Pilko

That's fucking outstanding.

Clawed a bit back from that, still down though.

Spurs are as good as 7/2 some places, unreal price tbh. Have put a decent amount on Spurs. Also got Adebayor 1-0 scorecast @ 42/1 and the game to be a draw at HT at just over evens.

I disagree. Simpson was (as usual) way out of position, so Coloccini went to deal with the initial threat of N'Zogbia carrying the ball. Simpson chose to jog a few yards behind Coloccini in the same position instead of heading centrally to cover Coloccini's usual position, which would have been marking Keane. Obviously, Jonas should have never surrendered possession as cheaply as he did in the first place too.

I hate hate hate the divine intervention that keeps Shola in the 11-14 players that make it onto the pitch for us each week.

Papiss Don't Perch

this is true

Re: Vuckic; we should seek to loan him out, but to a side that plays as similar a style/formation to us as possible - whether that's in this country or not.

You must have enjoyed the three seperate times today when he near clattered one of his own players going for a simple header.

http://www.nufc.co.uk/articles/20120205/taylor-and-best-injury-news_2281670_2601036

You must have missed quite a few of our games then.

You still said that Pardew didn't have a clue what he was doing with it, though. That's absolute tripe imo.

3-1 home win, sadly.

Who's criticising the decision like? You intimated that Pardew just threw on Cisse without any consideration. Bearing in mind the alternative was Shola, what else was he supposed to do? Cisse's played with Demba before and Shola's been utterly gash in the last three games. It wasn't really the game for Ben Arfa today, Obertan looks wank behind the striker - what else was Pardew meant to do? It was absolutely the correct thing to do bringing on Cisse straight away.

Eh? I said I'd expected Pardew to bring on Shola and not Cisse. I didn't mean you.

As if people are actually criticising the decision to send on Cisse Aye, we should have gone with Shola and sent Cisse on during the 90th minute to hold the ball in the corner for our 1-1 draw.

Krul 8 Simpson 5.5 (the goal was largely his fault) Coloccini 8 Williamson 7 Santon 6.5 Ryan Taylor 6.5 Guthrie 7 Perch 7 Gutierrez 7 Best n/a Ba 8 Cisse 8 Obertan 6.5 Shola n/a

Much better. Still frustrating, but less often.

The difference between lethargic Shola and the bundle of energy that Cisse was today is light years.

The choice between Shola and Cisse when Best got injured was the biggest factor in us winning today, and credit to Pards who made the brave choice instead of the cowardly option.

He made one or two irritating passes but otherwise he was excellent. Full of energy and strong in the tackle, just did the simple things really well. Bit of a revival from him lately, great to see.

Strong bench, full of options.

‎#NUFC substitutes v #avfc: Elliot, Ferguson, Gosling, Ben Arfa, Obertan, Shola Ameobi, Cisse. #newcastle #epl

Followed you in on that. Good odds.