Kanj

The power of google makes ordinary men into Medical into experts. Nobody's to blame, lets just put our support around the lad to get fit and become the legend we know he's capable of being in our shirt.

I accept it seems strange he started the match away in Russia but you make it sound like complete incompetence from the medical team. If the up to date scans have been done and show nothing, the player's reporting no problems in training consistently then I don't see what else they could've done really. They've followed normal guidelines. You've missed my point man, I'm probably not being clear. So I'm sorry. To put it simply, experts in their respected field gave the green light to play and Hatem probably felt ok to play so he did. I'm not blaming anyone. The exact opposite. It's nobody's fault based on the information we have. Unless there is some poor judgement or mistake on someone's spot not adhering to medical advice or listening to Hatem if he didn't want to play. It's an injury that looked healed and he triggered something again. It's out of everyone's hands in my opinion - poor luck, poor Hatem and poor us for missing such an exciting and brilliant player for us. Not many medically trained people on here for what i know- think its a bit naive of people to judge otherwise. I really enjoy this board alot, and really like nearly every poster on here- but people on here need to lose the hysteria a bit, relax, and just hope he recovers for his career and for our club.

Trained medical professionals said he was fine to play. He did. He further aggravated it.

Just hoping we get anyone but Chelski or Spurs. I imagine they'd feel the same too about us!

Mental awesome bastard. Dude is constantly smiling and smirking throughout matches and its awesome. But now he's putting in real top top performance - Keep it up Stevey man!

Or when he had the ball on the wing and did some stepover

Mapouuuuuuuuuuuuu!

He's put in a full match's reason and 2 match winning assists in the span of a week and rightfully needs to be in the first 11 this weekend. CLASS Sylvain man. He's kept his head above water and fought for his place each and every time. I'm so proud of him.

Can anyone sum up the post match from him? Play him the driven diagonal ball that he's able to get power and direction on and he'll either volley it or he'll blast a fucking header like that. His general play was fine too. PAPISS CISSE NEWCASTLE'S NUMBER 9!

I couldn't even yell, I did the Pards hands up in the air in my office, followed by getting up from my chair and a Tiger Woods/Pards fist pump and just sat back down. I'm going mental on the inside

lets wait for the draw man

To all the slaggers of our Papisto. Seriously - shut it for a few days. He's just won us 2 matches in a week.

FUCKING HELL

CMON LETS TAKE THIS

GET IN LETS GO!

Carlos is fast man

Tiote looking like a fucking boss out there.

Oh look at Cisse's general play - fantastic touch.

Some Wacka Flocka and "We Ready" would do the trick here man.

Settle down Kanji

He's received the ball and passed it along. He's our striker FFS and he's not had a single fucking sniff of a chance b/c we haven't created fuck all for him.

Slagging Cisse x1,000,000 the guy hasn't had shit for anything to do man.

Mike

Fantastic team selection Pards hope it pans out tonight!

For all the times I had seen him in France, I always felt like he was a bit wasted playing deep and seemed much more a threat when given license to just cause problems everywhere on the pitch with his trademark half-pitch runs and bulldozing people left and right. I think his role as it currently stands is perfect for us now, but if we were to get someone in capable of playing his role better, then as long as he's somewhere on the pitch with instructions to attack and help out in defense when he can, then I'm all for it. Personally, I think we'd be losing a lot of our counter attack if he was shackled to play deep. I just want this brilliant bastard on the pitch causing havoc like he is now. As it currently stands, through the handful of games hes played - he is just too essential in our attack to be moved anywhere else. I'm all for some experimentation this summer/next season though as long as we are using his strengths to the max and getting results.