Gallowgate Toon

Geremi is only 35?!

s*** team man, all Ashley's fault Pards getting the best out that squad etc A manager worth his salt could get pretty creative with us tactically, like. Perez-Cabella-de Jong could be very fluid.

Going to be interesting when de Jong comes back. He'll slot in at #10 and it'd hopefully be Cabella and Aarons either side of him, with Sissoko and one of Abeid/Colback/Tiote/Anita behind. The striker is the big question; I don't think Perez can really lead the line on his own yet but his style of play would suit the 3 AMs more than Cisse.

I have no idea why but I love Colin Wanker.

Real shame for him. It did look like a nasty tear. I hope Cabella comes in for him.

Then he'll sign for Bayern. I dunno with him, tbh, I reckon he'll go abroad. I'd love to see him in England, fear it'll be with Man U if they finish in a CL spot though.

Cabella-Perez can be our Gotze-Reus!

Some of their finishing has been absolutely woeful too. Good thing Reus is back, he'll get them around 15 if he stays fit for the rest of the season.

Leaving so much power in the hands of one man is just criminal. Clubs losing their soul because some dickhead has grown bored or run out of cash. Totally fucked, man.

Suits us to have played 3 teams who've looked fairly disinterested whilst our kids are still racing round brimming with enthusiasm. Same style but with players that are simply more suited to it. As long as he doesn't fuck around with the current starting formation too much, we'll probably have just enough about us to keep the momentum going over the next month. He's a very lucky man.

Draw. Pardew will continue to sit back and counter, it'll probably be enough to get a result. 2-2 Cisse and Cabella to score.

He's been poor but the whole structure of that team is wrong, and he's no lone striker either. It's like watching Pardew with Cisse, spent so long not being able to understand how to build around him and playing as far away as possible from his strengths.

Just watching Sunday Supplement and the hatchet job on Balotelli is ridiculous Banging on and on about his 'vibes' and 'body language'. Such a ridiculously easy target and little to no questioning of Rogers' tactics. It's almost as if they forgot his whole career previous to last season revolved around playing pretty mundane, slow possession football.

Some of his pressing was good, the rest of his game was meh. Colback, i mean.

I don't catch Dortmund as much as I used to but whenever I see them now Mkhitaryan's finishing appears to be woeful.

He looks more of a box-to-box midfielder, to me. Really chuffed for him, he's obviously worked very hard.

Hard to say what his best position would be in this team, I reckon as a wide playmaker roaming into the middle. Cisse-Perez up top with the latter rotating positions with Cabella could be dreamy. He's probably most suited to #10 but I don't think that'd be the most balanced option for us.

Man, I love him. Such potential. Would love to see him start alongside Cisse.

The only part of the game worth watching from our point of view was the last 20 minutes, so f*** knows why you'd say that. First half was boring as f***. I was bored stiff in the first, it was utter crap.

He was absolutely knackered for the majority of the second half, to be fair to him.

Thought he got away with it, at times, today. We sat off them too much for my liking and a better team would've punished us. I'm all for counter-attacking as we are a team suited to it but there are more ways to play it than constantly sitting off.

Nice cameo. Gutted about the finish, right idea just an inch further to the left and that's in.

Better but still not the best he could've picked.

Dummett will never, ever flourish going forward. I've watched him knock simple passes 10 yards out of touch when under the slightest bit of pressure. He'll move to centre half, over the next couple of years. You can coach Haidara to defend better, Dummett's technical ability can't get the same treatment.