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It will be Harlee Dean i reckon.

Time wasted. They had ample time to figure this while Pardew's contract wrangles were ongoing. New Man could be working with the team, organising training how he wants it, assessing players, etc. Our reasons for delay are simply total tight fisted.

We were extremely lucky to get a point today.

Didn't play well at all. Him and Colback just disappeared 2nd half.

Carver didn't show much bottle today.

Don't agree with that. Not a fan of Anita tbh but he does show for the ball. About a ridiculous statement as one the other day (from someone else forget who) who said Anita was slow.

He was pish but Dummett's total reluctance to overlap him was of no help whatsoever.

His recent performances have seen him live up to the high standards he set for himself with that all-action display he put in against Man City at home, earlier in the season.

Anita would have been good in Laudrup's Swansea. Silly to think he can only play for one team. I still haven't seen have enough overall effect to benefit us though. We need something else.

I'm not the quickest, fastest or strongest player at 7 aside but I run rings around some of those I play with in terms of stamina, fitness and endurance. Anita is a good all-round athlete. Read the context though Ron. Anita's significantly slower and weaker than Sissoko, man. Anita may be many things a natural athlete isn't at the forefront of them. I mean, honestly. I f***ing despair with this place at times. I don't think too much of Anita but he clearly is NOT significantly slower than Sissoko.

FYP

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I thought Tony Watt would have been in the Scotland squad.

If he's playing regularly for us at CB in a couple years time I'll be astounded. Unless we're down division or 2 by then.

He benefitted from Sammi putting the cross very early. He needs that or he is offside again. That said, it was a perfect ball from Sammi as it happens.

Problem with Tiote is no matter how bad we might look with him playing we just look that wee bit worse when he's not.

Think a few people have this the wrong way around tbh. You get a good manager with the kind of judgement you trust. Then you get the scout to look for players in the mould that the manager wants. Not, have a scout you're fond of, let him choose the kind of players he likes, try and find a manager who likes similar players. Manager >>>>>>> Scout by a ridiculous margin every day of the week! Only a club run by total f**king morons puts this ever-so-obvious hierarchy on it's head.

Extremely average with the ball however, given our complete lack of organisation in defence his pressing and ability to actually put some body weight behind a challenge is needed. I wish we had better options, i really do but Anita, Colback and Sissoko are even more porous than his is. Santon's stats were good though.....

He really made a difference Passed, ran into space, stretch the defenders and put in semi-decent crosses! Was bizarre

I'm going to defend him too much but what i will say is, our complete lack of movement means he has to hold onto the ball a lot longer than you can see is natural to him. Given the way Pardew sets his teams out, he was a poor buy.

There's a few posters on here who can't evaluate him without prejudice because of his name. He's very tall and gangly. I've always said i reckon he'll be a late developer. I do think he needs to move away and find his feet and a different club. A smaller one with no Shola links. If he drops a division i reckon he'll be a prem player within a few years.

Fair play I was thinking at least he isn't totally naive. And then: I think, in a round about way and probably the only way he can, he's trying to highlight a very real problem at the club. Ashley doesn't like spending money on players. He's trying to point out that the club won't spend enough to aim for top ten. Despite his own lack of competence this an extremely salient point. http://sackpardew.com/myths/his-hands-are-tied-by-ashley/ Pardew IS a two faced lick spittle. That being said, Ashley doesn't let the club spends the money it makes.

Fair play I was thinking at least he isn't totally naive. And then: I think, in a round about way and probably the only way he can, he's trying to highlight a very real problem at the club. Ashley doesn't like spending money on players. He's trying to point out that the club won't spend enough to aim for top ten. Despite his own lack of competence this an extremely salient point.

He's always had the ability to have words with players but in terms of rallying or organising the side on the pitch as a captain should do, he's fallen way short in times of trouble. As a captain and main centre back of the side, i still can't believe he allowed Anita to mark the Palace player at the back post isolated in the dying minutes. It was clear for all to see what was going to happen. He was majorly at fault for that goal imo due to his lack of leadership and organisation, just switched off. The thing that's confused me about you is that Pardew is exactly the same bloke he was a year ago.