is Defoe playing this one then? thought taking his shirt off got him his 5th yellow

or even Matteo, it may have on ly been one game but what a performance, Great tactics Mr Souness

Yes he's been a bargain but how much a player has costed us should not matter when judging his performance. What if he was a 7M£ Italian that also would have scored a few penalties and a couple of more goals in 15 matches? Would you still be happy then? I think not. Dickov is our first choise striker at the moment and I, at least, have higher demands on our first choise striker. He still hasn't produced as much as he should have, or at least as much as I want. What's wrong with being unhappy with him and think he should have produced more? Am I a muppet because Dickov only is 5'6'' and doesn't win headers? I just said that I wanted strikers that our wingers can play crosses to. But I'm stupid to believe that that is an effective way to play football... oh stupid me! Remember, we are still in a relegation battle! some valid points don't see why people need to insult you, it is possibly Dickov is lacking in the quality area, thats not exactly news, and a little selfish, but that's something the strike partner or Hughes needs to address. but the fact that he gives 110% and is good at what he does, and fans can relate with him and maybe why they get so defensive. and appartantly Dickov practices Pens on thursdays and Fridays, so that why he taking them, good pens aswell. My advice is, while we are winning, don't bother complaining about even the slightest point, because anyone and everyone will attack with their blue and white glasses on. That's from 8 years experience on this board.

good post sums it up for me, although, still Tugay is under pressure to perform like that every week now with Thompson getting fitter, can he do that? Still not sure exactly what Gray has done wrong, I'd put it down to playing with Matteo and Amo maybe? And is that 2 goals in 2 games for Gally, at last we could be seeing some competition for places up front in the following few weeks, that will be interesting.

only 4 out of 5 wrong

why do people keep saying he's not physically imposing or good enough at tackling, please remember he would be replacing Tugay at the moment all we need to do is better the current situation, and Tommo is a big improvement on Tugay

What a load of rubbish, sure you are entitled to your opinion but i mean c'mon. Emerton has been either the best player or in our top 3 best players this season. If you atcually got to games (Gray of course doesnt really have a clue about us, he is too busy watching the big boys) then you would see the good level of performance he is putting in top three players in a team thats 20th, can't be doing too great, I think he's right that Emerton sometimes lack that final ball, but he's doing better then last season

well if it is true we know who the Mole is in Blackburn, keep you eyes on this fella

De dedro must be doing something wrong in training, how much football has he played in the past 1 1/2 years anyway, probably count the games on one hand. whole situation is shocking, positively shocking!

Ian Brown

"whether he was telling the truth or crying wolf." I would consider being called a "Sperm Donor" to 10 million people would not help, firstly the reaction of the fans, and then the stress on Yorke and his reaction to the situation.

after Yorke was branded a very bad father in front of "millions" of people last week on Frank Skinner, probably the last thing he wanted was this, must affect his game. Looking back it was a bit over the top

What a load of bilge. He actually got paid a relatively small basic wage with generous bonuses for goals and wins etc Not even worthy of a . well obviously it was worthy of a serious response, in fact its fairly obvious about 15,000 people felt the same way with the boo's, and he did have a poor attitude and was lazy, and didn't give a Sh!t IMO

or bitter Yorke

Well with Gally back at least we have a little bit of competition for places, because now Hughes has to drop one of Jansen and Gally who scored or Dickov and as soon as Jon Stead has stopped performing on X-factor as lead singer with "G4", he'll get his concerntration back on football and i'm sure he will bang a couple in.

anyone hear monkey noises, Yorke was very upset after the game, about some racists in the crowd??? Bruce would not comment too much on it, I did notice Yorke looked upset, to be honest I don't like him and glad not to see a smile on his face but monkey noises is a bit too far

Gray was my player of the Season last year, now this year he's played with Amo and Matteo, what left back would not struggle, but Jay has made far more mistakes in his 4/5 games then Gray in 25 games.

some good stuff, some bad, Reid, Thompson, Emo, Gally, Nissa, Todd all looked good Negatives, thought dickov did OK and worked hard, but he has to pass to his strike partner more, too selffish today, and what was that at the end???? Tugay, finally hopefully It becoming evident that Tugay's inconsistent performances is too damaging to the side Jay at left back look a little bad in first half, whats Gray done wrong?, probably paying for the crimes of Amoruso and Matteo

I'd go with that, goodcall, Think it could work, the midfield that is, not too sure about the strikers, but hopefully someone going to start getting some winning goals, that extra quality is missing at the moment

well he does score plenty for his country, if we had him performing well and Thompson that could make up for the problems upfront, I would move Reid into the middle to replace Tugay. but then hughes sees him evereyday in training, i don't

Pedersen must be doing something wrong in training, I think Hughes has changed things and gets a good look at players in a competitive situation(games), he's not even getting on the bench

well he did start bramble and ronny johnsen against ruud and rooney... leaving the steady if unspectacular obrien on the bench... seems like he has a penchant for rock solid defences He also keeps playing bellamy on the left, rather than Robert. Crazy! I expect us to finish around 12th at least he's not playing a centre back on the left anymore

a bad season for newcastle is 5th place, at this second I'd take 17th

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considering I got three of my last four predictions right and only missed out on getting Norwich right due to the sending off, otherwisw would havebeen right. Frankly I don't think we are strong enough up front to say we will score more then one goal, but I havbe hope thart Thompson or Reid is going to get a winning goal from 20 yards 2-0 to blackburn