Smal

It's definitely been passed down to the players as well. You'd never get good managers saying shite like that every week.

you sure about this one? Last time Cissé had a partner up front they were getting in each other's way a fair bit.

Ben Arfa and Marveaux supply craft and guile don't they?

Marveaux/Cissé imo.

journos are a bit daft, aren't they? Cissé's played effectively as the sole striker long before he even joined us.

I'm going to assume he gets a longer ban for this than he did for being racist because it's he's committed numerous offences.

10 game ban for Suarez? edit: aye, confirmed by LEE RYDER

There'll be plenty of it going on. Seemingly pretty much nowt to prevent it.

Pretty much any manager in the entire football league is capable of those things. In theory they should be, but in practice definitely not the case. Do you not think that Newcastle United should be aiming higher than just those fairly basic functions though?

Pretty much any manager in the entire football league is capable of those things.

Alcaraz out for three weeks for Wigan. Good news.

I know you're not going to revisit this argument, but I'm quoting it anyway. Bad season? Completely the manager's fault. Good season? Not exclusively or even significantly the manager's doing. Aye, I'd say it's the sign of a pretty poor manager if that's the case.

Benteke really isn't that good. Neither is Weimann or Lukaku.

We'll probably have another 1000 page Pardew thread before he gets sacked.

If we finish one from bottom then we still get relegated, Pards.

Unfortunately I reckon Mike and Derek will lap up the Europa League excuse. All right it's a valid excuse up to a point, but it's not as important as Pardew would have us all believe.

There was something else about the tackles stat as well. Think it's the most tackles an NUFC player has made in a game this season or something.

I felt like putting myself through unnecessary anguish last night, so just after MYM's dodgy pass on MOTD I typed his name into Twitter. Cue loads of Arsenal fans saying things like 'glad we didn't get Yanga-Mbiwa' and 'Yanga-Mbiwa has been poor since joining Newcastle'.

Again, anyone who thinks he wouldn't be starting in an archaic 4-4-2 alongside Cissé is kidding themselves. It'd be another step backwards.

Comfortable mid table obscurity! WOOPTY FUCKING DO

Was dead hopeful until I got to the comma in this sentence. Oh well.

Said it before but that position is where his best form has come for us. Far more useful when he's sliding passes through for Cissé than he is when he's sitting deep and aimlessly lofting them into the box and hoping something will come of it. He's better at pressing higher up than Sissoko as well.

I'm assuming he meant three centre halves.

He's pretty poor. Definitely not good enough for West Brom.