The College Dropout

Alan Pardew has almost 0 say in our signings. If he wants a player and he's relatively cheap and young we'll go for him. That's Obertan and possibly Demba. the rest? HBA, Cabaye, Anita, Cisse, Marveaux et al. NO CHOICE.

He's been great but RVP would be offended.

LOAN. LOAN. LOAN.

I'm pretty certain Demba got along extremely well with our French connection, of which make up 3/4's of our top players so I doubt that was an indirect. I have no problems and tbh, Demba's a pretty honest lad. If Cabaye or HBA had a 7.5m release clause they'd be off too.

Where can i find a link that mentions the fact we've never won from behind with Pardew?

Agree, especially Tiote who quite frankly doesn't even protect his CB's properly anymore. If the plan is to play Cabaye as a #10 with Hatem and Remy either side of him then i'd look at getting a better partner for Anita. But that's another topic for another time. He did a decent job at Everton tbf to Tiote.

Nasri - full backs are supposed to follow the centre half not stand 5 yards behind the line - Santon didn't move Jelavic - dragged out to right back as there was no right back there If you're being serious that is! So he's dragged out to right back that means he couldn't do anything? He had to stop Jelavic getting in the box and he failed. Yeah Perch was AWOL but you're best CB shouldn't be getting fleeced like that.

Except Davide?? Now, I rate Santon, and overall he's had a decent season (not as good as some would say), but he's been as bad as, if not worse than Simpson lately. He's been poor. Sorry, I meant that Santon has been the worst out of everyone. Followed by Colo.

Such weak yellow cards. Ref has had a shocker.

Yep.

Never liked the man. Never. As a player. For his Suarez comments.

He's made mistake after mistake in recent weeks, very poor. If Williamson got beat in the air by Hugo bloody rodallega he'd get lambasted. Or turned inside out by Jelavic. Or plays Nasri on side.. Defensively, he's been as bad as anyone in the back line. Except Davide.

Aye, he had good relationship with Best in particular.

As long as we only sell our top players, to top clubs, I won't mind at all unless I thought they'd be here until they retire e.g. Taylor. We have a lot of good international players, if they perform and we don't qualify for Europe/CL they'll eventually leave. No point being bitter and emitting negative energy because of it. Biggest disappointment is that we didn't get the fee that a player of his quality should demand. Really he should cover Remy & Debuchy's fee. Unfortunately, you deserve what you negotiate.

We wasn't over run yesterday. First half we played okay if a bit too defensive. Started the second brightly then...........

Anita-Cabaye-Marveaux midfield if we press properly would be class i'm not convinced Pardew has the nous or the balls to do it quite frankly. Wet bog roll. Like how the best team in the league has Cleverly-Carrick-Rooney in the same fashion? physicality is overrated and quite frankly all it does atm is restrict us. Funny how very little top teams has players like Cheik yet we need him otherwise we will be overrun They offer owt protection and are one of the reasons they have been conceding so many goals. Fortunately for them, they have the 2 best strikers in the league performing well and another natural goal scorer. They'll get found out by better sides in the CL. 1. We are not a top team. 2. Garcia & Mikel. Even lower Sandro, Parker, Phil f***ing Neville. Madrid use Alonso as a passer and a battler, Khedira is there for physicality. They used Lass last season too. Javi Martinez provides defensive cover as well as passing. Infact you can't bully any of Dias, Schweinsteiger or Martinez. Cabaye and Anita don't provide defensive cover? i'd look at Swansea as one of the blueprints to follow tbh. There's no reason it wouldn't work, at the moment all Tiote is doing giving the ball away he's doing absolutely nothing to stop attacks. Of course i doubt Pards would have the know how or balls to do it but we would keep the ball a lot better and put teams under a lot more pressure by taking the shackles off. Cabaye & anita can get stuck in but they're not the strongest. Constantly getting stuck-in makes Cabaye particularly petulant. Not to mention they're both weak in the air where Tiote yesterday was pretty good. Michu's bigger and stronger than Anita, Cabs & Marv combined ffs. Yesterday, Tiote was the only one who could disrupt Fellaini. Our manager is Alan Pardew. Any Pardew side needs a Tiote and that parts not necessarily a bad thing. Any Moyes side needs a Tiote too.

He'll be a starter for Chelsea by the end of the season. Torres is finished.

From a "that's the way it is" standpoint, maybe the reputation he's largely earned was enough for the non-foul to be given as a free kick for the first goal. A less marked man may have got away with that challenge. Guys in the studio thought it might've been given against Colo. Normally, i'd agree that his reputation went before him but when nobody is even sure of what the infringement was, it's just a plain horrible decision.

Agree with this. Marv likes a forward incisive pass, Shola's not that guy.

Anita-Cabaye-Marveaux midfield if we press properly would be class i'm not convinced Pardew has the nous or the balls to do it quite frankly. Wet bog roll. Like how the best team in the league has Cleverly-Carrick-Rooney in the same fashion? physicality is overrated and quite frankly all it does atm is restrict us. Funny how very little top teams has players like Cheik yet we need him otherwise we will be overrun They offer owt protection and are one of the reasons they have been conceding so many goals. Fortunately for them, they have the 2 best strikers in the league performing well and another natural goal scorer. They'll get found out by better sides in the CL. 1. We are not a top team. 2. Garcia & Mikel. Even lower Sandro, Parker, Phil fucking Neville. Madrid use Alonso as a passer and a battler, Khedira is there for physicality. They used Lass last season too. Javi Martinez provides defensive cover as well as passing. Infact you can't bully any of Dias, Schweinsteiger or Martinez.

He's just conceded 15 goals in 3 games. His confidence must be shot to pieces.

To be fair to them both, where was Perch??? He still was nowhere to be seen when Anichebe put it in the net. I mean in general play. He was in position for goal.

Thought he was okay. Started poorly but stopped losing the ball and did his job well as the half wore on. Decent until the second Everton goal when Pards ruined everything. Started to lose his head. Should've been subbed early he became frustrated with the team and himself, then tried to over compensate. Did a pretty good job keeping Fellaini quiet.

Anita-Cabaye-Marveaux midfield if we press properly would be class i'm not convinced Pardew has the nous or the balls to do it quite frankly. Wet bog roll.

Aye, the most annoying thing he does defensively is jog back into position. Often eh just hopes the attack dissipates as the situation often looks potentially dangerous. Colo does it too at times.