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Black Garter open at 8am btw

Nice one CT.

They've played together for 4 games when you take out cameos. Stoke, Man City, Man u and Chelsea. Of those I'd say Guthrie might have been been the better player against Stoke. I had Guthrie as the better player against all of those apart from Man City, I'd throw the Fulham game in there too as they both played the majority of. I thought Guthrie was man of the match in the Everton and QPR games too which Cabaye didn't look particularly impressive in before he went off. Maybe JawS is right and without Tiote next to him Cabaye plays more of a subdued role but I would prefer to see what Guthrie looks like this season next to Tiote for a few games rather than watching him walk away for free in the summer. No score draw this weekend i think. Both utter shit. There were times when Cabaye was walking around the middle of the park at a complete loss, the ball would drop in front of him and Tiote would beat him to it from 5 yards further away. He'll not get away with it in the Derby, the crowd will be much less forgiving than they were in Saturdays library like atmosphere.

Amazing how bamboozled some people can get without emoticons.

Exactly. He gets a small cameo and THATS the reason we lose. Nevermind the complete shite that happened in the second half. Like him or not Ben Arfa creates chances (as well aa losing the ball a lot) so at least you know you'll get chances when hes on. But Pardew doesnt dare change his way of playing even when teams like Wolves are getting back into games against us so we'll never see enough of him and it looks like he'll have to leave since Pardew/fans have something against him for not the generic English grafter type We didn't lose, and Ben Arfa wasn't the reason we threw away a 2 goal cushion. I think he's fair game for criticism though. Why should any player be off limits? He got his fair share of praise for his performances against Everton and Man City (I spoke of spunking into my undercrackers). The lad gets the loudest cheer of any game when he comes on so it's not like he's suffering from the dogs abuse Obertan gets.

In 25 minutes Ben Arfa made 9 passes. That's a lot more than I thought he had. Just short of 1 every 3 minutes. and he was 100% accurate with them. In 65 minutes Ryan Taylor passed 15 times (one every 4 minutes 20 seconds) and was only 87% accurate. However, none of Ben Arfa's passes were deemed "key". 2 Of Taylors were. Ben Arfa didn't put a single cross in. Taylor attempted 4, 2 of which were accurate. Ben Arfa was disposessed 3 times (only Ba and Gutierrez lost the ball more more and they played 3 times as long) and he produced no successful dribbles or shots on target. Ben Arfa provided no tackles, interceptions, clearances or blocks. http://www.whoscored.com/Matches/506729/LiveStatistics/England-Premier-League-2011-2012-Newcastle-Wolverhampton

Obviously you're not a golfer.

how the fuck has Charlie Adam got the front to celebrate?

I hate this hugging on the halfway line bollocks. Top save.

http://www.eplindex.com/10360/hennessey-v-krul-opta-stats-comparison.html

http://www.eplindex.com/10411/simpson-santon-compared-to-rivals-opta-stats.html

Only reflects how shit those 3 regularly are.

Simpson, Guthrie and Cabaye have all had ample stick too. Ben arfa shouldn't avoid any stick because of two speculative rakes wide of the target. Simpson forced a great save with a better effort than either of Ben Arfa's. He was still utter wank too.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2106350/Newcastle-fans-march-coffin-St-James-Park.html

For fuck sake, what kind of an attitude is this to have? This is set to be our highest league finish in years! Bad result aye, let's move on and try and get a better one in the next game rather than write off a brilliant season. Christ, it's all very well and good when we're winning games left right and center but we simply don't have a strong enough squad to maintain a realistic european push. Top half was seen as an achievement at the start of the season, now that we're in with an outside shot of a euro place suddenly deluded expectations appear and the players get slated from every angle of their performances. I'm disappointed we drew today but we're always shit against Wolves. Performance was in line with most of the season in truth. More often than not we've been able to grind out 3 points with a bit more desire.

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can anyone tell me how many passes he attempted? I'd be amazed if he managed more than 2, but can't get into the chalkboards to check.

He was fucking shite and no mistake.

I'm avoiding that covers album. May your song always be sung had some quality covers on, but that new one has Sting, Mick Hucknall and Natasha Bedingfield on too. Sounds awful.

Was that the last time Tiote and cabaye played?

Iplayer only works in the UK unfortunately.

Django Django seem to have done what the Beta Band struggled to do over 4 albums and distilled that sound into brilliant 3 minute songs. Love it.

Nope, is yours Leazes' liver ??? No it's the cover of Dross Glop.

Lawro reckons we'll win 2 nowt.