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Ben Arfa will rip Blackburn a new rear door this evening... Teed up by the Manic and marvellous Marveaux!!

No discussion of streams, please. No matter how innocuous you think it is.

LOL ,,,nice one Had to think for a bit...

Kadar is a complete unknown tbh... At least Perch has prem level experience even though he didn't exactly excell at it... HHmm

Why on earth would he play smith, the bloke is just hanging on for more money and will be off this summer...Blood the kids instead of that tripe!!

I think he will be serious and go for: ---------------Krul---------------- Santon----Perch---Colo----Raylor Marveaux--Cabaye--Abeid--Jonas -----------Ben Arfa--------- --------------Best-------------- Subs: Sammy, Gosling, Simpson, Vuckic, Ba, Smith, Lovenkrands, Oberman

It's a cup game tomorrow so there's no way he'd be in the reserves team if they had a game today/yesterday..whenever... Wumtastic if you ask me

Michael Carrick reminds me more of a Cabaye type of player than a tiote type of player?...¿

yes, we all love city today for making Taggart look a right pr**k and putting his whisky sodden nose out of joint!! hahahaha

Here's my thoughts on the game, although the stream was pretty crap: Krul - Excellent throughout and could well turn out to be the best keeper we have seen at NUFC, the only small complaint can be his sometimes errant kicks when under pressure. Simpson - Thought he did very well and not a lot got past him. He also supports obertan quite well but just lacks that confidence to run past him and take a defender wide which would open up more spce for us albeit exposing our right if caught in possession. Taylor - Did well in the air but I thought there were a couple of occasions when both him and colo didn't come out to meet the attacker quick enough, therefore letting them get the shot off Colo - Calm and collected but ditto the above. Raylor - Very solid again, If i were to play Santon for one of our full backs it has to be simpson. Raylor hardly ever lose possession when on the ball, his passing is that of a midfielder. Jonas - Manlove...hero worship and more!! MOM without a doubt. thy couldn't do anything against him. A couple of impossible situations with 2-3 defenders around him and he manages to slither through them... Swooon!! Cabaye - He kind of comes in and out of games but without lowering his performance, against there three in the middle he was running at shadows a lot. He seems to be growing slowly into the perfect foil for Tiote. Reminds me a lot of Xavi alonso (Madrid). Didn't overly impress me or underwhelm me but... What a goal though! Tiote - Major complaint are the scott parkeresque pirrouettes in the middle, he is getting caught too often with them, just pass it back to the defence if there's nowt on!!! Their midfielders pressured him a lot and he lost the ball a few times. Still a beast at breaking up their play and against three biggish lads he fared very well. Obertan - His control and touch are good, has fantastic pace...but can't make the decisive decisions and will not pass or run on the moments that he really should do. Bad decsion maker for me! Does the defensive covering and everything well but just frustrates you when you see the positions he gets the ball in and ends up doing nothing... Sorry but bench for stoke. Best - Really growing on me, even though he's a bit short on goals he is doing everything else very well. I would have preffered to see him with ben arfa for a bit against wigan as Ba was timid... Ba - Everyone has an off day... Think he is x100 better than in preseason but... Ben Arfa - Didn't lose possessionn like the other day, heard a few complaints about him passing ball back to defence, but if he hasn't any options on and the defender may have a better pass angle, he also draws two defenders out of the game. Boils my pish that some people just do not get the basics of football!! Does he merit a start yet? Would be unfair on both of our forwards but at Stoke I would prefer to have five in midfield so big Yes for me (for Best ) Marveaux - Pardew, i love your loyalty and the fact you don't want to break Ober's confidence...But it is gapingly obvious for all that this guy is on another level...FFS!! Wow, from the snippets I've seen, could be our star player quite soon!!

Have a mate who supports Liverpool (from a distance) and he has perfect clarity on liverpools weakness at the moment: Midfield From having a midfield of Mascherano/Alonso/gerrard, they have a huge hill to climb. None of the current midfield are anything to worry about, even Gerrard looks well off the pace... I am over the moon about all this, really do detest the moaning mackem relations!

If they all stay fit I would hazard a yes! We do look pretty tidy and we have a "reasonable bench" for once in a while... Even Shola's on form...FFS!

Marveaux... what a toucvh on chest then perfect weight to Cabaye for wonder goal!! Good subbage Pards...well done!!!!!!

I wouldn'tchange Best tbh, he is better at holding the ball up for our midfielders to then latch on to. Would probably fit better with Arfa, also think Marveaux needs to come on for obertan, he hasn't puuled up any small flowers/weeds (ahem!).

Aye, They are certainly giving all their best stuff down our left... Get Santon on??? The extra man they have in the middle needs to be countered, need benarfa on. Also they have two yellows, he could certainly draw another one...

midfield struggling in this one, they are passing it around middle too easily. Raylor is getting skinned every time he leaves his attacker space, they seem to have loads of time to get their crosses/shots/whatever in . Wwe need to be pressing faster and more. I would have Ba off aswell, leave best forward (good at holding up ball) and get benarfa in midfield aswell to ehlp out and to forma attacks. Obertan is playing ok, would change a little later if nothing happens...

you would destroy any confidence and any faith he had in you were you to change him for Marv, better to sub him after 60. if marv proves himself there need not be any loss of faith, reasons are there...

exited allready about the game... gonna whop em' i think!!

she wants a shag off our romeo-esque manager...

A serious team to put out could be: --------------Harper------------------ Santon---Taylor---Colo-----Ferguson Marveaux---Gosling---Tiote---Jonas ---------Ben Arfa---------------- ---------------Ba------------ Bring on Sammy and Abeid at some point...

Any one of the strikers mentioned and a left back would seriously reinforce our team. For centre back we have willo and kadar might make the grade... Midfield is OK at moment

We could go mental a go for: ----------------Elliot-------------- Santon---Perch---Kadar---Ferguson Vuckic---Gosling--abeid--Marveaux ------Benarfa-------Ranger------ WOW!

If he has it in his head that he's moving, of course his motivation will be adversly affected. get Santon in! Poor wife and kids...FFS!!

He was on the transfer list in the summer wasn't he? It seems like Pardew tried to shove a rocket up his jax or sees what everybody else does i.e. he's an average defender... If we get an adequate replacement get rid although I would get Perch out of the door before Simpson. Pretty negative comments from him aswell.... Santon on saturday!!!!

Would like to see him get some minutes on Saturday. I think we need to see what difference he makes to the attack instead of Obertan....