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This post is utter lunacy like. Every time I see him attempt to "keep it tight" from the start of a game, that's when we get fucked up the arse, like tonight. Shifting Ben Arfa because he's scared of their full back, that's what he thinks "keeping it tight" is, completely fucking up your own game because of fear. Staggering that you think he has "shown how to construct a back four" - taking one over from another manager that has been playing together for years does not count as "constructing". He has shown only that he's totally incompetent at putting together a new unit.

We were belting when Williamson was a regular last season like. Just the worst run of form in over forty years.

Doesn't he? if he isn't telling Santon what positions he should be taking up and which direction he should be showing his man he's not doing his job. at the end of the day Pardew picks these fucking players and he coaches them; they we're highly rated before they came here and have gone backwards ever since. the maths is fucking simple. Aye I understand that, Pardew takes a massive share of the blame. All I'm saying is Santon is a fullback, his job is to stay goal side of his winger and stop the cross coming in. Colo is an experienced international CB and he doesn't bother to look where the forward is standing. Just a couple of examples of awful individual errors. Funny how irregular players who play for real managers make mistakes like this though isn't it? Man Utd (7): Simpson - Colo - Williamson - Santon Arsenal (7): Simpson - Colo - Perch - Santon Man City (4): Simpson - MYM - Taylor - Jonas mackems (3): Debuchy - MYM - Taylor - Jonas Liverpool (6): Debuchy - MYM - Taylor - Haidara Man City (4): Debuchy - Colo - Taylor - MYM Hull (3): Debuchy - Colo - MYM - Santon Everton (3): Debuchy - Colo - MYM - Santon Just sheer coincidence that we seem to have acquired ten of the most error-prone defenders in European top flight football? That is bad luck!

It really is as simple as that he's playing under a manager who cannot get the consistent best out of him beyond Ben Arfa choosing to cut inside and shoot. I was shaking my head in disbelief at the weekend when I listened to 606 and the presenters said it was "baffling" that the players who'd walked the title now looked so poor under a different manager, when to me that's not baffling in the slightest, in fact I'd only have been baffled if that hadn't happened. The manager is by far and away the most important person at any football club. Everything the team does, from movement to mentality, comes from that one man and we've got a League 1/League 2 standard manager in charge of Premier League players. People can have a pop at the players all you like but put Pardew into any of the other 19 clubs in the division and in three years time, I'll show you what you watched tonight.

This is it. He's Iain Dowie, Aidy Boothroyd, Brown, Tony Mowbray, he's any number of managers who've taken a team out of the Championship before failing after a year or so and disappearing into oblivion/Northampton/Middlesbrough.

Not really.... and they wasn't fantastic in the first half either. They looked good because we allowed them to be and they looked bad in the 2nd half because we didn't allow them to play. The same could be said vice versa tbf, but the point is let a passing team play and your asking for trouble put them under pressure and they won't like it. As the old saying goes..... any team can look good if the opposition allows them to be. Aye, shades of every time we play Man City - "you can't legislate for them being that good on the night" - erm yes you can, you can try and press in the right areas and use the ball sensibly when you have it instead of giving it straight back to them.

Has he not changed the second half round? I forgot he only gets the blame for s***. Never credit for the smallest of positives. He told the players to attack at 3-0 down after sending them out at kick off to try and limit the damage and you reckon we should be singing his praises? Absolutely embarrassing. After conceding three at home against Hull it's understandable to try and keep it tight away to Everton. With Remy and HBA we can score in any game. That failed terribly thanks to horrible defending by MYM, Colo, Santon and Krul. I'm pretty sure they weren't doing what Pardew told them. Decent second half against half-arsed Everton but it was still decent. I hope no one calls me Parderer. It really isn't.

Second half against City was exactly what I thought of. We weren't even good in that second half, much like the Villa game it looks acceptable because of the rank ineptitude that preceded it.

Has he not changed the second half round? I forgot he only gets the blame for shit. Never credit for the smallest of positives. He told the players to attack at 3-0 down after sending them out at kick off to try and limit the damage and you reckon we should be singing his praises? Absolutely embarrassing.

Anita off, for Christ's sake.

3-1 down and we still won't commit men into the box.

Fucking strike.

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like he would had made a difference f*** all presence up front. Neither Remy, Gouffran nor Cisse are equipped to deal with floated balls from the halfway line but at least Cisse is used to it by now. "Wow that front three will hurt them with movement" I read for an hour before the game... Wake up ffs. The gameplan remains the same regardless of personnel but it's much easier to have a pop at the players. Give it half a dozen games and Remy will join the s***-list. What? He's been facing that for eighteen months. Remy must be thinking "what the fuck is going on here like, I'm not used to staring into the night sky hoping to see the ball"

I really don't think it's that simple. I agree 100% with you that they seem unprofessional out there, but they could be running their lungs out and trying their hardest and still look unprofessionally bad, because individuals can't be organised by themselves, and a defence most definitely can't. I know people call 'Shola' 'stroller' because of his lazy style for example, but none of our players are being purposefully shit I don't think, or nonchalant, they just don't know what the fuck to do because they haven't been coached well enough. None of them are standing hands on hips, they're just being pulverised by a slick, robust and well-drilled unit that know what they're doing, and know how to pull apart a collection of individuals.

like he would had made a difference Fuck all presence up front. Neither Remy, Gouffran nor Cisse are equipped to deal with floated balls from the halfway line but at least Cisse is used to it by now. "Wow that front three will hurt them with movement" I read for an hour before the game... Wake up ffs. The gameplan remains the same regardless of personnel but it's much easier to have a pop at the players. Give it half a dozen games and Remy will join the shit-list.

Too much cheap foreign tat, not enough British spirit. Absolutely no balance in that area. Yep.

We've certainly benefited from not having Cisse on. Time to knock that particular ridiculous preposterous experiment on the head.

Alan Pardew's Newcastle everyone, this is it. No injuries, no Europa League, this is his team, as he wants it.

Pardew can't coach a defensive unit from scratch. That's been obvious for a long time.

Tiote

Embarrassingly shit.

This is basically what he's prepared us for. Everton are in the same category as City to him - can't compete, won't compete.

What a pathetic shambles we are.