ChrisMcQuillan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/9463690.stm

Absolute Radio covering the game.

Fucking Gilks.

Subs: Ole Soderberg, James Perch, Steven Taylor, Ryan Taylor, Stephen Ireland, Nile Ranger, Shefki Kuqi

Krul; Simpson Williamson, Coloccini, Enrique; Nolan, Tiote, Jonas, Barton; Lovenkrands, Ameobi.

Still wouldn't start Ireland, even if Lovenkrands is unavailable. Would start Ranger. He may be awful, but Blackpool are about as bad as they get atm. He may just grab a goal. Either way, if he's poor first half, replace with Ireland. But if we rush Ireland back we risk losing him for the rest of the season, and without Guthrie, it's a risk we can ill afford.

Nah man, it's Sunderland who have an injury crisis. Not us!

They're having quite a big party over at RTG as a result of their U18 win against us today. Said it should have been on Look North, and if we'd won, it would have.

Were you in the stadium daft lad ? Because if you watched on TV you'll have missed how much ground he was covering to get behind the ball when they were breaking in the first half. Very effective. MOTM. Guthrie was magnificent, by his standards. Half the starting XI could have got MOTM, Guthrie included. It was a team effort, and the team played well. Makes it difficult to award MOTM. I don't see why this is difficult to grasp

Krul (even if Harper's fit) Simpson Williamson Coloccini Enrique Barton Tiote Guthrie Jonas Nolan Ameobi Subs: Harper/Soderberg, R. Taylor, S. Taylor, Ireland, Ranger, Lovenkrands, Kuqi

Keep Lovenkrands as emergency cover. Keep Best and Shola. Loan Ranger ( ) and release Kuqi. And sign two new strikers.

One particular moment in the first half where he had to stretch a leg out but he stopped a Man U attack through on goal. A piece of superb defending. Always rated him and he's not disappointing. This.

Yeah I assumed Rooney just missed which was unlikely. Cracking stuff, Tim.

Yeah Pardew definitely deserves credit. The whole Lovenkrands rotating between strike and midfield allowed Guthrie to tag close to people in the first half and harass them without leaving it all to Tiote. And he certainly seemed to get the team psyched. Hughton-esque team spirit and effort. Great to see.

Great team performance. Krul 8 Simpson 7 - up against Rooney most of the second half Coloccini 9 Williamson 9 Enrique 7 Barton 7 Tiote 8.5 Guthrie 7.5 Jonas 8.5 Ameobi 7.5 Lovenkrands 7 - gave 100% in a difficult role dropping between strike and midfield Ireland 7 - looked promising Ranger 6

We have only had an "average" injury list this season according to Toons Taylor the other day.Our injury list this season is beyond ridiculous,an absolute joke to be honest. It's no worse than ours. Your best players are Barton,Nolan,Enrique and Coloccini,how long have they been out with injuries this season? I'd say you have been very fortunate injury wise this season. Okay. Enrique's missed a good month or two, Ben Arfa (arguably our best player in total) has been out pretty much all season. Our number 1 keeper spent a good deal of time out, and we missed our number 1 RB at the start of the season for a few months. Best (arguably our best striker after Carroll) missed a lot of this season with injury. Shola's been in and out. Gosling's been out the whole season, Ireland out for months, Raylor and Saylor out of months. Wiliamson, Coloccini, Tiote and Nolan have all been absent with suspension a fair bit. Smith obviously has been absent for the second half of the season. LuaLua back with a broken leg, Vuckic and Kadar constantly injured. If 'very fortunate' means naming a bench entirely full of kids, then yeah. We've been really fortunate.

We have only had an "average" injury list this season according to Toons Taylor the other day.Our injury list this season is beyond ridiculous,an absolute joke to be honest. It's no worse than ours.

Guy's name was Darren Wearside, and his FB profile has photos of him as a bonafide Mackem. Wearside as a last name? Deffo a pisstake. Wearmouth, rather. I'm telling you man, I don't think it is!

Guy's name was Darren Wearside, and his FB profile has photos of him as a bonafide Mackem.

Sunderland fan on Facebook when commenting on the strangest way they've found out a football result (odd question, I know): Obsessed.

Apparantley they heard Tiote was running down the A1.

It's his job interview, basically. No wonder he's nervous.

What article? Said a spokesman from the Daily Mail. :lol: