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It's exactly things like that and his run in our box (but, but Williamson something like it!) earlier that is stopping me joining the 'burn him, burn Pardew as a witch!' crowd. He kept the ball very well in that incident in the first half, found one of our players in plenty of space. Williamson making a fucking mess of it a few moments later was hardly his fault. I understand why Pardew will drop him if it goes so completely against his philosophies, but I don't agree with having those philosophies in the first place.

Bench for another month so.

A big shout out to Vietnamese WiFi btw, just decided to start being a cunt so I can't watch the second half on my incredibly legal feed. Sounds like I'm missing fuck all.

Decent half, should have had a second but looked comfortable mostly. Hope we keep trying to play it second half.

Love you really though. REALLY.

Your girlish, whimpering mocking is just as shite as anyone else's posts tbh Jon.

How would it have been harsh..? His hand was not up there by accident. It's hard to throw yourself forward like that with your hands stuck to your side, certainly didn't look like he raised them to block the shot/cross to me.

I'd have been livid had that been given against us tbf, would have been awfully harsh.

Immense save. Nice to see us being patient in the build up there.

We have basically stopped trying to play since scoring, hope we take our finger out or it'll be Wolves all over again.

I'm sure he gave Williamson a yelling as well tbf, just the camera didn't happen to be on him at the time.

Commentator needs a fucking deathslap like. That's not what we want to see you complete spa.

Williamson is so shite. Passing football to be abandoned from now on so.

You think?

Unlucky. Should have hit it slightly higher IMO.

It's either brave or stupid from Pardew if he is doing that. He'll get fucking lynched if it doesn't work, and rightfully so.

What in the shit? Just play Perch LB FFS.

Beside myself with apathy.

Only seen this now. Awful, awful stuff, really hope the lad pulls through.

Play him at left back, fuck the defense we'll just score more than the other team.

Should do my FM formation. Krul Santon Taylor Colo New LB Tiote Jonas Cabaye Ben Arfa Ba Cisse

Can just imagine Pardew meeting Cisse for the first time and his heart sinking when he saw how short he was.

Wonder if he could play centrally in a 4-3-3 as well as out wide in a 4-4-2? Looked technically very good in the few appearances he had for us, can certainly the pass the ball about nicely too. Seems better suited to the role than Jonas IMO. Cabaye Tiote Marveaux HBA Cisse Ba We'd need a real left back and Santon at RB, obviously. The way Pardew raves about workrate I can't ever envisage him dropping Jonas though.

Ba is well able to play as a second striker and he and Cisse would be more than fine as a partnership if we were being set up a bit better. Most of their games together we've played with two holding midfielders and Ryan Taylor on the right wing. They're far too isolated and as a result struggle to achieve much. Playing Ben Arfa on the right will help a lot, but the real issue is that Pardew needs to rediscover his balls and stop having the CB's and CM's playing so fucking deep. We've been doing that since Fulham raped us in the second half and it's a major reason for why we're seeing so much hoofball, the manager is too terrified of getting exposed at the back to allow the midfielders to push on.

We tried to pass the ball in the first half and did a decent job keeping the ball away from Arsenal, the stats on possession at half time were about even. Second half he hardly had the thing at all because we just launched it back to them each time.