Chris_R

Can't disagree that Cabaye is so good he's worth 2 players.

Felt far more confident with Marveaux on the ball than I ever have with Obertan anywhere near it. The very epitome of a headles chicken. Mellon-heed just runs at players, not past them or round them and ends up getting simply disposessed nearly every time. If he does get past his man, his end product makes Jonas look like Pele. About as much vision as Stevie Wonder. Still, good win. Happy with 3 points no matter how they come. Lovely lay off by Marveaux, lovely goal too. Ben Arfa looks like he's not lost any pace either which is good but his general play was rusty even though he was trying to do the right things. It'll come.

I think you're missing the point of a breakaway. Anyway, I think this has come to the fore because of the Sky court case. The next Sky TV deal will be nowhere near as big as the last one if this ruling is upheld as the value of their product has been potentially decimated. Hence Liverpool are looking to sell their own rights. Can see their logic, but that doesn't detract from them being a massive bunch of cunts.

No, that was because our manager was a dribbling spastic.

We seem to have gelled OK.

Well, that was utterly shit. 4th place papers over what are massive cracks in our performances. We can't continue to be this lucky for much longer, if we don't improve, we're going to get found out very quickly.

would you be happy if Simpson was our RB for the next 5 years? wouldn't mind him being a squad player over next 5 years tbh But I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'm still hoping he'll turn into a great RB.... Fair enough, but I've been hoping for what's now just more than a decade that Ameobi turns into a great centre forward. But it's just not going to happen.

Lovely goal from Sturridge. Even if the sunderland player got the last touch.

Jonas and Coloccini out, some shit Championship tripe in to replace them. We'll fuck about endlessly for a striker and then end up with nobody. Smith will still be here though. Even Febreeze couldn't shift his stink.

This really. Utterly unacceptable. Useless cunts.

Jermain Defoe, £5m. Thank fuck when it fails.

Fucking ridiculous if we sell Carroll for £35m in January, then after over 8 months of planning the best we can do is Federico fucking Macheda on a bloody loan. The entire lot of them want shot with shit. Hopeless cunts.

Baffled by the ratings some are giving out. If Lovenkrands did enough to get a 6, surely that means he had an above average game? Average out of 10 is a 5, you know? 2 or a 3 would be nearer the mark. Did nothing at all, was well below average. No way should anyone be giving him a 6, or even a 5. For me it's nearer this: Krul: 7 - Did some very good stuff, but fluffed his positioning for the goal. Overall, very impressive though. Ryan Taylor: 5 - Torrid first 30 mins, recovered to do OK and didn't look too bad. Steven Taylor: 7 - Very good game. Did well. Coloccini: 6 - Decent, another good game. Simpson: 5 - Crap tackle for the foul in the buildup to the goal marred anotherwise decent enough performance. Jonas: 5 - Had an alright game, but he never really ran at his man or looked especially threatening on more than a handful of occasions. Cabaye: 7 - Pick of the midfield, looked composed and classy. Tiote: 4 - Ran round a lot and kicked people. Tidy passing though, but passes lacked penetration. Obertan: 4 - Not impressing me massively yet. Looks like he's got pace, but not sure he knows how to use it. Very rarely managed to beat his man and often looked like he didn't know how he was even going to try to. Best: 7 - More I see of him, the more I like him. Definitely our best (haha) striker at the moment Lovenkrands: 2 - Forgot he was playing. Shouldn't in future get another chance to be that anonymous ever again. Subs: Ba: 6 - Looked tidy and did far more in 30 minutes than Lovenkrands did in 60. Vuckic: Not on long enough for a rating but looked promising. Hope he gets more pitch time. Smith: 1 - Despite his best efforts, we clung on.

Can't get out of our own half. Just got nothing in midfield.

Raylor down, no defenders on the bench. :/

Fucking Lovenkrands.

SAMEOBI!!!!!!!! What a strike.

Gervinho dives to try and cheat his way to a penalty, barton hauls him to his feet, slaps barton who dives to get gervinho sent off. Beautiful irony IMO.

We could play until next saturday and we still wouldn't score. Completely devoid of ideas.

10Th

I'm pretty sure he was our preferred choice initially so if we are now in for Pieters we must have been priced out. Priced out? Ffs I'm all for being sensible financially but we've recently sold about £50m worth of players and freed god-knows how much off the wage bill. Perish the thought that we pay decent money for anyone. If he's the preferred choice, get him in. So say they want £10m for a player we think is worth £5m.. just get him in? Obviously there's a limit, and obviously I'm speculating wildly, but I feel our limits are hindering us in progressing. Like I say, I base this on nothing more than conjecture, but I don't think it's too much of a leap to think we're very easily scared off when we find out how much players want and end up going for the cheap option far too often. Unless we're incredibly lucky then it WILL bite us on the backside, sooner rather than later. Gervinho -> Barnetta -> Obertan Gameiro -> Ba M'Bengue -> Pieters Erdinc -> Probably end up with Carlton sodding Cole There's a pattern there. It doesn't take a genius to work out what it is. Some could argue that certain players never wanted to come here in the first place (Gameiro, Gervinho) but most players will go anywhere if the price is right and ours hasn't been in too many cases so far this window. I'm not advocating a return to the exploits of Fat Fred, but we seem to have swung too far the other way with Ashley determined to replicate the Sports Direct philosophy inside St James' Park.

I'm pretty sure he was our preferred choice initially so if we are now in for Pieters we must have been priced out. Priced out? Ffs I'm all for being sensible financially but we've recently sold about £50m worth of players and freed god-knows how much off the wage bill. Perish the thought that we pay decent money for anyone. If he's the preferred choice, get him in.

Rightly so Being banned from SJP and writing what you truly feels is surely more appealing than writing dross filtered by fatty and dekka not if it costs the paper money which it can't afford to lose Rubbish. They get jack s*** from nufc now why would they get more in the future if they told it how it is Nobody would buy a newspaper that doesn't even report from the f***ing match man. Sales are rapidly falling now, as people are saying, so what have they got to lose? If they keep printing the same stuff, they'll keep getting the same s*** (And falling) sales figures. After all, isn't the definition of madness to keep doing the same thing whilst expecting different results? Anyway, I for one would be infinitely more likely to buy a Chronicle if it lambasted Ashley than I would for it carrying an interview with Carver about how the morale is good. They need to attract new readership, and you can't do that if you're just rehashing the same s**** propaganda that everybody can see through and nobody wants to read now. And they can never be successfully banned from reporting on a game. The club can say whatever they want but there's 52000 seats there, surely to god they can manage to get a reporter into one of them? All the club can do is stop access to interviews with players and staff, but when you've got to write the s*** that you're told to write even when you know it's bollocks then what are you losing exactly if this is taken away from you? You're only losing restrictions, but gaining a massive amount of freedom to do the job you're supposed to be doing in the first place. I admit it's a gamble for them if they went anti-Ashley, don't get me wrong, I'm just suggesting that it's a gamble worth considering. And think of the scoops they could lash out day after day about how Ashley's been trying to control the press for years by stifling their reporting? Would be f***ing brilliant reading!

I've defended Ashley to an extent, as without him we'd have been crippled financially as Fat Fred had us doing a Leeds. I've had enough now though. He's got until August 31st to open his fucking wallet and spend some of the projected £46m (plus wage savings) that he's brought in since January or I'm going to go and take a shit in every Sports Direct that I can find.

3-0, happy with that.