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Feel a bit sorry for the lad. Personally I don't think he's up to being a main striker for a Premier League team yet but our transfer policy of buy young and foreign (from inferior leagues) with the hope of cashing in on him in a couple of years means we are relying on him to fire us out of trouble and on the evidence so far he isn't capable of doing that, again not his fault. A proper centre forward, who is already fit and able needs to be signed this month if we are to stand any chance of staying up and if that's the only signing we make I think it's vital Tiote stays fit and focussed because he showed us all what he brings to the team on Saturday and on his day can play at a level Anita and Colback can't get close to.

Exactly. Making himself look like an even bigger tw@t (if that's possible) by coming out and complaining about it now. It's not that long ago he was dedicating victories to Mike Ashley ffs.

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/alan-pardew-criticises-newcastle-uniteds-10679984

Doesn't matter. If we can't do it for ourselves other results are irrelevant.

More possible we won't tbh. They have 3 points from their last 6 games, we have 7 points from our last 6 games. But we're less likely to pick up points than them? Swansea (a) Spurs (a) Bournemouth (h) Man City (h) Man Utd (h) West Ham (a) Palace (h) They've got Liverpool away in that 7 as well. We'll see.

Why should we have got something out of the game? We failed to score for the 6th time in 10 away games. If you can't put the ball in the opposition net you get what you deserve.

Agree. I think he'll have better options than us. Should have signed him in the summer.

Today's the day I accepted that we are going down.

Austin got 18 goals in an arguably worse side than ours last season. Perfectly reasonable to suggest he could have scored 15-20 goals for us this season.

Na. Aye. The 15-20 goals Austin would have scored for us could well have kept us up. The 5 or 6 Mitrovic will score won't.

I've said it stacks of times but signing him instead of Austin will be the decision that will relegate us. He may or may not turn out to be an accomplished striker but a club in our position doesn't have time to find out.

More possible we won't tbh.

Very good today.

A non scoring centre forward isn't what we need at the moment. If he was at a West Ham or a Stoke you could say give it time and hope the goals will come sooner or later. We don't have that luxury.

Looked a lot better with Tiote in for Anita. Probably the first time we've had a grip on the midfield all season. Shame we haven't got a striker worthy of the name otherwise we would have got something out of that.

Mitrovic and Perez combined will struggle to get into double figures this season. £15m for Charlie Austin is looking even more of a snip now.

Moral victory. McClaren will be happy with the effort and attitude etc etc.

That's hardly an endorsement mind.

We can have all the possession and shots we like. With non scoring forwards we're more often than not going to end up with "nil" though.

Same ref that sent off Coloccini against the mackems. He had a shocker that day and looked totally out of his depth. Hope he gets a right hammering off Webb today.

What Mitrovic should be doing. He needs crosses to do that. West ham are set up to whip crosses in. We aren't He had a few quality crosses thrown at him against Villa, and especially Everton and made a pigs ear of trying to finish them. I've got a suspicion he closes his eyes when he's about to head the ball.

Think the mackems will win 2-0. Villa are even worse than they are.

What Mitrovic should be doing.

Club policy means we'll never have a proper team and it'll always be a case of individuals playing to get moves to more ambitious clubs. That's what happens when your transfer policy is based on signing young Foreign players with the promise that they'll be shipped on to bigger clubs (at a nice profit to NUFC) should they be a success here. You can never build proper team spirit based on that formula and I genuinely believe that's why we go on these ridiculous losing runs and don't bother turning up for the Derby games these days, put simply there's no motivation and "leaders" are no longer allowed in the dressing room. In Thauvins case, best case scenario for him is he's a hit here and in a couple of years ends up at Arsenal, Man Utd etc, worst case he goes back to one of the bigger clubs in France if it doesn't work out. He's probably not too bothered either way.

We won't. 3/4 wins maximum if there's no new players brought in or a change in manager.