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Whilst Spurs' (who I hate more than words can express) failure to finish above Arsenal is the story of the day, our finishing above Wham (who I also hate more than words can express) takes an honourable 2nd place. 6th place at worst, another year on year improvement GET IN!!!

What you gotta ask yourself is do you really believe that or do you feel lucky. Well do ya Punk?

I don't think it's strange to say at all. I think he is bang average at the absolute best and I seriously hope we don't extend his time with us. He hasn't made any real howlers that I can recall (this added to the fact that he can kick a ball in a straight line a fairly long way consistently which - ridiculously - neither KD or Gazza can makes him the best of 3 very bad options), but neither has he done anything outstanding that I recall and unless a shot presents him with a routine save, it presents us with a goal against. Feckin awful for this level really.

We clearly buy too many players who still believe in father christmas and are too excited about what they will find at the bottom of their beds on christmas morning to even think about taking football seriously in the run up to the big day. It's no coincidence that our best performance of the season came on boxing day with the anticipation over and the present-fuelled adrenalin rush still kicking in. The black box needs to be fitted with a "belief in Santa" filter.

Stekelenberg is outstandingly shyte, but hanging failure to win the league on him for getting injured is a tad harsh. For most teams a keeper as bad as him getting injured should lead to an improvement in results, but when your back up keepers to the back up keeper are KD and Gazza........... The most pertinent 'what if' would be what if we didn't have such one star awful back up keepers. O.P's question perfectly valid by the way.

I think it was us that caused it. They looked a very good team but we ground them down and they ran out of ideas.

Fekin ell I enjoyed that!!!!! We really owed them that after some seriously unlucky defeats against them since we got back up. Leicester had similar results to ours at the back end of last season. Just saying, like.

Reads like the penultimate scene of a Mr Logic cartoon from Viz. The one before he gets punched.

Equal or better over 2 games with all those teams shows just how good we are capable of being. Damn that mid season sticky patch.

That kind of praise could go to his head and he may start resting on his laurels so please don't dare say it. Great performance from him today though, mom for medespite Mane scoring 3. Virg and Tadic also superb, Vic his had one of his good days too and even successfully completed a pass in excess of 10m!! C'Mon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Really good idea mate. Good luck with it.

Agree with all that, the tendancies identified in the middle sentence - never better illustrated than that ridiculous open-goal miss against Stoke - can overshadow the good stuff - like the assist for Pelle in the very same game. He has definitely started being a bit more direct over the last couple of games though.

Oh ahhhh ha ha, a variation on the box of frogs gag.

Narcissistic personality disorder often has undesired consequences for the sufferer.

They are the same type of player - small and uninspiring midfield workers. You may well be correct that Clasie shows "more tenacity and desire to win duels" but he can't deliver a decent dead ball and JWP can.

Disagree, but then forums would be pointless if we all held the same opinions.

Got to agree with the bits in bold. Just cannot see what Clasie offers other than hard work and getting stuck in which is not enough at this level, especially being so small. A more experienced JWP minus deadball ability. Newcastle are utterly 1 star. The worst team I've seen this year bar Villa who I think are the worst team I have ever seen in the prem.

Ginger prejudice?

Genuinely very very embarrassing. Jesus christ

Did that really happen? If so could not agree more:mcinnes::mcinnes:

"Denfed" how the hell did that get through your spell checka? Other than that agreed. We played well, were a bit unlucky, certainly did not deserve to lose but, regardless, I have never ever been so less bothered about a defeat.

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What a feckin' win. Who saw that coming at half time, certainly not me. We simply do not come back from 2 goals down and win, so satisfying that it happened against them. GTFI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Crap ref crap saints. Right that we are at least 2 down just should be 1 - 3 (assuming we score the penalty we were robbed of)

Doesn't border on, just IS ncompetence. The way the w@nker brandishes the red without a moment's hesitation means he saw an absolute stonewall indisputable act of violent conduct. It wasn't and didn't even remotely look like it was.