Hughesy

My train up from London gets in at 11.48. That'll be a swift walk up..

Agree that he was trying to do too much yesterday. Each time something didn't work, you could tell he was becoming more and more desperate to make amends and started trying to do it all by himself.

You have only posted 2,725 times, so I think you are lying. Unless you keep telling random people about your thoughts on Jonas many times a day.

I don't know that much about Benfica - but I wouldn't say their squad is packed with stars..?

Could have been worse (Spurs, Chelsea), but I reckon we could do it. Good trip anyway..

That's a bit of an insult to him really. True...

Not sure anyone deserved to win it to be honest.

Played well - do quite like him in the middle in games like this.

Brilliant tonight. That was easily England quality.

So excited for the draw. We can actually do this..

Do our players think this is a friendly or something?

Not quite sure why people keep banging on about his lack of general play or technique. He has a better touch and technique than Ba had.

Bearing in Cisse was pushed first by Wilson and then Shawcross, I don't quite see what he was complaining about.

Looks like he has aged about 10 years.

I do love a bit of 'who-was-the-first-set-of-fans-to-sing-a-particular-song-one-upmanship'.

Assist tonight according to bbc sport.

Ferguson runs like an old woman. Makes me laugh

The players, of course. However, they are not to blame for their poor form this season. You can work this any way you like. It's quite flexible. Shhh - you'll give the secret away.

So Bruce got them to 11th and then Martinez finished 16th, 16th and 15th. Interesting.

Didn't Bruce keep them up or am I mistaken? Just checked - he got them to 11th.

Look who we are up against. What, Spurs, Arsenal and Everton? We can't compete with them? Really? Let's say we compete with those next season (I would include Liverpool as well who will no doubt outspend us again this summer), would you say there is enough quality and depth with our current squad to definitely finish above any of them? Would you be happy if we finished 8th but were half a dozen points off the highest placed team in that list? That would be 'challenging' so one would assume yes..!

We're 9 places below that 6th place, we're 6th bottom. I think everyone is aware of that - we've all seen the league table. We've underperformed this season. I would have thought that it would be sensible to see how we get on next season. If he underperforms next season with this squad, I would have no qualms about moving Pardew on.

Look who we are up against. What, Spurs, Arsenal and Everton? We can't compete with them? Really? You've missed out Man City, Man Utd and Chelsea there. And possibly Liverpool. As I said earlier - at best, we have the 6th best squad.

Look who we are up against. It's the managers making the difference, man for man I think we've got enough to challenge. I don't think that we have one of the top 4 squads in the league. Definitely not.