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Agreed. Colo and Williamson already have an understanding from playing with each other week in, week out last season - this can only benefit our defence.

Yeah, he got too excited there.

Eh?

On MOTD now.

I'd definitely start Williamson against Bolton. He already has an understanding with Colo so that can only help the defence imo.

Honestly, you couldn't sound more like us in a lot of our games. Have the players available to play pretty good football, but nope, hoof hoof hoof. Was Cabaye a big miss tonight or was it something deeper? cabaye was a huge miss. We missed his workrate, passing and vision. Vuckic was a plus point tonight but he's no Cabaye. I'm sure that if we had Yohan, we wouldn't have resorted to hoofball tactics.

It was a really good performance. A total, total change from the recent embarassments N'Zogbia had a blinder, and Albrighton is finding more form. If we'd had Bent playing, we'd have done better. Fair enough

Yeah, his confidence is very low atm. Still think he just needs one goal to set him off again....

Anyone else not care that much about MOTD being on atm?

I'd start Ben Arfa against Bolton, most definitely. They're one of the "lesser teams" of the PL (no offence jukeboxromeo) so they should be "perfect" opposition for him to play against. It can't be said enough though, play him on the wing.

It's his hologram

Unfortunately, did nothing of note tonight. Should have come off at half time tbh.

His worst game of this season. Couldn't handle Odemwingie/Long - outpaced. He'll be fine though.

Bad viewing that.

Another poor showing from Pardew. Playing such a high defensive line was never going to go well really especially with Long and Odemwingie running at you. The direct approach with the persistent hoof-balls were annoying as fuck. There was absolutely no need for that. Pardew still has my support like. I'm confident he can turn it around.

phew I echo this. Thank fuck.

Apart from nearly costing us a goal by losing it cheaply on halfway. Ah yeah, well he kept possession well most of the time though.

38 points with Walker and Adebayor to play.

I'm worried about this game. (Mainly because it's on Boxing Day). A hard fought 1-1 draw hopefully.

Oh great. Really hope it's not serious.

Indeed. Poor performance from Cheik tonight. I think it's a case of match fitness, he's still not there yet. Remember, it took him a while to get up to speed at the start of the season too when he had virtually no pre-season under his belt. I guess it's the same case now. I'm sure after a run of games, Tiote will be fine.

This is a massive worry. I was hoping that Best would score tonight because it would have done his confidence a lot of good which in turn could lead to a canny goalscoring run. Simply put, I don't know where our goals will come from when Ba's at the ACoN.

Essentially the complete striker for us at the moment.