Geordie Ahmed

Di Maria sent off with a second yellow 3-2 to Real

A few little mistakes BUT aside from that he was the boss, was breaking up the play and his twists and turns were like last season, quality. Also he won a lot of headers

Not a fan of his and think we can do better BUT thought he was decent today, actually made some runs forward and made some passes

Like Emre against Reading

He was very good today, the first goal was quality. It was always a case of him just getting off the mark

I think it is A-bayd

We have a shit recent record against them BUT this is a game we should be winning

Someone next to me at the match was blaming Taylor for the goal! Not surprised, some people allow their hatred of a player to cloud their judgement

It was an error for their goal (people are being lenient on him BUT if Taylor made that mistake they would have went ape shit) BUT he is human, the odd mistakes are inevitable. Fortunately for us his mistakes are rare

He's no Craig Gardner, man. Gardner 1-0 Cabaye. Is Gardner better than Cabaye yes or no? Gardner will score more goals than Cabaye. Goals win football games. Why the hell are teams fielding these so called defenders, defensive midfielders and goalkeepers then? I mean, they don't score as many goals as strikers do they? Think he's on to something lads, 2-3-5 pyramid formation is BACK! I guess that explains why Bruce played 8 midfielders against Brighton

He's no Craig Gardner, man. Gardner 1-0 Cabaye. Is Gardner better than Cabaye yes or no? Gardner will score more goals than Cabaye. Goals win football games. Considering your strikers have scored a grand total of 1 goal this season, you are fucked

He was quality today, he really does cover plenty of ground (would love to see the stats for distance completed) It makes a nice change to have someone who can comfortably control a ball, so often last season we would see Nolan fail to trap a basic pass BUT it is easy Cabaye

hope we dont go all defensive now, would backfire

GTFI

That is ridiculous

The one thread is fine, works much better BUT it would be helpful if the thread title could be modified when/if some new development takes place

We all know the sports direct logo's are coming, not sure what the wait and see policy will achieve

For crying out loud I wish people would get out of this mentality, he can be both right footed and play and left back and vice versa. I'm right footed & I play on the left wing, it's not physically impossible! He was talking about Kadar and I agree with him, odd to have him at right back

He was shit today, really can't see how Santon could have been worse

Shola is going to hurt them, just got a feeling Howay Shola

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/04_01/newcastleG_468x396.jpg

Hoy the following in google and it should be the first result "watch a chelsea player take cleats to his back"

would you be happy if Simpson was our RB for the next 5 years? wouldn't mind him being a squad player over next 5 years tbh But I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'm still hoping he'll turn into a great RB.... That is never going to happen. He is 24 and he is shit scared when in possession of the ball, he struggles to control anything more than a basic pass, he can't beat a defender and his passing is usually a 5 yarder or a long aimless punt upfield. He is a very limited right back, at best he is decent defensively BUT he won't ever be a great RB, not even close

I don't think he has ever gotten any abuse at close quarters, it has only been the chants around the ground I think the fans are over the singing nasty stuff about him (well until his next big cock up that is)

Not really bothered since I don't rate him. We could easily do better and soon we should be looking to upgrade on him, giving him a 5 year contract would be daft