Guita will get a chance when Wayne gives him one, but he's had a very good few months now across the end of last season and the start of this one.

Meyer has looked good but I can completely understand why, after the shambles of a midfield against Southampton, Roy's first priority was to get Kouyate in there and be a bit more solid and have more of a presence. Particularly against a team we KNOW can get very physical.

Can see Meyer coming in more over the next month or so, but even with the international break it would have been asking a lot to change the system and bring in an entirely new midfield for this game.

It's still a work in progress.

Employee of the month is a good example of how someone can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.

Think Roy doesn't wish to drop JMac or Luka from the midfield, leaving only one other, even as you say they were in the shambles against the Saints. When both Meyer and Kouyate came on we looked better. Meyer is definitely needed against the Toon next week from the off based on Torreira's impact yesterday. Expect Kouyate to make way if anybody.

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

I do think we have a vulnerability to high crosses and this was demonstrated yesterday against Huddersfield even though fortunately they didn’t take their chances.
The good thing is not many Premier teams put high crosses into the box.
With regard to Meyer, at the moment Luka, MacArthur and Kouyate seem be ahead of him for midfield roles.
Personally, and this may prove unpopular, I would play him instead of Townsend who increasingly seems to be playing in midfield anyway.
He works hard but poses no real attacking threat.
Meyer would hopefully assist us in controlling the midfield and enable us to create more opportunities.

So so true, our midfield has been bossed in every game to far, I would start Meyer next game 100%.

Well at least we have hard and honest realism about the performance in Thuggersfield. But three poihts does mean the sun is shining and confidence will have improved. The Magpies do well at Selhurst but if Palace put Ward in directly against Shelvey and Meyer replaces Ayew with Wilf pulling right back to expose the opposition to runs by Van Man and AWB I can see some goals on the way. Mac will have to make way for Ward.