Kanj

He's hilarious man. He's randomly kicking off 1 moment, playing some good touches here and there, f***ing up another time, then scores the winner in that manner*. His attitude is awesome. Give him chances to score and he'll do it. No matter if his entire day was awful before that Papiss Cisse, No f***s given. Ever. *That manner = the most sublime volley of all time, hitting his own arse, or taking a difficult injury time volley with ease.

Yeah, I mean - I love the crazy bastard in all honesty. But a cleaner cut Cheik looks much better!

A potential famous European night at home, come on! I'm so excited for this one.

The confidence about him is priceless man. He carries himself with so much swagger and confidence that its clearly rubbing off on other people. His presence has obviously given us a lift and I'm so damn proud that he's our Captain right now.

He doesn't hide - and we all know he's going to be dropped soon or later as soon as Hatem is back. But he made some good plays here and there yesterday.

His pace, running, strength and ability to drive us forward on the counter is exactly what we needed. Everyone was losing their minds earlier in the season b/c we had 0 ability to counter and our transitional phase of play was slow as molasses. He WAS a boss yesterday out there and as long as he's running all over the pitch causing havoc he's doing his job. One or two of those passes will come right soon and we'll score from them.

He made some excellent high pressure tackles yesterday or the quick decision to turn up field and play a simple ball. 1 really poor challenge but he's looked MUCH better. Glad he cut his hair too.

Very calm aura about him and he looks very strong. Looked assured on the ball.

Was unable to see the match until the 86th minute, so I was following it on twitter until then. Walking home I saw we had tied it. Got back to my hotel and accessed the fox-app to watch it from 86 onwards. Soon as Cisse received that ball I said confidently - GOAL. And he scored. The person I was with was mighty impressed with my prediction upon the trap.

Holy shit False 9!

So I was supposed to be on a plane to NYC at 1130 am EST today. And would have missed the entire match. Now I'll be flying at 1-130 PM so I can catch the first half. Get in!

Aye & injuries happen to every team eh? He's got to field either Shola (on a pitch he's been advised to steer clear of) or Adam Campbell vs Anzhi in the away leg of the final 16 of the Europa League. Or play a midfielder/winger in a central striking role? Staggering lack of depth.

some network

I for one, would love to see him come on as a sub and help us score from a corner.

Cajun - I had written a similar post you had this morning and deleted it as I didn't want to fuel a debate that would just p*ss me off. Simply put, we had too many key players out injured for far too long in both defense and attack. Our squad depth has been been awful for ages and we've always struggled in seasons when our team has been hit by injuries b/c we've really never had the squad depth that any of our rivals have had. Our best years seem to only come when our top players are fit for most of the season. Look at the stat appearances from last season and you'll see Krul, Colo, Cabaye, and Ba/Cisse all practically played the entire season (30+ starts) and all were in terrific form for the most part. I included Cisse as the he picked up where Ba left off in terms of goals. Ben Arfa started 16 and was subbed 10 times. This season through 28 PL matches, we've not had Krul 6 times, Colo 9, Cabaye 12, and Ben Arfa 15. Other clubs seem to cope b/c they have decent enough depth to fill those voids. We don't, and we've not any resemblance of depth in quite some time. We were very fortunate that last season we grinded out results with Willo, Perch, Raylor, Guthrie, Best, and to an extent Obertan.

Nothing speaks style than a crew-v-neck.

Same could be said about the Cisse thread and a few weeks ago, the Colo thread.

Frankie Hejduk is an absolute rager. I fucking loved the guy when he played for my old defunct Tampa Bay Mutiny - the dude would do some terrible dances after he'd score

Need HBA face on this b/c I assume this is how he is all the time. Walking around like a fucking boss. Rightly so.

Score draw before a brilliant win at SJP under the lights.

MYB, Amobie

I'd take this post over the doom & gloom that makes its way into every thread now a days

Timber Joey is fucking amazing

I just want us to sign another CB of quality who can compete for the role next to him and Saylor. Best 2 men get the job.

I'm all for some thoughtful analysis and its a forum where debate and difference in opinions are what drives the damn thing, but this Cisse slagging is some ridiculous shit. He scored for fun in the 2nd half of last season and has struggled this season in a struggling team. He has much to work to do - but that can be said about the rest of our squad and our manager - who for the most part have not been up to par this season.