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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.

Hope he gets a bit more match time this year. We've looked desperately short in attacking areas lately.

Cheers Dave I'll leave it at that.

The jokes on you here. Even more so that you keep digging yourself into a bigger hole. If you think I would just stick a mates name up on here you're dafter than I first gave you credit for. Ps check my profile on here for my age.

Aye best of luck to him. Never good enough for the PL but he'll do a decent job for Wolves.

My problem with him is mainly his lack of being able to pass more than five yards not physicality As per my previous answer, that's utter bullshit. I've seen him play multiple, pinpoint 40-yarders out of midfield game after game for Ajax. Your point stretches credulity even at SJP, though I can see where you're coming from, but in Anita we've procured, and ruined, yet another player. How that reflects poorly on Anita himself I know not. He was up against p*ss poor opponents when he played for Ajax. They walk through most of their games having enjoyed 70-75% possession of the ball. Doesn't make him good enough to play in the Premier league and he's been found wanting at a higher level. Aye, Feyenoord and PSV would never get near the EPL with luminaries like ourselves, villa, bournemouth and the mackems barring the way. Found wanting? No. Played out of position, played fleetingly, Pardewed - yes. If he were playing in an EPL team that wasn't the epitome of embarrassment then people would be singing a different song. Your average Eredivisie team (PSV and Ajax aside) would be League 1 standard. That's why they always go out of Europe early on. One of them even went out to a Scottish team last year (Aberdeen) and it's only ranked as Europes 9th strongest league these days. Believe me it's dross and being a good player there proves nothing, as we have found out. Feyenoord, FC Twente and Alkmaar in League One? Utter guff, as is all of your post, apart from correctly looking up the NL UEFA coefficient. How are PSV getting on in the Champions League, having lost three of their best players? They're not above the eliminated ManUre by any chance?! Now you're really starting to show yourself up. Twente are 2nd from bottom in the league and could be relegated due to the financial crises they find themselves in and AZ are just a bottom half side nowadays. Be honest you'd struggle to name a single player from either team. Just go back the last few years and see how many clubs they've still had representing them in Europe after Xmas. You're totally clueless. Clueless is an apt adjective to anyone who fails to understand that (more-or-less) outside the 'big three' in NL, the rest of the Eredivise and roughly half of the Eerste Divisie is pretty fluid. However, I can't be that clueless having done live ESPN commentary for the top two Dutch leagues for a season when my other half was working in Hoofddorp. I'll take ESPN's recommendation and the twice-weekly cheque over your ill-informed opinions if that's OK. Have you ever seen a game of football in The Netherlands?! Do tell. I had a season ticket at PSV Eindhoven from 2005-2012 if that helps. It would if I believed you. http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/dutch-supporters-boost-sir-bobbys-1471152 Keep digging. It's missing the parts where you identify as 'James Kidd' and that you had a season ticket for seven years. Keep trying. My problem with him is mainly his lack of being able to pass more than five yards not physicality As per my previous answer, that's utter bullshit. I've seen him play multiple, pinpoint 40-yarders out of midfield game after game for Ajax. Your point stretches credulity even at SJP, though I can see where you're coming from, but in Anita we've procured, and ruined, yet another player. How that reflects poorly on Anita himself I know not. He was up against p*ss poor opponents when he played for Ajax. They walk through most of their games having enjoyed 70-75% possession of the ball. Doesn't make him good enough to play in the Premier league and he's been found wanting at a higher level. Aye, Feyenoord and PSV would never get near the EPL with luminaries like ourselves, villa, bournemouth and the mackems barring the way. Found wanting? No. Played out of position, played fleetingly, Pardewed - yes. If he were playing in an EPL team that wasn't the epitome of embarrassment then people would be singing a different song. Your average Eredivisie team (PSV and Ajax aside) would be League 1 standard. That's why they always go out of Europe early on. One of them even went out to a Scottish team last year (Aberdeen) and it's only ranked as Europes 9th strongest league these days. Believe me it's dross and being a good player there proves nothing, as we have found out. Feyenoord, FC Twente and Alkmaar in League One? Utter guff, as is all of your post, apart from correctly looking up the NL UEFA coefficient. How are PSV getting on in the Champions League, having lost three of their best players? They're not above the eliminated ManUre by any chance?! Now you're really starting to show yourself up. Twente are 2nd from bottom in the league and could be relegated due to the financial crises they find themselves in and AZ are just a bottom half side nowadays. Be honest you'd struggle to name a single player from either team. Just go back the last few years and see how many clubs they've still had representing them in Europe after Xmas. You're totally clueless. Clueless is an apt adjective to anyone who fails to understand that (more-or-less) outside the 'big three' in NL, the rest of the Eredivise and roughly half of the Eerste Divisie is pretty fluid. However, I can't be that clueless having done live ESPN commentary for the top two Dutch leagues for a season when my other half was working in Hoofddorp. I'll take ESPN's recommendation and the twice-weekly cheque over your ill-informed opinions if that's OK. Have you ever seen a game of football in The Netherlands?! Do tell. I had a season ticket at PSV Eindhoven from 2005-2012 if that helps. It would if I believed you. http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/dutch-supporters-boost-sir-bobbys-1471152 Keep digging. It's missing the parts where you identify as 'James Kidd' and that you had a season ticket for seven years. Keep trying. Aye no doubt they've got loads of PSV season ticket holders living in Wallsend who are the same age as me. Also the fact I directed you to that link in a matter of seconds should be a dead giveaway. I've made a mug of you, time to let it go now.

Actually don't mind Ajax. Used to have some great banter with them at Schiphol Airport. I remember one time flying back to Newcastle and Ajax had just beaten PSV 5-1 in Eindhoven and one of them noticed my PSV shirt (away one I refused to wear the home one for obvious reasons) and I've never taken stick like it in my life. They were pulling me out of the security queue to laugh at me and everything. All good natured banter though. Feyenoord on the other hand........