Andy84

Rainieri has completely lost the plot there like, seems clueless as to how to turn it around. They were magnificent last season but also extremely lucky with how things just clicked and the top teams were s***.

Really good day for us, the Reading result especially destroying their goal difference and hopefully their confidence

To Barnsley who concede 5 to Forest, who then casually win 2-0 at a team in the play offs. The league is s***

Leicester this season

Over it now, hopefully a day of Mackem/Pards misery will balance the universe again

Think it's more about people buying into the rotation policy, not just wanting Hayden out for Colback. Colback has been fine during the run we've been on. He was excellent tonight and there was a real feel like he stepped up when Shelvey went off. Hopefully he will take on that responsibility, no reason to think he can't.

We need to calm down like We are top at this stage because we are the best side, we'll be there or there abouts at the end for the same reason

I dunno, I think they are the real deal personally, don't think there is anything lucky about their position at the moment. I think Brighton are more likely to drop off than them, Brighton have been remarkably consistent throughout the season, they haven't had a bad patch at any stage, the law of averages says they've got to stumble at some point. Don't know how you know Reading are "the real deal" like, albeit they are on a good run of form. A lot of the teams who were expected to challenge have been massively inconsistent such as Norwich, Derby, Sheff Wed and even Villa who were expected to be right up there. 2 points a game gets you up and we are on course, loads of games left and we will pick up again

If anyone was at West Brom away in January 2010 FA cup tie and watched James Linnington, this performance was up there

It was surprising how comfortably better we were like, even down to 10 when Ritchie scored we absolutely bossed the game. I expected them to be full of beans and brimming with confidence, in typical style we just took the whole sting out of it. The 2nd red f***** us, otherwise we get something out of that. Most likely an easy win.

Annoying. Given we are head and shoulders above them in terms of quality

Good first half, s**t second. Penalties pathetic

Our midfield was poorer for not having Colback in it on Saturday imo.

Abysmal performance. Not forgetting this was a patched up Blackburn defence who ship goals on a regular basis. Credit to them but we awful from minute 1, the changes made us look disjointed and unbalanced. Hopefully won't see too many days like this again this season. Special mention for Perez, he was pathetic.

Got a feeling we will absolutely murder these lots of goals to nil.

10 million seems an absolute snip for him. Just a natural finisher and the best signing we've made since Ba

Standard away game under Benitez, see we really struggled with the Elland road atmosphere

It's an U21 friendly

Absolutely s*** this daft c***. His ability to make a club totally miserable is uncanny. Arrogant tosspot

The whole thing is pointless, the likes of Scudamore have to justify their existence I suppose and IF we get get promoted it will just cause a load of grief. It's like a unique selling point of SJP and when away teams bring a large boisterous following the atmosphere is still really good.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/sport/shelvey-facing-long-ban-after-racism-charge-p3mp85trc

Been mentioned that the Chronicle say NUFC have known about this since the game? Also he has privately denied it to the club and is thinking of contesting it

CM out LB in? Wonder if Shelvey was in their thoughts, playing at a lower level but he's more than capable of replacing Danny Drinkwater on current form. It's not as if he's just played in the championship either he was a squad regular not so long ago.

Aye another solid performance from Dummett, he would have scored if he had kept the shot down rather than putting a bit of height on it. Clark is excellent with the ball at his feet, for apparently being error prone he's showing absolutely no sign of it. Albeit a lower standard but not a sniff of an error in his game, been excellent maybe just ruined along with every other Villa player.

The type of game we will thrive in, big crowd on TV. We are excellent away from home 0-2