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That's a good point actually. Their midfield is gonna murder us. They bullied Chelsea in midfield, really dreading our midfield battle with them. They didn't really. Everyone sat back, and they were able to soak up Chelsea's pressure because none of the three midfielders were goal threats. The goal came from a counter after Ramires inexplicably gave the ball away when he should have cleared. The situation against us will be much different. They will need to attack us. You'll notice they really didn't make many chances on Saturday. I think it will be a good battle from us, but we'll lose 1-0,2-1, or 2-0.

I know that coward chanting at Beckham dirtied his pants when he turned around and came back at him.

Tiote was not a 9, man. The praise is too much. He did his job relatively well, but he looked uncomfortable with the ball at his feet in Stoke's half, lost the ball twice in dangerous areas, and generally dwelt a bit too much. He's a good player for the long run, though.

I raise you Stephen Carr. Carr was costing us a goal maybe every three or four games. Perch has been costing us, or nearly costing us every single match. Six games, 5 yellow cards and an own goal. Worst player we've ever paid money for. The card are annoying, but I'm struggling to think of all these goals he has cost us.

There was Peter Odemwingie. And many other decent players across Europe and the world Is our buying limited to players in England or something? Even a club like West Ham have gotten in good players like Nsofor and Piquionne for nothing.

For someone of his size, his set piece defending was rather terrible today.

On that evidence, I hope they don't play Adebayor..... We actually dealt alright with Jones in open play. We were just bad generally when the ball was no longer alive. Barton was fine today, btw. He suffered when Tiote went off obviously as Nolan is not helpful.

Trying hard does not excuse incompetence from professionals.

When Stoke were being put under pressure, they stayed compact made it difficult. When we were put under pressure, we capitulated. This is why we have lost today/

Jonas has been fantastic today. He should start next match.

SIX!!!

Carroll has been awful today, imo. We didn't even create the one chance we scored. Second half has been typical NEwcastle. A bit of pressure and we crumble.

We should have put advertising boards all around the pitch in expectation of Delap.

Fantastic header from Perch.

Taking off the holding midfield player is almost always a bad idea. You need ball retention when looking for a winner.

Wasn't Carroll the one assigned to marking Jones in the box?

What the hell did Hughton say at half time?! They've been awful.

Carroll has hardly offered us anything up front either tbh. Yes he has. Chased down a few long balls and gotten on the end of them, can remember two times Nolan has had the ball this whole half. Offering more than Nolan does not equate to offering much. Neither has been particularly good today.

Really odd injury.

c***'s is what they are, Gray and Tyler are their names I believe. I don't have Tyler and Gray. Whoever they are, they're spot on. Well impressed. Think you have the same international Premiership feed as me. It was two men with English sounding names. I've agreed with almost everything they've said. Stark change from Everton.

The penalty was lucky (Huth essentially gave it to us for no reason) and came at a good time for us. We'd dominated possession, but created nothing at all. You don't want to go into half time that way. It also came just as frustration would have been setting in.

The co-commentator on the American coverage is talking a lot of sense.

Bad from Tiote.

I'm still laughing at how much of an idiot Huth is.

Huth is stupid Ridiculous.