Rich

Definition of a big game player. Love him.

Lovely start. Back heels are great.

Mouthwatering.

doosh y

What a good addition he would be! Like a good Taarabt Him on the left, HBA on the right. Both cutting in, Haidara and Debuchey giving the width. Oooooohhhhh, missus! Do think we'll be sniffing around Belhanda, just seems to fit every facet of our recent recruitment policy. Would be extremely exciting.

Like Pardew did against Anzhi.

The towering presence provided by a front three of Sturridge, Coutinho and Downing is a threat we should be very mindful of I suppose.

I think that front line is perhaps a little bit lightweight unfortunately. First and foremost for me this weekend is do not lose and think we need to mindful of being able to win the ball back and also defend set pieces as they will send Agger and Carragher forward for every free kick and corner and i don't see that front 3 being able to compete with them. What will Yanga-Mbiwa, Taylor, Sissoko and Perch be doing like?

Honestly the worst poster on the forum by a landslide man, and he has some stiff competition at times Besmirches the good name of Winning Eleven.

jotenko

Spanked silly in a 3-1 win?

Such a shame really. Amazing watching those games today, I actually felt entertained You'd have thought we were playing under a completely different manager. Cabaye was class, he only ever got major plaudits for that Stoke game IIRC but he was great in the others too. I just have no idea why Pardew's not returned to it properly. The pass Cabaye played for Cisse on Saturday in the build-up to our goal shows what we're lacking with him playing so deep, it was another one of those passes that nobody else bar him and the recipient anticipated. Absolute beauty.

still find it surprising that people think a formation is going to change the ability of a manager. He's certainly not going anywhere in the immediate future so maybe it's just people hoping to make the best of a bad situation? As Gallowgate Toon pointed out, in the system we played last season with a weaker set of components we played some attractive football and attained some very good results. Cabaye, Cisse and Ben Arfa looked fantastic in particular. Of course it's not the magic formula, but it might help to have people playing in their correct roles and by balancing the shape of the team out a little bit better? Of course if he did actually change back to that approach/formation then he wouldn't be viewed in such a negative manner, I'd assume, as at least he'd be trying something logical for once.

A little bit of Sandra in the sun.

Aye, I gave up on the return to 4-3-3 a good while ago despite all the good points you raise GT. We're more equipped for it now than we were then and Cabaye in particular thrived in that system.

He's played one full game for us - Swansea (a).

What's really scary is that while you are aware of that, I'm not convinced Pardew is. He has ventured up there a few times and I was starting to think it was going to be a regular occurrence before his recent injury. I can't remember him doing it in the last two games though. It's little things like this that could actually lead to me having some faith restored in Pardew and Co., given how amazingly simple it would be to implement.

We've got to start sending Debuchy up for corners on a more consistent basis, I'm sure he scored from a few for Lille and he definitely seems to attack the ball in the air well from a defensive perspective.

bampy pls

You can't count to 2?

Evening game on the telly, slightly more positive outlook amongst the players/staff after sneaking a point at West Brom, Liverpool aren't any great shakes, hopefully no Suarez... Some tenuous reasons, admittedly, but it does have the hallmarks of a game that we'd be up for. Saying that, if we struggle badly again then where exactly is the light at the end of the tunnel?

Dem BBQ