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Fine, we'll just buy Lukaku off them Would love to have Lukaku like, think he will only get better and better

What a bunch of oddballs they all are, horrible looking http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFHHxVPCYAE4oEn.jpg

I think we will beat Wigan, Fulham, Scum, West Ham and pick up a couple of draws. I wouldn't put it past us to beat Liverpool/Arsenal and lose to crap teams though

We have started to control games a lot more recently, keeping possession much better and cutting down so many long balls, although there were quite a few yesterday they were much better kicks from Elliott than Krul. I still wish we could go 1-0 up and go on to score a few more, at the moment it seems we concede first in every game and have to fight back from that. We need to be more ruthless up front and work harder to stretch teams but since January it has been encouraging compared to the shit that was served up prior to that. Pardew has improved with his tactics etc (Still not enough), I just hope he can start to develop the way we play for rest of season and push on next year

Reading look done for, have to play 4 of the current top 6 Qpr have to play all 3 teams around them so still possible for them to get out of it. I can still see it being bottom 2 plus Wigan, Villa or Southampton. the rest will be safe I reckon (Although would love to sit back and watch the scum get dragged in

Managed to get 6 tickets together in leazes, none together elsewhere in ground like. Would imagine they will open up the upper tiers

I agree it was down to trying to make things happen but it was simply impatience on his side. Sometimes you have to play it simple if the pass isn't on. I told you just a couple of days ago that pass completion rate is a rubbish statistic, stop using it. It's not rubbish. If you're AM and ST can't consistently find a NUFC shirt, we will struggle to assert consistent pressure. especially at home to a side like Stoke. It really, really is as it doesn't take into account what types of passes that are being made. I'm sure someone like S. Taylor has a very high pass completion ratio, but how much of that consists of back passes to the keeper? It's simply not useful when talking about a creative player whose task it is to set up goals, Sissoko plays so so high up the pitch for us, an area that is crowded with opposition players (especially against Stoke), and his task is to find the decisive pass. Give me someone with a 40% completion rate whose passes consists of potential goal scoring opportunities more often than not than someone who'll play the safe pass in that position. Everyone has highlighted why his passing stat wasn't great. Impatience on the ball. It's about finding the right pass. Compare the passing of other #10's. Wilshere gets 85% one a good game, 75% on a poorer game. Mata's consistently mid 80's. Toure in the 80's. Scroll through their passing stats to see when they've had less than 80, then less than 70. It's rare. And most likely a sign of having a poor/impatient game on the ball. Trying to make things happen is great but if it doesn't work out, the team loses the pressure and momentum. In that case it's probably best to keep the ball. I'm not saying it must be in the high 90's. For an AM, that probably means he's taking no risks. But at 69%, he's taking too many risks and is losing the ball too much. He's not getting on the ball as much either. It's because he is always looking to play forwards and trying to make things happen, agree he could do with just tapping it off and being a bit more patient, but I also think he's fucking boss

Got to win and think we will, reckon it will be 3-1 with Sissokho and Cabaye on score sheet

Looks quality, good to have options at full back now, Santon now needs to really work hard or else this lad may take his place. Looking forward to next season with the bigger squad we have. Once again we have Gouffran, Debuchy, Santon, Jonas, Cisse? coming back for game against Stoke with Tiote not having played much.

When fully up to speed in Premier League, he will be immense, same with Sissokho, considering it's their first couple of months.

He needed a game at some point tbf, he's got 60 mins under his belt now which should help him and the team going forward. True, just looked so far off it, may have been better bringing him on rather than starting him

Needs to show his pace a lot more, seems to just keep it easy far to often and needs to get at teams

Normally negative about Pards but fuck me it's a decent result not losing away from home, if we had been more open would probably have lost by a couple. Now we have given ourselves a chance to progress and could have won it if not for some bad play in their box. Happy enough with that

Probably should not have played. looked very rusty, can't wait to see him back up to speed though, him and Sissokho getting at them

Looks very good, quick, athletic, composed. Bit naive but still very good

Played right tactics tonight overall, kept it organised, passed around and tried to nick it near the end. No problems with that. Difficult for him with no striker available. We looked more dangerous with Shola and Sissokho steeped the game up, so many gears to go through I reckon

Good result for me, difficult if they score first next week but going there and picking up a result is very good

He's fucking class, proper player. So athletic and stays on his feet

Think Anita has played well tbh. Him and Cabaye trying to keep things moving

some good points - Look calm on ball up to midfield 2 - pretty well organised and hard working - always looking to play from back and control ball bad points - overran shocking - Ben arfa struggling - no threat in their centre halfs - finding pitch hard to play on

Would probably settle for a draw or 1-0 defeat in all honesty as confident we could turn that around at home. Going to be a difficult game. One point, I guess there will be very few sliding tackles etc, I rip my fucking knees open sliding on 3g/4g pitches

There's no chance 100 mil is being pumped into this club and even if it did Pards wouldn't get it - as in he wouldn't let Pards spunk it away. Carr maybe

They are still making mistakes but we have settled down a lot more now and have improved the team along the way (Albeit at wrong times which they have accepted was wrong). I'm actually not to bothered about him and Dekka now as we are financially stable, have signed decent players and are looking at academy.

Shows our total lack of strikers in the squad. Need to concentrate on that in summer

Agree with this, tbh I would also rotate corner takers now, can't be any worse. We need to mix them up between lofted balls, firing in and near post. I would say inverted corners with left footer from the right but we only have Ben Arfa and marveux for that and not had them in team last few games. When he is back I would have Ben Arfa whipping it in from the right and Cabaye from the left