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Faurlin is a really good midfielder. Fantastic passer of the ball.

 

Thought he was the star man when they played against us. Very comfortable on the ball and a lovely range of passing.

Yeah, thought the same too. Classy player.

McCleish's brand of football is awful. Not surprised to see Zoggy completely floundering in this setup. Pretty sad really.

Wright-Philips always seems out of control when running with the ball - headless chicken extraordinaire.

This Taraabt is an absolutely filthy player. His footwork is from another planet. Sick, sick ball control.

Faurlin is a really good midfielder. Fantastic passer of the ball.

I rated Leon Best way before it was so damn trendy.

What a bunch of bandwagon jumpers. Embarrassing!

Ba - Free transfer (£35 million in agents fees).

Obertan - £3 million

Ben Arfa - £5 million

Cabaye - £4.5 million

Tiote - £3.5 million

Just in case anyone needed reminding. Outrageous.

Class again Best. The confidence we're showing here is stirring my loins.

Oh let those loins stir sir let them stir ...

Obertan seems to have improved with every single game. On a healthy upward trajectory. £3 million? Yes please.

Best has missed a couple of chances today although he's played well overall.

He gets into those positions every game, though. Ultimately that is the most important thing. He'll keep getting goals I reckon.

Ba has now joined proceedings too, and all of a sudden we seem to have attacking options all over the place.

Ecstatic for Ba today. Hope he looked okay coming off. No injury was there?

Maybe they are club issued pants.

So in summary ...

Mike Ashley = 

Derek Llambias = 

Graham Carr = 

Alan Pardew = 

Ashley apologists = 

Hall and Shepherd apologists = 

Keeganites = 

Sunderland = 

Andy Carroll = 

Jose Enrique = 

Joey Barton = 

Kevin Nolan = 

Leon Best = 

Yohan Cabaye = 

Shola Ameobi =  :gm's patter:

mimi, is that the only set of men's underwear they sell in France?!

 

I could have sworn it's the same pair Laurent Robert was wearing all those years ago.

 

Someone needs to send Ben Arfa some grown up pants.

 

Gone down in my estimation ... unacceptable.

 

You know, i know pretty much nothing about this, considering i'm a girl 

 

But i hope you all follow HBA for his football capabiities and not to see what he wears under his clothes...

Hey! Of course I follow HBA for his footballing capabilities! How dare you! 

I'm just concerned for him that's all, and was just wondering if this was a male French thing.

I'll just have to look past this unfortunate circumstance.

mimi, is that the only set of men's underwear they sell in France?!

I could have sworn it's the same pair Laurent Robert was wearing all those years ago.

Someone needs to send Ben Arfa some grown up pants.

Gone down in my estimation ... unacceptable.

Regarding the play today, also thing the bigger pitch helped a lot.

I get the feeling people only learned about Ramadan because of Ba and Tiote. Let it go already!

Reminds me of Drogba's malaria debacle last season ...

This player, so s***, so f***ing s***.

:lol:

You've actually got very very serious issues. Such a jerk. Please stop repeating this silly post after every game!

Don't count out Sameobi either. If he can get enough time on the pitch the lad's definiely got an eye for goal. Plus Gosling will look to score goals once he's up to pace.

God, how could I forget! We actually have way too much talent. We should look to sell some in January just to give others a chance.

Been far more controversial already since his move. Also apparently threw a bottle of water over Shaun Derry during a BBC interview. Perhaps it's just Joey trying to find his place!

 

They've got a bit of a laddish culture going on there, could eventually all end in tears though.

Can see him hitting double figures if he plays consistently, but still worried where the rest of the goals are coming from.

Ba will definitely score with more starts. Cabaye must have read all the articles about missing Nolan's goals, and is clearly now hell bent on scoring at least 10 this season from 30 yards. Jonas will accidentally score at least a couple. Saylor should get at least 5 from set pieces, such is his determination to score so he can put on his special performance piece celebrations. Ben Arfa if fit ... it's a given. Marveaux is so smooth it will be unavoidable. Tiote will thunder in at least one this season, again.

Joey's got issues. Already straight onto twitter.

Please don't compare this guy to Owen. He is far more present on the pitch than that little scrote ever was.

Slowly but surely it's all coming together, as far as the quality of play goes.

Key lesson for today. Shola should never ever start games, as he sucks all the joy and enthusiasm for the sport out of every other player and the crowd also.

Please continue along this path, and eventually don't even allow him off the bench.

Unlike Shola, actually backs up his talk in the papers with actual performances. The guy definitely has the hunger. Seems like the type that will only continue to improve if he keeps getting opportunities to play and build his confidence even further.