Ronaldo

Raylor has 2, Best has 3, Jonas has 1, Shola has 1, Cabaye has 1, Gosling has 1.

I remember Coloccini and Perch doing quite well against Deportivo in August '10.

Anyone spot the second mistake?

Very little chance of WBA going down, sadly.

He made one big mistake. Don't see why he should be demoted to refereeing a Championship game.

That was at home. JH's talking about the 3-2 at White Hart Lane.

Not that it's appropriate to get into such a discussion in this thread, but I didn't do either. But cheers for hurling the accusation - nice to get mentioned Speculation, not an accusation.

Jose can't shoot and Ryan Taylor can. Doesn't even begin to make a case for him being a good LB.

I got a 100% warning.

That happened to you too? Probably JH or Andy.

Ryan Taylor gets plenty of help from Jonas and still manages to look useless. Can't blame Lovenkrands for not being able to protect him, he was simply picked for a position he's ludicrously unsuited to - at any level of football, let alone the EPL.

He's always knackered in the final 30 minutes or so.

Eh? What? He was. No he wasn't. He did OK by his standards.

Great avatar.

Aye that's right, put a young, untested, defensively naive kid into the CM when we're relying on it to protect the woeful defence.

It'd be a disgrace if we fielded that central defence in League One.

Nobody is that good.

He really is, like. Best striker we've signed since Shearer by a mile.

Rather have Smith there I see, doubt Pardew will let that happen though. Who would?

A little more application would be nice, too.

James Perch starting a CB, man.

The backline did improve though at Bolton. He bossed us around a bit. Irrelevant, he did well that day. It is relevant; you said 'sub appearances'. He was an accident waiting to happen for the vast majority of his time in black and white.

Bolton? He played about 10 minutes, during which we were all over the place and conceded. Against Chelsea he started.

This is actually an excellent idea under the circumstances. Chris Sutton did this and Dion Dublin also with great success. I think it is easier for a skilfull front man to make the transition back rather than a centre back to go forward. Alan Shearer could have played another season if he had done this and still come forward for free kicks,corners etc. Would have scored another 10 goals. I actually can't remember Shearer scoring from corner during his last season as a forward. Plus, a traffic cone would probably do a better defensive job than Shola.

You mean against City. The rest of the time he was basically crap.