ChrisMcQuillan

Friend texting me insisting he just saw Ashley and Llambias in the background of the Ashes test tonight. :S

Blackburn Wigan Wolves

In a dream world, I've love to see Carroll with Lacina Traore just for the giggles. It'd be like being attacked by two twelve-foot dildos. A thoroughly terrifying experience.

Harper - 7 - Basically got an assist. Simpson - 7 Coloccini - 8 S. Taylor - 7 Enrique - 7 Barton - 9 Nolan - 7 Tiote - 9 Jonas - 8 Shola - 6 (awful apart from his goal) Lovenkrands - 5 Routledge - 7 Best - 6 Smith - N/A

Am going to go with 3 - 1 to Wigan, with Ameobi to score for us.

We'll make them look like world beaters, trust me.

Yes, but replacing Carroll and Hatem with Shola and Loven is like replacing Rooney and Berbatov with a boat anchor.

Hughton didn't start Ranger once in the PL. Carroll and Ameobi were fit for most of that time. He didn't start Lovenkrands ahead of Ranger. He did against Fulham. Again, that was before Ranger had shown how big an impact he could make off the bench. At least as far as I know. This RangerRevolution has only started since those few substitute appearances, really.

Hughton didn't start Ranger once in the PL. Carroll and Ameobi were fit for most of that time. He didn't start Lovenkrands ahead of Ranger.

'Experience' ahh, the same 'experience' that pardew's got It's a bit like being managed by Angus Deayton, isn't it?

Barely had to do anything.

Better attitude. More important than points, don't you know?

Fucking Taylor.

Just hoof and hope from GK to the pace of Shola.

It'll probably be Harper Simpson Taylor Campbell Perch Routledge Gosling Nolan Jonas Smith Ameobi Something mental like that. Jonas as the only foreigner, cause we don't have any other option till Bentley comes in.

Why are Chelsea never this shit against us?

"One of the factors in Hughton’s axing is understood to have been his insistence that his right-hand man, after Colin Calderwood had quit to manage Hibernian, was an “external’’ appointment." Surely, therefore, our new assistant will have to be internally appointed.

Traore's been linked with everyone over the last two years. He won't be coming here.

If I recall, that was the first time Cole had EVER scored a brace in a PL game.

Everyone should calm down. It'll be 33 year old Glen Phillips from Dagenham and Redbridge Reserves.

Why the hell would Harper replace Krul? You give Krul the nod after his mistakes to allow him to atone for them against Spurs. He does, with a world-class save. And then you drop him? Poor.

Bad management, simply, if that's the case. PR more important than points.

If I were picking, it'd be: Krul Simpson Wiliccini Enrique Barton Nolan Tiote Jonas Ranger Xisco I imagine it will be: Krul Simpson Taylor Coloccini Enrique Routledge Barton Tiote Jonas Nolan Ameobi

Nice article, mate. Pretty much spot on, although I think it's plain to see for anybody where our problems lie. Yeah. It's not a Newcastle blog though, so I thought some casual/non-fans might find it interesting.

http://intothefinalthird.wordpress.com/2010/12/31/the-toothless-toon-army/