Lotus

I disagree, naturally when defending the forwards have to drop in a bit aswell, it's not like they'll stand on the half way line waiting for us to get the ball back. Hope you're right but i doubt it will work, unfortunately.

It will be stretched and over run (imo). No where enough discipline to keep close as a unit. Will be spread out all over the place with Sissoko and Anita covering the wings and Cabaye lunging in.

do we need that......... krul debuchy colo mapou santon sissoko cabaye anita ben arfa cisse remy none of our midfielders excpet tiote seem to have midfield 4 as their natural game, same goes for ben arfa. even jonas would now seem best suited to a middle 3. we even have the attacking full backs for it. movement is the key from those middle 3 (watch anita, constant movement) and ben arfa/remy can pull wide leaqving gaps for the midfield to hopefully exploit. Pards likes 4-4-2 in case no one has noticed. Also, a genuine 4-3-3 with that midfield is asking for trouble unless we've had to throw caution to the wind and go for it.

We have no one who can play LW. No one. Hardly a squad good enough without that is it?

Was great!

True, he did! I guess my defence is that they are far, far closer to being abysmal than being perfect. But, point taken.

We all know our "board" is considerably less than perfect, but our transfer policy over the last few years looks incredibly sane and efficient in comparison to Sunderland's shambolic approach. 'less than perfect' Yeah, just a tad short of perfect they are. Aye.

If we don't sign anyone today it will show just what a dishonest tosser this bloke is tbh. I'm sure he's more than aware that he's been called a w@nker, a drunk, a mouthpiece, etc. But this will just bear him out as a wilful liar. Which i think is far more damning.

:weep: Hate being called a mug i do Keep throwing money at them so they can keep taking the p*ss? You are, ask Pardew for a wave too Roger's doing an Omar 12 gauge primed, stalking around the place, whistling, and calling Marlo Dope Direct's men out!! Go get em, Roger!

I love the guy but i thought he was pretty frustrating in the 1st half. Plenty of times he should have played it early to Debuchey who's made a good run and would have put in an early cross but HBA held onto it, twisted and turned and it all came to nowt. Everyone looked better when Remy came on though. Everyone!

Remy in particular had huge effect on Cisse's game. I said at the time it was like 2 substitutes in 1.

He plays like he's been doped

Got caught square once. Otherwise covered his side pretty well. Wish we'd make more use of his overlapping runs because he can actually cross!

Emre influenced the game more than this bloke tbh.

Lacks intensity.

Very good CB when we play a high line. Don't think i'd fancy him as much if we're defending very deep. Fulham made it easy because they had no penetration whatsoever.

Was odd watching us play a 4-2-4. Were all over them for the last 15 minutes. We didn't remotely look like scoring until then. Adding a note of realism, our game against Villa will be a lot more like the first 75 minutes then it will the last 15 minutes. Not that keeping it tight and chances to a minimum away from home is bad like. We aren't ManU!

For 15 minutes.

Well, Cabaye didn't provide that today. Remy was the catalyst.

Really? Yeah. Cabaye didn't do anything Anita wasn't. Except give away a really dangerous freekick i suppose. Anita didn't do that.

Didn't see the point of subbing him off for Cabaye.

The way he eats the middle 40 yards up is extraordinary imo. Strong too.

Looked better all through the game but came to life once Remy came on.

He completely changed Cisse's contribution which is just as vital as being better than Shola. It was like he was 2 subs in 1 !!!

He made the only subs he could realistically make and they worked. He's still a dolt though. We can do better.