Jack Flash

2 defensive midfielders at home against a Division 1 team. Marvellous.

I really, really hope Suarez is starting tonight. I've missed him.

You've changed your tune

We couldn't possibly have improved the squad this summer so I'm expecting big things tonight :D :D

Defending what? All I've seen is some countering the idea floated that it means we have 'No Interest Whatsoever In Winning Cups'. Call it what you want, it's the same people instantly taking an opposing view to anything negative said about the regime and their puppet. "The thread title is a bit misleading isn't it? The haven't said they have NO interest, just that they don't really have much of an interest, or something. THERE'S A DIFFERENCE. They're just being honest!" Yep. Must be horrible to have backed yourself so far into a corner you just type a load of shit you don't even believe to save yourself.

Sutton 1 Le Tissier 8 Cole 15 Ferdinand 17 Fowler 26 Christ knows how many PL goals they scored between them but they were barely capped. Not sure how many of them were starts either.

Every Premiership team beat their lower league opponents tonight.

JJS has massive potential and he's at exactly the right team for his style.

Haha, yeah. He did. (pls don't do this tomorrow night and next monday)

Darren Bent scored the winner tonight too.

Defoe got 15 goals last season and 17 before that with 6 so far this season. *Flash's Fact Of The Day* He's now 5th in Tottenham's all time top scorers list.

Stick to the good times http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ3-IjD_wME

The same as every other time we lose.

Hughton was probably the man responsible for how good Carroll was then. Those tactics suited our attacking players perfectly. I doubt he got any credit from the higher ups when Carroll was sold though.

Sorry can't see that at all. Hughton was backed in our championship season, look at the players we kept in that squad and look how much it cost Ashley to keep them. Of course Ashley had no choice in the circumstances. Genuine question as I haven't looked it up: who did Hughton lose? If there were bids for the good players that stayed they'd have gone too. We lost probably £25million worth of players and replaced them with about £4millions worth that season. The summer we came back up he was given Tiote, Gosling, Campbell, Perch and Ben Arfa (on loan) totalling about £4.5 million. Your first sentence is just an opinion and is not based on anything much. We kept a fantastic squad by Championship standards and added to it in the January so I think Hughton was backed. Have had a look, are we talking Owen, Duff, Beye, Bassong, Martins, Viduka leaving- anyone else? At that stage of their careers Owen, Viduka and Beye had little value and (much as I liked them all - at times) good riddance imo. We got good money for Martins and Bassong neither have proven to be worth it. Arguably Duff has actually proved to have some value as he's played Premiership football ever since. I don't think we lost anyone of any significance under Hughton. By the way I understand you like him, he's a decent professional and man. He was treated badly. But I don't think he's as good a manager as Pardew, and that's based on nothing other than it being my opinion. They've been banging on about the cost of relegation for years so getting another £200+k off the wage bill and another £15-20million in transfer fees would have delighted them. I don't see how that's an opinion knowing what we know. It's not who we lost, it's how many and how much of the money was reinvested. We're extremely lucky those cheap deals and loans paid off so well or we'd still be down there. Hughton finished 5 places higher than us last year with a far worse team. Not too shabby.

Sorry can't see that at all. Hughton was backed in our championship season, look at the players we kept in that squad and look how much it cost Ashley to keep them. Of course Ashley had no choice in the circumstances. Genuine question as I haven't looked it up: who did Hughton lose? If there were bids for the good players that stayed they'd have gone too. We lost probably £25million worth of players and replaced them with about £4millions worth that season. The summer we came back up he was given Tiote, Gosling, Campbell, Perch and Ben Arfa (on loan) totalling about £4.5 million.

If you're talking owners working against their manager look no further than Hughton. He lost loads of players and was given peanuts to replace them and apparently Ashley etc hated him but did a really, really good job and I fucking love him so there.

Aye, it's clearly irrelevant that we finished lower than them and they won a trophy. And that they're currently higher than us despite having harder games and that b****** European thing. They also took one of our striker targets away from us and have a class manager. A striker who we wouldn't have signed anyway and who also hasn't played much in the league. They've also been playing competitively since August 1st which is close to 32 weeks in "Pardew time".

Aye, it's clearly irrelevant that we finished lower than them and they won a trophy. And that they're currently higher than us despite having harder games and that bastard European thing.

A season ticket holder saw Newcastle win 33% more games than a Swansea season ticket holder last year. But I know facts tend to cloud the issue so I apologise for mentioning it. And 1 less cup.

When a large section of the crowd are disinterested children and their parents it's no wonder the atmosphere suffers. And that's before we start on how shit Pardew is ffs...bite, my pretties, bite...

Getting pages and pages of bites and STILL they decide to have a go at the fans. They're going into overdrive today!

It's worse than I thought. We've only won 3 league games at home before the 80th minute since the Stoke 3-0 on April 2012. Norwich, Wigan and Southampton. Turtle domination at SJP.