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Wasn't Sissoko marking Benteke? Or meant to be anyway...

Want Hull to be worried about us this weekend (not in a gay way....). Want them to worry about having to deal with HBA's trickery, Remy's pace and the receding idea that Cisse might start lashing them in. Want them to be worried about Sissoko running them over, Cabaye spraying naughty passes around, attacking fullbacks, the works. Want them to turn up nervous.

Ba had a stormer for half a season and then literally EVERYTHING Cisse kicked went in. Colo was great and HBA made a big impact when Pardew eventually realised Obertan was making him look bad. Good players playing well. My tripe file gets bigger. 3

Point 3 for you. Just the end bit

Ba had a stormer for half a season and then literally EVERYTHING Cisse kicked went in. Colo was great and HBA made a big impact when Pardew eventually realised Obertan was making him look bad. Good players playing well.

No

1) Pardew hasn't demonstrated he can put a good team together. 2) He has demonstrated he can (although not always) pick good players. 3 If you can't understand the difference kindly f**k off

Well, if you add the proviso that anyone else has to be dirt f**king cheap then yes, one's options narrow somewhat

IMHO this blerk realy isn't worth the wait. If we're serious about getting someone in January then there definitely better options.

I've said it already, but lads like Brett, who've taken a bit of a battering, are dying to throw things back in people's faces. Now is not the right time to even be attempting that. It's very early days. Giz a break man, i'm enjoying my moment, might only last a week It's not your moment, man. You look f***ing stupid, and will look even worse if it all goes to s*** again. Just enjoy it, and hope it lasts. Keep doubting lad, keep doubting, more people pretend to themselves this is a one off, the more i will revel in our future success. Not even sure Saturday's win would have felt as good without all you guys Doubt what, man? I'm one of the few who thought there was a remote possibility of him turning it round. You're spoiling it for the rest of us. My sense of identity is all over the place now, I'm siding with Dave and SanToon. Slut.

No, he wouldn't.

Would be nice to have an option on the bench but not convinced Goufran can do it from either CF or LF. Looks more of an impact player. Terrible transfer window not to provide some genuine competition.

Doesn't it bother you a bit though that he doesn't cut out crosses that often? That was just something Enrique was absolutely brilliant at....

OK. Well, all of our lot were anonymous on MoTD!! Guess that was your point

Absolutely impossible to play it again until now of course. Think people forget we played Ba and Cisse in 4-4-2 last season even though we'd been very good with Ba on the left side on a front 3. So Pardew had the players for a half season last year but didn't do it. Then Ba left anyway. Anyway, Hopefully Remy isn't as precious!

MoTD was gash mate. He was good today. Gave them problems. He's good on the ball. He was blowing after 20 minutes though

Not really. We played well today and the win was brilliant but some of the stuff that's been posted on here afterwards is f***ing criminal like. It is If we play like that for the next 6-8 games i'll be delighted but it's a bit premature at the moment. Let's see how we're looking half way through November rather than just playing 90 minutes of good football out of 450 minutes. about 105mins if you include then of the fulham game. I was including the Fulham game. Villa had a good 20-25 minutes after half time today. We looked ropey then. Very happy to see that we recovered. Very happy. villa did have a good spell, we didn't look ropey though, get what you mean though. as someone who has pushed the 4-3-3 since ben arfa arrived, seen it work very well the season before last before being ditched because of a bad result (and who knows why last season ?) i'd like to see it as our default and I think it will with remy's arival. maybe differnt variants at time, tiote/jonas for an injured/suspended cabaye/anita/sissoko. It gets the best out of ben arfa which creates space elsewhere. Yeah, know i was (sort of) rowing with you about th3 4-3-3 thing. I think 4-5-1 is more realistic but today, there FBs were so lax we really did play 4-3-3. I thought the positioning of Anita and Sissoko was key today. They were always close to each other and always in a line. Very good platform. When the Villa tried to play through our middle they would look up and see those 2 just occupying the space they needed. Forced to play bad balls which we largely lapped up. I wasn't expecting that degree of tactical discipline from our lot so was delighted to see it.

He'll be dynamite when fit.

^^ Don't agree at all. I look at this match with no context and will say he clearly did very well today and i'm delighted. It tells me nothing else because if you take it in context then we've been worse than p*ss poor for more than a calender year. I'll just take this game as it is. Which was good viewing and 3 points. Delighted.

Not really. We played well today and the win was brilliant but some of the stuff that's been posted on here afterwards is f***ing criminal like. It is If we play like that for the next 6-8 games i'll be delighted but it's a bit premature at the moment. Let's see how we're looking half way through November rather than just playing 90 minutes of good football out of 450 minutes. about 105mins if you include then of the fulham game. I was including the Fulham game. Villa had a good 20-25 minutes after half time today. We looked ropey then. Very happy to see that we recovered. Very happy.

It's one game in a season, that's what it is. In other words, very little to judge how a season will go from.

Not really. We played well today and the win was brilliant but some of the stuff that's been posted on here afterwards is f***ing criminal like. It is If we play like that for the next 6-8 games i'll be delighted but it's a bit premature at the moment. Let's see how we're looking half way through November rather than just playing 90 minutes of good football out of 450 minutes.

Krul 5 Debuchey 7 Colo 7 MYM 9 Santon 7 Anita 8 Sissoko 7 Cabaye 6 Remy 7 Cisse 6 HBA 10 Gouf 8 Tiote 7 Sammy 6 Pardew 8 Thought we were set up well. Good attitude at the start of the game. Everyone knew Villa would come out strong in the 2nd half. Would have been nice if we could have matched that intensity but it was nice to see we weren't over awed and stuck to our game, limited them and then pushed for the winner. Subs were good too.

I'm sure he'll be happy the squad has a got a few players that can compete for positions. Taylor, Tiote, Marveaux, Sammy, Dummet/Haidara, Jonas. As others have said, Cisse needs to feel his place is under threat too. That will all be a big help to Pardew. Will make his job easier.

When we had Enrique you just knew 99% of the time the cross would not be coming in, Enrique would just close that down. Can't say that about Santon. Ball comes in from his side too often for my liking. He is better with the ball though. Still, he had a good game.