the most part, mostly due to having senior players back there and Bigirimana doing well. 7 goals in 6 games against those teams is poor, whichever way you look at it. I do admit the games have been pretty fun to watch because of the unpredictability.

I've never said that it wasn't a factor that I can remember. Probably not.