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5-0 loss.

Easy scapegoat.

That zero points is much better than one today. Doesn't make much of a difference tbh. 1 point would have been disappointing and you know it.

Sometimes you have to settle for points. Not today.

He was playing left back and as usual he was nowhere to be seen when required to defend, he's hopeless. So you would have happily settled for a point?

Ryan Taylor was a defender today, where was he for the 3rd goal? Remember he was playing left back at the time. Up trying to score the winner, as instructed/wanted to do. To blame Taylor for that third goal is ludicrous.

Anything other than 3 is a shambles.

Would have been disappointed with 1 point, let alone 0. Fuck this. Imagine with no Tiote and Ba

Perch has had a better game than Coloccini.

I seriously think he is s***..... Would take £20M+ for him Yeah, Vuckic and Cabaye in midfield would work so well

Without Ba we'd be in a relegation battle. Yet again battling for a point at home.

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Newcastle-Demba-Ba-is-proving-so-good-he-is-worthy-of-legendary-No9-shirt-says-Alan-Pardew-article844909.html#.TvGwN1Y7H6A.twitter

And some on here went on to idolise him. No different.

Is that you, Fat Sam? Which teams in the Premier League don't defend from the front these days? I bet you can't name one.

When he's played this year I've found myself shouting at the screen for him to work harder, and he needs to. This is the English game, everyone needs to contribute defensively and you can't get away with being a man down defensively against most teams.

74 points

The game got brought forward??

Used to happen but the ban is immediate now.

Yeah. 3 match ban.

You'd have thought there was no chance that he'd leave HBA on the bench for the entire match against Swansea too.

Krul Simpson Coloccini Williamson Santon Obertan Perch Tiote Jonas Ba Best What I think we'll see, unfortunately.

To top things off, Cabaye got booked.

NUFCOfficial Newcastle United FC #NUFC team v Swansea (4-4-2): Krul; Simpson, Perch, Coloccini ©, Santon; Obertan, Cabaye, Tiote, Gutierrez; Best, Ba.

Tiote and Colo start!

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/newcastle-united/nufc-news/2011/12/16/pardew-cheick-tiote-is-likely-to-be-involved-72703-29962675/#.TutBwD5Q96g.twitter Sounds like it's going to be Smith