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Great tackle by Willo.

Nile Ranger scores his 10th of the season for Swindon.

Santon's tracking has been horrific. Shame, as everything else about him playing there has been fine.

De Jong's looked decent so far. Good movement and leap.

Great ball by Santon. Sissoko is hopeless.

First goal Leeds scored was because the keeper's kick got taken by the wind too (and a great finish from McCormack). Wind's been nuts.

Quite interested to see how Santon does in the middle tbh. Has a lot of the necessary attributes. It's just whether he knows where to position himself.

You make that sound like an eternity. He had his breakthrough 3 seasons ago. Have the other academies of Premier League teams been churning out star players since then? Not every player on our books is going to make it. In fact, if 10% of them did we'd have the best youth system in the country. How many other academies have turned out an England international striker in the last 3 or 4 years? That's not really the point I'm making. None of our young players have developed whatsoever under Pardew, including the ones we've bought like Santon, Bigirimana etc.

Last young player we developed was Carroll, and unsurprisingly that wasn't under Pardew.

Launched his own fashion range. http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/lifestyle/showbiz/newcastle-united-star-cheick-tiote-6662938

Tbf a determined like Cabaye did improve. Aye, but probably entirely of his own accord. None of our younger players seem to develop whatsoever under Pardew.

Ah man, imagine having a good manager that helps develop players. Santon could be so good with some decent coaching.

Surprised there's not a bit more hype around Delph. Doing really well now after a poor start at Villa. Always looked like he was going to be a future England player when he was at Leeds.

Thought Marveaux did ok when he came on

Yeah, he was shit (no worse than Tioté or Sissoko, mind). To be expected when played in a midfield two and with a long ball philosophy though.

Tioté is so shit.

Bizarre that our entire attacking plan has been centered around one of the worst players in the league.

No surprises. Our game plan of kicking it up to for it to bounce of Shola has done nothing but invite pressure on ourselves.

Can only think Santon scores loads in training.

Central at the moment.

Plenty of opportunities You are getting carried away, just not in favour of him. He's made 35 appearances for us.

He's had plenty of opportunities to show something for us. Didn't hear about him doing particularly well at Boro either. I'm not going to get carried away because he's had one good half vs Norwich. Of course I'd love to be proven wrong.

Started together in that cup game vs Brighton last year. Don't think they have in a PL game though.

Yeah, he had a pretty good first half against Norwich but then completely disappeared in the second. Certainly had more performances that would suggest he won't make it at this level than performances that suggest he will.

My point was more that they're both poor footballers, without the necessary ability to succeed.