Teasy

You'd get it back anyway if he didn't play. Which he will. Are you sure Paddy Power do that?

Those sneaky bastard bookies nearly got my money..

I fucking knew out.. There had to be a reason why the bookies have Ba down as 8/1 to score first, behind like 6 Liverpool players.

Marveaux's a crockchhhhghg as well apparently

"We've got another 1-1 draw to look forward to..." That mong on the right sounds like he's about to cough up a fur ball every few minutes, if he wasn't a bin dipper I'd advise him to see a doctor.

Call them Manure, takes the same amount of time to type and its a much more accurate description.

Again though that makes me worry that they know something negative about the starting line up. Surely they aren't all that pig ignorant?

What do they know that we don't? Surely there has to be a reason for those odds. Has Pardew said he's definitely starting?

Only came into contact with the lad once, past him and Coloccini in the Metro Centre. I said hello as I went past and Coloccini turned round as he was walking, smiled and waved. Enrique didn't even react, so my opinion is Colo's class and Enrique's a cunt, maybe not exactly thorough but I'm sticking to it

I was going to but I didn't catch it in time Both Bellamy and Carroll are 5/1 and Ba is still 15/2.. wtf?

Paddy Power have him down as 10/1 to score first tomorrow..

Offensively yes, defenseively not because HBA won't keep Enrique pushed back. I don't particularly like Obertan but think he has the pace to worry enrique enough to keep him pegged back a little bit and will also hug the touchline whereas HBA will drift all over. Trying to beat Enrique for pace is the wrong way to go. That just plays to his strengths, it certainly won't worry him. Ben Arfa would have a much better chance of causing him problems, but I do agree that we shouldn't use him there. We'll probably have to forget about trying to cause Enrique problems and focus on weaker areas of there team.

Our support isn't really that similar to be honest.

So when are this lot supposed to catch us again?

Nobody wants to sell him, but its just a sign of the fucking arrogance of the BBC to see them talking about such a paltry figure for arguably the top striker in the league at the moment, if he played for Manure they'd be quoting £50m

wtf BBC?? we're one frickin point off the "top six sides". gahhhh. £8m?.. 8 million pounds???!!!!! 14 goals in 16 starts in the Premiership and they've got the fucking moronic audacity to talk about £8 million fucking quid for the lad.. I'm fucking seething!

To be fair, Krul said last week that he hopes to stay at the club for 'many, many years'. Seeing that he seems like a decent lad, why should that not be the case? Because Nolan wanted to end his career here, Carroll wanted to be our no.9 for years to come etc. etc. We clearly weren't that bothered about keeping Nolan and were very happy to take the £35m for Carroll. I can't see us being happy with £7m for Krul. IF this clause was true we may offer him a new improved contract, something we had no reason to offer to Nolan or Carroll.

Totally agree, Pardew goes on about Obertan needing a run of games - well he's had 17 now this season. Problem is with these comments about the #10 position, Pardew has created this ridiculous situation where we can only really play Ben Arfa by changing our entire system. Which makes it unkindly. It also comes down to the fact that Pardew seems to have been the one behind the signing of Obertan, while Ben Arfa isn't really his signing.

Revived us when he came on, has to start from now on.

But who'll replace Nolan's goals? Not Ba surely, he was a free transfer! I knew he'd be good just from looking at his record, but I have to admit I didnt expect him to be this good.

Very disappointed he didn't come on against Swansea. We'd quite obviously ran out of ideas/belief in the last 20 minutes or so and needed something new. I thought Ben Arfa could have given us something different and stopped us going into "smash the ball into the area and hope" mode.

Bobby Robson with Bellamy, you don't need to look at other clubs, we've done it in the past and done OK from it. Or with Laurent Robert, at times he was a passenger, but his brilliance out weighted that by a long way. Only have to look at when Souness came in to see what happens when a manager doesn't understand that certain players need to be given some leeway.

Which part is not true? Which part is crap? Have I missed some of his International appearances? Have I missed it where he has earned a place in the team? Please correct me if I mis-stated the actual facts. Not speculation, not hope, just facts. Which part is crap? Calling a player who is obviously very talented "slightly above average". That's utter crap mate, no matter what you have to say about him not earning this or that (which none of us know BTW because we don't see him train) slightly above average players don't do the things he can do.

He's sick of all the crap that gets spewed on here, then goes on to spew massive loads of crap