Smal

yep

his knee's completely fine now, right? I was worried it was that when he came off

team pass completion against Stoke was 69%. Was 87% tonight, much better use of the ball.

Thought the rotation of the midfield was good tonight. Anita, Marveaux and Bigi all took it in turns to play in the hole and it worked well. When Cabaye's back I'd like to see the midfield something like Tioté Cabaye HBA Marveaux Anita With a hell of a lot of rotation between Marveaux/Cabaye/Anita/HBA. 4 excellent footballers, plenty of hard work and a destroyer. Would need a left footed left back and Santon right back for balance though.

90% pass accuracy over 69 passes tonight

I don't think he was. And if he was he certainly wouldn't have continued to

Both of them are to blame tbf, Cisse's run was s**** and Ba should have carried it forward more and make sure Cisse was behind the ball. Ba's not responsible for where Cisse is ffs. You don't pass to someone who's clearly offside, you keep going and wait until they get themselves back onside Ba would have got to The Trent by the time Cisse got himself back onside clearly not going to convince people so let's just leave it at I wholeheartedly disagree

Both of them are to blame tbf, Cisse's run was s**** and Ba should have carried it forward more and make sure Cisse was behind the ball. Ba's not responsible for where Cisse is ffs. You don't pass to someone who's clearly offside, you keep going and wait until they get themselves back onside

Not exactly hard to stay behind the ball was it? Come on. Why did Ba pass it to him at the time he did? All he needed to do was wait until he'd caught up with Cissé

How was that Cissé's fault, man?

not really sure why we're giving Sammy games. Clearly isn't anywhere near ready/good enough and isn't going to improve with 15 minutes here and there. Definitely needs to go on loan.

his first touch has never been any good really. Strange that a footballer can have such great technique when striking a ball in the 18 yard area but not actually be able to control a pass to a decent standard.

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don't agree with this like. Have a read of that fourfourtwo article. It highlights how he's playing loads more long passes than he used to and his accuracy is shocking.

I hate to disappoint you but it's unlikely this'll happen

don't care if Giggs, but thought this was a rare good read from fourfourtwo. Needs to be sorted asap. http://fourfourtwo.com/blogs/statszone/archive/2012/11/26/newcastle-failing-because-tiote-s-passing-statistics-don-t-cheik-out.aspx

Mike Williamson: passes - 15, accuracy - 67% Fabricio Coloccini: passes - 26, accuracy - 92%

Tioté is so poor nowadays.

what's he saying?

everything falls to pieces when Jonás gets the ball, like. Useless now I'm afraid.

christ, what the fuck is Pardew even talking about there?

Out until February now apparently

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_accommodation

Taylor hasn't been good in the last few weeks, but he's had a few really good games this season. Williamson hasn't

still hasn't actually played in his position for us yet.