Blinkered by your agenda Syd. He's not the Messiah by any means, but he has not contributed as little as you assert.

Burnley away and the away end carnage his second goal of the game (the very very late winner if you weren't able to make it up there though the snow) caused comes to mind.

I actually would like to see him given a go as a first-choice replacement wide forward as at least he'd show for a through ball and would be much more likely to beat one man and then do something positive like get a shot on target or pull it across rather than think about how many more tricks he could do.

Well I think Simon's head is large; always involved in espionage. (Name that tune)

I seem to recall some of Steve Coppell's signings were not particularly brilliant either. Even SAF signed some real stinkers in his time. As has been said, some of Pardew's signings haven't lit up the sky but Cabaye and Souare have both been major upgrades.

Sit back and relax and a bit less bleating, please.

Seconded.

Time to move forward together.

Im am sitting back relaxed thinking about splatting my load all over Kirsty's face !

A lot of you sound utterly mental and sound more like teenage Liverpool fans used to spunking £20million+ on a player. I'd rather we didn't sign anyone than do a Holloway and panic buy. I think we still could do with a couple more but 'need' is a strong word. Our problem at the start of the window was misfiring strikers. The one player we have signed is a striker.

We can't sign s*** loads of players for millions just because we have injuries for a few more weeks. We should build the squad sensibly and slowly. We're in a position where players who will enhance the squad and push us up the league are f***ing expensive.

Shelvey for £12million?! Berahino bid rejected at £21million?! Lewis Grabban for £7million?! Jordan Rhodes for something like £9million? That's insane.

Do you even remember 2010-2011. We were in administration FFS and now you're complaining 5 years later about being safely mid table in the prem. Unbelievable.

The truth is that we don't NEED anybody. Yes we could do with improving our squad but it isn't worth overpaying to do so if the net result is finishing 9th instead of 13th. If you're not supremely confident that either the next signing will DEFINITELY get us into Europe or is an absolute bargain then it's pointless to spend now as the Jan window is typically way worse value for money than in the summer. Just accept that we're basically safe and worry about what we do to challenge for Europe next year.

Or would you rather we panic and sign somebody for the sake of it and risk ending up with another Mutch/Campbell/Kebe/that Spanish fella who did absolutely nothing and whose name I've forgotten?