The Prophet

On the road in a 4-4-2 he's about on par with Nolan/Smith.

A better idea would be tio bring him on as a sub for 20 mins. It's clear Hughton fancies Best over Ranger, don't see the point in him sitting on the bench for the rest of the season.

Ranger needs to be loaned out.

Donned his invisibility cloak again today I see.

Give over man.

Agreed. And with Scunny at home on Wednesday thats a great chance to extend our lead. Aye West Brom at Swansea and Forest at Barnsley too.

Sad bastards.

Agree. Team needs to realize results aren't handed to you every week. Hard work is needed. Aye, must be why we've won our last four.

Think the theory is to stop us getting overrun in midfield.

Coventry Reading Swansea West Brom And both sides to score in... Brentford-MK Dons Brighton-Swindon Carlisle-Colchester Huddersfield-Norwich Southampton-Leeds

Butt would be in there somewhere after the gutless shows against the Mancs in the FA Cup and Alkmaar in the UEFA.

No he doesn't. Whoosh!

Agreed it's been fantastic, some cracking goals.

Why would you bet on a team that has lost it's last six away games?

Hulse tricky and pacey.

Same.

Munich Palace QPR West Brom ...and some ridiculous sections list.

Wouldn't touch him with a shitty stick.

Absolute rubbish the Premeir League will be an absolute breeze, it's not like there's much quality up there. Forest just pack the box for the entire match and West Brom were luckly to escape with a point. We should be pushing for Europe at least.

You get just as much creativity out of Cana & Cattermole as you do Smith & Nolan going forward too. Bruce needs to chance his arm in the home games and only play one of them, not sure whoelse they have that can play there like. Harsh on Cattermole, he's hardly been fit this season and when he was it was during the decent run they had early doors. You can't just expect him to slot back into a team low on confidence, althoguh I agree he's hardly the most creative. I haven't watched enough of Sunderland to go into detail on thie problems but their attitude reminds me of ours last year/West Ham 02-03. Their confidence is shot and they're relying on the age old 'we're too good to go down' to keep them up. The truth is if they can get Bent scoring again he'll carry them to safety, but at the moment even that looks a long way off.

Don't know if it's been posted: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/newcastle_united/8556228.stm Basically Lovenkrands says there was no contact but in trying to avoid the goal keeper he fell over.

I correct myself - he is the answer...in this division. 'The answer' to what?

We're a better team than Boro's but given it's a derby and how spawny the b****** are I think they'll nick a point.

You can afford to get rid of those 8 players, and get a similar amount in? Blimey, good luck. Our squad doesn't need pruning though, it needs a lot of work. We can't rest on our laurels. If we had to keep someone from that list I'd maybe go with R Taylor or Shola, but we did get 6 players in january so i don't see us struggling to do similar in the summer. Whether they're good enough is open to debate, but I don't think Smith, Butt etc are good enough as it is. But we're gonna get taken over by a billionaire and have lots of money, innit I think we're far more likely to go down if we dismantle the squad than add to it with a couple of quality purchases.

Think that would be a pretty decent game providing MON tells his team to actually try and play football this time. For all your moans, you don't actually seem to take many points of us, KD. I'd back you to do well against any lower half team. Put you against the better sides, though, and you spend 90 minutes passing in pretty triangles around the centre spot and generally don't deliver. You're the inverse of us. s*** teams = we struggle. Decent teams = we do OK. I just get fed up when a teams sole purpose in a game is to stop the other team from scoring (even at home). Villa have absolutely no excuse playing like that as your squad is filled with good footballers who can actually play football. It's like MON tells your players to soak up pressure and hit us on the break once or twice if there's an opportunity. The 2 times we played you this season was painful to watch. You used the exact same tactics Hull city and Stoke used against us. You actually played worse then both those teams too tbh. That's not actually true, though, There's a difference between defending well and ONLY defending well. We didn't win at Old Trafford and Anfield by sticking 11 men behind the ball. We're not Brazil 1970, either, but it is a bit too easy to label us boring as an excuse to detract from your own deficiences. Like your fans did at WHL against us this year shouting "hoof" at us whilst you spent 90 minutes hoofing the ball up to Peter Crouch. We've got plenty of creativity and are exciting to watch most of the time. The fact we defend well just gets twisted and used against us. I don't really know what we're meant to do, give a few goals away? (Although we managed that today, so maybe we're ahead of the game on that one). Your on the wrong board, we'd rather lose 4-3 than win 1-0. We can't relate.