Paullow

Definitely

A draw is far better here than a Sheff Wed win How not? no it isnt

A draw is far better here than a Sheff Wed win

There's been 8 games so far this tournament, 5 draws and the though sides who won all had Newcastle representation - typical, looks like the 3 could be there for a long time. Granted, Ghana and Senegal were favourites to win their games but so were Algeria, Ivory Coast, Cameroon and Gabon and none of those managed to win their opening games. Sunderland's 3 players either drew or lost their first games - would be nice if they stayed in it for a long period.

Have we only got 10 men?

Overseas coverage again of our game vs Rotherham on Sat 21st at 3pm.

3/1 (best price 18/5) on Birmingham looks cracking value

Quite interesting seeing the contrast of his goal stats in Sky games vs non Sky games He has 19 goals in 20 league games overall On Sky, he missed the Brighton game but has scored 2 goals in our other 8 live games, both against Leeds. So in the other 12 games (not on TV) he has 17 goals.

Won't make any difference mate. The only league game he will miss is Brentford, regardless of what we do in the cup

I was tempted to use mine, but decided to wait until a week on Friday in case there's any suspensions / injuries after the FA Cup. I've got 2 free transfers but will likely just take a -8 hit instead and use 2 more. I've got 3m in the bank and Zaha and Slimani off to the ACON. going to get rid of Payet as well - they've had their gift fixtures of Hull and Burnley at home and he's not really done much, too expensive for 9m+ when you can get Sanchez for a million or two more, Arsenal have got some decent fixtures coming up as well. Also got Deeney who is in a shit Watford side and you can get Defoe in for less than a million extra

Hopefully draw and get that Brentford game off Sky.

Just an awful set of 3pms really

Reading and Brighton both come from behind to win. Leeds winning. Awful

Have we signed anyone yet?

Wouldnt have made much difference since it was 3 points, but at 10pm he was only getting one bonus point, but then just after that he was tied with Eriksen's score so they both got 2 points - i have both so i was happy but aye, shocked he got 2 bonus points.

18 points for me tonight. 10 for Eriksen (2 bonus points), 7 for Van Dyke (1 bonus point) and 1 for Vertonghen. Lost a few points in the last few mins though - Spurs 4th goal cost me a point for VVD letting in a 4th, also that goal meant Alli got the 3 bonus points at Eriksens expense and then Vertonghen got booked in the last minute. Redmond (who i had on the bench this week) and Vertonghen both suspended now for the next round of games.

I'm hasten to lay into Rafa, obviously, because of the enormous amounts of good work he's done. But aye. The landscape is entirely different to the previous time we were relegated, so we're not going to win it at a canter, but defeats like that are inexcusable. Certainly the way in which we were beaten, anyway. Defend and foul = win away at Newcastle. Howay man, that's the sort of thing you'd expect from mid-table pish. 5 home defeats and not even new year is terrible. 4, but still poor.

That was only our second one this season

http://i67.tinypic.com/2vtwn6a.jpg Mike Ashley controversially stopping George Groves

They've got to finish in the top 3, and it looks like there are 4 in contention to win the league - them, North Shields, Shildon and Morpeth so as long as they don't finish bottom of that pile they will go up, but by no means nailed on

Never seen so many teammates look so disappointed after a screamer was scored, ha

He's had a few off the field issues in his time, but he's proved his chant there - Gary Madine, Goal Machine

Gary Madine upfront big Newcastle fan from Gateshead. Jak Alnwick's brother Ben starting as well

Massive match tomorrow. If MU lose tomorrow they are guaranteed to finish exactly 4th. If it's a draw tomorrow, Arsenal can guarantee at least 3rd with a win over Sunderland on Wednesday or effectively seal it with a draw against Sunderland (there would need to be an 8 goal swing on final day to cost them). A MU win tomorrow will guarantee that it goes down to the final day, so we could really do with MU winning tomorrow.

5 vs 2 is a week on Wed. 4 vs 3 is a week on Thurs (hopefully Heed get thus as I wouldn't mind seeing Chelsea vs Atletico, ha) Second legs are both a week on Sunday. A win will do, a point will do, a loss will do if Braintree don't win. A 1 goal defeat will do if Braintree only win by 1. A 3 goal swing in a Heed loss and Braintree win will see Heed out. Despite Cambridge guaranteed 2nd and lost 3 on the spin, still a bit of work to do as Grimsby might rest a few against Braintree.