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He just seems to keep trying different formations then back to 4-4-2 in second half. Atrocious, we may as well pick 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 and just stick with it. The only way we will get better at it is by persevering and getting consistency. Swapping back and forth is just terrible management and we look just as shit in any formation

As if closing training off will make us better, fucking hell i'm gonna predict the next game now. Dire fucking dire, no pace, energy, tempo or anything else resembling life with a big dose of HOOOOOOF and fucking Williamson and Jonas showing aspiring kids how not to play premiership football.

Basically the Pards plan b, more HOOF less actual football I can't believe the amount of HOOFS we have tried from Krul with Hangeland at back. It's beyond belief, Cisse and Ba barely win a header in other games never mind against that massive fucker

We barely trouble teams like, I know we had that Ba chance there but apart from that we never attack their full backs at high tempo and try and stretch them. That tiote attempt to pass back to Santon sums up how fucking terrible we are at playing football. So wasteful, slow, lethargic, no tempo at all and hardly any threat. Anita played well after about 20 mins and Santon is ok. Rest of them are fucking terrible

We give teams so much confidence. These could be 3 or 4 up by now

There is absolutely no tempo from us, shocking really

We are fucking shocking at defending like, never confident this season

Do we actually practice passing the ball, we are shocking at finding our men

Sammy has been a bit white and shola constantly is. Williamson also as per usual making bad decisions when has ball

The effort and commitment from Dortmund as well as just getting the basics right is fantastic. They just play the ball simple and have great tempo. So wish we could have such a high tempo about us

Hope both can push on now because they certainly have the technical ability

Drop liability in front of goal Having a hard time at the moment but wouldn't rule him out going on massive scoring run at some point. Making the runs, at times yesterday he was getting into space and the pass never came.

His work rate in the last few games has been class and showed signs yesterday of dictating the game along with Marveux. If they can keep going like that we could be in good shape (Assuming we don't revert back to hoofing at every chance)

No matter how bad he is at times with taking chances, when he is not in that middle we look much more open, 2nd half Wigan had a fair bit of space at times in there. That rarely happens when Tiote is around

Swansea play with such confidence, class act, always look to do the basics well and try and play football. Pards could learn a lot from them. Also seem more clinical this year as opposed to Rodgers just tip tap in centre midfield, Laudrup doing very well, could see them being in top 8

Would like Martinez but in truth it needs to be a foreign coach type that can get us playing a more european game. I don't want anymore British managers because they never seem to have the nous to play good football (Except for a few like Fergie and Rednapp) Martinez is English......wow Ha, na didn't mean it like that, bad grammar, I meant Martinez or another foreign coach

Would like Martinez but in truth it needs to be a foreign coach type that can get us playing a more european game. I don't want anymore British managers because they never seem to have the nous to play good football (Except for a few like Fergie and Rednapp)

Good post, although a win today would have been very useful for the points and at least to base some sort of come back for form overall. The way in which we could never get a foothold in this game and just invited Stoke to keep chipping away until we cracked was disgusting. Pardew should have looked to Bigi and switched to 4-5-1 to hold them off for the last 30 mins but instead he did nothing and watched as Stoke got closer and closer to scoring. I thought the Kenwyne Jones header would have woke us up but no. Instead we allowed that pressure to crack at our weak point in defence and then randomly chucked on players to salvage the game by bringing off the ones that actually gave us a chance in winning it. Our transfer blueprint (Apparently we have one) is totally misaligned with how Pardew seems to want us to play, he wants us to hoof it and be very direct yet we get cultured players like Anita, Ben Arfa, Cabaye, Marveux etc, it's totally against the grain and quite frankly baffling that we have these players and decide to bypass them for >70% of every game. I just don't get it

That's all well and good but we have lost 4 games on the trot because of him and his negative horrible tactics with very little game plan, he can say they improved as much as he likes but we still lost from a winning position so all the good work goes right out of the window

A penalty for what? Chestball? More guff from Pardew. We were f***ing dire for most of that game. Same old set piece routines, same old long ball s****. The improvement must have been up to the goal then coz it was fucking awful negative shit after that and hoof after hoof after hoof with Jonas, Williamson shocking and Krul's kicking is a fucking disgrace.

I think he has to, we are getting humped all over in December if Pardew is still there, need a change and I never thought I would say that at beginning of season, he has just no clue how to sort this and it's fucking scary

Ah fuckity fuck fuck Another thing, why does Jonas always decide to carry the ball far to far, just release it man ya long haired prick

A good manager would have worked out how to at least get a draw in last 4 games, 4 defeats to that caliber of team is fucking alarming and yet he seems to think it's just injuries. Pardew you have been playing horrific football in every game this season and it's up to you to work it out man you stupid cunt

The first thing that needs to happen now is to get him out of the team, whether that is Perch in there or fuck knows what else but he can not start the next game. He is fucking diabolical and i'm sick of his shit defending and hoofing, he offers absolutely nothing

He just seems to get more long ball to try and sort it. It's not fucking working and we have to try and create goals not just expect Ba/Cisse to create them all themselves, you need to actually get to their byline and whip the fucking ball in, or try through balls or something. He will not sort this as just blaming injuries, that does not excuse the hoof on first sight approach whatsoever