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No I understand the concern about our lack of activity especially because of Kinnear's lies, the needs elsewhere, and the only temporary basis of his acquisition. It just feels like commentators especially almost disregard his existence. The one I had for the Everton match actually mentioned that "Newcastle didn't bring anyone in" when we managed to get a player for at least this season who always had the potential to be the best at the club, simply based on his pedigree and past results.

There was another occasion in this match where Colo and the other centreback were easily split from a simple longball and nearly gifted a goal to Cardiff. If it was last week and Lukaku, it would have been a goal. The goal was unfortunate for Santon. Coloccini was marking no one and Santon had two players on his side. Colo might have been able to deal with player in the centre, there was a lot space and Davide took the risk to try and prevent the shot. I wouldn't really fault any particular player for it. Williamson's mistake put us in chaos and we just couldn't deal with it.

It always annoyed me when people would say we "only signed Remy" as if he was some nothing player. He has been a top class attacking player for years now and immediately scored goals and caused danger the second he stepped on Premiership pitches last season,

This. This is the part that worries me. I knew that situation would either end in a stupid shot, him being eased off the ball, or him misplacing a pass to a teammate. If you look back to all the strikers of years past he is meant to be superior to, the likes of Best, Lovenkrands, Carroll, Viduka, Oba, Owen, etc. all of them had one outstanding trait in general play that could use to assist the team when they weren't scoring. Pace, energy, work rate, hold up play, strength, aerial ability. Cisse has not shown any of the qualities I listed for more than twelve months now. In that time, he has been nothing more than a player who occasionally puts the ball in that net when others create the opportunity for him. This simply isn't good enough and it is hard to watch, because we have seen what the player is actually capable of.

What a ridiculous finish. Fantastic goal.

Debuchy really is very strong in the air. Much more than you would think.

We play much better football when we aren't terrified of the other team.

We are dominating. Ben Arfa is needed to break them down. Cardiff need to pay for being second best.

I hate when defenders smash the ball against the striker that way. So risky.

I'm just arriving. Pardew has really dropped Ben Arfa? Yanga-Mbiwa I don't like but understand. Ben Arfa not playing is madness.

What is the 4 million, wages? We didn't pay any amount of compensation for Gosling; I thought this was the only reason we signed in the first place. "Risk free".

I think he is a good player who might have made it to a higher level at some point. He's probably ruined it at this point, though.

This is Gosling's fourth season here and he has never contributed anything at any point.

They'll be tired at the weekend though. You just watch. It is a tired line of talk. We won our group in this thing last season, quite easily in fact. Move back the Wayne Routledge revisionist history talk. They are also winning/getting points in the league games after. Without making a ton of changes. I don't see how the two are correlated at all. Pardew made changes, but we won the European matches, so what exactly is the issue? Do people think Swansea are picking up more points because they are playing closer to the first team in Europe? I don't know, I just see this point about Pardew resting players in Europa League last season come up fairly often, and I don't understand the relevance or criticism. We didn't go out because of resting players and I doubt playing the full first team throughout would improve our result in either competition.

They'll be tired at the weekend though. You just watch. It is a tired line of talk. We won our group in this thing last season, quite easily in fact. Move back the Wayne Routledge revisionist history talk.

Don't forget, we played Tottenham in the first match of last season. We won the match after Ben Arfa embarrassed Lennon and Van Der Vaart to win a penalty and smashed it home with ridiculous ease. We were supposed to compete with them that season. We might have even been the better side, lack of transfers and all. Times change quickly.

Di Matteo has a very good record, I don't understand how people can say otherwise. He did a commendable job at West Brom. he brought them out of the Championship playing very good football, significantly better than we played with superior players in fact. He did good business in the market bringing in the likes of Tchoyi and Osaze and had West Brom well out of the relegation zone when he was sacked for a bad run. It wasn't very dissimilar to Hughton. At Chelsea he arrived at a team that was in disarray and open mutiny against its manager, had won one of six matches in the league and was 3-1 down in it's Champions League knockout tie. He completely changed the team's style of play to suit the personnel they had, and built an extremely organised and athletic side on the fly. From this point, he achieved six consecutive spectacular results in the Champions League, won the FA Cup and acceptable results in the Premiership until they beat Barcelona and essentially gave up on the CL through a top four place. The next year he won 7 of the first 8 league matches with a very different side before all hell broke loose in Manchester, they lost, Ramires "heard racial abuse" and John Obi Mikel tried to actually kill Mark Clattenburg. He was sacked within a month having lost two league matches out of twelve. Clearly, he was never wanted. The guy has been very unfortunate in his last two posts. I would definitely have him here and he would be a certain improvement.

Costa never played professionally in Brazil actually. Doing this kind of thing is not something I like, but ultimately if the player wishes to play for Spain and is a Spanish national I don't see it being that big of an issue. He was brought to Portugal and started his career there as an adult from what I can gather. This case isn't particularly egregious admittedly, but under the current rules there is nothing stopping some desperate country from creating lax nationalisation laws for athletes and and simple creating a national team that is really just an all-star foreign side from their local league.

What is Diego Costa's claim to being Spanish. Unless I am misunderstanding something, he is fully raised in Brazil and never even saw Spain until he was an adult. FIFA needs to ban this sort of thing. Unless someone has proven lineage in the new nation or moved there before attaining professional status, they should not be allowed to change football nationalities unless there are extenuating circumstances. "Being a talented footballer" is not a satisfactory reason. It is the same nonsense Holland tried to pull with Saloman Kalou all of those years ago. African legends such as Nwankwo Kanu, Yaya Toure, Obi Mikel, Drogba, and Adebayor stuck on the rubbish Overground line. Owen at Oxford Circus. Some women at my cousin's stop. This map disappoints me greatly.

I really don't believe Kinnear has come back to be our manager. To be frank, he actually nearly died last time and his friend has given him a high paying job that requires no actual work. It is much more likely he remains as a figurehead and continues taking our money regardless of performance.

Yeah he was brilliant in his last performance. I cannot wait until the guy returns so he run around consistently hurting the team, puffing his chest out, playing to the supporters, and suffering another "unfortunate injury". Who would you play at CB? I think you are overestimating the deficiencies of the two players on one ridiculously poor performance. These two are still our best option. I wish we had a quality player to challenge them but there isn't one. As I said, Taylor was terrible in our first match and has been terrible many times before at a fairly consistent rate. I would change things if there are more performances of this nature or to accommodate Yanga-Mbiwa moving to right back if Debuchy returns to form, but I would rather not.

We had a very different aide with an entirely different style of play that managed to win something 8 out of 11, six matches in a row, and beat Chelsea (away) and Liverpool in that same season. Stop referencing things from this time like they actually have any correlation to now. The vast majority of those players are still here as well.

Yeah he was brilliant in his last performance. I cannot wait until the guy returns so he run around consistently hurting the team, puffing his chest out, playing to the supporters, and suffering another "unfortunate injury".

He's been inconsistent every season of his career. Stop expecting Messi and find a plan B, Pardew.

That rubbish from Krul when he threw the ball to Tiote, who was under pressure and promptly lost the ball, leading to another glorious chance for their forwards angered me as much as anything else that happened last night. It was the keeper's fault for the most part, but the highlight of Tiote's game is meant to be his strength on the ball, and he was shrugged off with ease.