Hughesy

Seems too low a level for them to be playing at for me. Got to be League 2 at the very lowest.

What top-form??? The guy hasn't had a decent set of performances since he's been at the club. Utter bollocks.

Maybe Stanislas. Never really rated Noble.

1 Robert Green 2 Winston Reid 3 Tal Ben-Haim 4 Daniel Gabbidon 5 James Tomkins 7 Kieron Dyer 8 Scott Parker 9 Carlton Cole 10 Jack Collison 11 Thomas Hitzlsperger 12 Pablo Barrera 13 Luis Boa Morte 14 Radoslav Kovac 15 Matthew Upson 16 Mark Noble 17 Benni McCarthy 18 Jonathan Spector 19 Freddie Sears 20 Julien Faubert 21 Valon Behrami 22 Manuel da Costa 23 Herita Ilunga 24 Frank Nouble 25 Junior Stanislas 26 Zavon Hines 27 Jordan Spence 28 Peter Kurucz 29 Marek Stech 30 Frederic Piquionne 31 Ruud Boffin 33 Victor Obinna 37 Lars Jacobsen 44 Jordan Brown 46 Jake Larkins Don't want any of them...

After a West Ham player? At bottom of article. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jan/06/newcastle-united-andy-carroll-dubai?

I absolutely love the way they chunter on about passing us out of the game and that their quality of football will be too good for our cloggers. Priceless stuff.

I wonder how many mins Shola has been on the pitch for in all his appearances. Can't have completed 90 mins all that often.

Wigan, Wolves, Birmingham I reckon.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12876_6609985,00.html Anyone know much about Mouche? Heard the odd good thing about him.

Eh? Jonas, not Ash. Why would signing Taarabt mean the end of Jonas/him out of the side? Because i'm an optimist. Or an idiot.

Just needs to do more of the same. Run at defenders and scare them. We know he can do it - he just needs to do it more often.

Played well today.

Agreed. I don't think he's been that impressive in the centre when he's played there. Thirded. Looked lost in his advanced role against Spurs. Much more effective out wide at the moment.

See ya Routledge

and stats are all they are. poor passes and mis hit shots become assists. Eh? assists mean nowt, a poor pass to someone who scores will be counted as an assist, sholas header against the mackems 8yds out unmarked and going wide because nolan was there was an assist when in reality it was a poor header. I can guarantee you that he didn't produce 22 poor passes that resulted in goals. They are good stats and show that for 2 seasons he was pretty damn good.

and stats are all they are. poor passes and mis hit shots become assists. Eh?

so is ryan taylors when in form. bentley had a very good couple of month at blackburn and people went way over board about him. He's a bit better than a 'very good couple of months'.

Benjani and McCarthy certainly aren't. Not the current versions.

Like a new signing...

Rubbish. Criticising his managerial ability is fair enough but he's done nowt wrong with regards to those two. Agreed. Pardew has done nothing wrong in relation to Enrique and Ranger. Ranger clearly needs a kick up the backside. And quick.

Great news re the Zog.

What's to say he wouldn't be better on the left? He does his best work coming inside and working the channels, anway. I realise you are a fan of Routledge but I just don't see what Routledge offers on the right let alone the left. He has one trick (flick the ball inside and then shift it outside) that sometimes comes off, but is worked out by any left back with a semblance of intelligence. He wouldn't even be able to do this on the left, so his ability to beat a man would be diminished. However, my biggest problems with Routledge are: 1) His technique is awful. You might criticise Jonas, but at least he can trap a ball. You play it into Routledge's feet and more often than not the ball bounces away to the opposition. If he tries to lay it off first time, the ball ends up looping up to no-one in particular. 2) His positioning and awareness is dire. Bearing in mind the above, I cannot understand why he always positions himself to receive the ball with his back to goal. He is not strong enough or skilful enough to do this. He has to work this out and learn to receive the ball facing the correct way. So bar him cutting in (which isn't really going to help the supply to Carroll), I can't see any advantages to him playing on the left.

Routledge on the left would be an unmitigated disaster. He's bad enough on the right.

Definitely lacked urgency today.

We look incapable of playing with any urgency, it's been the same for a number of years now. We always look like we've got all the time in the world, when we're 1-0 down with 5 minutes to go. The only urgency we showed was in stoppage time when we had that series of corners. Too little too late.