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Hope the PA guy doesn't wheel out his "Toon Toon" bollocks again

Has there been any talk of any pre-match guff anywhere? Any opera singers or black and white cards to hold up? Are we just going old school?

I bet you check whether I'm online before you do it. Fuck it, we'll beat these tramps to within an inch of their worthless lives tomorrow. This one was a lot less subtle than normal, but still had the desired effect Honestly I can't wait for tomorrow and I do think we'll slip one up their hoop. Sadly enough I think this is about as exciting as it gets in my life these days, you know, since Christmas stopped being good and that.

It's always the same fucking suspects as well

I love dropping a Pard Grenade, fucking off and doing something else, then coming back and seeing what has unfolded.

Boruc, I think. Think Carroll's on the way back, you know?

I'd love another Belgian.

Hey, Interpolic: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2308655/Alan-Pardew-says-team-lose-derby-tired.html#ixzz2QNpYPQYz

There was definitely something in the air during the 5-1 that felt missing last season, it was a bit like complacency had crept in. Hoping given our season and particularly the week we've had leading into this will bring that something back.

I've stuck a tenner on us with that 4/1 NUFC.com offer through Paddy Power. It's all or nothing.

Danny Graham

Similar story here with Reading: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22125015 I'm glad to see some light shone on this, it's a bit of a piss-take really but they've got people by the short and curlies.

These mods need terminating.

I think it's safe to say Cisse, Sissoko, Cabaye and Marveaux are definite starters so that just leaves it down to two places between Gouffran, Jonas and Tiote for me.

Feel like a right prick going round every thread putting people right, but again Pardew said on NUFC TV just earlier that Marveaux was rested tonight so that he could start on Sunday. Wish there was a way of making key information like this more easily available than having it in one post.

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I don't think he'd have set up this way had we had Coloccini/Taylor and Santon fit. I think a lot of his thinking was not having a particularly strong back four, and not having his "door openers" available to play much more than half an hour each. Haven't we set up the same way (defensive and hoping to grind out results) pretty much the whole season? We see weaker squads play better football every week. It's all about psychology and inspiring players to push themselves to play better. Just because we have alot of international class professionals doesn't mean they don't need inspiration to push them from time to time or that arm around them to help. That said the players are clearly united with pardew and have bought into what he feeds them. For me it just looks like it's easier for him to play defensive than try to inspire his players mentally to step up. If Swansea play the way they do against someone like Benfica next season, I think they'd get ripped apart tbh. I think our best chance of winning the tie tonight with the players available, was the way we set out. That, imho, is bollocks. Swansea may well get seen off for a variety of reasons but because they have the ball a lot more than the other team won't be one of them. And if the only chance we had of winning the game tonight was the way it panned out, 10 mins of pressure out of 90, then we just had no chance, simple as. That's bollocks like. No chance? When Cisse scored there wasn't a person in the ground who wasn't fairly confident we would win it. We were incredibly close. Not for me. ON is of the opinion that the way we approached the game was the best tactically that we could have done. Don't agree with that and my point was, if that was the best approach possible then we weren't ever really in it. Tell me how we could have been better tactically? I wouldn't have started Bigi in the first 45 mins. Sissoko out wide and either Marveaux or Shola would have given us far more bite IMO. I think it's clear Marveaux wasn't fit...and this place had Shola started. Marveaux looked plenty fit to me - and Pardew really shouldn't give a toss about what this place would think about Shola starting tbh. Pardew said post-match that Marveaux struggles with a lot of games in a short space of time, which is why he didn't start tonight. Fine. But why replace him with an inexperienced defensive central midfielder? Do you think teams with no threat going forward are going to worry a team with a poor defence? I was just explaining the reasoning behind Marveaux not starting, leave me alone

I don't think he'd have set up this way had we had Coloccini/Taylor and Santon fit. I think a lot of his thinking was not having a particularly strong back four, and not having his "door openers" available to play much more than half an hour each. Haven't we set up the same way (defensive and hoping to grind out results) pretty much the whole season? We see weaker squads play better football every week. It's all about psychology and inspiring players to push themselves to play better. Just because we have alot of international class professionals doesn't mean they don't need inspiration to push them from time to time or that arm around them to help. That said the players are clearly united with pardew and have bought into what he feeds them. For me it just looks like it's easier for him to play defensive than try to inspire his players mentally to step up. If Swansea play the way they do against someone like Benfica next season, I think they'd get ripped apart tbh. I think our best chance of winning the tie tonight with the players available, was the way we set out. That, imho, is bollocks. Swansea may well get seen off for a variety of reasons but because they have the ball a lot more than the other team won't be one of them. And if the only chance we had of winning the game tonight was the way it panned out, 10 mins of pressure out of 90, then we just had no chance, simple as. That's bollocks like. No chance? When Cisse scored there wasn't a person in the ground who wasn't fairly confident we would win it. We were incredibly close. Not for me. ON is of the opinion that the way we approached the game was the best tactically that we could have done. Don't agree with that and my point was, if that was the best approach possible then we weren't ever really in it. Tell me how we could have been better tactically? I wouldn't have started Bigi in the first 45 mins. Sissoko out wide and either Marveaux or Shola would have given us far more bite IMO. I think it's clear Marveaux wasn't fit...and this place had Shola started. Marveaux looked plenty fit to me - and Pardew really shouldn't give a toss about what this place would think about Shola starting tbh. Pardew said post-match that Marveaux struggles with a lot of games in a short space of time, which is why he didn't start tonight.

Pards has already said Haidara "will start on Sunday", hence him being brought off tonight.

Absolutely great moment. I agree, the whole stadium stood up and starting singing.....while the players slowly walked back to the halfway line with there heads dropped, you could tell they were totally gutted.....Hopefully it picked them up for the weekend! Think it was just appreciation for the effort as much as anything, a nice little slice of defiance in the face of yet another disappointment. Sounds corny but I hope some of the players had a look around during those few seconds and appreciated where they're playing their football.

I enjoyed the bit of the match where we attacked relentlessly, I'd like to see a bit more of that please.

Picked up from where he left off. Regardless of Santon being fit or not I think he had more or less played his way into the team anyway, but tonight should have obviously sealed that. Cracking little signing and Pardew seems delighted with him.

No he hasn't. It's a popular myth gone wild. Marveaux was exemplary again tonight, his confidence is sky high. Gouffran's been canny, just a very tidy footballer, but if we ever have a full allocation available to actually start a game then he's the one to drop out for me. Saying that; I would quite like to see the Sissoko, Cabaye, Ben Arfa, Marveaux, Gouffran, Cisse front six I've seen mentioned at some point though

I hope Woodman does the Banzai Drop on one of their new coaching staff at some point.

Absolutely great moment.