OTF

And his beard is awful.

Bloody hell Alnwick

Lovely goal! Perez you little champion, great lead up.

Feels like Pardew is still here. Heartless second half, left back coming on. Such a vote of confidence in Cabella. 17 year old on to play up top, then a young fullback on to play in your position.

We need to string some possession together.

But not for long. All the momentum with them, hopefully that goal will change things. Our defense is a shambles.

That bloke in orange gave the crossbar some well earned relief there.

I can't decide who's a better option in goals for us, posts or crossbar?

Steven Taylor, man of glass.

This.

I should have added the safety wink.

I was being sarcastic.

He doesn't care and won't be coming back even if his mum was announced as the new manager.

The club is being paid for Pardew when we all would have happily sacked him and paid some level of compensation. Mike Ashley, master of business.

Everytime Sammy does the same thing and amazingly still quite often gets a ball into the box or wins a corner. He's not very good overall but that aspect alone can make him dangerous. Perez continues to grow in confidence in contrast to the rest of the team. Janmaat was too stuffed/lazy to get back for their goal, affording them acres of space. Very disappointing. A draw would have been a fair result. If only Armstrong had looked up when Sissoko had run into the box after playing the young forward through with a great ball. It would have been not much more than a simple tap in, and a wonderful goal.

If Kinnear was still around as director of football he would have handled this and we'd have been able to call on Tom Krul, a promising up and coming Dutch keeper whom he personally signed for a tenner.

He wasn't that bad a player, just didn't do well against particularly physical players.

Nacho Gonzales

In reference to talent and application of that talent.

Wasted career?

We've got a horrid record there so we haven't lost a lot by losing there. Setting aside the time wasted watching the abysmal performance. We do really need to get a senior keeper in though.

Lovely finish from Perez.

Tiote is licking his lips and polishing his left boot...

It's like we don't have any tactics at all.

Probably. He was offside.... apart from the ball being in front of him obviously!