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4th choice behind who?

Demba is boss at the moment so put him upfront on his own. Give me strength.

It wouldn't.

Well, this is the same man who took Ben Arfa off for Shola Ameobi at half time for no apparent reason. When did that happen?

Stick HBA behind him for a sustained period and you wouldn't need players to graft to feed him. We'd have someone with the ability to set him up...like the chances at City & Man Utd, like the goal tonight... We have no goals from the defence and no goals from the midfield, and you want a player with less than 20 league goals in his career partnering Ba? We need a new striker to partner him, it's as simple as that.

Feed off what work? He's not the type of player who should be grafting to bring others into the game, that should be left to someone else.

That's a bit like saying Colo's based his game around hoofs up the pitch. They can't help what they're being told to do.

And when did I say that? We need someone next to him who can score goals and create space.

We need a new striker and we all know it. As for chances, he isn't Ba in that he can't spin straw into gold. The wingers did him (nor Demba) no favours.

if it had been perch so often burnt and looking poor i doubt you'd find those excuses. And why do you doubt that?

It is working, Ba is scoring for fun. As I said, we ideally need a new striker - one that can score goals whilst making space for Ba higher up the park.

He's scoring them HIMSELF YOU IDIOT. I'm an idiot for wanting to stick with something that works?

Only a fool would put that down to Best or Ameobi being up there with him. Ba is top-class and would score goals on his own imo, stick HBA off him and I don't think he'd score fewer, and Best's hardly setting the goal charts alight this season. I'm putting it down to him playing better with a partner, as 99% of goalscorers do. He's scoring loads of goals and we need a better partner for him who can contribute some of his own - that isn't and never will be Ben Arfa. End of story.

He was poor, but so were the conditions in general for the defence. Stupid high line and no protection whatsoever from Jonas or the two in the middle. Haris gets a pass because that wasn't really his job.

Only on N-O could somebody find reason to mess with a system up top that includes the league's 3rd top goalscorer.

Ba has 13 goals - pretty much all of them coming with another striker on the pitch - and you want to disrupt that for what purpose? We need a new striker to partner him, not to f*** about with stupid systems. 2 penalties, 1 free-kick, 1 from a corner, and 1 from a Ben Arfa assist. 5 goals nowt to do with a strike partner and I bet he's had considerably less time without a second striker. Hang on. One of his penalties was won by Best - his strike partner. How on earth did his 2 goals tonight not have anything to do with a strike partner? You can't possibly support that. It's obvious he does well with a partner and only a fool would attempt to second guess that. There's no reason to do so.

Ba has 13 goals - pretty much all of them coming with another striker on the pitch - and you want to disrupt that for what purpose? We need a new striker to partner him, not to fuck about with stupid systems.

Don't know what the hell you were thinking of tonight, like.

Same old Tiote, really. At home he lingers between average and shocking; away from home he's one of the better CDMs in the league.

Some very generous ratings tonight.

Without him we'd be far lower down than that.

Gonna get murdered.

How hasn't he been getting a look in?

I see you are putting us with two promoted teams, we came up with you don't forget! What are you talking about? Putting them in the same bracket as them. I didn't. That's our last 3 fixtures, man Christ.

I see you are putting us with two promoted teams, we came up with you don't forget! What are you talking about?