Dr Venkman

:lol:

great finish

we really, really need a player like Shane Long

looked a free kick to me like

Carlos Quare

Goalkeepers shouting 'away' when defending every single set piece ever.

I can't hear Cuellar's name without thinking of the Enfield sketch about 'quares' Dont want to link to it in case it's a copyright thing, its fucking funny though.

Tell you what though, it's significantly harder to enjoy them being rubbish when they remind me so much of the way we play.

That's a bit harsh, they're playing against a team with 11 players here ya na.

WBA play some lovely football, always looking to play through the middle as well, so fucking depressing.

Harry Redknapp

they haven't touched the fucking ball yet

I'm going to be a seriously sad panda when HBA does off, there must be loads of managers watching him and (rightly) thinking they could put him to so much more use than we do.

He'd provide a bit of physicality at least, Ba might do well playing next to him.

West Brom, its up to us to stop being shit.

The only player scoring being pushed out onto the wing helps the team? We'd be nearly bottom without his goals. Once Cisse wakes up things might change. Howay man, the team was functioning much better in the 4-3-3, he wouldn't be the only player scoring if we played as a team, it's basics.

I'll do it on one post nevermind 9 pages. Focus on the team first and foremost, EVERYTHING else is secondary.

Tenner on WBA DNB today i think.

I really want him to have some sort of positive impact so I can wear my yellow top again

this is 100% correct and I've been saying it since Ba was stropping off the pitch last season Ba cannot play on the left long-term, not because he'll get unhappy blah blah blah - but because he can't. He is not fit enough to work the channels game-after-game for 90, and we don't have the resources to get a replacement of similar ilk to come in for him when he is running on fumes. For me, it's Ba or Cisse rotated in the centre. We have enough games for it. More than that I don't think it even utilises his strengths for the team's best benefit. It's a fair point, I think he could do a job until January though.

This is 100% correct and I've been saying it since Ba was stropping off the pitch last season. The isue should have been sorted over the summer and left there, Ba either plays where the team needs him or leaves and we put our faith in Cisse and bring in a wide forward, the team would be better off for it. Anyone seen the Bobby Robson DVD A Knight To Remember? Shearer talks about a time that Bobby put him in the squad for an away European game and he travelled and didnt play, he went to speak to Bobby about it and told him he was a bit pissed off about it "I'm paid to be the manager Alan, you're paid to play football" was Bobby's response, as simple as that. That's management, not this piss farting about.

I'm not particularly bothered about the content, this is the important bit

I'm not asking for Pardew to be sacked but be honest with yourself, the problems with the team are much deeper than the injuries, it's the managers mindset that's made us shit.

OK, name them. Me, can't stand the bloke. Thought he was a crap manager when he arrived, thought he was crap manager last season, think he's a crap manager now. I don't do knee jerk. Did you, Sir, remain flaccid when we played like a dream at the Hawthorns, or shrugged and emitted a "flukey win, that" when we beat Man U, or did you by any chance lay there counting till ten in a missionary position as he took us to our first 5th place finish in years thinking, "oh he'll be done soon enough?" I ask because I don't know how you have to be knee-jerk to give credit where it's due. One can be sans any kind of jerking, knee or otherwise, simply by reacting as a human being to what's being put in front of you. He was hardly a crap manager last season, and to say otherwise is using hindsight to simply back your own opinion on him. I never rated him highly when he arrived either, but I'm putting my fingers where the keyboard is and saying after last season, I have at least some amount of faith in him, and that he may just turn this around, the silver-haired fox. I could be wrong, but adults make choices and take stances where they could possibly turn out to be wrong, but they do so based on evidence (for me that is evidence of last season, not this season -- just to clarify). That's a fucking great post that should be read and absorbed by everyone.

Depends on the first goal, if we get it 1-1, if they get it, 3-0.