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Long ball hell again

Here's a thought. Why not have many different routines and mix them up?

Why does Mark Douglas have that 'cool to be in school' background by the way?

We're screwed either way. Ashley won't stump up the money required to bolster the squad and, if Pardew is to be believed, will only be to happy to sell our bigger players. If he sacks Pardew he'll scrape the unemployed barrel for the cheapest manager.

Souness, Kinnear, Allardyce. We already know thanks.

Martinez is a non-starter. No way Whelan will give his mortal enemy his manager for any price and Ashley certainly wouldn't pay the right price even if Whelan was willing to talk.

1 shot all half. Not even on target either.

I like him but the last few games he hasn't made the required effort.

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We look clueless against the only team in the league that hasn't kept a clean sheet

Didn't realise Pardew was sacked from Southampton after a 4-0 win. Might explain his fear of exciting, attacking football

He's probably right. It's not the tactics...it's the training. Our players can't play together. That's a fundamental problem...and it's his fault.

Think my patience with him finally went today. Don't see him turning it around now.

Southampton will be fired up cos of Pardew. Our team don't give two shits and Pardew will have them playing deep yet again. Why bother?

Perhaps the most shameful performance yet. Don't see Pardew turning this around now.

If only it wasn't true

Coloccini wouldn't have helped today. Any team who look to pass their way in behind us at speed get the better of us no matter who plays in defence because of our high line.

We can complete passes. We had the majority of possession for most of the game. It's just that we have no purpose when we have it.

Biggest problem is that our players don't move after they pass the ball. The number of times the ball goes sideways, backwards or our wingers/fullbacks dawdle on the ball because no-one is moving for it means scoring goals happens by accident rather than design. Our goals against West Brom are a perfect example. A long ball that the defender makes a mess of and Ba finishes and a goal deflected in off Cisse's backside. Also I hate seeing us shoot from distance, we're fucking pathetic at it.

Bringing Bigirimana on and staying 4-4-2 had to be the most pointless change. Honestly I'm losing faith in Pardew. He's being far too stubborn to rectify his mistakes.

Fuck this team

Was thinking that if we aimed the corner at the opposition, we might snag a few OG's. f*** it and let's just score direct from it. Ben Arfa almost scored like that last week.

Much better but still toothless in the final 3rd.