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Looks like he's going to keep up that straight league titles record.

Looks like Mario Gomez is paying back that Bayern transfer fee this season. 15 in 19 this season.

A lot of factors will depend on it, but potentially he could. No s***

Ranger looks a much better footballer at his current age than Carroll did. Carroll was far more imposing from the word go though, the footballing side of his game as developed hugely over the last 2 years.

Aye prerequisite for playing in England. Must have sufficient teeth and balls.

Sick of this superstitious mumbojumbo that because they've lost a couple they're definitely gonna bounce back now and give us the backlash. Total bollocks.

Sunderland should sell Bent for £20 million plus and spend it on the rest of the team.

I really like Yakabu, Saha isn't that bad either, just that you have one really s*** striker in Beckford Don't rate the first 2 at all anymore.

Aye. One of my favourite goals in recent years.

Americans on here. Do you like the playoff system or would you rather a straight up league table?

Can't see that making a difference tbh. He'll still be training as normal etc, as any player who's contract is running out is. They are professionals after all.

Tiote has massively benefited everybody (Colo, Williamson, Nolan in particular). I'd be interested to see how Taylor gets on now. Taylor gets far too much criticism on here in my opinion. I don't particular rate him as anything above a middle/bottom PL centre half, which is pretty much what we can hope for atm.

Ive seen a few people say this, I thought he was our worst player to be honest imo of course. Productively, yes. However as part of a balanced team he did his bit. Carried the ball reasonably well and passed okay. We need him for team balance more than anything to be honest, Guthrie RW didn't work in the Championship so it's not gonna work here.

Did okay at Everton.

Hughton's written Routledge off far too early for my liking like. He's only played a handful of games with Perch behind him. He's still our best option on the right with Barton out.

Tevez ©, Hernandez and Carroll upfront. Saved the rest of my team.

Blind.

I don't know what's worse, the kneejerk nature of this thread or the writing off of an 18 year old after a handful of first team runouts. If you and the rest of the "knee jerk thread" brigade actually read the OP you might have noticed that all I suggested was that Vukic be brought into the squad on match days. If he's so precious he can't even be sat on the bench when we've got half our midfield out with injuries and semi-cripples like Smith wandering round dazed on the pitch then what does that say about him? For what it's worth mate, I agree with you to an extent. I'd much rather have Vuckic playing than Smih for example who is going to offer nothing now nor in the future. He should definitely be on the bench ahead of some of the dross backup journeyman we have. I just think it's quite typical that threads of this nature turn up after a defeat, where we're building up anybody or anything as the solution to our problems. May have just been bad timing or misunderstanding on my behalf though.

didn't he crack some bloke in the Huddersfield game? Aye. Local lad, Lee Novak. http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/nechronical/jul2009/2/5/fabricio-coloccini-and-lee-novak-745506700.jpg

Be brilliant if we got him permanently like. I've seen enough of him to know he's brilliant, and I get the feeling he's got the Toon bug aswell.

I don't know what's worse, the kneejerk nature of this thread or the writing off of an 18 year old after a handful of first team runouts.

It's not about if he's any worse than Smith - as Smith plays in a completely different position to him. Smith doesn't play a position. He hides and fulfills no purpose.

I'd probably cry.

Can't even think of any youngsters appearing on the horizon that will suddenly have a breakout season that can play on the right. Not saying that's the answer, but it'd be great if it was an option. Ryan Taylor is an option if we are desperate. He'd probably lose the ball under the slightest pressure from the opposition though. He would be if he wasn't out for 3 months.