Shak

Fuck sake Ba, put it in the box. No urgency in us at all.

Happens far too much in a 442. Still can't believe Pardew hasn't sorted this out. Aye. Between that, both CM's sitting deep and Jonas offering almost nothing offensively we're pretty shit going forward. Almost entirely dependent on Ben Arfa to create something.

Ba and Cisse are both playing way too narrow. Need at least one of them working the channels more, they're far too easy to mark. Good save Harper.

Love Jonas like, but think he's done as a winger.

Ben Arfa man. Superb.

Jonas man. Couldn't cross the road.

Rape these cunts!!

Maybe if he starts not playing shit people will think better of him?

Can't really understand Perch ahead of Anita like, happy enough apart from that. Hope we actually play a bit of good football today like.

Torres. Just finish it man.

Beautifully taken tbf.

Just saw this. Eight years ffs.

Two of these things are not like the others.

Thought the two penalty decisions were wrong personally, Valencia took a dive and Evans didn't get the ball. Red card was spot on though.

Especially after a dive. By Evra Eva doing a dinked pen down the middle in front of the kop would be the dream.

Loljo Lolvey.

Mike's fully aware that he only brings misery and suffering to the teams he supports. Yet he chose to support us. That makes him a Grade A cunt tbh. I can't even be bothered to make a vaguely racist joke about him, that's how disgusted I am.

It's like a teacher joining in the bullying. I'm getting shit for something I should be respected for. Eh? Explain.

It's like a teacher joining in the bullying.

Let's all ignore the immense cross from Gerrard. Deal?

Poor Mike. Serves him right for being such a cunt though.

Borini looks profoundly shit.

Honestly think that was only because Baines was down the left for them and Pardew didn't trust Ben Arfa to mark him. I don't think it was done for the benefit of our attacking play at all. Jonas will be on the left again today IMO. Agree that it'd be nice to see them where they were against Everton though.

The system isn't the main issue, it's our movement off the ball. In the 4-4-2 only Ben Arfa and Jonas ever stray from their position at all. The two CM's both sit deep (Cabaye really needs to get into more advanced positions) and neither striker has been working the channels at all. We've tried to play it on the ground more this year, but it's not as simple as just deciding to pass it around a bit. We've ended up playing it long a lot simply because the movement off the ball isn't good enough for us to consistently pass the ball through teams. Long term I think a 4-2-3-1 is the way to go for our squad, but switching to it now won't cure all our problems by any means.

With the emergence of Bigirimana I think Gosling is very much disposable. Tiote, Cabaye, Anita and Bigi are all ahead of him in the pecking order for a start in CM, Jonas too when we go with three in the middle. Perch offers more as well IMO. Gosling has looked absolutely abysmal in his time here to be brutally honest. Maybe he'd get better with some regular football but we certainly can't afford to give him that. A loan could work but personally I don't think he'll ever be good enough to offer us anything so I'd be happy enough to get rid.