Dr Venkman

Where do you turn after a lower league fascist?

Here here. It's called playing football, Alan,

I've said it before but it's worth repeating. God bless them.

Is that because we played with two utterly static strikers up front, and no orthodox wingers (I didn't see the game)? Sign a winger and not be retarded enough to play Shola with Cisse, I think 4-4-2's always going to be our best formation with this manager. It just doesn't work, especially with Shola. It's all just straight lines, wide players cutting in and CM's in the centre circle when we're attacking.

It's amazing that we aren't playing a front 3, like, absolutely amazing.

He was really, really good for QPR, and that team was ridiculous.

Better than Shola, this lad.

A win's a win, I'll take it. We shouldn't be relying on 'magic' at home to a team like Fulham though, they put us under very little pressure. The 4-4-2 is crap.

Put his whole arse behind that one like. Did he look a bit fitter today in the flesh?

Thank fuck for that. A home win against a team that came for a draw and put us under no pressure at all, but still a win

He spotted that we don't get midfielders forward after 5 mins. Can't see what's wrong with him saying it, it's a ridiculous feature of our play.

Classic Shola!

Good, about time someone other than us started picking up on the rubbish he talks.

"Alan, Cabaye's on the bench today, does that put and end to it?" "No, we've still got to get through 11pm on Monday yet, which is the same for every player" "Is it good to have him back?" "Yes, he's one of the best midfielders in the country, one of the best in Europe. But it's a saga that isn't over yet."

Wut. Vice is quality Particularly the documentaries.

Upstairs in his house?

They've been doing it for weeks

Swap Gouffran for him and we could play a really nice 4-3-3 that would play to Cisse's strengths, amongst others. No excuse for ignoring it for so long.

Never understood booing your own players, well not during the game at least. Yes YOU might feel a little better but it's not going to help the player/team. Yep. It will happen though, we've got form for it.

Hope he looks a bit fitter today, someone tell me how big his arse looks at SJP.

W1 D1 L0 If we continue to perform in the same manner as the first 2 games in your list, then there will be more "L's" than Welsh Scrabble. I would have thought that you would've seen beyond results. Nothing has changed, yet. Apart from the style of play - fundamentally - which takes time. Really? Unless selecting Shola regularly is a fundamental change to our style. We played a bit of deck football second half against a league 2 side the other night, after being second best first half . Nothing has changed. It is still negative, worry about the opposition instead of bigging up your own team style that we saw the whole of the last season, give or take a game. And if you are right, why didn't he use pre-season to change the style, if as you say it takes time? Tactics are supposed to be fluid & the stream of tactical evolution is a constant flow - Pardew is no genius but he seen a problem on Wednesday & he fixed it with his substitutions & generally in pre season & against West Ham we weren't aimlessly lumping it. In addition though - pre season is mainly about fitness. Long ball has it's uses mind - there's nothing wrong with it if it's working. Why do you think Shola gets a game, ahead of all of the world class strikers Uncal Miikkee bought Pardew? A lack of long ball isn't going to fix our problems, we don't tend to play much of that under Pardew recently, certainly not by design as far as I can tell. The long ball is a consequence of our lack of movement, a lack of movement which is specifically requested by Pardew in order to 'keep it tight'. As long as he prioritises that over scoring goals, we're going nowhere. I think It is partly be design after all every single set piece we get in our own half we lump forward. Also if our keeper has the ball 90% of the time it goes long without any attempt to play out from the back I was more referring to open play, but yeah there's no hiding from the deep dark abyss that is our range of set penises.

W1 D1 L0 If we continue to perform in the same manner as the first 2 games in your list, then there will be more "L's" than Welsh Scrabble. I would have thought that you would've seen beyond results. Nothing has changed, yet. Apart from the style of play - fundamentally - which takes time. Really? Unless selecting Shola regularly is a fundamental change to our style. We played a bit of deck football second half against a league 2 side the other night, after being second best first half . Nothing has changed. It is still negative, worry about the opposition instead of bigging up your own team style that we saw the whole of the last season, give or take a game. And if you are right, why didn't he use pre-season to change the style, if as you say it takes time? Tactics are supposed to be fluid & the stream of tactical evolution is a constant flow - Pardew is no genius but he seen a problem on Wednesday & he fixed it with his substitutions & generally in pre season & against West Ham we weren't aimlessly lumping it. In addition though - pre season is mainly about fitness. Long ball has it's uses mind - there's nothing wrong with it if it's working. Why do you think Shola gets a game, ahead of all of the world class strikers Uncal Miikkee bought Pardew? A lack of long ball isn't going to fix our problems, we don't tend to play much of that under Pardew recently, certainly not by design as far as I can tell. The long ball is a consequence of our lack of movement, a lack of movement which is specifically requested by Pardew in order to 'keep it tight'. As long as he prioritises that over scoring goals, we're going nowhere. That's utter bollocks to be honest. Did you see how West Ham approached that game? Here's a clue - the same way Fulham will approach it today. It's easy to look like you aren't moving when there's a back 7 to contend with. It's easier to look like you're not moving when you're not moving. I don't need to find reasons for it because the reason for it has been sitting in the dug out for ages. As for revising history, THAT'S utter bollocks. No-one had any issues with him other than to say that the football we were playing was unsustainable. All those concerns were proved to be justified.

W1 D1 L0 If we continue to perform in the same manner as the first 2 games in your list, then there will be more "L's" than Welsh Scrabble. I would have thought that you would've seen beyond results. Nothing has changed, yet. Apart from the style of play - fundamentally - which takes time. Really? Unless selecting Shola regularly is a fundamental change to our style. We played a bit of deck football second half against a league 2 side the other night, after being second best first half . Nothing has changed. It is still negative, worry about the opposition instead of bigging up your own team style that we saw the whole of the last season, give or take a game. And if you are right, why didn't he use pre-season to change the style, if as you say it takes time? Tactics are supposed to be fluid & the stream of tactical evolution is a constant flow - Pardew is no genius but he seen a problem on Wednesday & he fixed it with his substitutions & generally in pre season & against West Ham we weren't aimlessly lumping it. In addition though - pre season is mainly about fitness. Long ball has it's uses mind - there's nothing wrong with it if it's working. Why do you think Shola gets a game, ahead of all of the world class strikers Uncal Miikkee bought Pardew? A lack of long ball isn't going to fix our problems, we don't tend to play much of that under Pardew recently, certainly not by design as far as I can tell. The long ball is a consequence of our lack of movement, a lack of movement which is specifically requested by Pardew in order to 'keep it tight'. As long as he prioritises that over scoring goals, we're going nowhere.

W1 D1 L0 If we continue to perform in the same manner as the first 2 games in your list, then there will be more "L's" than Welsh Scrabble. I would have thought that you would've seen beyond results. Nothing has changed, yet. Apart from the style of play - fundamentally - which takes time. People making this point are starting to remind me of the mackem 'it's not his team' excuse they make for every mint manager they get that turns out to be below average. Takes time ffs, he's been here 2.5 years and counting.