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We need everything really.

From the decline in Simpson's performances over the last few games I would think he knows he is going. Otherwise he needs a smack round the chops.

I reckon Hughton deserves credit, before the season a lot of people were talking about another relegation, the morale was shot to pieces and we were losing a lot of games. Whether it's down to the drop in quality of the opposition or whatever, a manager has to take some credit for the performances. My main annoyance with him is that his default approach seems to be to shut out the opposition and hope we get a lucky goal. To be fair though, this happens most weeks in the championship.

There's a lot of good points there guiness_fiend. Although I'm really scared that we're about to suffer a slow death, we haven't lost in ages and though we've been going through a difficult spell we've kept the scoreboard ticking over. Undoubtedly the likes of Notts Forest will stumble at some point, and if we maintain our current form we could well pull away again. We have a poor team, with a lot of weaknesses, so Hughton deserves his fair share of credit for getting it where it is.

in what way are we overperforming? player for player the team that played tonight is better than any other in the championship by a long way. it was clear that individually we had by far the better players. hughton is not a tactician however, so we are always going to be limited in that department. Play like that against any team other than west brom and we'd have bummed them, and we were still very unfortunate with a few decisions and they were fouling bastards. I meant that our league position is much higher than our general quality deserves, and I'm worried that it can't continue for the whole season.

I think we all have a responsibility to abuse Kevin Nolan when we see him out on the piss, and tell him to take a good look at himself and get down the gym.

Would love to see Guthrie given a go in CM, almost pointless mentioning it though as Kevin 'the blob' Nolan will never be dropped. Fair play to him for trying to do a job, but it would be criminal if we wasted him by never giving him a decent chance.

Not too disappointed with the draw, it could have gone either way. The longer this season goes on, I just hav a horrible feeling that we're overperforming and we can't sustain it for a whole season. So many poor players and so many weaknesses. Hope I'm wrong, obviously.

Probably our best player tonight, wish he had set up the winner at the end there. Basically my view is that we have so many worse players, he should be at the back of the queue for criticism.

I've thought this for a couple of seasons at least. In central midfield and upfront we need a few more athletes and a to get rid of Nolan, Smith, Butt and Shola. The speed the West Brom played at was embarrassing TBH.

Just a normal performance really, pretty poor at times because of our horrible midfield and Shola... redeemed by a couple of good players. Special mention for Nolan, absolutely awful. If he hadn't scored goals it would be an easy argument to say he doesn't deserve his place. He looks to be carrying a fair amount of man flab as well.

Awful performance tonight.

Lovenkrands, you legend. Haway the lads!!

Butt is a terrible player now, thinks he's much better than he is which leads to wasteful hollywood passing... and his legs have gone. Still, Hughton eh?

Late entry for best poster award?

PR and strategy wise, seems stupid that anyone from NUST should be spending time attacking Ashley or trying to claim he's 'asset stripping' or making money from the club. It's clear that the value of his asset (NUFC) has reduced significantly and he's spent much more money on it than he thought he would need to. Everyone hates Ashley anyway, the effort could be better spent on their own campaign.

I'm not sure any manager could actually rate Shola as a Premier League striker. He's been quite lucky to be kept at the club because of a combination of mismanagement and bad ownership leading to crap/injured players being signed and lack of money requiring a cheap body to be kept.

The only difference is that Cameron is going to be Prime Minister, whereas there's no realistic chance of the NUST ever owning the club.

He's already proven how good he is in the Premier League... not very. The fact he's still playing for us at all is a minor miracle that he should thank the almighty for on a daily basis. He moves in mysterious ways like, a bit like Shola.

Very harsh assessment of Guthrie macca, potentially a very decent player who's been played out of position this season and has done a pretty good job.

By the way, any idea why the Liverpool fans are so behind Rafa? From an outsiders point of view it seems like they should have turned against him long ago.

Is this true then? I would have thought that Stevey G could rape and murder Rafa's wife, post the video on youtube and still not get suspended. Surely he's bigger than anyone else at the club?

So Mike Ashley has made himself an absolute fortune since he took over NUFC? All in all it's been a great financial investment for him? Maybe in a parellel universe.

Weren't they more successful before Torres arrived anyway?