Elliottman

But they are effective at it and cause a lot of problems for other team, we don't Yeah, the league table backs up your argument on that one.

Would prefer to say positive, lots of players collapse and survive, he'd rather think of those rather than the ones that have died etc

well said Barnes.

Or the first 12 games of this one

Name calling already? That didnt take long.

Cant wait for this. Saturdays are shite without a game but gives you something to do/drink on a Sunday.

raylor.

He's so one footed its unreal. Never once saw him cut in, incredibly predictable. I think he did once and he didnt know what to do and had the ball instantly took off him.

He's so one footed its unreal.

Do they fuck play hoofball. Might put a lot of balls in the box from wide areas but they keep the ball a hell of a lot better than we do.

Ive noticed a lot of the local Journo's who were giving him a lot of stick earlier in the season are starting to praise him in every article. Douglas and Ryder being the main two culprits. Wankers. Whats the name of the guy on Total Sport who gives him a hard time too, John Anderson? Wonder if he will change his tune after a couple of more decent performances.

Thought you had a ST Ronnie!? Or are you just moving for this one match?

why do people want City to go through?

I really dont think Ballotelli is that good?

Great strike.

If Bilbao are the 7th best team in Spain and play foozeball like that, and we are 6th and we play football like we do.... Im not actually sure what im trying to say.

Norwich really is a Pivitol game not only for us, but for him. If we dont get the 3 points he will probably be under the most pressure sine he got here imo.

The weeks are so long when you desprately need a win.

This is the thing though mate, when you spend your entire season training the players to play one way, just because you would like to play a different way for one or two games doesn't mean the team's gonna be able to do it. You could see last night that the players are so used to just lobbing it forwards and staying in formation that they looked frightened in possession and none of them were moving for each other. These are good footballers I'm talking about as well, Cabaye, Jonas, Tiote, they all look bloody hopeless on the ball. Occasionally football will 'break out' of it's own accord when an opposition player gets dragged out of place or we play a quick one two, but watch us when we have comfortable possession in the middle of the pitch, we're f***ing clueless. I don't see it that way at all man, sorry. I've seen us play good football on plenty of occasions this season, but I agree the last couple of months we seem to have gotten scared somehow, and Pardew / the players seem to have lost a bit of confidence in us playing passing football. But I've seen it enough from us this season to suggest we can do it, and do it well. The long ball stuff we are resorting to at times at the minute is frustrating but not fully representative of what we / Pardew can and have done. I guess what I'm trying to say is, no one will convince me that in the last 30 minutes yesterday Pardew actually instructed the players to hit it long. I think it was a mixture of the players feeling the pressure, and naturally dropping deeper to try to soak it up. Granted a few games over the last few months have seen us play that tactic, but I don't believe that's what we were trying to do at all yesterday... more that we just got sucked into it as the game wore on. The last 30? What about the previous 40 before that? What about it? I certainly wouldn't call it hoof ball. We played some nice stuff in the first half at times. I'd say the first 20/25 minutes we had it down and played, as soon as they scored it all changed.

This is the thing though mate, when you spend your entire season training the players to play one way, just because you would like to play a different way for one or two games doesn't mean the team's gonna be able to do it. You could see last night that the players are so used to just lobbing it forwards and staying in formation that they looked frightened in possession and none of them were moving for each other. These are good footballers I'm talking about as well, Cabaye, Jonas, Tiote, they all look bloody hopeless on the ball. Occasionally football will 'break out' of it's own accord when an opposition player gets dragged out of place or we play a quick one two, but watch us when we have comfortable possession in the middle of the pitch, we're f***ing clueless. I don't see it that way at all man, sorry. I've seen us play good football on plenty of occasions this season, but I agree the last couple of months we seem to have gotten scared somehow, and Pardew / the players seem to have lost a bit of confidence in us playing passing football. But I've seen it enough from us this season to suggest we can do it, and do it well. The long ball stuff we are resorting to at times at the minute is frustrating but not fully representative of what we / Pardew can and have done. I guess what I'm trying to say is, no one will convince me that in the last 30 minutes yesterday Pardew actually instructed the players to hit it long. I think it was a mixture of the players feeling the pressure, and naturally dropping deeper to try to soak it up. Granted a few games over the last few months have seen us play that tactic, but I don't believe that's what we were trying to do at all yesterday... more that we just got sucked into it as the game wore on. The last 30? What about the previous 40 before that?

From what ive seen of him through the middle, I prefer him out on the right. Has shown he can do plenty of damage from there.

Perch was a lot better than Santon. I think its going to take Santon a good year to settle in. Doesnt seem to know how to play left back.

Dont ever let this abomination play for us again. Ali I apologise to you because when we signed him and you were giving him grief I was one of those who said give the the lad a chance. Well fuck me, I was wrong.

You cant question the commitment of graft last night. You could see on the players faces how hard they had worked. We are just lacking some quality at the back and playing too much long ball at the moment. Simpsons throw in was suicidal though.