oldtype

Had a lot of ability but also no mental fortitude whatsoever. Was pretty good in his first two seasons. Went completely anonymous and was probably contemplating his next move the moment things started going to shit.

Did some pretty decent stuff and some absolutely cringeworthy stuff. To be fair, even "mixed bag" is a significant improvement for this guy.

I agree that it's not tactical. These are mostly the same tactics as last year. For some reason people look unfit and uncoordinated. It feels like pre-season. It's inexplicable and frustrating.

Fyp. DAT ASSist

My thoughts exactly. Harsh given that Shola had an assist. Cisse was completely invisible before having the goal ricochet in off his arse. I'm not saying that Ameobi is a better player or anything but if you asked me who contributed more to today's game I think it's pretty obvious.

Fantastic player but it's visible even on the television when he's decided "ah, not our day... fuck it." Past a certain point in the game you just knew he was going to lose the ball every time.

We know he's not completely stupid, but this is indeed starting to get irritating.

Genuinely terrible. Really don't know what's wrong with us but oh well, three points this week.

Was contemplating starting a Pardew Out thread for about thirty seconds. Then OMG WTF happened.

That looks familiar

Santon

rushing home for this. with my luck we'll probably be two down before I get through the front door

Surely one of those energetic forward runs will actually come to something before the end of the season.

Love having two games of football a week. Love slightly less the fact that one of them is always on at 3~4am

A different ref wouldn't have given a red, but Tiote's got no business keeping his foot in taking a gigantic lunge after the whistle has gone. He knows he has a reputation, he needs to be more careful. It's as simple as that.

I'd like to take the positives from this. I've been thinking all season that the players seemed strangely lethargic, but we seemed to have that spring in our step back for this match. I think everyone's been suffering from a bit of a motivational crisis after coming down from the highs of last season, but this match showed that they're still capable of getting it together when they need to. Maybe it was just an isolated incident due to it being the derby, but hopefully this is something we'll be able to take into the next game. They were ridiculously poor and without the sending off I was feeling like we could score 3~4 goals. Sending off was a bit harsh but there was no reason whatsoever for Tiote to be lunging at the ball like that after the whistle had gone already. His aggressive tendencies are getting a bit irritating now and he needs to learn how to control himself.

We were linked to Son in the summer but hamburg wanted 15m or something.

Well, at least they know how to do PR.

Man United player falls over, Webb doesn't blow whistle. What is this sorcery.

Our team arrived 20 minutes late and they had already scored two by the time we got here. Ugh.

Their 20 minutes of dominance gifts them two easy goals, our 20 minutes of dominance results in fuck all.

Thanks Welbeck

I'm hearing that rabid booing whenever one of theirs has the ball that I heard when I was at SJP for Man City in the Spring.

If this fullback combo takes their chance and does well today we could be seeing it for the rest of the season. Very exciting. On the other hand we could lose 5-0 and Ferguson may not play for the first team ever again

Really pumped for this game. We generally raise ourselves against the bigger sides.