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Surely the title should be 'Ray Wilkins, my word.'

Was weird like, it was as if he just thought "fuck it" and started telling players to just do what they want. As mad as it was this is pretty promosing stuff tbh.

The only thing people are complaining about with regards to Pardew is his decision to constantly bench Ben Arfa, again it proved to be a daft move today. I'm pretty sure everyone realises the limitations we have, but still to suggest this squad of players are punching above their weight to be where they are in the league is fucking ludicrous when half of the league suffers from the exact same problem, Stoke are comfortably in 8th man.

This isn't the full story. I'm guessing you know that already though.

FWIW he wasn't outstanding today by any means (neither was anyone else), he did display some moments of true quality though which should only become more frequent with more time on the pitch. And the reason he stands on the ball is because he can, i'm pretty sure every player in our squad wishes they were shown as much respect tbh

Seek help.

Responding to the devil's advocate: we lose possession a lot more when we play long ball without him, which is generally the alternative to having him in the team Aye, this.

The thing I don't get about him "giving the ball away" (which again he only did a few times) is that if he does infact decide to play the simple ball then some other twat will hoof it straight towards Shola, more often than not conceding possession. Without him and Santon today we would have been static.

French puff. That Helguson kid though, there's a man who only goes to ground when he needs too.

Nail on head. He must have only lost the ball about 3-4 times today tbh, probably no more than any other Newcastle player.

He's so calm man, takes the ball under control, fends off a defender and then just casually surveys the pitch before clipping a 70 yard pass.

If he doesn't start next game then there is something very wrong. A few moments of genuine class from him today in what was otherwise a fairly drab match.

Fairly poor game with some flashes of very good play from us. All in all bar the first 20 minutes of awful long ball shite we were very comfortable.

Superb today.

Gosling's peripheral vision is awful

Vuckic for Shola would have made sense

Best off Shola still on? The fuck

This guy cannot get a game because of Obertan and Raylor

He's awsome man Ray.

The ball isn't in the quadrant... My word.

He lazily stays up top goal monging which allows Best more freedom to go where he wants (which benefits Best's game), that's the best I can say about him really.

Demba goes, Leon rises. Pretty clear he enjoys been the main man like. Very very good forward on his day.

Fuck knows what has happened to Alan like. Are we playing 4-2-4 or something? It just seems weird how he's so reluctant to play Ben Arfa, Cabaye gets injure and the safest thing to do was bring on Abeid or Vuckic but he's made a pretty radical change. I'm not complaining like.

Hatem trying to score another wonder goal today.