The College Dropout

I thought we where a Jonas substitution away from as good as we could be. Cisse off probably too. We knocked it about in midfield for once.

Cisse has never played out wide in his life! Of course he has to play centrally if we wnat to see the best of him. Yeah, he's had a slow start, but the way to get him to snap out of it, is to make him as comfortable as possible. At the very least both he and Ba should rotate positions at least some of the time, or per half. Yesterday they did. In the first half they swapped positions and in the second both played upfront. Cisse was wank throughout and couldn't stay onside. The one moment of good play between them sums Cisse up this season for me. Ba looks to play Cisse in, Cisse goes for a spectacular finish that smacks the post but he was offside anyway. Bench pls.

Bullshit. How many of the 10 goals Ba has scored this season been headers? 3 maximum. There's nothing to suggest Cisse is better than Ba at anything except exceptional goals and first time snap shost ala Defoe. Double the player of Ba? Cisse can't even stay onside ffs.

What has he done to deserve that? He can't even stay onside from the right wing ffs. Yesterday we rotated in the first half and he played up top in the second half. s*** throughout. Well, he scored a remarkable amount of goals last season. It's not even about whether he 'deserves' to play centrally or not. That's his position, it's where he has to play to be worth anything. And throughout his career he has shown he'll return a large amount of goals. Agreed. He has clearly demonstrated his talents in the past, and is going through a rough patch. Either drop him to the bench or play him centrally. Simple. I don't see Fergie sticking RVP on the right... RVP has played on the left on occasion. He's also scoring goals. cisse played most of yesterday down the middle and was woeful. IMO Cisse should be benched.

Agree with it all bar the Cabaye bit? Unless I'm reading it wrong, I really don't think he hides? Even when he's playing badly he puts a shift in, gets stuck in and covers a lot of ground. Anita seemed like he was hiding earlier in the season, but it was probably just the game passing him by due to him not being up to speed. Cabaye doesn't show for the ball as much as Anita or Tiote. Yeah cabaye gets stuck in but often it would look like Tiote is the one trying to grab the game by the neck.

That's the moment for me. Anita off but Jonas is still on? Who had been terrible for 85 minutes.

He's having a poor season. Absolutely nothing wrong in pointing that out. People need to accept that certain supporters don't give a flying f*** if it hurts them that we're criticising their most loved and favourite players. Agreed.

He hasn't looked the same player this season, especially these last few weeks. Ba for me has been the better player this season and should lead our line in a 4-3-3. Cisse has had chances recently and he's either wasted them or been offside. That's nobody's fault but his own. In the last few games he's been in the box a lot of the time. He's been shit.

has to play alongside Tiote for me and in a 3 whenever we are up against a 3 too.

He's also playing further up with us too.

What has he done to deserve that? He can't even stay onside from the right wing ffs. Yesterday we rotated in the first half and he played up top in the second half. Shit throughout.

Worse than Williamson imo. By far actually. Thought Jonas should've been subbed at half-time. He then got worse. Then put in 2 good balls in the last 5 minutes. Tiote & ANita are not creative midfielders. So many times they passed it to Jonas and he just passed it straight back. Against Wigan Marv would push the team forward. Jonas holds us back. Thought Jonas & Cisse should've gone at half-time.

Marveaux's best game for us came at the head of a midfield 3. Now people want to play him wide?

He's been genuinely poor recently. Why is he always offside? People make excuses for him that he's being played out wide but he's offside 5 times a game minimum indicating he's on the edge of the last defender. He had a great chance yesterday but he was offside and he still didn't score. Shouldn't be starting. End of. He actually got himself into better positions than Ba yesterday and wasted them by being offside.

Can't fault him. Played to the best of his abilities yesterday. Defended pretty well, got forward and tried to attack. One of maybe he, Anita & Krul that played to their potential.

He made a mistake that lead to a goal. The overall team wasn't that bad I thought. Had Colo defended properly we would've been good value for a point. For a team like ours (that struggles when behind) defending properly is crucial. The marking was non-existent and for a senior CB and club captain that was terrible. Was a good effort by Colo & he showed more attacking verve than the likes of Jonas. But still, he didn't defend well in crucial scenarios therefore he was poor.

I'd like to build a team around those 3 as CM's in a 433. Won't happen though. Too thin. You need Tiote in there.

He's a feeder, feeding it to others quickly with the correct weight. Some of the combination play between him & Tiote was good. The biggest thing I got from yesterday is that he doesn't hide unlike Cabaye. Tiote-Anita-Marv next match please. Anita & Tiote need another out ball. They pass it to Jonas and he passes it straight back. The strikers are too far away so there's only HBA, Simo & Santon.

Aye and they've cost us 2 points minimum. Pardew isn't wrong when he says we need to sort it out defensively. Last year we where good for a cleansheet, then you only need 1 goal. This term we can't keep the goals out and under Pardew we've never looked like staging good comeback victories.

He was offside for that chance. He's always offside. Bench. Please.

How can a central defender make two mistakes that lead to goals have a good game? His general play was decent aye but he let us down big time.

He didn't try to control it. He made a good tackle and got unlucky as the ball rolled to Duff. Second was a great ball by f***ing Duff again would've been hard to defend for even someone taller than him. Definitely wasn't s*** today. The first he didn't try to clear the ball. A little mistake there. Second, is definitely his fault. G. Nev has pointed it out too. Rodallega was his man and he scored a free header at the near post. That's the defenders fault.

He's not lying. We looked decent at times. Moved the ball well in midfield at times. Tiote-Anita-Simpson-HBA

There might be a reason for taking HBA off. there was no reason for leaving Jonas on.

Made mistakes but was decent on the whole..