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Sammy hasn't had many chances either to be honest. Mostly comes on as a sub with 10 minutes or so to play. No time to show what he's about. Like I said in another thread, I imagine Tiote's poor performance today was in part down to not being fully fit. I'm not panicking about him yet. Gutted that Vuckic didn't hit the back of the net with that shot, but his performance was a positive and will have added to his confidence.

Tiote clearly isn't match-fit, to be fair to him. He was out for longer than people might have thought he was.

Didn't realise you two were so close.

I thought - aside from one great bit of skill - that Best was woeful. Maybe the service to him didn't help but his positioning was all over the place and he was far too anonymous.

Avoid relegation? Come on man. Got to say that I'm still particularly gutted that Vuckic's shot didn't go in. Both gutted for him and the team (as a goal then would have given us more of a chance in the second half);

No-one is laughing.

Don't defend Colo too much - he had a bad game regardless of his colleague's failings. I just can't believe we've gained 1 point off Norwich, Swansea and West Brom. Going to ignore football for the rest of the night and hopefully the next few days, I'm so annoyed right now. 4 minutes between Ba scoring and them getting the winner. It should have been all out attack with only us looking likely to win it in the last few minutes - and even if we hadn't found a goal, a point is still a point. But nothing?

We've been adequate going forward, so I'm not sure what your point is. Yeah without Ba we're in trouble, but we currently have Ba playing so it's a moot point.

Just to top everyone's night off - Sunderland have scored a probable winner in the 90th minute.

I didn't think we'd miss Steven Taylor this badly, although Coloccini deserves a lot of the blame. 4/10 for both CBs, both cost us in particular. Going forward we're fine. That's not a problem. Swansea was just one of those days but with better defending we'd have gotten points off Norwich and West Brom. Teams we perhaps should be beating. I'm writing us off till we get some defenders in. Can't wait till Bolton as at least we'll see Williamson back. Perch can't play again as far as I'm concerned. Give Kadar a chance if you need to, just don't play Perch.

We're fine going forward. A combination of woeful defending and not much luck is costing us. January can't come soon enough.

It's not all Perch's fault.

We should have been looking for the winner. Instead we get done on the break again. Joke.

Unfuckingbelievable. Seriously? Fucks sake. Fucks sake.

Get in, it's Ben Arfa after all.

Fuck is Pardew doing.

Shola? I mean yeah Best has been awful but why not Ben Arfa?

Give it a rest you utter WUM.

Can only hope it's a minor injury for Santon.

What's wrong with Santon?!

I could handle 1-1 at h-t but we shouldn't be losing.

Getting sick of the ball hitting that goal's frame. Once today, twice against Swansea, once against Chelsea.

No fucking luck whatsoever.

You've got to be joking.

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