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Where's the best midfielder in England at them moment... or should I say tweeter? ahahahahahahahaha! Foff Joey!

Why don't we become "the new arsenal" i.e. free flowing football team with a lot of youngsters, no money being spent on transfers, only bringing in young special talents when it's obvious to everyone the positions that need revamped, challenging for the champs league but never getting near the league. Deed poll name change to Pardieu and we have the advantage that he isn't a moaning miserable cnut like wenger!!! Fukc that!... Entertainers Mk II.... Much better!!

I like Hoddle's yellow shirt...Coool (barf)

needs to be on the field against spurs, specially if aron lennon's fit.... Raylor will be just too slow to do anything against him (a la Wright philips...)

Big difference in the middle of the park: Cabaye and Tiote partnership = why we have best prem defensive record and they aren't too shabby going forward either!!!! Up front: we ain't toothless anymore. Ba has turned out to be a very shrewd signing and the size ten up best's behind has worked a treat... I think we were written off by quite a few of our own supporters, as well as those outside. The focus all seemed to be on the players we were losing, and not the players who were coming in. There are a few things that have improved, but the obvious one is we're not conceding many goals. I wouldn't say our back four has looked any more solid than last year, but in Tim Krul we have a young keeper who now has the confidence to go with his talent. If I was to point to any one factor, it would be him. The fixtures will get harder and the initial momentum will flag, but we actually have some good players waiting to come into the side, so the dip, when it comes, won't be as severe as some pundits are suggesting.

I'll go for: ---------------Krul------------------ Simpson---Taylor---Colo----Santon Obertan---Cabaye---Tiote---Jonas -------------Ba ----Best---------- Subs: Harps, Benarfa, Marveaux, Raylor, Abeid, SAmmeobi, Guthrie Hopefully we can give some of the subs a run out and put five past the yid-mackems!

I would go for the little by little approach: I would give Santon a game against Spurs as lennon is very fast and i think Raylor will get "bummed in the face" Bring marveaux on for obertan after 60/70 mins Ben arfa for whoever of the forwards who is knackered after 60-70. Wouldn't go for wholesale changes as the team is playing well as a unit at the moment

Yeh that might be the case... Bit of a conundrum for us tho': If he plays well and scores hat loads the price goes up and we won't move for him, if he plays cack aand does nothing we'll lose interest.... Happy days..LOL

It's amazing we are talking about having too many options for the bench when not long ago we had the likes of: alan smith, shola, guthrie (bad days), cambell, Perch

I agree completely with that analysis, he isn't an out and out winger and the fact he is a "right footer" playing on the left means his crosses will never be of top quality and he will tend to come inside a lot... One thing that stands out, he is full of confidence and his control at pace is outstanding... Falling back in man love again...swoooon!

Aye, if he keeps putting them away I think we will be out of the price range and fat boy will be kicking himself for not paying a measly 7m. Time will tell....

I would say it's easier to drop Obertan at the moment, shove Jonas over on the right and Marveaux moves into his natural left wing position than accomodating benarfa at the moment. We will just have to wait and see how Pards sees things in training, if he's scoring and turning things on their head in training then it could be time for Best to come off as Ba is now firing on all cylinders!"!

I thought we were a bit short on options to add a bit of steel to the team yesterday, bench was too offensive tbh. I honestly thought he would have brought on santon for obertan as he seemed to be making sloppy mistakes in second half and wasn't as decisive as in the first (could be said of all though). After the break we had no-one who could really _"hold the fort", Pards should perhaps have gone, as some of the above have stated, with ben arfa or marveaux into the midfield to give a counter like feel to the attack, this would at least convert us into a midfield five with faster outlets. I didn't mind ba coming off as best rarely loses the ball and holds it up very well, he's less of a goal threat but you don't mind that when you want to keep possession from the other side. Great first half and perhaps a bad bench to remedy the second half onslaught from them... Would Mehdi Abeihd have added steel to the midfield? Is he a more holding type than attacking>

thought Obertan should have been changed much earlier, too many lax errors and balls given away in our own half, he has top cut that ouit of his game. Nice little flicks and stuff in their half but not when we are all racing out of our half... ben arfa would not be suited to the situation we were in the secpond half. i wopuld have changed obertan for Santon late on to stop their attacks a bit more.

JonAS is red hot today, had an earlier one saved by pure luck their goalie. tiote is awsome in the middle, can't beleive how much he covers the park, good ball retention aswell... Obertan has skinned his man a few times for space. danny simps is getting further forward and just lacks a decent final ball, isn't defending too badly either. Raylor is doing ok. Ba and best looking great, would have to take off best if pushed but neither deserves it. Obertan would probably be only one you could pull off, even though he is playing.. Top stuff! P.S. we sit too far back at times when they are attacking...

Yep, PSG was gash. Erdinc didn't impress me either, he's blummin' fast tho'!!

Jesus h Christ! He floated his company and pocketed a billion or so, I don't think he has to resort to syphoning money out of nufc to support his gambling vices....

After too much positive news at NUFC over the last week or so: Blackburn really were a pile of dog shiite! They will go down this year...

I'm going to watch PSG against Bilbao tonight, so will try to see what all the fuss is about erdinc and the other fast forward we were going to buy.... I will compare with the genius named Ben-arfa and the Majestic one called Demba :)

also find myself humming do do do sami ameobi... what a plank

to coombaya m'lord, coombaya Demba ba m'lord, demba ba Demba ba m'lord demba ba ooooh lord, demba Ba Someones scoring m'lord, demba ba (after goal..LOL)

Oh Mimi, how I wish I was a girl.... Somebody might take notice of my comments...rofl P.S. Great post!

A season ago he deffo looked like he had pace. I would even go as far as tom suggest that we try Perch out again (ooops!)... LOL

But with the pace he has he should be getting forward much more than he does. And why the hell does he back off so much, he can easily recover the ground if they do try a pus n' run past him.... He really does frustrate me!

Amazing to think how ponderous, flat footed and lacking in confidence he was in his 1st season for us. Amazing how some people take a year or so to acclimatize to our leagues... Keep it up Side Show Bob!!!