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I doubt if they're looking at it at all let alone give it priority

Absolutely. Their offence was a worse too and the consequences for the teams finishing below them greater.

It could be a good performance but how in the world can you call it a good result?

Like the thinner strips but the patch ruins it. Puma are rubbish.

Agger reportedly unsettled too, though I suppose bigger clubs will be interested in him as well.

I said in January we ought to go for Vermaelen, thats out of the question now of course with Barca and ManU battling over him. Aren't Spurs supposed to be looking to offload Kaboul and Dawson? Far from perfect those two but still upgrades on what we've got.

Aye, dont want to be a wet blanket repeating this over and over again, but its become even more imperative with all this good attacking players coming in that we shore up at the back.

Not sure about Cabaye either, he'd been flaunting him in the market for days before his sale. They might have signed a replacement too if they hadn't given up on the season altogether.

You can already see a pattern emerging, much as most of us predicted. Reasonable attacking prowess being undone by a shite central defence. If we still dont sign a new centre back we'll deserve all the crap Willo and Saylor will come up with next season. And possibly Coloccini too if last season is anything to go by.

Williamson half asleep there.

We may not know whats happened behind the scenes but it seems as though Ben Arfa probably fell out with Pardew sometime during the latter part of last season, probably over tactics and his role in the team, and the weight thing is being used as an excuse to herd him out. Its petty but just like NUFC. Reconcile your differences and get him back in the setup. Otherwise have a quite word with him one professional to another and find him another club so both parties can move on.What's happening right now is just plain silly and helping noone.

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Its a vaild point and one can only hope someone as inept as Pardew can somehow manage to pull it off. Defensive concerns remain though. Too bad this new approach doesnt include getting in a couple of decent centre backs.

What makes you so sure? Is Dummet unfit? Hope you're right and that Janmaat is fit.

Dummet at left back...

If we pulled that off it'd have to be one of the best bits of business in our history.

Pardew was raving about the singing post match

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11678/9405773/premier-league-alan-pardew-says-gabriel-obertan-back-in-newcastle-contention

Me neither. I was talking about Pardew.

Mark Steel at it again http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/how-silly-of-me-to-assume-it-was-israeli-bombs-causing-all-the-damage-in-gaza-9640905.html

Me too. Too early to chuck in Aarons in a game like that though. I suspect Pardew will move Sissoko to the wing and start Colback for added defensive cover.