Wrong choices for penalties IMO. Szmodics was clearly fucked and despite his confidence I expected it to be saved. A CB shouldn't really be one of our top 5 takers. Markanday has a good shot on him, should've been him. Ah well, Eustace got a lot of other things right tonight.

Markanday confirming my opinion that people judge him too harshly, taking on half the Newcastle team

Another amazingly soft decision from the officials against Ayari

Pears has had a superb game, but I still think their keeper looks better suited for penalties. Big lad.

Confidence, so important for every position but especially keepers. Think having a spell out and the terrible form of his replacement has weirdly been the best thing for him.

Superb double save Aynsley!

Ref is a total joke.

All those fouls from Newcastle the ref has let go, and he gives that against Ayari when he wins the ball....

It was straight at him. Excellent is a stretch. He's been solid tonight though, looks a lot more confident than he was before the injury, good to see.

Not gonna lie, I can't figure out those subs. Buckley has been our best player, probably the best player on the pitch actually, Moran played his best game in ages, and Dolan has been a nuisance. None of them should have fitness issues really. Maybe Buckley but no signs of it and hasn't been flogged lately.

He played week in week out in a couple of spells for us. I never thought it was fitnes that looked the problem either, just effort. He wasn't blowing out his ass, he just wasn't putting a shift in.

Hard working? He certainly wasn't the last few times I saw him for Rovers, in fact that was the most frustrating thing about him. Maybe his failed loan at Lincoln has finally motivated him.

Why did he come off if he was playing well? Injury?

Quite how he didn't when he took two of them out like that is beyond me! Guess the ref noticed he did try to tuck his legs back in.

Stopped him what?

Competence.

I'm not sure we can consider a club record 22 million fee to be giving away.

No, Hyam, Szmodics and Brittain all cost more.

I wouldn't be saying he was a slightly better keeper if I 'wasn't having him'. But he really isn't that great, nor that much of an upgrade. He's simply in better form than Leo was, and better form than he himself was before injury where Wahlstedt actually looked an upgrade for a short while as Pears had been shakey. We've also become more concerned about defending lately and leaving the keeper less exposed.

Not sure about that, more that he was failing at shots that were mild tests. Reckon he would probably have made all the saves Pears made tonight. Pears' abilities are being massively overstated, as are Wahlstedt's shortcomings, mostly by people who vociferously wanted Wahlstedt out the team and don't want to admit the replacement is only a little bit better. Neither keeper is good enough for us at present.

How much better? A little bit. Imagine where we would be? I'd say about 3-5 points better off. He made a few saves tonight but I'd say only one was any kind of test.

Christ it's bad it's taken that long!

Looked more dangerous than we did in the rest of the match. It's just been a poor game all round.

Cardiff commentators seriously biased. 'Oh he's unlucky there' He's not unlucky, he's yards offside. The linesman not making a terrible decision isn't 'unlucky' (though I guess you could argue they make plenty of terrible decisions...)

Looked a different team since the subs.