Alan Pardew: "Maybe Steven and Cabaye will come back to us sooner than February. Until such time, that is the team I have who played on Monday.
“I thought it looked a good team.
“We were just a bit unfortunate not to get anything from the game.”
We pointed out last month that Steven Taylor has averaged only 19 games a campaign for the last FOUR seasons due to injury.
Should we get him fit and shift him?
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