Saint_clark

Shock.

Ramirez as a choice between the two, but I would absolutely love to have Chamberlain back in the side (as well as Puncheon is doing).

You're right, he is. And that's why they want people to think it's Le Tiss by not actually naming him.

Jays goal was clearly onside, how anyone can disagree baffles me.

No, the advert is worded like that so as to engage as much interest as possible. People will be thinking it's Le Tiss, Shearer, Channon, Keegan etc...when in reality it will probably be Le Saux, Beattie or some such.

Think it's meant to be dry, but much colder.

As far as I could tell we stopped using it a while back. For evidence from yesterday, watch the free header Demba Ba gets in that goes straight at Gazza (it's only on Sky match choice). Lambert is marking him and runs with him from the near post to the edge of the box, getting blocked off along the way.

Really? I've never seen anything that special from him, aside from the goal V Reading (even then, he nearly missed).

I think people will be surprised. We've got 3 games in 6 days here, there will be rotation. Do we rest players midweek, or do we go for it and change it up next saturday accepting that a loss is expected at Anfield?

His best position is, unfortunately for him, the one that Ramirez has nailed down. It's where he played before he came here. For us though, his best form came playing up front.

So who do we then have as back up instead of those three? Sam Hoskins, Callum Chambers and Jake Sinclair?

Entirely different situation. We shouldn't blindly hold onto every single player on our books just in case they come good.

Unless we find better, there's no sense in selling the likes of Guly, Chaplow and Lee. Guly in particular at the moment is in the same category as the players in your first sentence, and I actually think he could do a job for us off the bench in some situations. All the others in your list however I agree should be moved on.

His signing and Tadanari Lees, coupled with the ads in Japanese like you mentioned, has made me wonder if the shirt switch to red is similar to Cardiffs attempts to appeal to the Asian market.

I don't think anybody has ever said that. Why are people so keen to work in absolutes on here? You're either with Cortese or with Adkins, but you can't be with both. You either hate Guly and want him out the club ASAP, or you love him and think he should play ever second of football, but you can't appreciate the fantastic job he did for us in back to back promotions whilst also realising he's not good enough to start for us now.

I'm not so sure the linesman did make the decision on the first one. Him and the ref looked at each other for a good 20 seconds before the ref hesitantly gave it Newcastles way.

Clyne has improved a lot in the air this season, he won more headers than he lost yesterday.

Well, this didn't happen. What went wrong there?

In fairness, how many of us thought Hooiveld would fail to step up in such spectacular fashion? We thought Fonte would be the one to be replaced but as it stands he's one of our most stoic performers.

I hope we don't have to see Davis in DM again this season, Ward-Prowse is the back up there. Davis is an attacking midfielder without doubt.

Not sure that's it as they showed replays of Gazzas save.

Ramirez was definitely fouled for the second, though the fact he gave up on the ball (when he probably still could have got to it) and appealed didn't work in his favour.

Apart from one mistake I thought Yoshida looked much better actually.

He actually said Lambert and Davis.

There was lots of talk at the time about our players looking out of shape and form through out all of pre-season, personally I think this was the reason. Remember how poor Lambert looked until about 2-3 months in?