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It's funny because everything you've said is actually true His main ability is to pull the wool over managers' eyes into thinking he is actually a footballer. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-or0yEw2hoyA/TkPKRCOKN6I/AAAAAAAAAPk/UMBDCPW5KNM/s640/SholaFIFA.jpg

£40 Burnley away last year and I still went >.<

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How refreshing is it for a manager to actually use common sense. Been saying this for years that you need strikers to help make space for creative players. The harder working / more physical the better, as long as they provide a threat so they don't get ignored. I thought Riviere after his first couple of games might do this for Perez but he was proven to be turboshite quite quickly. Had Perez even played for us in Riviere's first couple of games? I stand corrected, I wrote about him making space for Cisse. Same logic though. Have we ever seen Perez and Riviere up top in a flat 4-4-2?

Carver found a way to put Ryan Taylor in central midfield in front of god knows how many other central midfielders

How refreshing is it for a manager to actually use common sense. Been saying this for years that you need strikers to help make space for creative players. The harder working / more physical the better, as long as they provide a threat so they don't get ignored. I thought Riviere after his first couple of games might do this for Perez but he was proven to be turboshite quite quickly.

Is that real?

An American-style draft system is pretty much the only way to try to level things out, short of changing of employment and sporting law to limit the impact of money in the game. But with our whole tiered league system it'd be a complete Mess. In a pure format, can you imagine the next up and coming Rooney being drafted by Chelmsford City as first pick on a lengthy contract Who would train the kids too? All the academies for every club snuffed out in a heartbeat, would fall upon schools to bring through our talent instead I'd imagine. Maybe some sort of regionalised localization of drafting..

I wonder if he'd ever come back, assuming the issues he had were solely with Pardew...

Although he's definitely effective in the middle, I think he can be even more devastating coming in from wide like you said as a wide forward, the Hazard role. He's got space and the opportunity to take on only one defender at a time from out wide. In the middle he does a very good job of making the best of a situation when he has the ball but he's so pressured. De Jong on the inside flicking balls on to Ayoze is something I really want to see, with Mitrovic pulling defenders across the park making space for either of them.

He's been shit for a year.

I honestly don't know how any sane person would have Sissoko ahead of anyone but Obertan in his current form.

Yep.

God damnit.

Not allowed to mention the positives on this board.

Lungbusting challenge imo.

Aye another home game with no win. We're f***ing crap and going down. What result did you expect before the game?

So many positives to take from this game though.

Mbabu is the black Ivanovic, age 20.

Mbabu what a beast. Mini Ivanovic.

My MotM behind Perez, he's stabilized the back 4 and we actually look like we can defend now. His introduction to the team shows some guts from McClaren that Pardew would never have done imo.

Assist and a goal.

First premier league goal from a corner in how long?

Probably Sissoko dropping back.