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Amdy Faye should be fighting a second charge of impersonating a footballer.

It was 3-5-2, but they did not keep formation very well. No, more of a 3-4-1-2 but it changed after about half an hour. Quote from Rozehnal - "We actually changed the formation back to 4-4-2 after 15 minutes." oh ok fair enough. But it still left us without a genuine winger didn't it? and if Milner was genuinely tired (which he probably was having played in midweek) then it still narrowed down the options. Absolutely, the lack of width down the right hand side was horrific.

PA Guy, can you tell someone to fix the sodding sound system in the Leazes End (and i'm sure other bits of the ground too) Your just a muffle!

It was 3-5-2, but they did not keep formation very well. No, more of a 3-4-1-2 but it changed after about half an hour. Quote from Rozehnal - "We actually changed the formation back to 4-4-2 after 15 minutes."

Nigel Pearson's interviews remind me of Alan Murray's, tedious stuff.

The first half hour or so was a jumble, no-one really knew what they were doing. Smith looked like he was behind the strikers with Zog and Geremi as wingbacks in some bizarre thing Allardyce must have created in his sleep. We switched to 4-4-2 but it didn't see any benefit as Smith is turd on the wing and didn't actually bother to play there for a lot of the time, whilst everyone else was just doing their own thing.

We played 4-4-2 for the most of it tbf, we were just utter shite.

Racist!

I wasn't aware all the top players were holding out for a move to Derby.

Its ridiculous having owners in America that only pop over every now and then.

Stupid decision really, what were they expecting?

No one is blaming him, not even me. I just think he's been poor so far.

Right. In his time here I'd say he looked uncomfortable there. Good luck to him like because he isn't a Premier League player. I only saw the highlights this morning but he looked a totally different player. He'll have found his level there though.

So how do you explain the fact that we've stopped winning since Geremi was moved away from his preferred central midfield role? The statistics show that he was the player responsible for: A lot of the goals we scored The possession football we played. How can you explain that we are scoring less, and have been much worse in possession since Geremi has been shoved out of his CM role? I don't think we've had a settled enough side to be able to say one way or the other although CM is his best position imo. What he said. He was dropped because he was playing poorly, not that Emre offers much of a better option though. He is better in CM than down the right though where he's poor, far too slow.

Its ridiculous how none of the FA board are being held accountable for things.

Played left wing for Norwich, actually looked decent!

He started well but today he was outshone by an out of position Beye. Poor on the 2nd goal but made some class tackles and blocks.

I'll give him that! Quite why Carr came on I don't know though. I take the points like, maybe garbage is a bit strong but i'm just not convinced yet, theres just something about him.

Kept Arteta in his back pocket the majority of the game against Everton. He's been good but today he was poor. Seems to be too clever for his own good sometimes and I think his lax passing and his poor final ball is down to the lack of movement from our players rather than just him being inaccurate. Aye fair point about the movement, but he needs to be overlapping N'Zogbia more. Whether that is an instruction from Allardyce I don't know - Geremi moreso seemed to treat the halfway line like a brick wall that he wasn't allowed to pass.

Can someone point me to when he's played well then? I'm yet to see it. I'm not making him a scapegoat, far from it - I was just unable to reply in that thread to such a ridiculous comment.

This may have been discussed in the match thread but its been locked for whatever reason so its going in here. This lad has been absolute garbage all season and even more so today. I wouldn't have bothered making this thread until I saw another gem from James: "Enrique has been outstanding, playing three roles at once." I've never read so much shit! Thats up there with his uber post about how Geremi is the most important player in the team!

Agree 100%, yet another overhyped premiership plodder Ya...he's never got over the operation he had last summer - When he had to have Kaka surgically removed from his back pocket. Indeed, Kaka didn't get a sniff until Mascherano got subbed off.

Mascherano is pure class tbh, great player. If Hargreaves is £17m then JM certainly is. Quite who the money would go to though is beyond me!

I'm all for foreign managers, but if they can't talk the language then whats the point? As far as I know Capello doesn't talk it - correct me if i'm wrong.

Broke his metatarsal a while back.