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Rose and Cuellar both injured will be a blow, both hamstrings apparently.

Chelsea badges made out of gold, like? It's the colour gold this year.

Has he been kissing the badge yet?

Bit shit when Sunderland were pretty much full strength apart from O'Shea and Sessegnon.

no.

We were full strength except for Marv and Krul, that's the problem.

It's not exactly a lie though, I'm not condoning fully slagging them off in public but they aren't good enough.

confidence is shot to bits.

Needs to learn to control and pass a ball.

Perch had a knock in the first half.

So out of his depth it's unreal, he struggles so badly with movement and has a heart the size of a pea.

Confidence is at a ridiculously low level within the players.

Di Matteo would do pretty well with this set up, he's by no means brilliant but I think he'd jump at the chance.

Needs to come out and state how poor certain players were, don't care about their confidence they shouldn't be getting a game anyway.

That's the worse I've felt about losing a game since the relegation season, no effort & players being out of their depth against a championship team.

What the fuck is this mentality of being glad we are out of a cup competition, fans being pleased to lose a game.

This coverage is awful.

The football part of this forum is getting to the point where it's a chore to read, a lot of people don't seem to actually get the situation we are in and what's available at this time.

Yep, would be better off going the Victor Moses route. Transfer to a small Premier League team and then a bigger transfer after a season or two, it's done Moses the world of good.

Just seems like people like complaining for the sake of it these days, it was never going to be full strength and Shola was always going to start given the options. I'm more concerned about the movement of CMS against Williamson.

The same thing could be said about anybody defending Shola starting up front. With Cisse with a knock, Ranger a dick and an 18 year old who isn't an out and out forward as our only options it kind of the only thing that would have happened.

Really don't know what those complaining were expecting today, have they been living in solitary confinement for the last month.

Yes

Good to see Abeid getting a game, see what he can do at this level.

He scored the best stats in his medical of any player signed under Pardew which is encouraging.