The College Dropout

He was offside for the 2nd. Fractions.

When you look at the facts today, you must admit he was poor. Still, I reckon he'll grab 2 at S'hampton.

Disappointing.

Robbed.

There's no more than 3 better RB's in the league thna Johnson imo.

Would love us to give the Europa a real go.

I think Perch gets the nod because of his size and relative strong ability in the air. With Mous & Perch in the side we are now a "big" team. Less likely to concede from set-pieces. But for me, one of Marv/Anita should start most games but together in a midfield 3 it looks a short team.

I have a degree from a good university thank you very much.

No, let's. He missed 3 games and we got 0 points. In the next 3, against slightly better opposition we got 4 points. Direct correlation there.

Both went on to look very crap. Bassong has only looked a good player again 3 years later. Bassong was good for such a young man but he wasn't that good. Without Ba's goals we would've been in the relegation zone, no doubt in my mind. With colo on the pitch we where heading for 3 points. IMO we would've won had he not got injured. We also lost the 3 games he was suspended for after L'pool. Yes, had Colo not made those two mistakes it would've been an excellent performance? Had we scored 3, it would be noted but overlooked like our poorish closing down of Chelsea's goals the week before. I agree Pardew's systems haven't benefited the whole team but IMO some of his senior players have let him down. Especially the spine of the team + Jonas.

Both went on to look very crap. Bassong has only looked a good player again 3 years later. Bassong was good for such a young man but he wasn't that good. Without Ba's goals we would've been in the relegation zone, no doubt in my mind. With colo on the pitch we where heading for 3 points. IMO we would've won had he not got injured. We also lost the 3 games he was suspended for after L'pool. Yes, had Colo not made those two mistakes it would've been an excellent performance? Had we scored 3, it would be noted but overlooked like our poorish closing down of Chelsea's goals the week before. I agree Pardew's systems haven't benefited the whole team but IMO some of his senior players have let him down. Especially the spine of the team + Jonas.

So he has no responsibility in his poor form? I'm done. I've never said he should be dropped so I don't know people keep mentioning it.

Poor defeding is poor defending. "He let Bale get the ball, move on". Aye, getting sent off for no reason and missing 3 games, who cares though? Oh he's not physical. That's not a problem in the Premiership. Never he said he's looked a shambles. But he been under-performing, you see the difference? We have been poor as a team and as indivduals largely. Colo has been poor, can we just admit that? Never said he's unfir or declining but I do think one of the reasons for his own personal dip in-form is the issues that make him want to leave. What is your last question about? We wouldn't be 15th had he performed like last season. same way we wouldn't be 15th if Cisse had scored 15 goals this term. We wouldn't have finished 5th with this season's Cisse. He's a valuable member of the team, his performance directly correlates to points ffs. He's one of the biggest differences in us winning/losing points.

At work, typing furiosly. sp/sentence mistakes have been made but you get the gist.

Sorry L'pool. Am i wrong in what i'm saying? No.

Everyone has said S'land was the turning point. He and the whole team where poor against WBA. Lukaku caused problems all day. The next league game he could've done better for the goal and got himself a deserved red card and a 3 match suspension. Poor like everyone against Brugge. Misses the next 3 games out of stupidity. Him not being available for such a silly offence in these games is a black mark against his name as he let the team down. Didn't watch Maritimo. Cost us points at Stoke. Solid against a 10 man Wigan undoubtedly. Poor at Fulham. Average vs City Solid against QPR. The less said about ManU/Arsenal the best better a couple players stood out in those games positively, Colo wan't one. the form has been pretty sketchy this year too.

He lost out in the air from a set piece, to Hugo Rodallega. He was on the wrong side. There where only 3 attackers in the set-piece anyway. That's terrible. Freekick wasn't taken quickly, he had plenty of time to compare. edit: was going to name some off the top but Haircut named some of the more obvious ones but i'll talk about what makes them so bad. Let's take the freekick for example. He got turned easily by Clint Dempsey who is not particularly strong or quick. That means his reading of the situation was poor in the first place to get into the bad position then he lacked the physicality to make up for the mistake so he had to foul him. It was a yellow card offense too as the comentators pointed out. Had it been later in the game it would've been. It wasn't miles out, it was within shooting distance. Just poor defending. The red card at S'land was stupid and out of character. He let the team down that day. Just an indication of where his head is at. He ended up missing 3 games as a result and he's been poor in a lot of the games he's been poor. He's looked weak at times too. Lukaku and Demba caused him plenty of problems with strength and he was AWOL when we shipped goals at Stoke. We are 15th ffs, how can any of our defenders have looked solid for most of the season? We have to accept that some of our better players have been under-performing. He is one. A main one. If he can go back to some of last season's form we will climb the table. It's that simple.

Absolutely. Colo since he arrived at the club has only had one season where he has been absolute world class and consistent. The Championship doesn't count and for the other seasons at the club he has shown a tendency to have a poor game every here and then. The guy is a top class footballer but like all defenders when there is a lack of help he is prone to have a mistake or so. Look at most top defenders. I mean in the PL, Kompany, Skrtel, Lescott, Ferdinand, Cahill, David Luiz all of them have had one or two costly mistakes. So your argument is an absolute shitfest. Colo has been steady for our last three games. He was nowhere near at fault for the penalty caused by Debuch, or the fact that Perch can't react to a freekick, because let's be honest here, a freekick from that range should never go in when hit at that height. It wasn't a very good freekick and it still went in. And for the 2nd goal both our CBs were at equal amount of fault, so based on that logic Streete and MBiwa should start since they haven't been bad this season yet. What? Every player has bad games, what's your point? 3 out of 4 games the last 3 years you could expect a good performance from Colo. Kompany himself would admit he's been in poor form at times this season. Not one or two costly mistakes but poor form. His team are down one place in the league and performed the way they did in the CL last season. He, the fans and everyone can admit he hasn't been as good, why can't we about Colo? The man has been and is unsettled at the club, we can't admit it has affected his performance? He's made numerous mistakes this season that have led to goals, I won't bother coming up with examples. I've already said he should continue in the PL, I just know he has to improve soon for our own sake. I don't want to throw Mapou in at the deep end and Willo/Streete aren't good enough.

I don't understand that. For a CB to be actually poor as in very, very bad indeed. You would have to want him dropped. He hasn't been Colo the clown, he just hasn't been the Colo of the last 3 or so years. For Coloccini, he's been poor and costing us points and goals. But CB is a very important position and we are too close to relegation to throw Mapou in when Colo has the quality and desire to turn it around but he does need to pick it up soon. It's not going to happen if we ignore the poor performances. Give Mapou some Europa league and regular action off the bench. In March/April we should simply pick the best defensive partnership.

For his standard, can people really argue against the claim he's been poor this season?

Whilst i don't think he should be dropped in the PL, Coloccini has been poor consistently since S'land. Fully agree with "he hasn't been at the races" comment. I was saying he was playing poorly before the news came out that he wanted to leave and I got shouted down, people blaming Willo or simply overlooking poor mistakes by Colo etc. Same with Cisse, a bunch of excuses/overlooking faults.

Just a bit clumsy like Scholes, honest guv. Luckily, this generally seems to be the theme. More imo. Aye, his challenges are far worse imo. The worst ones recently have just been late (and bad) but last season some of them where very malicious.

nah, liverpool had much better chances than swansea had. foster had a blinder whereas krul had little to do bar stopping weak 30yarders that were straight at him. Yep. A couple top saves and a good penalty save.

? Can't be referring to me.

Sorry if i have mis-interpreted what you were trying to say, but i'd argue there was plenty of malice in that tackle at the end. Thought it was just late and a bad tackle. Don't think he meant to hurt Dembele.