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Palace are on Korean TV every bastard week due to Lee not playing for them. It's fucking killing me waiting for their collapse like. Today is classic streaky lucky Pardew with Silva out then they kick fucking Aguero off the pitch

Could be a training thing as someone else said, maybe he impresses there when there's no pressure

i still don't think there's any excuse for it, you might argue he helped us get one of our two points with that one cross against southampton but i'd be inclined to believe that if perez or de jong had been playing we might have got more out of it when we were on top instead of carrying that piece of fucking dead wood as per

Colback's thing seems to me to be he rarely makes any catastrophic fuckups and doesn't make any headlines either positive or negative, so I can only assume that people who don't watch us that often see he's in the team every week and conclude he's a solid performer, otherwise he wouldn't be in the team etc.

Don't imagine Ashley will be loaning anyone to Rangers again in a hurry

I think we'll batter Watford fwiw

What I'd like to see is more players in the box when we have the ball in the final third. We did that in abundance against Southampton, but haven't seen it since. That was probably due to mitigating circumstances, so maybe the aim for this match is keeping 11 on the pitch for as long as possible. Small victories anarl. We need to retain the ball in forward areas in order to allow people to get up and join the attacks. Perez is our best bet of doing that imo, play him as a false 9 or something with Sissoko, Thauvin and Wijnaldum all looking to get beyond him. The ball will not stick with Cisse and we can not afford that away from home.

she looks worth bailing on manyoo for tbf

then why has he been out of the team for so long without injury? something is obviously up and manyoo, as stupid as they are with money these, must think that upping his wage will get his head right and them potentially more money from Real down the line if they bid, if they don't bid manyoo get to keep him and not lose him for fuck all

so he'll get his head straight and they can put him back in the team?

nah, it's definitely not . Another defeat won't make things any easier. Think he needs at least a point here. This. Need a point here then beating Watford is imperative as it'd still only be a point per game with two losses very likely to follow. 5-6 points from 8 games is fucking shit even though we knew the start would be tricky, it puts the pressure on for the 'winnable' games that Pardew always failed in.

Aye, Shearer was incredibly unlucky with the injuries like. His record without them would have been even more phenomenal. Such a shame. No Kevin Phillips though.

yes all of them, all 4 of them

It does actually seem like every thread just descends into this these days I do actually agree with him here and on some other stuff but I don't understand why he has to respond to every single post he disagrees with Pretty impressive to have nearly worn the entire forum down to a state of total despair while he ploughs on like it's nothing

Fucking forum wide virus.

What fucking examples? Watch the games. When we have the ball and are moving it around he's at the centre of it all, that's all there is to it man. The fact that of the games we've played in 3 of them we've been totally on the back foot has not helped him or us develop our style but it is there.

Again, you've either not watched what he's doing enough or you don't understand it.

then you are fucking blind, or have some ludicrously narrow definition of "makes us tick" that you've got from your Football Hipster Tactics 101 course

we'll lose

It was me that started the whole "making things tick" bollocks. What I meant was that McClaren has identified it as a role in his team, regardless of the individual. Anita is the man who he picked for that position. Personally I think Anita's role in the team is vital in how McClaren wants to play. Colback on the other hand is in an expendable position. Both Sissoko and Wijnaldum could both play there and offer more to our team. Where as neither could play in Anita's deeper role, nor would be suitable to it IMO. I'll pretend Tiote doesn't exist because he offers nothing in this set up. He certainly couldnt do Anita's job and would offer even less in terms of creativity in Colbacks position. At least we have options for a change. i see "making things tick" for us as being the link between keeper/defence and midfield/attack...his role is to constantly find space, look for the ball, keep the ball, move it on to the next player, move into space to give options for a pass to the player he's passed to or just where there is natural space...his role is the cog that enables the rest of it to work, it's pretty fucking obvious what it means tbh if you watched our games in the last two seasons under pardew/carver then under mclaren there's a definite role there and a definite change in style that we've adopted with anita central to this my apologies to TCD for not being able to come out with some shite like gegenpress or shuttler but if you watch the games it's fucking obvious that anita does make us tick when we have possession of the ball now there's clearly an argument that this is being applied too deep and we'd be better off with the way cabaye "made us tick" in his last few months from a more advanced position but that's something else entirely

Last game of the season against West Ham? He was lauded for how he played in that game. Off the top of my head this season, first game of the season he was the one who put Sissoko through to cut the ball back for Wijnaldums early miss against Southampton when he hit a defender. Its a bit harsh to judge when in 2 of the other 3 we've been down to 10 men early. The ambition going forwards for the side is obviously going to be restricted to a certain degree then. TCD doesn't watch us play man, he can't if he doesn't think Anita makes us tick.

Anita is not crap at the defensive part like. *Queue loads of stats attempting to prove he is*

did you read the article? implies he's looking to bring in perez & or de jong to start scoring goals you're probably right mind, cisse in you'd think