Pilko

I'm gonna be livid if he ends up being the scapegoat for today. He didn't pull up too many trees but he was withdrawn waaaaaay too early. He was the least of our problems. Shola should not have been introduced until after the hour and Fergie should have stayed on. He was doing OK.

Who subs a lively left winger at half time for a battering ram, 'route 1' centre-forward, in a home game which is very much there for the winning? Pardew may have got us into Europe but he proved his cowardice today. The ground emptied at 0-2 but folk may as well have fucked off after Michu got the opener. Clueless performance, as soon as that goal went in we were beaten. Pardew just doesn't know how to change a game, and it cost us dear. Marveaux was probably the best player all afternoon and he played about 14 minutes. P.S. I don't think Williamson won a header all game. His performance today was the worst I have seen from an NUFC defender since the days of Boumsong. Weak as water and absolutely gutless.

Same here. Can't believe I'm getting a train up tonight so I can go to this, looking forwards to the faces and the drink more than the actual game.

Like fuck are they 10p anymore.

Come on for the last half hour to put himself about and bully the centrebacks. Shola is as Shola does.

From 35 yards, after a shit Joe Hart headed clearance.

Hart is in shocking form at the moment. Then again, there's fuck all genuine competition for him at City or for England. That's probably why.

Calling Gerrard a legend

We played 70mins+ without him on Sunday like. Aye but we had to reshuffle (again ffs) after kickoff. A game without him in the starting lineup, if you like. I think it might be nice if we can have the first half without needing to make any subs for injuries, having someone sent off or having to tactically realign because we're getting dicked on. I think at least one of those three things has happened in nearly every PL match this season. Home games often feature a stoppage of about 2-3 minutes around the quarter hour mark, where the crowd settle down quietly and we lose any momentum we'd been building up.

Don't want to wish injury on our players but it'll be nice to see what we're like in a home game without Gutierrez in the side. Krul Anita Williamson Taylor Santon Tiote Bigirimana Cabaye Ben Arfa Ba Ferguson That's the side I'd love to see. However, fully expecting summat like this: Krul Simpson Williamson Taylor Santon Ben Arfa Cabaye Tiote Obertan Ba Cisse

For me, it's nailed on that you're an absolute cretin for thinking that.

Birtles got one thing right - he looked knackared after 45 minutes and was fairly useless and out of sync.

If you love Mike so much then why don't you marry him?

I think there was only the WBA game at home last year that we lost and can say it was an unexpected defeat (the others being the very unfortunate Chelsea game and the City game). We can allow him the West Ham game as a one-off, but if we lose in that fashion again (not just 'if we lose', note) then serious questions want asking of Pards.

I'm not an Ashley sympathiser but I remember someone posted all the potential legalities/costs of Ashley getting topped a while ago and it meant we could well be fucked.

I reckon if Xisco posts another good showing we might look to give him a blast in the Maritimo home game.

Sacking him would be quite possibly the stupidest thing we could do right now, up there with some mental shooting Ashley in the head.

The fat headed cunt will beat us every single time until he retires. It is written in the stars.

Tell you what like, we all take the piss out of MON and his predictable subs, but fuck me, Obertan being introduced to a tetchy, nervy home game after 80 minutes is the most stupid, pointless move and yet Pardew does it every fortnight.

I can't even bring myself to feel angry. Everything about that game was merely incredibly irritating and the apathy I feel is because I can't see it getting better in the short term.

Really not looking forwards to this, it'll be the first match I've attended this season and I already can't be arsed with it.

The get out of jail card we got against WBA won't happen every week. I'd say 'hopefully Pardew will realise now that he needs to do summat different' but there's absolutely no point in making a statement like that, cos he won't. Utter shite, and if it continues this way Pardew won't last another 8 months, let alone years.

Christ, you must have taken some serious fucking gear.

What's Shefki up to?