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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

There is often cases of subs changing games so I think it does work. I could even put up with Pards bringing attackers for attackers and defenders for defenders. What I struggle with is bringing two defensive midfielders on against Reading when winning 1-0 and losing 2-1 - when we were in full control of the game. He appears to have stopped doing this I think in last few games but they are bad decisions. He has made some weird decisions all season, everyone can see Cisse can't play right wing but he decided fuck it he will persevere and seems to have ruined the bloke. Same with playing Shola on wing, truly bizarre to put a lethargic and shit in his proper position player out of position. I think these are the things that confuse me the most, I just don't get what he is trying to achieve at times, other than defend and hope

Exactly, he's fucking terrible

Mind the Man City fans might want to look at where they were a few years ago, complaining about another boring season fuck me, they should try my view of football. If we were ever in their position I don't think I would be complaining about bad player personnel (must be a piss take) and boring seasons. As for Disappointing, Frustration and Bewilderment, i'm surprised the lad never topped himself when they were in division 1 or 2. Or even just go back 5-6 seasons mid table nobodies and now have cheek to complain mind they are fucking dreadful to watch judging by Villa game

So many people cannot be wrong, yet one man can't see it

Not even sure he will end up at Championship level, or if he does it will be league 1 or 2 within a couple of seasons. Will probably end up dealing drugs or something, good times

Hope he fucking dies tbh, and only normally save that for the biggest cunts around. He will amount to nothing in football

Agree with that. I was surprised with how he has used Sissokho, giving him a bit of freedom to work really has helped us win a few games, i'm hoping when Ben Arfa is back Pardew unleashes them and lets Him, Sissokho and Gouffran move around.

The only 'ridiculous' inclusion at the moment is Jonas for me and even then I can't really moan with the other options. Marveaux is obviously more creative but I think we would be carrying him too much out there. If Jonas is still playing when Ben Arfa is fully fit fair enough but I really don't think he will. The most concerning thing for me is that he doesn't know how to change a game, if it's going bad he does not seem capable of tweaking the way we play. We very rarely take advantage of opposition weaknesses and generally don't setup to play good attacking football. We always seem to be more concerned with what the other team is going to do and 9 times out of 10 it ends bad for us. I just wish he would grow a pair at times and allow the players to express themselves because I think he holds them back and concerns himself to much with defensive shape and hard work, both of which sees us make defensive mistakes nearly every single game. I am willing to wait until next season but he has to evolve, look at the way Swansea play with players like Dyer, Routledge etc. Even at the back Gary Monk ffs, it's because of the way they train, tactical and formation work and it's clear they work on movement as well as being hard working to win the ball back. Look at other teams as well and just seems they know how to retain the ball better and use it effectively, quite a few with players you would consider less able than ours. Oh and when we are losing, the answer is not Shola. Despite common believe that the answer to every problem going is Shola, it f***ing isn't, the guy is terrible and has been for over 10 years, yet Pardew thinks the sun shines out his arse. I really hope he does not decide to go with him and Cisse on right for Anzhi Good post, the only thing I will say is too often this season there has been no-one on the bench who is good enough to make any real impact/change a game. Hopefully when we have more options he will show he is capable of doing it but at the moment I am not confident. That's true and when you think even now we don't have great wide options without Ben Arfa. I hope we can rectify that and get a few promising players in that position. Our main criteria for players should be around their technical game and movement to try and evolve the way we play and make us more comfortable on the ball. I look at us yesterday and we played some good stuff, Sissokho, Debuchy, Cabaye etc all look comfortable with the ball and don't panic, we now need to foster this attitude beneath the first team and ensure we have players who don't panic and can focus on the ball. All our young players should be relishing playing with Sissokho, Ben Arfa, Cabaye, Colo etc and be taking tips from watching them on the ball and off it

I just don't know what Jonas is but it's certainly not a winger as he's fucking terrible at it. His creative ability is virtually nil, offers nothing apart from graft really. We desperately need a half competent right winger for when Ben Arfa is injured. Must be one knocking about somewhere that can pick up a ball and cause some bother

The only 'ridiculous' inclusion at the moment is Jonas for me and even then I can't really moan with the other options. Marveaux is obviously more creative but I think we would be carrying him too much out there. If Jonas is still playing when Ben Arfa is fully fit fair enough but I really don't think he will. The most concerning thing for me is that he doesn't know how to change a game, if it's going bad he does not seem capable of tweaking the way we play. We very rarely take advantage of opposition weaknesses and generally don't setup to play good attacking football. We always seem to be more concerned with what the other team is going to do and 9 times out of 10 it ends bad for us. I just wish he would grow a pair at times and allow the players to express themselves because I think he holds them back and concerns himself to much with defensive shape and hard work, both of which sees us make defensive mistakes nearly every single game. I am willing to wait until next season but he has to evolve, look at the way Swansea play with players like Dyer, Routledge etc. Even at the back Gary Monk ffs, it's because of the way they train, tactical and formation work and it's clear they work on movement as well as being hard working to win the ball back. Look at other teams as well and just seems they know how to retain the ball better and use it effectively, quite a few with players you would consider less able than ours. Oh and when we are losing, the answer is not Shola. Despite common believe that the answer to every problem going is Shola, it fucking isn't, the guy is terrible and has been for over 10 years, yet Pardew thinks the sun shines out his arse. I really hope he does not decide to go with him and Cisse on right for Anzhi

I the general play and consistency does not improve in first part of next season we should get rid, he will have had 3 years at that point and should have improved the way we play