Pilko

Been listening to Mick + Ando, sounds horrendously depressing. Has 0-1 written all over it.

Shola. Pathetic, soul destroying and totally Pardictable.

Bet you this thread is top of the pile come 2.10.

Arsenal-Fulham and Villa-Dippers draw double Newcastle, Southampton double Hull-Norwich, Everton-WBA, Stoke-Palace draw treble All 18 teams in the Championship 3 o'clocks to score 2-2 in the NUFC/West Ham game All smallish stakes.

First home game of the season is so hard to call, this year isn't much different. Most expected to lose to Villa when we beat them 6-0, I seem to remember uncertainty in the Championship season before we beat Reading, most expected us to beat Villa under Fat Head and we were garbage.

Davesh Shesh for Sky Sports News there with that update.

Sammy will get the pitch time and we will all miss him as a result. Marveaux will still be on the bench. I'd even sooner see Obertan than the spawn of Shola.

Can't wait for tomorrow! We'll be getting those three in for Saturday! It's like Christmas Eve, I can't sleep.

GW2: Fulham 1-1 Arsenal Everton 2-0 West Brom Hull 2-1 Norwich Newcastle 2-2 West Ham Southampton 1-0 Sunderland Stoke City 0-1 Crystal Palace Aston Villa 0-0 Liverpool Cardiff 1-4 Man City Tottenham 2-1 Swansea Man Utd 1-1 Chelsea

Gameplan. Deadline day will be Pardew and Kinnear re-enacting Samuel Beckett's Endgame in the training ground office.

Three in by Saturday.

Has there been any semi-concrete developments since .com broke the story this lunchtime? Like, do we definitely have people in France etc?

Strange how a seemingly baseless rumour is getting so much press coverage

Really vague from .com like, doubt its true. Well, our officials might well be over there, probably selling Cabaye or sorting out a French Sports Direct sponsorship deal or summat.

Pards said recently about him playing Oxlade Chamberlain, Shelvey etc when they were only 16, Dummett is 20 so no reason not to.

I thought he was awful, he gifted City possession so many times and failed to clear his lines for the third goal. He should have just got rid but he tried to play out, his pass was intercepted and it led to the free kick.

Score draw, but would rather a whalloping if it made Ashley shit himself and worry we might go down and lose his money and brings in some new signings.

He looks like a red card waiting to happen in basically every game. Great sort to have alongside New Radgy Colo and Unpredictable Geordie Hero Taylor in defence. We won't trouble that fair play table... again

Colo was awful. Trying to play offside on that second goal ffs, who the fuck is he kidding?

Even the basics are lacking with this guy. Been shit.

I also thought Jonas was having a fairly useful if unspectacular game before he got injured. Better than first name on the cunting teamsheet Tiote by several light years, anyway.

Agree, I was harsh on Krul tbf. Can't really choose between Cisse, Taylor, Debuchy, Colo and Tiote for worst player. All of them beyond hopeless.

Why the fuck were the Sky lot wanking over Navas second half? Dummy blocked every cross that he attempted. Bright spot tonight, well done. P.s. fuck whoever told me bringing Dummy off the bench tonight was a bad idea so readily.

Krul 7 Debuchy 4 Coloccini 5 Taylor 3 Yanga Mbiwa 5 (Dummett) 6.5 Tiote 3 Gutierrez 5 (Anita) 4 Sissoko 5 Ben Arfa 6.5 (Sammy Ameobi 3.5) Gouffran 5 Cisse 2.5 Wrote that straight after FT on my phone. Cisse was weak as water tonight. Maybe if he'd had a pre-season spent playing instead of crying about our shirt sponsors he might have had some form of impact. Tiote, Taylor (not a red but thank fuck he misses some games now), Anita, Debuchy, Colo, fuck me. Pitiful. Krul, HBA and particularly Dummett deserve credit. Navas didn't get a clean cross in 2nd half. Horrid. Fuck football.... Again!

Little piece in today's Star saying Kinnear was offered Jefferson Montero but he's off to Palace for 6m instead.