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Surely one of the 8 or so goalkeepers at Chelsea would do a job for us on loan.

I doubt RM will put Ugochukwu straight in - he tends to integrate new signings starting from the bench.

As others have said it smacks of us bumbling along with make-do until Baz, who is not very good himself, returns from injury. I hope this is not the case and that things are being done in the background to solve the goalkeeper issue.

We're going to need a selection of good quality midfielders to cover for injuries and suspensions otherwise, as Harry used to say, we're down to the bare bones.

Unless I'm missing something this clip shows a series of repeats of one pass?

He seems to be a goalkeeper who can save the ball and pass it as well...what's not to like, get him on board the bus and give him a seat up top at the front.

The goalkeeping mistake was absolutely crucial in this game. It came just before half time and lifted the Geordie crowd and gave their team something to hold on to in the second half. Without it we'd have almost certainly got a point and possibly all three.

Exactly right. Can you imagine how someone like Guimaraes would have reacted - he'd still be rolling around clutching his head now as thousands of Geordies screamed for the perpetrator to be sent off. Schar was stupid and deserved the red card.

Is this genuine?

Just one question - have we signed a goalkeeper yet?

Rightly there is a lot of frustration among the fans but I think you are wrong to say it will be a miracle if we stay up. We are all gutted at getting nothing from this game because Newcastle never laid a glove on us, went down to ten men after 30 minutes and we still contrived to hand them 3 points on a plate thanks largely to McCarthy but RM shares some of the blame because of his insistence that we play out from the back - there are times to hoof it. Had McCarthy put his foot through the ball we certainly wouldn't have lost and might well have come away with the 3 points our performance probably deserved. Having said all that there were many good signs that our football will be suited to the Premier League - we must however sign a goalkeeper, a striker and a creative midfielder and stop overplaying from the back. Having slept on the result and performance I think the positives outweigh the negative. The criticism from many is born from sheer frustration more than anything if we are being honest and I am guilty myself on that so hold my hands up.

He's played in 12 games for us mainly when we were struggling. Never been given a fair chance.

So why are we putting in corners and free kicks as though he's playing? Crazy.

It's known as poor decision making. It was knee-jerk based on a couple of decent games but proper football people would have been much smarter - they'd have thanked him and sent him on his way knowing his wages were being saved for someone better.

He's got a head that he can move and a pair of eyes that can see so he's a bit stupid if he's not using them.

Sorry, must have missed all those matches where he was given a chance to show what he can do.

Why doesn't he simply control the ball and pass it to the player to his right?

And this is why it will keep happening

TM is too stubborn to use Tall Paul as a plan B. He'd prefer to keep passing and doing the same thing thus making us very predictable and easy to defend against. RM has lots of good traits but his lack of a plan B is frustrating.

Not deemed worth a spot on the bench today so how did RM expect to change things when we were chasing a goal? Why can he not see that we need a plan B? We lumped a series of corners and free-kicks into the box and never looked like scoring from them yet we have a 6'7" guy who can head the ball not being given even a sliver of a chance to show what he can do.

You forgot to mention they were down to ten men after 30 minutes and the fact that their goal was an absolute gift.

It was because he is certain to be on big money that could have been channelled elsewhere.

Which joker decided to give McCarthy a new contract and how much is he earning?

I think it's gutting because we gave a good account of ourselves until they went down to ten men. To gift them a goal and then fail to rectify it in 45 minutes leaves a sour taste.

But they had ten men for an hour. That's the point.