ChrisMcQuillan

Hardly got any decent option from the bench, like. The manner of the team's capitulation, as much as anything else though.

Pardew's really gone down in my estimation today, I'm afraid.

Quite remarkable we haven't made a sub, and Shola is still on.

Wow

Can't wait for Duff to retire.

Apparently he offers nothing, as I was told repeatedly before the match. No point bringing him on cause Shola must be better.

Newcastle penalised for another not-a-penalty. Fucking refs, man.

Sure. Lovenkrands is the answer when we need a goal. He's an option, and he can nip in between people when Ameobi can't. He's the kinda person HBA could feed in the dying seconds. I'm not saying he's a great option, but he's better than not having a striker on the bench.

Glad we have a striking option on the bench in Lovenkrands, if Best and Ameobi both have off-days.

Hoping for Abeid and Guthrie in the middle, but reckon it will be Gosling. Chance for the lad to prove himself. Obertan on the right would be fine for me in this fixture, tbh.

That's a mint kit.

Isn't a medical normally the last thing that's done, after a personal contract?

Someone's drugged Ashley's pies.

SkyGraemeBailey Will be a massive coup for Newcastle to sign Cisse, very good striker. In England now for medical. Deal worth around £10million.

Btw, did Sky really shorten their EPL table so it didn't feature us?

99% sure everyone except Elliot and him warmed up. Poor Shane was warming up for 80 minutes.

2-1 Fulham. Duff, Ruiz. Ameobi

In fairness, today was by far the hardest I'd seen him work. Really good that he's responded to Pardew. Now Pardew has to respond in kind and play him from the off.

Think plaudits have to be given to Ryan Taylor. He had to play CM with Guthrie and did a fine job, just holding his position and ticking things over. Obviously, Santon, Jonas and Guthrie were all great too, and Besty had a decent game.

We're doing that thing. NUFC: "You want £8m? Here, have £4m" Lyon: "£8m, nothing less." NUFC: "£6m." Lyon: "£8m" NUFC: "£7.5m" Lyon: "Okay, fair enough." NUFC: "Actually, we're not interested. But that was fun, wasn't it?"

No way he's been sent off 7 times here. EDIT: That's his Premier League total. Bit sensationalist and sloppy journalism if that's the headline.

If Obertan's estimate was anything to go by, he'll be out for a number of days.

He also put Cabaye one on one with the Keeper and played a couple of lovley balls in the channels for the wingers. Maybe AP should focus his attention on Obtertan and tell him about his wasteful passes. Never said Obertan wasn't completely dross, or that HBA was completely worthless. But he wasn't particularly good in the first half at all. It was only the second he was sublime.

Tbf to Pardew, he was cheap with the ball in the first half. He made a few pointless runs and gave the ball straight to them. Ben Arfa on the wing made his runs far more effective.

Footballer in 'costing money' shocker.