Tiresias

fucking hell don't jinx it

fucks sake...

Just like Wigan again? Need to get that sorted

You really wouldn't know he was a footballer

Next time we sign someone noone had heard of for £4m everyone will go batshit! (Though must be said playing for league winners in France hardly counts as that obscure).

Oh fuck that attitude, if we beat blackburn, let's go into the quarters play some good footy, if we get dumped out by a Man U trying to take the sting out of a league fast evading them then so be it. It's not great for prospect of winning it, but getting knocked out by a crap Blackburn team would be sad, not going out kicking and screaming against Man U

http://twitter.com/#!/joncarterESPN/status/128598074888171520 Balotelli never disappoints

I think I am in love with Balotelli

Tiote might be seen as a liability in Europe since getting booked is easier, and Tiote does accumulate yellows in English footy with ease...

I think Pardew seems desperate to keep everyone happy, hence tolerating Obertan's poor performances etc and keeping him in team. Harper was probably pretty upset to not be getting any footy so Pardew, with maybe too much respect for his feelings, has allowed him to go out. It is way way too soon to judge Eliot, one bad game ffs.

Harper probably wanted to play games. Krul stays uninjured we're fine...

Well if MOTD say it must be true Do kind of agree, but Santon has more potential than either of our current full backs and he needs to be folded into the team to gain that understanding, I wonder if Pardew's weakness is being too nice to squad players, if he's willing to cause some bother by subbing players. It works wonders for morale, but it's keeping better players on the bench, so there is a trade-off. Santon working on both flanks is good though, keeps everyone on their toes, and as such can be switched around to find out who he works best with.

I was going to try and put tiote in for god but that was too much work

sorry couldn't resist lol http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6202/space.jpg

Shockingly we're not going to have Cabaye and Tiote available for every game all season in all likelihood , Abeid sounds maybe like a better prospect but have heard Club do rate Gosling.

I wonder if we're overplaying them, maybe need to consider rotating Gosling or someone in for a game.

I was less than impressed, I thought his positioning at times was poor contributing to a few of their dangerous breaks, but maybe being harsh.

Yeah this was a bit right, we were better dealing with their midfield 3 after he came on, even though wasn't really too much to write home about. He'll improve.

As seems likely that the Idea is the 4-2-3-1 with HBA in the hole, I doubt he's meant to do much tracking back, since we are operating with 2 midfielders in the holding position, and even if Cabaye is attack minded he also does a lot of the defending, this gives us the extra cover to theoretically let HBA have a freer role, as opposed to operating a 4-1-4-1 or something where you might be doing defence work further up or such.

the bosman rule I think

Just got back from weekend in Toon, was at the game, and I had to get the incredibly nervy game. We didn't play great, thought both Tiote and Cabaye (bar the goal of course) had a bit of an off day, and I think Wigan were quite sensible in packing midfield and hitting us on the counter. Having said all that 3 points from a poor performance is great, though we really should be scoring more past Wigan. Ba had a very quiet game, as had Best, though he impresssively beat defenders few time. HBA didn't seem to do all that much when came on which was disappointing, he obviously needs more game time. Yet again needs people closer to him supporting him on his dribbles. Great goal, though honestly looks better now I've seen a vid of it, I couldn't have been further from it at the time. Great result, poor performance, Marveaux needs to start ahead of obertan, I feel sorry for the lad really if his confidence is so low, but can't really let it hurt the team.

I'm going now, so yeah, doomed it probably, sorry everyone

I dreamt we were 3-0 down from a Gary Caldwell hat-trick 20 minutes in Well think we can at least rule out that happening

well at least they're not putting in cattermole for colo, they get some credit for that