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Didn't really notice him being bad today, which was good. Even tried a sexy dummy to prove his superiority over Villa's thick defenders.

Thought he was below-par compared to last season, but I also haven't seen the last 2 games in the flesh. Still not too bad, just one or two sloppy moments.

The pass for Cabaye was luscious. I had him down as a pacey winger before we signed him, but seems he has much more to his game than that.

He isn't a bad signing at all, but Pardew needs to stop starting him. He just isn't better than Marveaux. Maybe, but don't we need to keep Jonas on the left with Raylor playing LB? And is Marveaux any good on the right?

Didn't think he was that bad today, I would keep in the team. Certainly too soon to start writing him off or treating him as a bad signing.

Might be tempted to play him in a midfield three with Cabaye and Tiote and sacrifice a striker. He looks very comfortable in that inside-left position.

Shut up.

Our strikers are far too bad to warrant playing two of them from the start. Definitely the five in midfield for me.

I thought this at the time too. This won't be an easy game at all, but the Fulham result was very pleasing.

This is the thing that makes me less worried by the departure of Nolan and friends. We should definitely be aiming for the top 10, we are more than capable of doing that even without the second striker signing.

Never thought SWP was that bad TBH, he's lively and will cause us problems unless we close him down properly. That said, if he plays behind the striker then hopefully Tiote and Cabaye should make him into a light snack.

Dzeko on the bench was a mystery, but still hattricks from Rooney and Aguero and clean sheets from the Man City boys. Banking on young Timmy Krul and Cabaye to add another few points on Monday. And Tchoyi as well.

Were we also playing the wrong team in your dream? Not the most relevant.

That's sexual chocolate that like. If Ba remembers how to play football.

Dispensed with Carroll and N'Zogbia for Dzeko and Smalling this week.

There is absolutely no chance we are deliberately making bids we know will fail. I don't believe that for a second.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/09/07/sports/soccer/AP-SOC-John-Leicester-090711.html?ref=soccer

Yeah, Pardew has to say that everyone has a chance, Raylor has the shirt to lose etc etc, but there's no doubt Santon will replace him. Whether it's in the next game depends on how he's feeling and settling into training I suppose.

No, but why would there be?

Always mystified me why professional footballers suddenly revert to hoofing it when they have a tall striker on the pitch. Crouch suffers from the same thing. If defenders had half a brain he would probably be thought of as a much better player. Liverpool have to learn to mix up their football and keep it on the deck even when Carroll is playing. I don't see why they shouldn't be able to, but I guess the easy option of long ball is tempting for all players

I think he's stuck at QPR for the duration of his deal TBH, at best he can maybe expect another bottom of the table club to come in for him if QPR go down. I think some people underestimate how much of a ticking timebomb he's seen as in the football world in general. Rightly or wrongly.

Nobody said it was unreasonable, Cronky was arguing that if all we can get are players that are slightly better than Loven and Shola, we might be better off holding onto our money for a while longer.

This is not a laughing matter FFS!

Spot on.