Wullie

We're "aiming" to finish as high as possible aren't we?

Can't get that excited about good results around us given our recent performances and results. We need at least a point on Monday.

That's it mate. My friend said it's very irritating when we always put Barca in Eng and people pronounce it "Barkaa." Get away man you plank.

I had Derby and Charlton too, ffs.

Who set up the equaliser? Cabaye or Williamson? It wasn't Taylor.

Aye, remember Rooney being penalised for it in a tournament game against Portugal.

How the fuck is Shane Long a youngster?

I thought he played an important role from full back in the second half against the mackems, as the only player in a wide position who was willing/able to deliver a half decent ball into the box. When we're attacking like that, I'd much rather see him at full back than Simpson - I'd have had him there vs Wolves for example, when the initiative was on us to attack... at least that's the way it should have been.

I'd go along with this as i think Santon is a good attacking footballer but gets caught upfield too much/isn't disciplined enough. For the record, it certainly isn't what I would do, Santon would be one of the first names on the teamsheet for me, our only competent attacking full back.

I reckon HBA will play but I also think Santon will drop out.

really? Of course, his set piece ability and general delivery is very useful if you're pushing forward in the later stages of a game, especially since you can put him in at full back as an attacking option. Gets in the box too, used to come on in the Championship and notch late on.

Good squad player and great option from the bench.

Alan Smith's probably about 20% of that, the sponging bastard.

He'll be telling us what song he's got planned next. Obsessed with us already, probably trying to justify his "one of us" credentials by fitting in with the rest of them. Fucking leprechaun cunt.

I think he'll play ahead of Santon against Arsenal.

For 30 or so minutes yesterday where it went like this I'd beg to disagree: Krul - hoof - mackem header wins ball, they attack we clear our lines - hoof. Repeat repeat repeat. We were f***ing awful yesterday and its more depressing given the quality of our players, players with the attributes to play really good football. We played well in the second half. The first half and the last few games have not been representative of the way we have played this season. It's getting there though. We've been hitting the long ball and setting up more and more negatively every week since around the middle of December. With Man Utd the obvious and glaring exception, our performances since the Chelsea game have been dismal. It's to our credit that we've still managed to pick up points in that period but some of the winning performances have been incredibly poor. The excuse a few weeks ago was the absence of the central midfield but nothing has changed, in fact I'd say it's gotten worse. We seldom try to pass the ball through midfield or have the wide players make any forward runs into space. It's become all about protecting the back four and we've got big problems if they really need protecting when 2-0 up at home to Wolves. I would agree that performances have gradually got worse since the Chelsea game. I genuinely think that Pardew was a bit rattled by that defeat and the loss of Saylor has not helped. Genuinely think we will see a better brand of football for the rest of this season. But we shall see. I realise many will not share my sentiments. Wish I had your confidence. We've got an extremely tough run of fixtures ahead of us in the next five games and have blown a fantastic chance to put some points on the board in the last two home games by simply being too negative and unwilling to play football, particularly last week, which should have been a real eye-opener. As close to a guaranteed three points as you can get in the Premier League and we barely got over the line with a point.

For 30 or so minutes yesterday where it went like this I'd beg to disagree: Krul - hoof - mackem header wins ball, they attack we clear our lines - hoof. Repeat repeat repeat. We were f***ing awful yesterday and its more depressing given the quality of our players, players with the attributes to play really good football. We played well in the second half. The first half and the last few games have not been representative of the way we have played this season. It's getting there though. We've been hitting the long ball and setting up more and more negatively every week since around the middle of December. With Man Utd the obvious and glaring exception, our performances since the Chelsea game have been dismal. It's to our credit that we've still managed to pick up points in that period but some of the winning performances have been incredibly poor. The excuse a few weeks ago was the absence of the central midfield but nothing has changed, in fact I'd say it's gotten worse. We seldom try to pass the ball through midfield or have the wide players make any forward runs into space. It's become all about protecting the back four and we've got big problems if they really need protecting when 2-0 up at home to Wolves.

"Which nice perrrrrrrrrrson do I have today?!" Bingo.

Aye a daft mackem at work was telling me today that Krul should have been sent off.

Give over man, if you beat your fiercest rivals 5-1, of course you're going to take the piss. I sincerely doubt that's ever been any different. Who are these people booing in the street?

Just means one of the two strikers drops deep to make 5 without the ball, before going back to 4-4-2 when you do have it. Shola did it impeccably last season there and Ba's more than capable of doing similar.

It's perfectly possible to play 4-4-2 and still have a solid midfield against a 3. Man Utd do it on a weekly basis and we did it ourselves at the Emirates last season.

Bloody typical he'll probably start against Arsenal at the Emirates. Likely outcome is that our entire team hardly touches the ball in the entire game, he takes the flak for it and is binned back down to the bench for the visit of bloody Norwich.

Or This Man... http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1oI3DRqnKAE/TeC8u-0Wc-I/AAAAAAAAEFo/XseSFalEPNc/s1600/david-charlton-pic-itv-251306390.jpg EDIT: Actually, he's probably the Culprit, he was from Washington, wasn't he? Near enough! I thought James Mclean was Irish tbh. :lol: ...

Fulham did exactly what we could and should have done last week, if we hadn't been so worried about Wolves attacking threat (ho ho).