Shak

Just read the last 20 pages or so, class.

Was comfortably wide tbf, people just thought it was class because nobody expected him to shoot nevermind make a respectable attempt at it.

My FM formation is what it's all about folks! Krul Santon Colo Taylor Ferguson Tiote Jonas Cabaye Ben Arfa Ba Cisse I do start Vertonghen, Tremoulinas and Neymar instead or Taylor, Ferguson and Ba like, but the idea is the same.

All sounds very encouraging, cheers lads.

Didn't get to see the game yesterday but is this pretty much what we went with, in terms of midfield and attack at least? Was Jonas the most advanced of the midfield trio? Had doubts that he would be a good fit in the middle in the long term but just looking at the highlights he looked heavily involved and picked out some quality passes playing central. How did the front three line up? Ben Arfa in the hole or was he out wide mostly? Tiote in for Guthrie and a couple of new defenders and this could be looking very tasty.

You missed out, bro. Hopefully he does it against Swansea. You better have somewhere good lined up for that shit.

Delighted to see we played such good stuff yesterday, I've thought this 4-3-3 might be his long term vision for a while now and it certainly is producing our best football. Agree fully that some of the criticism has been over the top and those who would like to see him sacked are off their heads, prior to yesterday our football had been very poor for a while though and he deserved some criticism for that. Looking forward to seeing us hopefully add a few quality players to the squad in the summer and hopefully producing football like this on a more consistent basis next season.

Missed the game, was in some small ass town in the exact middle of nowhere, poor bastards didn't have TV's. Just watched that compilation though, fuck me.

Some people are thick. I guess the players were just so motivated under Keegan that they magically played such great pass and move football?

Gonna be great until Pardew decides he's earned a start with his good sub performances. Because we all know what will happen then.

He's not very good. Not signing a CB in January could cost us our Euro spot, this lad is not good enough for the Premiership and it's having a knock-on affect on the rest of the team. We have to play a deep line because he's slow as fuck, meaning the midfield has to sit deeper (in Pardew's head at least) which in turn leads to so much of our hoofball because the strikers are so isolated. Not his fault really, but I hope he'll be gone in the summer. Not good enough even as a squad player.

Aye, Perch was quality in CM so Pardew deserves credit there. Easy choice would have been Cabaye and Guthrie. He's going to deserve the criticism some people give him for our second half too though, I unfortunately only got to see bits and pieces of it but we looked completely abysmal on the ball. It's worrying. We just need to get over the line for a European spot now and hope to fuck that a couple of new signings and the return of Taylor at the back will get us attempting to play some sort of football again.

Will take it, I suppose Just trying to get into Europe and hope Pardew sorts his shit out over the summer at this point, so disjointed on the ball it's frightening at the moment.

Jameck Perchiote tbh.

Really needs the three points here. I'm losing faith with every game mind, our football just gets worse and worse.

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.