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Why exactly? He's a similar player to Diarra and Makelele, who played well in the position.

Taylor's a good defender and Perch is the best only DM we have with Tiote away. f*** off, where do you think Anita played for Ajax? Hint: it's not the dynamic all action midfielder Pardew has tried to turn him into Anita's not a DM. Actually, he's our most experienced one.

While the team could be better, I'm still excited with the new players starting. There's enough there to get a result here.

The Perch decision is really shit. They're woeful man, just have a go at them.

Simply not picked because of his lack of height.

Anita dropped for playing well And Taylor thrown in again too. Shame about Marveaux.

Fucking Perch man

This is a very sensible post. However, when Agbonlahor starts running at Taylor from the half way line, and he backs off all the way back onto the goal line, allowing for Agbonlahor to square it to Benteke for a tap in, we'll all be raging. can't remember taylor really being done for pace, why should it happen now. if thats the case there's more chance it happening to colo. He got absolutely 'done' by Petrov about 5 years ago.

Villa have no midfield presence, no reason Anita can't do a holding job against them at all. He'd be better suited in all honesty, he's got recovery pace as they will break, especially if Agbonlahor starts.

I think they'll all do well, we very rarely pick up flops these days. I've made my opinion known about Gouffran and I think he's actually the biggest positional improvement we've got, as he's on a different planet to Shola as back up in the middle and is streets ahead of Obertan and Jonas on the wing in a 4-3-3 too. Plus he's simply a vital asset because he knows where the goal is, he's an automatic starter in my opinion, we've only got 1 proven goalscorer in the team apart from him.

Sissoko's obviously a very good player but (based on his time in France) this boy's simply a step ahead, I hope he showcases that over the next few months.

Come the end of the season, we'll be calling this lad the buy of the window. Fantastic footballer who will be phenomenal if he reaches his potential. No disrespect to our other imports, we've bought 4 other players in that all have quality but this one has that extra edge. We'd be mad to not play him tomorrow.

But what's that? Should have timed that run better Papiss man! At least a couple of yards offside! Ruled out. So true That scenario genuinely crossed my mind as I typed that as well.

We have possession in midfield with Cabaye on the ball, Gouffran dashes in from the left, YoCabs plays a defence splitting pass, Gouffran is one on one but slides it along to Cisse who strokes it in.

Class. Fantastic to see something like that these days.

Playing Taylor would be daft, he's the one that needs easing in, we always throw him in the deep end. He's not played a minute's competitive football for months.

I hope he starts but I think Taylor will instead. They were training with Santon, Colo, Taylor and Debuchy on the same team today.

I think MYM and Gouffran will start, the other 2 will be on the bench.

Ordering Willo about in the footage from Pards' press conference

Their efforts to squirm this week have been amazing. Such a bitter set of supporters on there, literally worked every negative angle possible and not mentioned that it might possibly go well for us.

This. No mention of it from what I've read.

This feels ages away still. The weekend is going to drag.

Yeah. He has a better goals to games ratio than Fletcher over the last couple of seasons too, I think.

http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=757492 Bloody hell

The passion argument is bull because pundits haven't a clue about our new players' personalities. MYM and Sissoko are great professionals and the former is a real winner in terms of mentality.