ChrisMcQuillan

Christ Hansen...

Refs are so scared to send Utd players off.

You'd have been right to because they still aren't to be fair. Best and Simpson deserve mentions, as Jonny said, for their steps up to the Premiership and coping very well.

No wonder he can't play, he's too busy suing for more money: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1372793/Manchester-City-fight-Stephen-Irelands-1-5M-claim.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

1. Coloccini 2. Barton 3. Nolan 4. Tiote 5. Enrique Honorable mentions to Best, Williamson and Simpson. And I have to be honest, if you'd asked me after promotion, I'd have laughed at you if you'd said Barton, Best and Simpson were going to be anywhere near it. Of course, I'd also have laughed if you'd said Carroll would go to Liverpool for 35m.

I think it'll be: Harper Simpson Williamson Coloccini Enrique R. Taylor Barton Guthrie Jonas Ameobi Lovenkrands Subs: Krul, S. Taylor, Campbell, Ferguson, Richardson, Ranger, Kuqi/Best

That lot got outplayed by Stoke at SJP. Just food for thought. Was Ben Arfa's second start in England and we only conceded when Ben Arfa went off and we were never really outplayed anyway. And Routledge played. With largely those players, we couldn't create or retain posession. I actually agree with you quite a lot, and think you're given a bad press on here. This particular assertion suggests you've been shooting meth, though.

That lot got outplayed by Stoke at SJP. Just food for thought. Stoke don't play, man. They may have got bypassed by Stoke. God, a bypass around Stoke. The world's favourite bypass.

Jonas Ben Arfa Barton Nolan Tiote I could more than handle that as next year's midfield.

Did a good job today.

If we score again, I think we'll be safe from relegation. Vital who gets the next goal.

I'm a big Forster fan, but that save isn't amazing. It's a good save made out to be far more than it is by stupid commentators. I think it's pretty awesome. Harper's brain would have shut down and he'd have imploded in those circumstances.

There for the taking by who? Kuqi and Ranger? I can't believe they're in the Premiership either.

Kinda defeats the point considering that f***ing clown posts garbage all year round.

If you haven't seen that Forster save against Rangers in the cup final, go YouTube it now. Amazing.

Alnwick's English and won an award recently. Instant media wankfest.

Me too mate I'll only settle for 5. Anything else and I'll be fucking disappointed.

There is that argument. But then people argue that the Championship is a more physical league where you get knocked around more. I think the truth is, none of us have a clue.

Guthrie's the best we can bring in when Gosling's injured, Ireland's injured, HBA being injured forces us to play Barton out right. He's still better than Smith. We do have a weak squad, CM is not where its weakest by a long stretch.

Disagree. CH had the benefit of being in charge in the early days of the season, before the tough match program started to take its toll. Under CH everybody was fresh and ready to go. He had plenty of players to choose from. As the season develops, injuries and fatigue increased. Accordingly, Pardew doesn't have the same luxury as CH did. He got plenty of injuries, and unlike CH he has just s*** replacements. And that also puts and extra pressure on the the remaining quality players. In other words, our current injury situation got nothing to do with CH og Pardew, but more with our squad lacking depth. We're not able to rotate, and that hurts. We played 46+ games in the Championship, all under Hughton. And our squad was still looking alright come the end of the season.

Not saying that. I'm just saying that it looks like Hughton's training methods, whatever they were, worked well with our squad and stopped people breaking down in training quite as much as they do now and were doing before. Pardew's methods seem to be moving us back to the Roeder, Allardyce eras of injury tragedy. Could be a blip, of course.

Hughton sorted out injuries, pretty much. Certainly in comparison to other managers. I thought we were just having a bad streak of luck, but its starting to look like Hughton's training and management certainly helped abate our various injury crises. And I'm not saying this to be all OMGZPARDEW=SATAN but yeah, I agree with Yorkie. There's more to it than bad luck. Ben Arfa and Smith have been taken out by bad tackles this season. Everything else has been people just breaking down, which is unacceptable.

This is true. Was just playing Devil's advocate by showing how many of the teams below us were miles above us on the form table.

http://www.premierleague.com/page/FormGuide