Away Toon

Sunderland's players were just so much more up for it, whether it was the British players, Cattermole, Fletcher, O Shea, Bardsley, Johnson, Colback, or Larsson and Cuellar, it just meant more to them as it did when they beat us 3-0. Pardew is responsible for motivating his players and must accept a lot of the blame, but the players really need to ask themselves what the fuck they think they are doing playing for NUFC. The club is rotten from top to bottom.

Cowardice at every level at our once proud club, from the top to the bottom. Cowardice from our owner who has no understanding of what NUFC means to the supporters and the community, has no ambition to make the club successful at any level, and is afraid to appoint a decent manager and pay the going salary. Cowardice from JFK who takes a wage for doing nothing, is incapable of doing his job, and says nothing meaningful to explain his position. Cowardice from Pardew, consistently since he was appointed. Negative during games, reactive never proactive, constantly changing set ups to counter our opponents ( often in the same game, see today) consistently playing players out of position, always blaming somebody else. Cowardice from the players. I cannot remember us having so many players with no bottle who just don't care. Sunderland wanted the game so much more than our lot did. Pardew can't motivate them, they won't motivate themselves. Lastly and I'm uncomfortable writing this, cowardice from the supporters, who commendably follow us through thick and mostly very thin, but should not accept that what is happening at our great club is any way acceptable, and should get organised and do something. Hard choices but supporting this club in its present form is thoroughly depressing and shouldn't be allowed to continue.

You can't have so many players play terribly and expect to win. Cisse, Sissoko, HBA, Gouffran, Remy, for starters. Not one of them has played well, Debuchy, Cabaye and Tiote have been reasonable. ,

Undeserved but we'll take it.

They have been better so far in every aspect of the game, hungrier, more committed, better crossing, better passing, and most importantly they are braver. Pardew you are totally responsible for most of the above, what are you going to do?

Whatever role HBA has been asked to play, and who the fuck knows what it is, he's fucking useless at it.

You don't get the feeling the players have any idea what Pardew wants them to do, especially the front 6

Less than 20 minutes and Pardew is having to change the system on the pitch. He is an absolute useless cunt of a manager.

This game could be over by now

Pardew writing his fucking resignation letter I hope.

Televison one of the greatest bands and albums ever.

Go to Palace, you know you want to, and you know we want you to, maybe even Palace want you to.

Ferguson in his autobiography talks about how certain players would try to dictate to him and the club how things should be run and battle with him to get more power. He just moved them on and quickly as well, for the good of MU. We are seeing the opposite at NUFC and have been for a long while, with many of the players just basically doing what they want, Colo, HBA, Cabaye for starters. Pardew hasn't the balls or hasn't the backing to do anything about it. It's ludicrous letting players fly home for a jolly and presumably paying them at the same time. If they are going home for treatment with the world's specialist in their particular problem, that's one thing, otherwise is brainless. Most of the players don't care and don't understand what it means to play for us, all the more reason to treat the bastards with the iron fist they deserve.

Delph looks a good player, he must be close for a run out for England.

Great game, great performance, deserved point.

Close the shop, barricade the door and defend like fuck for a point, unfortunately not our forte under Pardew.

Well that's fucked it and for once we were playing really well.

Individually the defenders are playing well enough, but as a unit it's an accident waiting to happen. Liverpool are having free headers every time a cross comes in.

HBA in all likelihood won't start for us again on Saturday.

I think we all know that we have a starting 11 inferior to the top six, but would like to think we were competitive with most of the others. IMO if you compare Everton's starting 11 with ours, apart from Krul maybe for Howard, and Cabaye somewhere in their midfield, none of the rest of our players would start for them.

It's either money not very well spent or the most useless coaching in modern history.

In defence of Debuchy he has playing with pretty much the worst defence in the league since he joined last January. Defensively we were terrible last season and so far this season only the mackems have conceded more than us. Can't be very good for his confidence.

The fact that Debuchy plays really well for France shows what a good player he is. The fact that he is generally shit playing for us says a lot more about the club than the player.

Townsend has a much better right foot than I thought, virtually two footed. Rare.

Excellent Referee in the game. Players keep falling over and then seem genuinely surprised they aren't getting a free kick. He's kept the game flowing.