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It's clear alot of work has gone into set pieces, but at the same time it looks to me like much of it has simply been down to Ritchie (and now Shelvey) delivering decent-to-good balls into the right areas at the right time consistently. They're not whipping the ball in particularly well at pace, but just getting enough bend into the right areas (without floating it too much) to give our big lads a chance. Makes such a big difference when the rest of the team know that 7 or 8 times out of 10 they'll have a chance of attacking the ball, when previously our corner takers were hitting the ball terribly with no timing the vast majority of the time. In fact, we've gone for quite a long time since we last had players capable of putting e.g. decent corners in consistently (probably back to Nobby/Robert). Even Cabaye oddly enough was more "miss" than "hit" when it came to them. We've also now got the lads in the air for it. For a long time we had: Colo, Mbemba/Willo, Cisse, Haidara in the box. We can now choose from: Lascelles, Clark, Hanley, Dummett & Mitro We are simply much stronger in the air as well. Pardew evidently knows nothing about set-pieces. But Palace are a danger from them simply because they've got the right type of lads in the box. convinced palace lived off the tony pulis set piece coaching for a while under pardew.

he spoke very well on talksport.

Delighted to say he's proving me wrong. Long may it continue.

Matter of time before pulis leaves West Brom. Trouble brewing

he was awful at fulham i thought, other than that, no complaints. most of the team were awful at Fulham. That's true. My point stands though.

he was awful at fulham i thought, other than that, no complaints.

thought he was solid yesterday, personally. i'm not his biggest fan by any means, but yesterday I thought he was the opposite of 'sticking out like a sore thumb'.

did that actually happen btw? that's the reason i'm not overly keen on him, but i can't remember where it came from?

BBC reckon spurs have bid £25m

this.

yep.

telegraph claiming spurs want him, but wont pay more than £20m.

kodjia to villa apparently.

£4.5m apparently

Has he got pace?

Looked head and shoulders above tonight imo, let's hope that continues!

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They're both s****. they've played 2 games each man.

Aye, very true - but how often does that ever happen? There will always be one team who has an outstanding season that nobody expected before anyone kicked a ball (Huddersfield looking like that team, so far). But 95% of the time, the winners of this division are the best team on paper. more than you'd think. think huddersfield and fulham this season.

Bunch of internet virgins mate. Got no life or shags to giveaway so spend all night wanking over players who featured regularly in the PL last season. but how many Sunderland games do they watch? genuine question btw. I just find it mad how much time people have seemingly spent watching the fairly random Sunderland right back?

same.

it always amazes me how much 'knowledge' people have of fairly random players on here, is it just me that has only seen yedlin a couple of times and judge once? or, is everyone else the same as me and they're basing their opinion on fifa and the likes?

Villa in for bas dost as well apparently