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Hodgson impressed. Presuming he was there to see Morrison and maybe Carroll's return? Weird game to watch.

Think Anita is smarter in possession but doesn't have the creative class cabs has.

I'd hope he would be replacing/alternating with gouf until the summer, with cabs still in the team.

Awesome. Happy for Hughts. Needed that win. That said I expect he will be binned in the summer regardless.

Williamson obviously playing himself into the England side under hodgsons watch. Shows his goal scoring prowess too.

The season that means nothing continues aplomb. Good first half. Wish pardew would see the pattern and how we look like shit every time he takes Anita off. That relies on him swallowing pride and learning from his mistakes though.. Which normally only happens by accident when players are injured or several painful years later. Cabs is beautiful.. Will be delighted I we can add cabella and De jong to this, just for the fact it might...MIGHT..push shola back out of the picture.

Craig noone looking boss for Cardiff. Never this good for Brighton!

Let me he you say Pardew...Pardeeewwww. Pardew.... Shit. Pardew....shit

Anita is as pivotal if not more important to our play than cabaye IMO. His quick passes really get us moving and playing better football.

Coming on for Gosling Larsson's also getting ready. Anal Oliver is convinced it's actually Emerton. Guy knows his oranges.

stick perch on with our fourth and final sub to shore things up.

Near Cabella that's just his father flushing out some real bids "My son will join Newcastle, yes Newcastle this winter! Is there no justice in the world..please someone, anyone, help avert this tragedy, before if might happen."

Fuck me.. The usual half a decent performance then and sit back malaise. Pardew is soo shit. Tbf half a performance is an improvement on recent times.

Hatem wasn't good today at all, nor has he been few occasions we have seen him, but he is a confidence player. You just aren't going to see the best out of him from the bench, especially for the limited time we see him. He absolutely needs a run in the team and an arm round the shoulder from Pardew. Its absolutely showing in his appearances. Fact is, Flair and creativity is secondary to the safety first, defensive negativity Pardew refuses to relinquish from every game, regardless of opposition. Its a broken record but we have a squad capable of playing flowing, attacking and creative football just like the sides above us and Southampton and Swansea below us. Bloody hell even teams like Norwich look like Barcelona compared to us. Pardew takes away and restricts almost everything that is natural from a footballer and fan.. the very reason why we watch and love the game, the very reason every one of those players decided to become footballs was running with the ball, scoring goals playing and watching attractive football. This can hardly sit well with the players and surely gives them the impression Pardew sees them as second best to most other teams starting lines ups. Yes defensive responsibility and in games like today a more restricted tactic needs to be employed. However, we have players capable of being creative and flowing while still being defensively sound. Its a mentality that breeds negativity and a culture of it inherent throughout the club and all that love it. It baffles me daily how we have got so far in spite of this negativity.. think where we could be with a more positive and ambitious approach. Faith is sadly lacking in almost every area of this club, but one man changing his outlook could rekindle it for everyone.

So.. does Pardew get sacked when we finish outside the top 10? To be fair, I think we are fairly safe.. but the two horse fight for 8th is bloody on.

It comes to something when I am driven to being more excited about the Canadians teams in the bloody MLS than the second half of our season. The bloody MLS. It is absolutely fucking atrocious. Thanks Mike, thanks a lot.

Totally. This place is crazy. Amen. He is far from perfect but far from deserving of the hiding he is getting. He is no winger, but he offers us a lot imo. Hardly Jonas/Obertan territory. Id also wager Ben Arfa has looked worse at times coming on. Today included. I dispute the jumping comment too. He jumped a mile in the air towards the end and also completely mistimed the jump as Kruls long pass went over his head on his way down. Edit: Just remembered what my avatar is.. no bias honest.

So that's man city having a goal against chalked off, Liverpool getting a very soft penalty and manure having an offside goal allowed? Arsenal to get something next? Nothing dodgy with Everton or spurs games though at least. Just hurts more given our great performance. Truly terrible last couple of sets of results for us in the premier league.

He more than not has got in a habit of setting us up right to play the better teams in the league. Again set us up right today. I didn't think we needed subs as we were doing well. I certainly wouldn't begrudge him them though, it was a choice; keep faith and hope our pressure pays off, or add something new that could give us that little extra. As it was he took the wind out of our sails for a bit with the subs and we never really had enough. If he had any clue how to motivate and organize players for all our other games against the teams we should easily beat he could be on his way to being an actual football manager. His tenure here shows he learns from his mistakes, just three times longer than anyone else does. So by 2020 he should have cracked the modern day game. Shame the game will have moved on by then.

He does lose his s*** on the touchline far too frequently, that's a fact. every manager loses their s*** on the touchline, theres bigger things to be worried about He does more than most, and more frequently. Needs to calm down, nobody's saying it's the biggest issue at the club. Surely the only thing that makes him redeemable with that section of fans that consistently back him. I don't mind a manager that shows he is passionate, I quite like it. Probably doesn't do much to help the composure of our players though.

Absolutely nothing In the Cabella rumours IMO. If we get anything it will be Luke De Jong on loan. Otherwise it will be back to the same cycle of exciting links, initial noise then inevitable frustrating silence before we sign some French teenager and put in half arsed bids to make us look like we are trying. Ahh the voice of jaded bitterness.

Turning a corner just in time to again embarrass us. Of course aided by Pardews inevitable ineptitude.

Twitchy on Defoe move.. do you think he knows Toronto isn't in the U.S.? Blame Rosey. http://www.insidefutbol.com/2014/01/10/great-lifestyle-great-set-up-former-us-veteran-harry-redknapp-backs-jermain-defoe-toronto-fc-move/121093/? "Oh absoultely [i'd loan him in], sure", he told a press conference today. "You'd love to have him in. even if you only had him for six weeks, eight weeks, whatever. "He'd come in and score you 10 goals, he's that good. He can do a job for anybody and this is a great opportunity for him. It's a great lifestyle out there. "The lads that have gone over, Robbie Keane and obviously David Beckham, and everyone who's been out there, I was fortunate enough to be out there for four years, when I was playing, it's a great country to be in. "Toronto get good crowds and they have a good set-up there. I'm sure it's a move he'll enjoy. It's a new and exciting challenge for him."

Don't worry fat sam, you only have to wait another week for 3 easy points.

Shame the next one is more than likely when he leaves... in 2026.