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The coaches. Have you seen the state of our backroom staff? So that makes SBR's judgment on Carver faulty as well, then...?? Regardless of how hagiographic you want to get about Robson... A. It's completely irrelevant B. Our backroom staff is terrible - there's no two ways about it. Don't be a coconut. So, to summarise, in your opinion SBR had bad judgement? Tbh, i don't have an ounce of the stuff you'd need a ton of to evaluate a man like SBR. You think differently about yourself. What qualifies you for that?

Dude....it's his family, man. If true that's hard for him to take, even if it was his mistakes that led to it. I wouldn't be able to concentrate if my girls were the other side of the world and my marriage was looking really moody. I'd NEED to be there to do what i could to fix things. Nothing comes before your kids, nothing. And a very close second is your wife and mother to your brood. You have to be there for them. Got to. If it's his wayward behaviour that has led to the split i still wouldn't judge him. It's easy to judge people when you haven't faced exactly the same temptations as them.

He's nothing but hackneyed Walter Mitty...

He's not good enough. He'll probably be cheap enough though.

Ryan Babel is still only 26! Kicking around in the Turkish league. Career gone from strength to strength... Reckon he was on about Marcus Babel. WwwwwhhhhhhhoooooooooooppppppppssssSSSSSS ! Soz.

Cheeky skank!

Ryan Babel is still only 26! Kicking around in the Turkish league. Career gone from strength to strength...

Don't think we'd get his registration through before the WBA game tbh....

Yeah, you'll come around maybe, maybe...

Thanks for this HF. I do like looking at these tables and do appreciate the work gone into them. Disagree about some of your other posts but no one's perfect

I reckon Haidara could be a better player than Santon in a couple of years. Dummett, i'm not sure about.

It's a good sentiment, but who?

I doubt him a lot as well, always have. I don't think anyone is saying he's Wenger. But at the same time, I do think we've talked ourselves into this over-exaggerated view of how terrible he is, and because of that people are extremely wary of admitting anything he does right. Why bring up Wenger as a comparison? You're loading the arguement, deliberately. No one's calling him a Barry Fry or Mike Basset either. The observation is he's not particularly tactically astute and he can have problems motivating the players. With numerous examples to illustrate. He also blots his copy book by dedicating a victory to 'Mike'. He's not awful, he's not even bad. He's certainly not great and he isn't even good. He's run of the mill. For some people that's enough and for some that isn't. There you go.

So he should be aware of it, seeing as it happens time and time again. You're right, it does. If it's as simple as Pardew saying something different at half time then it should be easy to remedy. If it's the players losing their bottle or drifting off the gameplan then it's a lot more difficult.

I don't think Pardew will want to change things much so i think we'll see the same front 6 in a 4-4-2 formation. His only real decision is who to play at CB. Think i'd go for MYM and Willo but i can see Pardew wanting Colo in there.

I thought we'd win and we did. We've had great difficulty playing more than 45 mins of cohesive football in a game for a while. Pardew's clearly aware of it and acknowledged his half time team talk didn't help. Hopefully, he'll do his bit against WBA and then i hope the players do their bit.

Didn't think that quote was THAT bad tbh. He almost sounds optimistic!! I think we'll win. Whether we manage to open them up early (might be unlikely) or as the game stretches later on, i think we'll win. We ought to, anyway.

Ouch!

Do you think?

You'd never know tbf...

Santon's biggest weakness is that too many crosses come in from his side.

This. Pointless discussion Thought we were discussing what Ron wants tbh

Or we could just keep Santon in his best position and let Haidara earn his chance. And play thin air at right back. Good choice. I'd play Anita there. Problem? Tiote in the middle against Norwich?? Where the hell else would he play like? Eeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssssyyyyyy son!!! Big Ron doesn't like the idea of playing Tiote against teams where we need to control the play or open them up. He'd rather have Anita in there i think for that. Against Norwich (i would hope) that CM would be a more influential part of the game then RB so i'm surprised he'd advocate moving Anita out there. Given we have FBs (all be it not on there natural side) and also the option of MYM i would have thought Ron would have preferred that option. Somthing like this... .........................Krul....................... MYM.........Willo...........Colo......Santon ...............Sissoko......Anita............... HBA................Cabay................Remy ...................Gouf/Cisse.................... ....is all i'm saying!

Or we could just keep Santon in his best position and let Haidara earn his chance. And play thin air at right back. Good choice. I'd play Anita there. Problem? Tiote in the middle against Norwich??