Gallowgate Toon

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.

That's where my head is too. Expected Balo to score all week to the extent where I'm thinking of captaining the crazy horse in this weeks fantasy league. If this was tie was against a 'poor' team then I'd totally expect us to fuck up after recent results. I think it suits us that it's against a 'good' side, we'll be right up for it. We'll put in a decent showing but draw; something like 2-2 as neither team can defend.

Bummer. I'd like to see Gouff start up top with Perez, if that's the case.

I'd start Perez with Cisse, like. Riviere could be a useful second striker but he's more suited to starting away games, IMO. Cabella on the right and Aarons (if fit) on the left. I'd love to see Abeid alongside Sissoko too.

I think he's clearly got more about him than just being a finisher, his cameos have shown he's got some great skill. When he's physically up to speed then he'll be bringing that into matches he starts.

So he has

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: 'Yeah, Remy, wander around the pitch a bit and be total shit for 10 months. Do the occasional bit of running after your man' Fucking hell, man, he's an utter dullard.

It was more than his position, I thought, it was like he had a really specific role (shock horror). He reminded me of Dyer under Bobby: pressing opposition, sticking tight, making interceptions and breaking forward. He was excellent and looks perfectly suited to that type of responsibility. He must have made more tackles yesterday than I've seen him do all season.

I'd still play Aarons ahead of him too. Sammy could be a fantastic supersub though; speed, skill and a bit of power.

I'd play him off Cisse, from now on. Certainly for home games. I like that he works the channels, I think that'd dovetail nicely with Cabella as he seems to drift in from wide areas.

Someone should tell De Boer he's a nothing player. Lad has had some great games for us, he was even decent at the beginning of the season but was dropped as soon as Tiote came back. He looks underconfident and demoralised.

He struggled physically but that's a given, just have to make sure we get support around him so he can use his brain. Same goes for Cabella. Give these lads some options and they'll cause problems. Delighted for him.

Chuffed to bits for Perez, think he's going to turn into a real player. I was surprised at the cunt for his changes, tbh, I thought he'd do his usual sitting back damage limitation routine but he actually went for it. Perez and Cabella look much better when they have some support around them. It was good to see Sissoko in the role everyone's been wanting him in for 18 months too. For far too long we've been needing creative players to come much deeper and have to work a shit load of magic to even get to the final third. With Sissoko as a proper box-to-box, we've got a player who can force the issue in deeper areas and give the ball to our more creative players (in more space) in the final third. Not that this'll change anything, of course. Pards'll revert to being a fanny for the next game and stick players in the wrong position etc.

Sissoko's been monstrous.