Tachikoma

While I think HBA has enough about him to drive Jose nuts, I'd rather play him on the left and leave Jonas to pester him, mainly because I'm curious about how Jonas vs Jose will go down.

Well, in all seriousness, Eden Hazard is just a shorter, right footed version of Ben Arfa.

Been looking for 10 minutes now, starting to think i've been wooshed like. There is one zombie who looks a lot like Gerrard... don't think he was photoshopped into it though. Also,

Eesh, 18 points sitting on the bench.

*cough* Tottenham away *cough* We almost never get run over with him in the team though. He's seemingly being asked to play a more active role offensively these days, which curbs his effectiveness somewhat imo.

wha?

Good riddance, was tired of getting beat by them year after year.

Or defenders even.

Meh, I don't like Pardew very much but I wouldn't square the blame on him for the turgid shite we played today. The team was definitely low on confidence and we did _try_ to play it on the ground, at least.

Hatem.

The French commentators were probably right when they said "defending isn't really his role"

All the teams in the top seven apart from us. Fulham and Swansea, while not "consistently dominating" have probably done it more than us this season.

He was totally, totally invisible today. Norwich's wingers were getting crosses past him all game long, and as usual he couldn't pass over 5 yards to save his fucking life. As bad as Williamson was today at least he didn't completely shirk his responsibilities the way Simpson did.

Pretty much, Ben Arfa ran the right wing on his own today, was pretty Jonas-esque but with those moments of madness.

Because delegating half of his work to his assistants and giving them only 20% of the time available each week is perfectly fair...

Mainly two reasons, our stamina all spent on first half, and Norwich gave great pressure to our defenders and force them to clear the ball. This was the opposite to what we did - we pressed them unbelievably hard for the first half and forced them to hoof the ball. We didn't use hoof ball tactics. Our players tried very hard not to hoof the ball unless there was no option available. This should be credited. Well I know no one here would understand this. Yeah, agree with that mostly, but I think part of the reason we ran out of steam so quickly was that everyone seemed to be confused by the system we were playing.

And take off Ben Arfa who was my captain...

Williamson and Simpson. Sure, Santon can't hold his position, but Simpson doesn't do much when he holds his does he?

Has Simpson won a tackle, header, blocked a cross or made a single interception all game long?

Williamson, what the fuck

Perchelele

I'm honestly confused as to why Santon hasn't come on to replace HBA directly position-wise. Does Pardew seriously think Simpson's good enough to play as a wingback? That and any fucker with eyes would be able to see that Santon's not a fucking left back by now.

Yeah, with defending like that I'd rather he didn't track back at all