Dr Gloom

perhaps there's a barnstorming number 9 signing to be confirmed by the club just before 5pm. or perhaps not and this is our lot.

from dot cock.....does he have genuine pace? if so, it might not be all bad. or am i clutching at straws?

Worse. Harewood would have been a better signing. And I hate Harewood. never seen the lad play like so hope we're wrong but that's what i feared. i think we all expected to get a better player in than harewood. funny to think so many were slating beckford now.

i'd probably play both of them at the moment. you've got to have a bit of mobility up front, which ranger has. carrol needs someone running off him to get on to his flicks, which nolan didn't do once all night apart from that chance in the first minute. pairing the two of them against leicester the other night was a shocker. you got about as much movement as a couple of sloths that have been hitting the bongs all night.

so is he better or worse than harewood?

they've got a a striker in bent that should keep them up. it's almost always the clubs that don't have a decent goal scorer that go down. i'm surprised to see them down there like

this lad is basically harewood's replacement. whose seen him play? is he better or worse than big bad marlon?

i don't see why we have signed him if he really is the sort of player people are saying. i have no idea as i don't recall ever seeing him play. seems it would have been far mroe sensible to try for a loan signing. we've got until march and might have been able to chalk up the sort of in behind the back striker with pace that we're crying out for.

2 goals in 31 league games as a centre forward Parky???? I'm telling you this now, if I lost a stone, and Smoggeordie would back me up here, I could get more than 2 goals in a season in a Championship side. Are you suggesting you are good enough to be a professional footballer? stevie to sign for the toon by the end of the week. you heard it here first.

i have no idea what this bloke is like but am hoping he's a pacey get in behind the back line kind of striker as that is blatantly the kind we need. doesn't sound like he is from comments on here so far.

geremi's wages alone are probably equal to what the four new signings are on so yes

did you watch the match yesterday? if we keep that form up, we will not be promoted.

absolutely fucking awful. couldn't create any chances of note against a side down to ten men for an hour. worst i've seen us this season. absolutely dire. goes to show that without enrique and jonas in the side, we have zero creativity. nolan, smith, butt, carroll, guthrie were all shocking. routledge showed glimpses but he hardly saw the ball all night our distribution was that crap.

it's not just that we can't beat them but the manner of the performance.

leicester will be robbed if they don't get at least a draw

the ten men are teaching the league leaders basics in ball retention, distribution and movement. the eleven men are chasing shadows and giving the ball away cheaply

why is butt still on the pitch. you'd never guess they were down to ten men if you didn't know. still looking the better side.

i know most of the rest of the division is shit too but i can't remember the last time i watched a match where we looked the better side, even when we've won. awful. painful to watch even

how the fuck are we top of this league? awful.

butt gives the ball away AGAIN and falls in arse to boot to usher in another chance for them

may as well be ten men a piece as long as butt is on the pitch. fuck me, he's been shite

they're all over us now like a cheap suit

first 20 minutes have been painfully poor from both sides.

how is that midfield going to line up? guthrie left mid? butt and smith in the middle

you couldn't make it up