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Jimmy Perch looks like a young Roy Keane out there.

Putting a positive spin on things this match shows that we've made big strides away from the bottom end of the table, we've had to lose Taylor, Tiote, Cabaye, Ba and Cisse before Blackburn away becomes a competitive match.

Loving Tim's Gordon Gecko slicked back hair look, beats the early Oasis hairdo.

He took Ben arfa off for Perch? eh? we've got a lad on a yellow and two donkeys up front anyone of them 3 would have been better to take off surely.

Aye this has been a big reason we're failing to retain possession no one is showing for the ball, the Jonas play you mentioned is a massive example of it he had the ball for a good 10 seconds and not a single player showed for him or made a move for him.

Wow what a shit first half, we've been ridiculously lucky (as well as having that bowl hair cut god between the posts) against Blackburns 12 men (seriously Dowd sort it out man). Blackburn have struggled to stay on their feet no idea how this lot are professional athletes if they're this prone to falling over. I understand we're missing a good chunk of our teams spine but playing the suicidal high line yet again worries me and Hoilett + Modeste will get opportunities from it, I've also noticed how comically slow we are to the 2nd ball EVERY single time. When the ball comes out of the box from a cleared corner it always falls to a Blackburn player in about 15 yards of space and our lot jog out rather than closing him down quickly, if we continue playing this badly we'll lose we've really rode our luck here. Mind you is it just me or is the standard of officiating worse this year? Dowd has been total shite. The lack of chances we've had is majorly down to the fact that Best and Ameobi are completely incapable of staying onside, as we were setting up the shot that was deflected in I was watching Ameobi hoping for a through ball but the guy was just standing about 1 yard offside for that entire phase of play. Perch will be brought on for Taylor 2nd half in all by the looks of it.

Aye the browser's dogshit on mine.

Not feeling very confident about this one after that abysmal performance at the weekend, Ben Arfa has to have a big game imo now we're missing Cabaye.

I read an article somewhere about this, it's some situation where they can't afford to continue construction (due to their debts and paying for the rental/upkeep of their current ground) but the Government would hit them with fines etc if they stop building the ground so they employ a few builders to be on site daily and pretend they're working . Bloody hell it's the perfect job for any Spaniard surely? Aye that's what I thought when I read it in all, wouldn't have been short on applicants for it.

Read somewhere yesterday that El Abd had contacted the club saying he'd support Cabaye in his appeal, seems a bit odd that the FA will give someone a 3 match ban when the supposed victim of the incident is helping the appeal.

I read an article somewhere about this, it's some situation where they can't afford to continue construction (due to their debts and paying for the rental/upkeep of their current ground) but the Government would hit them with fines etc if they stop building the ground so they employ a few builders to be on site daily and pretend they're working .

He's too hungover from his white lightening binge after we smash them to go anywhere near the community library computer, or maybe he loses his library card in his angry drunken stupor while chasing a magpie round his back garden.

I'd seriously thought we'd got rid of him by now. What a waste of time he was he couldn't have played more than 100 minutes for us.

He's a championship player tbh (as a striker), hopefully it's the last we've seen of him at Newcastle though total waste of £60k a week.

No clue mate, like I said I heard it from a Mackem so it may as well be off tribal football tbh.

Agree with others that the 4-3-3 simply didn't work with the 3 we had today, Shola can't lead the line alone and Best can't have an impact out wide left. That was Pardew's fault but tbh the players themselves looked very lackluster, it'll be interesting to see how he reacts to this one against Blackburn if he begins with the same formation and front 3 then I'll be worried. I think he's a decent enough manager and has done a very good job for us so far, certain parts of the fan base are getting very snobby very quick if in our 2nd season back in the premiership and in 6th position they're calling for the manager to be replaced. We've got to look at this game from all perspectives tbh aye the tactics were bad and Pardew didn't react but we were missing 4 (discounting Taylor) first teamers and I think if Ba, Cisse, Tiote and Colo had of been playing we'd of won today, I know 'some' sides can cope well with a few of the first team out but unfortunately that just isn't us at the moment.

Nah we're the obsessed and deluded ones obviously, mind they really should have held back on their town-wide orgasm till tomorrow because they're going to look a right bunch of mugs (more than normal) if Boro beat them.

They're inferior mate, it's a (cheesy) chip on their shoulder the poor sods are born with. They have a thread on all our matches complete with formations and everything, they're a dull lot but if you've ever seen Sunderland you'll understand where it all comes from I'd describe it as a not as nice mid 90's Belgrade.

Madame palm and her five mates covered in cheesy chip grease, he's in for a right treat.

Agree this 4-3-3 experiment hasn't worked at all it could work with Cisse-Ba-Ben Arfa but it doesn't work at all with Best-Shola-Ben Arfa, Shola has proven numerous times he can't lead the line by himself and needs a strike partner close by for knockdowns etc.

A mackem was banging on about how Sessegnon has a world cup qualifier 3 days before the derby, reckoned Senegal had a friendly the same day If it's true I hope we don't allow Cisse and Ba to go and play.

He wasn't even close to being the worst player.

Really shockingly bad performance, they were shite too but we were a joke. Get Ba and Cisse on a plane tonight and tell Senegal to do one.

Hello again Sunderland, they'll be out of Panda pops and orange cheddar cheese if we keep this form up. Iceland hasn't had business this good since we got relegated.

I thought the players said they wanted to give this a go.