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It may be harsh on them, but we've had 2/3 keepers on the bench purely to make a point of injuries. If it continues I'd rather have DeGea sitting on our bench than Gillespie, as I do agree that Dubs deserves his chance and has been mostly reliable in his whole time here. I'd happily wager most on here have seen more of de gea playing than either karius or gillespie. Regardless...this lot seem to generally know what they're doing with transfers. The only really major balls up coming with Tonali

Thought he was doing OK for them. Not performing miracles or anything but still giving them a decent promotion chance....are they just hoping for their usual manager bounce in time for the cup tie??. Got to make it 7 in a row Marra

Catts for me like

Schar is so underrated by everyone outside of Newcastle its almost criminal. He clearly is one of our best defenders, but getting any opposition fan to even k ow his name is virtually impossible... Suppose every team has a player they rate and love that no-one else seems to rate at all

And you'll stay down if you k ow what's good for you

Well, Eddie gets the pizza, Jason drops it down the drain, Graeme then takes it to Big Jo, who proceeds to s**g April

It is usually a signal to the board/owners about needing more players in, or to highlight to the media how big an injury crisis is to deflect from the performance if it was poor, or highlight how brilliant the team is if it's good

I do have the misfortune of working in Sunderland at the minute, and it is like I've stepped into "Back to the Future" every day. It's like 93-95 every day

A red card in one of his first games??? Like it or not international managers tend to remember that kind of thing, and will sew the elements of distrust which could well prevent future involvement

Not sure mind. It would be a laugh just to see the rest of the league raging, and it would open up a load of financial gain for us. Just think it would disrupt the good team spirit we seem to have

A whole world of nope. More trouble than it's worth

Really not important at all....Premier League, Premiership, 1st league....everyone knows what is meant by it, so I'd say that ranks about 999th most important things to discuss. Hell, my grandad still calls it Top league

Didn't even know he was called up. At least he's getting some recognition for how good he's been recently. Might have stuffed any future involvement, but it does show that international managers (Southgate aside) are paying attention to our team now

And that was so effective at getting anything actually done

This is the voice of the Mysterons...we know you can hear us earth men, and we do not approve of this statement

But the mysterons told us we would win...Capt Black guaranteed it. Balls to them ....s***happens in football, sometimes you gain from it sometimes you lose. There is totally a conspiracy favouring the big teams, just no-one seems to like/appreciate that we are now involved

Boo frickedy hoo....no one likes winners

Captain Black does not interact with humans

Well...by my wreckoning we still have 81 points to play for.. Half of this should se us get Europe of some description pretty comfortably. Three quarters should see us in the champions league, and another 75 should see us pushing City for the title. On the pessimistic site...we only need a few more wins to not be relegated ?

Baines....so scouse you couldn't have even put in in Brookside without people you were taking the piss out of scousers. Great player though and took a wicked free kick

They can and will be. managers are frequently hauled up for asking questions about referees. I would be more suspect if Arteta wasn't asked before the Committee to 'explain his remarks'....followed be a £100 fine and a 'don't do it again you naughty boy' warning

Balls to Arteta. If it had been the other way around he'd be complaining about having 3 separate incidences looked and how it should have never gone to VAr in the first place. Fact is that that VAR took the unprecedented step to look at three separate minor incidents in order to attempt to rule out this goal and still legitimately couldn't. I've never seen them review previous incidents like that and shows they were desperately trying to rule it out

He was a very good player....should have been at a better team than Everton. Very similar to Merino in a lot of ways but did it better and longer than him. Never came across as the spoilt arse that he does now....too much time lurking around city getting g everything his own way?

Well the Mysterons didn't help Captain Black out today....if it was us I'd expect EH to complain ina more dignified matter....yes the ball over the line could be debatable, but in a true line its just in....never any foul from big Jo, and not remotely offside. Truly shocking that they took 3 looks in the first place, which does just show how desperate they were to disallow it.i, very not seen that before as 1 has always been enough.