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We lost 2 days ago. We lost 2 days ago against a very good side, away from home, largely due to individual errors, in the first leg of the QF of a major european competition, whilst creating some very good chances which we were unfortunate not to convert, without a number of important players. I don't see how it's relevant to the "this team should be challenging for 4th and it's all Pardew's fault we're not" argument. Isn't that the problem though, it's always individual errors, we rarely concede a well worked goal and yet Pardew spends 80% time coaching defence and not even under pressure we tend to fuck up

If we don't win tomorrow then we will be lucky to survive. We need to hit Fulham very early and get in front, need to find Cisse as we did in first 20 against Benfica

In what way? I agree with Interpolic. Certainly in the wide forward position we're lacking with Ben Arfa out. Other than that? With the options Interpolic said. No wonder why we are struggling to score and create chances as that is where we need the most options imo. Having Shola as backup to Cisse is a farce. It is but Suarez was Liverpool's only striker all season until they signed Sturridge. Cisse is fit, playing well and scoring so whoever we bought as back up wouldn't be starting anyway. It's a red herring. Yes it's a position that needs strengthening in the summer but not something that affects us too much right this second. Only one wing is an issue at present, unless you think we've bought a dud with Gouffran. So again we're back to being 100% reliant on Ben Arfa. Cisse and Suarez are completely different footballers. Yip, Cisse relies on early passes to match his good movement, Suarez can do something with just about any ball because of his pace, first touch and tempo in posession

It should be possible with a bit of coaching. Anita, Cabaye and Marveux should be capable of retaining the ball. The problem is we don't pass in patterns, teams like Swansea have players coming to pick up the ball. We wait for it to come to us. We don't play in triangles and often when a player receives a pass he doesn't have a angle to play on to. It comes from coaching in my opinion and it appears very little coaching is done to be honest because it isn't showing

You would expect we could at least pressure teams and retain the ball with that. Not a great deal of attacking intent or ability to push forward there though, Gouffran and Marv maybe if we went 4-3-3 and drop Sissokho in with Cabaye and Tiote holding behind - slight tweak of formation but would push two wingers further forward and balance out by dropping Sissokho slightly back

We have more than enough centre midfielders if we get the right players on flanks and in front of centre mid. If we have wingers with good movement we would look a lot better, also need a not-shola option up front to come on. Would be happy with a hard working striker with pace to put pressure on teams and close them down. Minimum required in summer are 2 wingers and striker, nice to have another centre half.

Back four and centre midfield are top ten, our options in last 3rd are terrible though. If Ben Arfa is fit then we look decent up there but have no viable alternative to Cisse, Sissokho not really a number 10, Marveux is not a winger, Obertan and Jonas also terrible wingers meaning we have no width

I'm thinking 2-0 now for some un-explainable reason

If we beat Fulham and the scum lose to Chelsea it puts massive pressure on them next weekend and not on us

we've got to go to the Hawthorns then we've got Liverpool at home after the mackems. Not really much better in all honesty. Points to be had in both those games if we get our arse into gear. All of Sunderlands games appear to be against teams playing for something. Their best chances appear to be Everton at home, Stoke at home and Villa away and all 3 are fighting for something. We at least have Fulham, West Ham and West Brom that have nothing to really play for

Yip, if we can't manage 2 wins and a draw from last 7 games Pardew should be hung as should the players. I reckon Win against Fulham, draw next weekend and Win against Liverpool personally

He just looks so lumbering, clumsy. I'd love to know what Pardew sees what we dont. When Pardew watches the game back in the next couple of days, doesn't he see what we all see. Same goes for Obertan tbh. Notice Pardew makes tons of notes during games, surely one must be never to pick Shola again

When was the last time we conceded a goal from excellent play rather than our own mistakes? happens far to often

Will be very nervous game, I can see it either 2-1 either side or a bore draw

I must have missed the 20minute-mark team talk that Pards gave when he deliberately changed tactics and invited Benfica to come back into the game. What did he say? The manager should be able to change things, also comes from coaching about how to regain control and soak up pressure. there are zero recognised patterns of play from us. We simply struggle any time a team passes the ball around. Its in the planning and coaching that can prevent what happened, we leave too much to chance not good coaching, strategy and tactical work

makes him feel at home, just like rtg where every second post is fuck off

My biggest problem is we just look so disjointed and dont have much idea how to break teams down most of the time, possession is a foreign concept, we play long balls to an often isolated Cisse with no focus on the 2nd ball, make stupid defensive mistakes and commit stupid fouls. I also dont believe the players are that fit. He has to go in the summer, he has a reasonable amount of talent to play with and no idea how to use it, no fresh ideas, just nothing. Yes we played well for 20 mins yesterday but then reverted to type. He has to be bold and attack teams rather than scared of them because we often lose when decide to defend we have more chance if we attack teams

Fucking awful. We are shocking, truly shocking team.

I mean really, people defending this stuff, he knows what that means and the history behind it. It's disgusting, football is so much in the public eye that managers and players should be private in their beliefs. They are role models to thousands of kids / scruffs

"I wouldn't be bothered if Hitler himself had been head coach in the 1930s as long as he got results. Hopefully we won't need to suffer Mandela day, Burundian drummers and Incest in Africa from now on either. Nowt to do with SAFC." Read more: http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=771017&page=54#ixzz2PFfvhVLT What happened to their so called class all gone quite quickly I see

Unfortunately it's not irrelevant as he is in the public eye and a role model, also not surprised it offends people due to what fascism has caused in history. Will be interesting to see how their players react to him.

Also funny how some of thim are thinking really positive about him, the same lot mocking us for having a ex league 1 manager in charge hmmm

They really have no idea what is wrong with this appointment :-), principles are more important than football. It makes me detest them so much more

It's pretty clear they do very little defensive coaching as well - we are dreadful and keep making silly mistakes. Very rarely work as a unit, in fact I can't see one thing we do particularly well apart from rolling over for other teams. We don't seem to have a very high tempo about us, can't retain the ball, are pretty shit at hoof ball, can't take corners, free kicks or throw ins, are not very organised and can't create chances for our striker. It's been that way all season. Even last 5 or 6 seasons I can't think of any time where you would look and feel confident about us winning a game comfortably or playing good football for more than 1 game at a time

Not really the type of publicity they want in relegation battle I would think, can't wait to see what reception the cunt will get at our place. I hope it destroys that club