Gallowgate Toon

Ba is the only player even looking close to scoring. His goals are keeping us afloat at present and that probably won't change so dropping him won't help at all. I never said drop him, someone just needs to get a hold of him and to tell him that he needs to be more of a team player.

Strikes me as a massive, whingey c***. Really starting to dislike him, I don't get the feeling that his attitude is in line with the rest of the players', he only seems to care about himself. I wouldn't be surprised if he was the most divisive member of the squad, which could be quite useful in challenging the manager's choices if he wasn't so self-absorbed.

Anyone trying to blame a lack of investment for our current form This team, and squad, should be going for top 10 at least and should be giving the majority of opposition problems. Vurnon Anita, a defensive midfielder, provided our biggest attacking threat today and I wouldn't be surprised if it was completely against what he'd been told to do. Pardew does NOT believe in these players and is too scared to take any risks from the off.

Good point on Ba, Beren. He's been pissing me off recently, thinks he has the on-ball ability of Ben Arfa, when in actual fact his play is generally poor. He was unbelievably selfish today and I think he needs to be taken down a peg or two. No wonder he might have an inflated ego mind, it's not as if our coach didn't completely pander to him as soon as he threw a strop.

He (and Lowes too) never, ever has a go at Pardew. It's infuriating listening.

Only Anita and Marveaux can take any form of praise from that. Still can't believe the former was taken off after showing some good signs! I thought we started well, only for their advantage in the middle to take a hold of the game within 10 minutes. We looked more comfortable in the second half (which isn't saying much), again with a good spell at the start of the half, but the positioning was all over the place, probably because we were chasing the game.

Gutierrez has been useless again.

ATTACKING PRESSURE?!??!

Jonas plays terribly, stays on. Anita looks OK, gets subbed.

Sammy man, shouldn't be getting on ahead of Marveaux in this situation.

Ba has been abysmal.

A midfielder breaking forward!

Sammy man

Anita has somehow come here as a defensive midfielder and a stand-in full back, yet he's been played: Behind the strikers; as a central midfielder; a left back; a right back and even a right midfielder. I can only think of one time where we actually played in his position, Liverpool, and that was only after Perch went off injured.

After a decent 10 minutes, that just descended into another farce. So many things wrong again.

Cock piss Pardew.

If we try and go for it now, with this shape, we're going to get fucked.

It's just the same old mistakes, every week man. How can someone simply not get what's going on? We should be keeping hold of the ball today, we've got 2 defensive midfielders on the pitch!

Learn from your mistakes, you egotistical gimp.

Captain shit-tastic.

Literally Tiote and Anita against 4 in the middle there.

Ba again

Ba's such a thick player at times.

Demba's play is awful at times.

That's not the major problem, but I will agree that our players do seem to lack match fitness IMO. We don't have the fitness to play a high intensity game, or press for sustained periods. We look like the most asthmatic team in the league actually, so far tbh. I agree that our fitness looks poor but I was laughing more at the winning headers part, it shows how important it is to him.