ChrisMcQuillan

Diving's getting much more inventive these days.

Someone should shoot Coloccini and Enrique for all this arsing about.

Enrique and Coloccini played us into this shit. Stop faffing about in the fucking corner.

Penalty to Bolton.

Best atmosphere over the past three seasons that I've attended at home has been the Sunderland 5-1 and the 2-2 with Man City. The past few games have been utterly dismal, even in comparison to the relegation season.

Just saw the score. What the fuck?

Very interesting, that.

Hurry up, Fabio!

Krul - 8 Simpson - 7 - backs off a lot Coloccini - 7 Williamson - 7 Enrique 7.5 Guthrie - 6 Nolan - 6 - some important tracking back Tiote - 7 Jonas - 6.5 Carroll - 7 Lovenkrands - 5 Ranger - 6 Routledge 7 Very average across the board, really.

Routledge Tiote Guthrie Jonas Nolan Carroll is what I think i'd like to see.

:lol: Because MGP isn't a Newcastle player?

How come the handball hasn't been given the Barton retrospective treatment?

.co.uk claim Xisco now in contention for Fulham, after Ameobi's injury.

3 games in a week is a good chance for Campbell to be given a chance to show what he can do. There's nothing wrong with rotation for fitness reasons.

We looked knackered tonight. Krul Simpson Campbell Coloccini Enrique Smith Guthrie/Barton Nolan Routledge Jonas Carroll

Barton will probably get a three game ban, whereas neither of the two red cards Cattermole escaped over the last week will be talked up.

Additionally, the SJP atmosphere these days is dire.

Which is why the calls for Sol Campbell to get his chance are completely justified. I think in hindsight that's probably correct. Campbell would have had the strength to deal with it. However, it's not just the backline. Our tactics the whole way up the pitch were off tonight. People weren't in the right places to offer movement. Tonight could have been a case for the 4-5-1 with Smith coming in to add some strength to that midfield. The long-ball thing wasn't going to work. Simpson was screaming for the ball out right over and over again, and we just wanted to hoof it to Carroll. Samba was too fucking huge for it to trouble him.

We struggle against these big, physical teams. Stoke and Blackburn for instance. We have to learn how to play against them.

I thought it was a foul on Williamson, tbh. Roberts went in with his elbow.

You taking the piss?

f***ing hell. Mind I didn't even rate Simpson prior to the last three games and I'd still rather have him than that mug Johnson so anything's possible. is it possible the championship is better than the prem, it's just the ammount of players we have who look better so far in the prem than they were last season in the championship has to be more than a coincedence. Routledge, Perch and Lovenkrands have all looked worse, though. And no, it's not possible.

Perch?

Reckon a bit of rotation might be in order: Krul Simpson Williamson Coloccini Enrique Routledge Nolan Smith Jonas Carroll Xisco Rest Ameobi, Tiote and Barton. Maybe that's resting too many. I just don't want to burn Ameobi out, or have Barton or Tiote succumb to injury.

Xisco got a three-match ban for a straight red in a Reserve game. Unless professional foul and violent conduct deliver different punishments.