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Get the fuck in.

We've gone too negative, need to take control again.

I'd fancy Santon against Bellamy, he's got the pace.

Acted like a complete wanker so far.

Good half, took control after 15 minutes.

Love Perchy.

Benny.

José's too thick to handle a player like HBA, it would mean he'd have to think which is usually where it goes wrong for him. I'm pretty confident our French wizard will have the better of him on Sunday, he's certainly got the skill, which is what José's struggled with in the past.

Divermole.

Some of the runs he made today

Felt sorry for him that he didn't net one, he deserved it after the shift he put in.

Brilliantly played today, fantastic stuff, really saw our potential.

He's very under-rated technically, has some lovely, skillful inter-play in his locker.

Incredibly gifted footballer and showed some great team play today (as well as some magnificent individual stuff).

Cracking player but thick as owt.

Positive Alan.

Love the Shola shimmy.

Played Fergie.

Cisse is an under-rated footballer like, plays some lovely touches.

Don't agree that players are better now than they used to be. Fitter and faster, yes, but more ability and intelligence? Not in my book, certainly not over the last 5 years anyway. The game's been going through a defensive slump in my opinion as it's tilted itself towards attacking. Just comparing the top defenders in the world right now, against 10 years ago and there's no competition for me.

His vision and passing is unreal, with his goalscoring as well he is like 2 world class players rolled into one. Take away the bulk of his goals and he is still world class with the number of killer assists he gets To be fair, he gets a lot of assists because his teammates have been brought up with an ideal which means they move intelligently and are always in space, so it's not all necessarily down to his vision and ability. Considering the majority of the attacking play runs through him in the final third, it's not really a surprise he has so much productivity in that area.

Tiote's suffered from being told to do more than he's capable of doing. He's not being used a sitting midfielder anymore, he's being played more dynamically than that, whereas Cabaye's the more static of the 2 now. They're a relatively good partnership now but if you tell Cheik to hold position and sit and let Yohan do the roaming, box-to-box stuff they'd be far better.

His performance reminded me of when Tiote was played as a true holding midfielder last year. Useful player.

He's not the fittest player anyway, he really needs to build up some 90 minute energy over the coming games. Think too much has been changed to accommodate him mind, a standard 4-4-2 suits him and our players much more and I hope Pards tries it, there's hope that he was swung round with HBA being a winger.

Lovely finish.