Pilko

That's a disgrace if they've given Bassong a 6.

Put in a tremendous shift today, but why was he still bombing on in the 88th minute? Surely by then you sit back and make sure we don't lose the game? Butt or someone should have told him to stay back.

Stick with my five. The next three games are huge.

Played well enough today I thought, need to consider him primarily a RB now.

The team I'd pick vs Bolton: Harper Saylor Colo Bassong Enrique Raylor Butt Smith Gutierrez Martins Viduka Forster, Cacapa, Carroll, Lovenkrands, Duff, Geremi, LuaLua

From the bits of the game I saw and partially the radio: Harper 6 - did what he had to Saylor 7 - bombed forward, but probably a bit much towards to the end Colo 6.5 - no complaints, dealt with threat well in the most part Bassong 8 - rock at the back Enrique 8 - had a great game, one excellent cross in particular Duff 5 - maintains record of not having one good game after the other Nolan 5 - offered little before horrific tackle Butt 6.5 - had a good game by his standards Raylor 7 - full of industry Shola 4.5 - rotten Lovenkrands 5.5 - ran his socks off, missed sitter, faded badly towards the end SUBS Jonas 6.5 - did well enough Martins 6 - did alright in spells Smith 5.5 - the fact he didn't manage any fuckups get him a mark above 5! EDIT: Hughton 7 Full marks for the subs, even Smith, although loses points for not dropping Shola.

Martins stripped and ready to come on.

I have a lot more faith in Chris Hughton now than I did 10 minutes ago.

At least Hughton has the guts to try something different while it can still change the game. Fair play.

HT.

Shola simply has to come off, bring on Martins, and play Lovenkrands in midfield. Would be the best change we could make.

For Gods' sake, he didn't need to make that tackle. Everyone (me included) whinging about Cattermole yesterday, that was far worse.

Simply has to be Shola off and a midfielder on at HT. Has to be. That way we have the chance to salvage a draw.

For christs sake, we've thrown away any chance of winning the game.

This game is there for us to win - if we make a change between 45-60 minutes we could easily win this. Easily.

What a technically excellent diving header that is from Nolan. Butt not doing bad for once

Bin dippers [/Wullie] get it back to 1-1.

Lovenkrands /o\

radio says it was an Arbeloa og.

Man City lead

Can't wait to quote some of the doom mongers if we get a win.

6 full internationals. Very strong bench.

Merson said yesterday on SSN that when fit, Viduka is better than Berbatov.

Andy Johnson has a head like a zeppelin.

Cottagers winning, good stuff