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Why the fuck this cunt's in the team is beyond me. Fuck off.

The tone of mediocrity set by the board has fully seeped on to the pitch. Club just feels dead. They're all cunts.

He was better vs. Chelsea. Needs to adapt to the pace.

Papiss showed a couple of years ago if your movement's good enough pace isn't a necessity. LDJ doesn't seem quick over distance but I think he looks fine in bursts, see that Ameobi chance he set up vs. Chelsea. He seems to have a sharp brain, that's going to really help him - and us - if he keeps things simple. It's nice to hear him sound positive about us. I wish Remy had the same attitude but he's playing it smart, to be fair to him.

Have a feeling we might see de Jong and Cisse up front. I think AP will fancy going 4-4-2 for this. Krul MYM Willo Taylor Santon HBA Anita Sissoko Gouffran Cisse LDJ Or something like that.

The lad's a good player. He's not poor technically, just erratic. He does some excellent stuff. He also always tries to be a part of the game, does a lot of good work off the ball and moves as well as anyone in the side. He gets himself into good positions very often only to be ignored. Tremendous asset on the break too. He's got 5 assists and has apparently created more chances than anyone else in our squad.

Poor from Vidic.

4-0 with lesser players...FFS Again, that counts for little. Let's talk proper achievements. Why not talk about team shape, movement and tactical acumen? Neither you nor Foulwashola seem to want to get into the detail. I'm really happy to go into detail, actually. Do you have consistent Poyet analysis to bring up to compare with what we've seen from Pardew in his time here?

4-0 with lesser players...FFS Again, that counts for little. Let's talk proper achievements. How does that count for little? Because certain managers can read others very well. Doesn't mean they're better overall,man. When you see what Pul is has done at Palace, he's done a better job than Poyet.

4-0 with lesser players...FFS Again, that counts for little. Let's talk proper achievements.

How has Poyet shown he's any better than Pardew? Pardew's an average manager but actually managed to get a team promoted out of the Championship (Poyet also spent a fair bit, IIRC) and Poyet's not even kept the mackems up yet. He might have AP's number but that doesn't count for that much. This isn't me liking Pardew either, my real opinion of him is that he's pretty average and has obvious limitations.

Sammy's developed quite well. He has something about him that I didn't think existed.

Think de Jong will be useful when he's up to speed in terms of fitness, I like his movement.

He's a defender, man. It should be instinct to track a man better than that.

Santon's tracking

Don't really think this Arsenal side really suit Ozil. There's not much quick, intelligent movement going on between the forwards.

Hazard's intelligence and willingness to use his vision is what sets him apart from HBA. Ben Arfa could be nearly as good (IMO) if he had a better mentality/more of a brain. Hazard is generally great at knowing when to run, pass etc. Quite an unselfish player considering how much talent he has.

I'd like to see him in a 4-3-3. Just let him do his box to box thing, he'd benefit from having more forward options when he's on a run, he gets into cracking positions because of his own good work only for there to be a lack of players, which seems to make him uncomfortable.

there may be some truth to that but i'm not buying it all, the hoofball to shola was obviously very planned, considered and deliberate - it was f*** all to do with composure imho and it's what cost us the game, not big vurn mistiming a tackle I think that was definitely part of the tactics but I think there's a case to be made that it became as integral as it did because he'd failed to instill the right mentality in the players.

Looking at his comments post-match, it sounds like he lost control of the squad rather than told them to hoof all game. It wouldn't come as a shock if what Wullie said was right, he got them too fired up, encouraged them to make it a frenzied game and, as a result, they lost all composure. It also wouldn't shock me if the squad were disorientated because our manager was sulking after the window debacle, I didn't think we'd win after hearing he was subdued in the press conference. Whether it was tactics or his managing of temperaments, he failed big time and showed why he's an average manager.

Cazorla's been shit.

Not sure if WOAT but Nigel Walker has died this morning aged 54.

sound familiar? we've been f***ing s*** at home for ages man, we look OK against the better teams but anyone coming to keep it tight and do us on the break it's nothing but an utter struggle and we've been very lucky to win some of the ones we did Yeah, it does sound familiar. I'm not defending Pardew, man, I just don't think Poyet's all he's being cracked up to be.

They played well yesterday but they've not exactly been that good under Poyet (performances wise). They try to play the right way but have still looked pretty terrible in the couple of other instances I've seen them. They look much better away from home, IMO.