Away Toon

7 French players now on the pitch for us and no English. There is something wrong with that, in fact a lot wrong with that.

Shola looking a lot more likely than Cisse

Huddlestone would have improved us considerably, and would have given us a basis in midfield to play some kind of possession football.

I voted for the three who seem to be slightly less nauseous than the others. I would have voted for Cisse but we must have sold him to another club just before the window closes.

me too and I watched the entire game against Morecambe.

A drop in the Ocean.

BBC Sport's Saj Chowdhury: "Demba Ba's agent Alex Gontran tells BBC Sport the 28-year-old Chelsea striker would like to stay at Stamford Bridge this season and fight for his place. Competition for places in the Blues attack is set to increase with the imminent arrival of Cameroon forward Samuel Eto'o from Anzhi Makhachkala. "Eto'o's arrival means that Chelsea's forward line-up will consist of Ba, Fernando Torres and Romelu Lukaku, while German Andre Schurrle can also play in that position. Gontran also dismissed Ba returning to former club Newcastle." Also Champion's League draw just about to start. It wasn't that long ago we were in it. Ashley what have you done to our club?

If I was Anita and got dropped for Cabaye against Fulham on Saturday I would put in a transfer request and tell my agent to get me out of there before the window closes.

Marveaux used to look promising, what happened?

Big fat Sam scouting someone, probably one of their players. Can't be one of ours they all look shit.

Well if nothing else there are certain lessons learned in a game like this. Firstly so far they are better than us and look more likely to score, in fact if we were a couple of goals down we couldn't really complain. Elliot looks poor on crosses but does make good reflex saves. The entire defence is weak in the air especially Good who however does look composed with the ball. MYM is terrible on the ball his distribution shocking. Bigi looks lightweight but does take a mean free kick. Gosling is the only midfielder at the club who gets into the oppositions box and looks like he might score. Sammy is the best winger at the club and should start a lot more often. Gouffran doesn't like he has many goals in him to me. If he's the best CF at the club it doesn't say much for the others. Vuckic is anonymous as is Marveaux, nothing new there. Hope we don't get beaten.

Half of the players we loan out don't even get to play, complete waste of time.

HBA has a lot of similar skills to Messi but is less than 1% as effective. That's what is disappointing. He should be a much better player than he is. I don't think he takes this footballing lark very seriously and is wasting the talent he has and what's left of his career.

I'm a francophile in that I used to shag lots of French women, but we really shouldn't buy any more French players. In a successful side playing nice attractive football maybe, but battling in the nether regions of the Premier League under Pardew, no thanks.

HBA is overrated especially on here and constantly flatters to deceive. Marveaux as well. Both are completely wasted in any case under Pardew at NUFC, and should be actively trying to leave.

Sorry if already posted; Newcastle manager Alan Pardew has insisted he will put the club before Yohan Cabaye. France international midfielder Cabaye, 27, was the subject of a rejected bid of about £10m from Arsenal and has yet to play for the Magpies this season. Pardew declined to confirm whether or not Cabaye refused to play in the first two games of the season against Manchester City and West Ham but said he will play no part in Wednesday's Capital One Cup second round tie at Morecambe. Pardew said: "The answer isn't as simple as a 'yes' or a 'no'. The answer is he is either going to be sold and we are going to have to replace him in the window that we have left, or he's going to stay. "But I, as the manager, have to protect him and protect the football club, more importantly. The first thing on my agenda is the football club, trust me, and that will always come first while I am the manager here."

Considering how much personality Jose has, his teams consistently don't have any. He's still a safety first negative manager even with all the attacking players he has.

Is this the good Ayew we are supposedly interested in, or the not so good one?

Ashley is more interested in profit then value, anything above 5M and he's quids in. That's why any of our players could be sold at any time if he can make some money. It's not even about Newcastle it's all about Sports Direct and we are a cheap way of boosting his tacky empire.

I think that Cabaye would improve Man Utd's midfield much more than he would improve Arsenal's or PSG. And yet no offer.

I don't believe a fucking word of that Chronicle bullshit. If Cabaye has refused to play, the club will fine him the two week maximum and make it public. If they don't and so far they haven't as far as we know, it's because there is another reason why he's not playing.

There are a bunch of gullible wankers posting on this thread. We have no idea what the situation is with Cabaye and why he's not playing, and probably never will.

Well as the table stands we are currently 17th. I'd settle for that now.

Anita was the only redeeming thing about the match. A real player who keeps the play moving, passes well and always looks for the ball. He should play every match.

So that would be 0 goals in two games and I'm pretty sure 0 shots on target. Impressive.