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GERRRAAAAARD...blocked.

Erotic consequences.

Come on Suarez booking.

Looking forward to him bringing some football porn to our right hand side again. We badly miss his flash like runs up and down the flank.

This translates to their players and it's why they rarely win. Too worked up, concentration and focus goes out the window.

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Maybe he ate Obertan.

As does every one who posts in here.

Love Keegan but he's talking a load of shit in both articles.

Every year they set themselves up for a fall. They never learn.

This thread is just going in circles now. Some people liked the approach, some didn't. No-ones going to budge and its becoming cliquey. No-one's saying any thing new. Time to give it a rest.

When he first came on he did a few good things and I thought maybe we'd got 'once in a blue moon' Ameobi. Then he did that and I was like

I don't think he'd have set up this way had we had Coloccini/Taylor and Santon fit. I think a lot of his thinking was not having a particularly strong back four, and not having his "door openers" available to play much more than half an hour each. Haven't we set up the same way (defensive and hoping to grind out results) pretty much the whole season? We see weaker squads play better football every week. It's all about psychology and inspiring players to push themselves to play better. Just because we have alot of international class professionals doesn't mean they don't need inspiration to push them from time to time or that arm around them to help. That said the players are clearly united with pardew and have bought into what he feeds them. For me it just looks like it's easier for him to play defensive than try to inspire his players mentally to step up. If Swansea play the way they do against someone like Benfica next season, I think they'd get ripped apart tbh. I think our best chance of winning the tie tonight with the players available, was the way we set out. That, imho, is bollocks. Swansea may well get seen off for a variety of reasons but because they have the ball a lot more than the other team won't be one of them. And if the only chance we had of winning the game tonight was the way it panned out, 10 mins of pressure out of 90, then we just had no chance, simple as. That's bollocks like. No chance? When Cisse scored there wasn't a person in the ground who wasn't fairly confident we would win it. We were incredibly close. Not for me. ON is of the opinion that the way we approached the game was the best tactically that we could have done. Don't agree with that and my point was, if that was the best approach possible then we weren't ever really in it. What? We were a goal away from doing it and we were very close to getting that. We weren't very close to getting it, Ben Arfa hit the ball over the bar and that was basically it. Who knows what we could have achieved by orchestrating the odd attack over 90 minutes? It's this idea that you need to not attack or attack like madmen that is a product of Pardew's very limited idea of the game. The first 40 minutes were f***ing embarrassing, you could push that to the first 70 minutes really. Cisse was about a foot away from giving us a goal before half-time or is that not close either? No cos it's offside. I seriously despair at this place sometimes. People take everything fucking literally. Like someone else said, left the ground and the bars after the match pretty proud of coming close to getting to the last 4 of a European cup, come on here and it flattens the fuck out of you. I should have known better. How is it close when it's against the rules?

Well 5 of that team should be completely fresh at least.

They will win it. They are a trophy machine.

Possibly the worst corner ever. Needed to have the circus music playing whilst it happened.

I agree with this by the way. Tonight though I think it was very close to being the ideal way to knock these out with what we had. Biggest problem is that we keep recruiting players that are suited for a more fluent, floor based game yet Pardew clearly has his own beliefs about how football should be played. There's a major mis-match. He has us trying to hit the strikers early with long balls and out wide to supply crosses. Problem is our strikers aren't physical bar Ameobi who isn't very good and we have wide players who either can't cross or who generally don't. Combined with a lack of runners into the box crossing the ball is a bit pointless any way. It would be fine to play this way if he had the right players (like he did when he took over) however now he has to show more tactical flexibility and adaptability (especially considering the transfer policy isn't going to change) which I'm just not seeing from him.

If I'm being honest he's starting to look like a waste of money. Don't get me wrong he's a talented player and he had a very clear role at Ajax where he looked good but I'm not sure that role translates well to the Premiership, much less a Pardew team. Like Ronaldo says that money could have been used to get another winger. I feel bad for him in a way. Think he may have made a bad career move.

Aren't all the semi finalists CL drop outs?

Where does he fit in? There's a good player in there but he just doesn't seem to belong in our team when he plays.

Niall Horan ‏@NiallOfficial 40m Just been to watch @NUFCOfficial ! Didn't deserve for that to happen! Great game though! Our new team mates did a great job! Wonder if Simon Cowell has secretly bought us...

Well they did eventually learn how to recruit good players whereas before they were allowing Dennis Wise to spend reckless money on players he'd seen on youtube.

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As much as I like Santon it's a relief to have a lefty down that side. Much better balance.