Dr Venkman

it's a sad state of affairs when i'm pleased one of our players is injured, but i am. Pardew's been so stubborn with it that it feels like it's the only way to give someone else a chance, unfortunately that someone will likely be Sammy and not Ben Arfa....because of Pardew being stubborn.

just waited til after 11.30 to play my wildcard and subsequently forgot to sort my team out for this actual gameweek anyway as of next gameweek i'm going with... Vorm Santon Jones Kompany Richards Modric Silva Bale Van Persie Ba Sturridge subs: Ben Arfa, Caulker, Reo Coker

don't believe for a second we have any sort of 'transfer budget'. we'll pay as much for each individual deal on the basis of getting the player on the cheap

or Pardew could just stop being a dick and play Ben Arfa on the wing, leaving the whole budget for a defender.

like when Tyler said 'it's 1-1 at the moment, which is not what the football professors would have expected' they were 1 point ahead of us going into the game

Krul Simpson Williamson Colo Santon Jonas Cabaye Tiote Ben Arfa Ba Best let's get some crosses into the fucking box

that's a fucking awful signing

They could have Mourinho in charge and they'd still shit themselves at St James' every season. That said, a soak up and hit on the break gameplan's probably the best way to play us considering Swansea and WBA.

It's classic O' Neill, teams like Man City don't have many games like that though, more often than not they'll score and O' Neill teams can't force a game.

Cracking at playing a long ball, coming in as our playmaker.

Time for Ferguson & Santon if both fit. We can give the ball to defenders other than Colo then. Would transform our build up and support play. Don't under estimate the loss of Saylor in this respect, he was playing it out of defence a lot.

Next game can't come soon enough, even if it's a loss. Losing in that manner to those cunts has left an awful taste in my gob.

nice one wigan, shame about Villa but i still think they're dog shit

It'll be Sammy though

Oh great, Sammy Ameobi it is then.

Hahahaha

It's the same old story with Tiote, when he keeps it simple,wins it and passes it off short he's fantastic. It's when he tries to do too much that he looks dodgy. The problem is we're lacking creativity and a plan to get up the pitch so he's seeing too much of the ball.

KEAN IN!

on the contrary he'll probably start, we'll lose 4-0 and he won't get another start for months because he didn't defend well enough

Perhaps the players simply didn't follow his instructions then? i trust my ears and i heard him telling them to keep knocking it long. wanting someone to take somebody on and playing Obertan instead of Ben Arfa/Santon?

i'm assuming that's Pardew? in which case, fuck off Alan.

if i see a team put out with intent, that looks like it has a coherent plan to win the game, i'm happy. i was happy during the Wigan game even before we scored, afterwards people were saying we were lucky to win it but i maintained that you can't win every week and our method of play had been consistent and a little bit of class made the difference (not to mention Ben Arfa's introduction making the difference, funny that) I freely accept that Wigan at home is a totally different kettle of fish to Liverpool away, but West Brom and Swansea at home was just as frustrating imo. Since Norwich we've completely given up playing football and Pardew's continued persistence with Obertan and Raylor is eye wateringly maddening. It's also worth noting how completely bereft of ideas we were against Bolton until.....Ben Arfa came on, we were terrible in that game. Our league position is fantastic, but we're only going in one direction under Pardew's current mindset, he needs to sort it out and that's been the case for months now, it's not a new development. We have a small squad. We can't really rotate it very much. When players aren't playing very well there aren't many options to change it. People seem to think Santon instead of R.Taylor and Ben Arfa instead of Obertan (or the second striker) will automatically mean we are a better team. I hope the theory is proved correct in practice. Ben Arfa instead of Jonas or Obertan or Best, depending on which game he's on the bench for. Santon instead of Raylor or Simpson or Obertan. There's a few options and quite a few players not performing. Can you tell me in all seriousness you don't think Ben Arfa deserves a chance over Obertan, or even Santon? Considering whenever he's played he's looked our most dangerous winger, imo. I think it's worth repeating how angry I was at repeatedly hearing Pardew instructing our players to 'get it forward' and 'hit Ba' last night. It didn't work once last night and I'm struggling to think of any part of any game where we've looked effective knocking it long other than the second half of Chelsea at home, a game we comfortably lost. Pardew said they had a team meeting and discussed what they were and weren't good at before Bolton, we played ineffective long ball football for the majority of that game and we did it for 90 minutes last night. It's looking like it's something he thinks we're good at, what do you think?

if i see a team put out with intent, that looks like it has a coherent plan to win the game, i'm happy. i was happy during the Wigan game even before we scored, afterwards people were saying we were lucky to win it but i maintained that you can't win every week and our method of play had been consistent and a little bit of class made the difference (not to mention Ben Arfa's introduction making the difference, funny that) I freely accept that Wigan at home is a totally different kettle of fish to Liverpool away, but West Brom and Swansea at home was just as frustrating imo. Since Norwich we've completely given up playing football and Pardew's continued persistence with Obertan and Raylor is eye wateringly maddening. It's also worth noting how completely bereft of ideas we were against Bolton until.....Ben Arfa came on, we were terrible in that game. Our league position is fantastic, but we're only going in one direction under Pardew's current mindset, he needs to sort it out and that's been the case for months now, it's not a new development.

Good post. it's a contradictory post, he starts out by saying he hasnt done much and finishes by saying he's an obvious starter. the reason he hasnt done much is because he doesnt get on the fucking pitch for long enough.

since this is is a thread about the manager...i expected us to put our best players on the pitch with a game plan that suits them. this hasnt been the case for months now.