Parky

It'll be a points deduction if they carry on like this.

This is part of my issue with the Ba/Best thing..It's just too tempting/lazy/ to just lug it long IN THEIR GENERAL DIRECTION. Of course building from the back was a lot easier with Enrique.**

Crime against football not starting the little maestro. Truly.

FA won't be happy with the shirts thing....

it's not so much 4-4-2 thats the problem (even though i've thought since before the season kicked off that we shouldn't play that to get the best from what we have) it's the fact that we play it so rigidly with so little movement. Yeah that too.

Pards had those sad eyes today in the post match. It means things he thinks in his head don't really happen in the real world.

Has to start.

Looked very promising today.

That's more or less it.

Has to have a run of games. It must be killing him getting 15/20 min here and there.

Made me do a big post as well, which I hate doing.

He's scoring them HIMSELF YOU IDIOT. I'm an idiot for wanting to stick with something that works? It's not working though.

Only a fool would put that down to Best or Ameobi being up there with him. Ba is top-class and would score goals on his own imo, stick HBA off him and I don't think he'd score fewer, and Best's hardly setting the goal charts alight this season. I'm putting it down to him playing better with a partner, as 99% of goalscorers do. He's scoring loads of goals and we need a better partner for him who can contribute some of his own - that isn't and never will be Ben Arfa. End of story. He hasn't got A BETTER PARTNER that's what we judge the games on right now. I'm not disagreeing with you...But we just have to be more cogent with posession and that normally means shorter passing if possible and the team moving up as a whole when the chance arises.

Only a fool would put that down to Best or Ameobi being up there with him. Ba is top-class and would score goals on his own imo, stick HBA off him and I don't think he'd score fewer, and Best's hardly setting the goal charts alight this season. Yup.

He's scoring them HIMSELF YOU IDIOT.

I mean who the fuck plays 2 strikers AND TWO WINGERS in the PL? [/peoplecomeupwithamillionsides]

Not really sure what Pardew is upto. I mean the basics were wrong from the start and that isn't even taking into account the turgid and unimaginative selection we are having to put up with. We are playing a team with two of the fastest forwards in the PL and so we kindly lay on a high line that was bordering on the half way line, which is normally suicidal and proved so today. Every time they broke (even with just two of them it looked like they might score). THIS 442 leaves yawning gaps in the center of the park and a a weakend spine (no Cabaye no Taylor) leaves the side who are wanting to push on at home exposed - it will everytime. This misjudgement is magnifyied if YOU KEEP GIVING cheap posession away with long balls from the back - which we did as panic set in more often than not...THE TEMPTATION IS THERE OF COURSE CAUSE THE TWO BIG STRIKERS look like and enticing target till the ball is in the air and the defence closes down/steps up. Like SWANSEA more often than not WBA hogged the middle when we had the ball and we did have the ball for spells but there seemed to be no plan other than give it to someone to run up the side and throw it into the middle - that is basically the extent of what we did in the last two games. It would have been worse but for Ba manufacturing goals out of thin air. Pardew who I didn't really want to over criticise is beginning to lose the plot and seems unware that other sides have watched us a few times and know we have NO PLAN B whatsoever/can't play through the middle/ or HBA IS NOT ON THE PITCH. Stop starting Best and Obertan and let the free midfielder (normally Cabaye/tonight Vukic) come to the edge of the box or interchange passes so the whole team can come up while we retain posession. What are we doing? Just throwing it in from the side or the back over the head of the midfield and risking losing posession every time...It's really tedious to watch. The season isn't ruined yet but if Pardew doesn't have the nous or guts to change it and play one striker it's gonna carry on like this. Two home games against sides we should be beating down the drain. Unforgiveable.

Change it Pards ffs!

Why in the name of god after his ghost act last game did he start?

Cause they're not panic lumping it forward from the back.

Parky V Pardew My patience wears thin. Shadows move in the forest. Winter comes.

Pardew is beginning to bother me.

A glorious christmas beckons.