BELLAMY!!! 2-2

I was at Ewood and he wasn't awful. We kept a clean sheet, so obviously the defence did their job. Todd hasn't been at his best this season, so bringing him back in and putting Zurab at right back would weaken the centre of defence. Why change a winning team?

Shocking performance by England. We should have won comfortably but instead we were hanging on for a win against a mediocre side at best. We've scored 2 goals in the last 3 games against teams who have a handful of decent players between them. SVEN OUT!

1-1 N' Zogbia

At one time or another I think all our midfield had hamstring injuries and I think Cole may have had one? Can Souness and his training staff not recognise that there is someting wrong with their training techniques? Ah well, not our problem anymore

And Luqe off with a hamstring injury, shock!

According to BBC Fulham have had 55% of possesion. How can Newcastle's 'Top 6' outfit be over-run by a team as poor as Fulham?! If we beat Newcastle next week and they don't score i'd lay plenty of money on Souness being sacked.

I think he means compared to other sports as well, as in the best team in the world for any sport. Am I right neekoy?

Ponting run out

Have to give Jansen at least 30minutes in the second half alongside Kuqi.

Langer gone for 61

I thought we played well tonight, pity we only managed a draw in the end. I didn't see MotD, but IMO Neil's first challenge wasn't worthy of the a yellow, just a good hard tackle and got the ball. Why oh why does Savage insist on taking free kicks and corners? MGP is a million times better, yet Savage insisted on taking a number of free-kicks. He has no power in his set-pieces unlike MGP who is as good as anyone in the PL at striking a dead ball.

What's Reid done to deserved to be dropped? Emerton should be the 1st player to be out of the team after yesterdays performance. Also Flitcroft isn't up to the PL anymore.

To be fair it did look like he was saying **** off on the replay shown at the game. I don't think they showed it on MotD.

Don't know if anyone else has said this, but I think Hughes has been encouraging the players to shoot more from outside the box rather than try and walk the ball in the net as we used to do under Souness.

The main problem with Kuqi is that his first touch is @#/?. If he can improve that and hold the ball up a bit better and carries on winning as many balls in the air he can bring Bellamy and MGP into play and we've got a pretty decent chance of getting goals.

Spurs are looking good this season and should be challenging for top 6 so i'll take a hard fought 1-1.

On Sky Sports Souness was asked whether they were unlucky today and probably for the first time ever he said he didn't think they were unlucky!

As thenodrog said before 4-5-1 does seem to suit our players a lot better than 4-4-2. After thinking about it more and reading other people's posts when Bellamy gets back and if Hughes can persuade him, we should move him out to the right instead of Emerton and maybe have him and MGP drifting in to help Kuqi. By doing this we can switch quickly from 4-5-1 to 4-3-3. I think there was link there was a link on here a couple of weeks ago about how a game is won and lost during the switch of possesion and how quickly a team transfers from attack to defence. If we can get the ball moving quickly out of defence, which hopefully Tugay will help with, we should score a lot more goals.

I thought Kuqi played well today considering he was up on his own, won plenty of headers against Knight who is absolutly massive. Needs to work on his 1st touch though. He knocked it about 6feet in front of himself most times. Neil was excellent as most people have said, and so was MGP. The all round play was good from the team except for Emerton. He didn't bring anything to the team today, he just lost the ball and was reluctent to run at players (makes a change). IMO he has at the very most two games to prove his worth to the team or else he should be dropped then push Reid out on to the right wing.

Friedel Neil, Todd, Nelsen, Gresko/Matteo Emerton, Savage, Mokoena, Reid, MGP Kuqi I've only put Emerton in the team as we can then have Reid making things happen in midfield. Hopefully MGP and Emerton can push up and get some decent crosses in for Kuqi then we can sneak a 1-0 win.

I expect a 1-0 win to us. Think we'll definatly play 4-5-1 if Bellamy is injured. Just have Kuqi holding the ball up with MGP overlapping and scoring the goal.

Just got back from the test. Had a quality time, the atmosphere under the replay screen where we were sat was amazing. Never been to a proper test match before but definatly want to go again. 8 hours of entertainment for a tenner, you can't argue with that!

Thought it was good, better than the usual chat.