Gallowgate Toon

The hoofball is part of the fast, front-foot football thing, putting defenders under constant physical pressure and being relentless with it, hoping for breaks. It's not really difficult to ask your keeper to go with a shorter option more often than not, Pards hasn't changed that, it's clearly tactical. While I still think he was too negative tonight, he has some justification, a draw would have been a very good result. Contrary to what people say however, we do have a first team that are very capable of playing good football and going toe-to-toe with big teams, considering 8 of tonight's 11 starters had long term roles in previous teams that played much better football than we currently do. We played in the Champions League with Aaron Hughes (sometimes Andy Griffin) and Andy O'Brien and still produced some bloody good stuff. There's no excuse for us right now, you can carry one or two poor footballers in defence, when your other 8 have genuine and proven footballing talent.

We were horribly negative but still deserved a point, they didn't really threaten all that much.

Van Persie, big time wanker.

Play some football dickheads. Carbon copy of Manchester United away in terms of mentality.

Stop the hoof dickheads.

Perch is class.

Suicidal like, Santon hadn't been doing THAT bad.

We've done alright but could be doing a bit more to keep possession. Cabaye is very impatient with his passing at the minute, always looks for a difficult ball straight away.

The hoof to Ba has had its usual success.

I no hit the crossbah

Too impatient, need to work them about a bit.

I love you.

Don't mind Obertan being available for this one, his pace will pin them back a bit imo, which will be useful as we'll be seeing less of the ball. Pretty nippy starting 11 we've got there, could do something here.

Getting raped...

Get the fuck in.

I hate the phrases and words they come out with. Must have seen 'rattled' posted about 1000 times on there in 3 days, makes me cringe along with the overuse of 'classy' and the infamous 'green with envy'. Horrible little mongs. They're not obsessed though, they've only had about 200 threads about us since Sunday.

His best position in my opinion, is a central playmaker but the team needs to be completely geared towards him to get the best out of that system and I don't think with the personnel we have, it's what's best for the team. Luckily for us, he's still a very good wide midfielder on either side. I prefer him on the right to be honest, it gives him more options with that glorious left foot. Stick Santon behind him and that's a natural partnership in my opinion, Jonas and Ferguson on the left and that would go a long way to solving our attacking problems. It's certainly what's best for our strikers, they need some more varied service.

Brilliant. What does the subtitle mean? "I've never been like the others"? I will never be like the others.

Apparently there was 11 seconds between Sessegnon's elbow and Tiote hitting the deck...

Should really be winning games like these with our personnel and home advantage but I was chuffed to bits at the time, the idea of losing to the scruffy shits is unbearable and I was proud of the way we fought. We really need to believe in ourselves a lot more, there's a hell of a lot going for the club right now and that should translate onto the pitch, we saw a bit of that in the second half today and it made a big difference. Hopefully Pards takes a lot of faith out of today's second 45, if we're truly serious about sustaining our Euro challenge to the end, we need to be more positive from the off.

His use of Cabaye (seemingly at least), truly epitomises what I don't like about him, he should be contributing so much more.

Boom. Looked like he'd not played in a while today, I wonder why?

As soon as we started to look like contenders to do something, he shat himself and the performances we put in like Blackburn at home and Villa went away for more 'efficient' tactics. But it was simply never sustainable with the way we were playing, it was very short-termist.

Lacks faith in his team.

Our way of playing was never going to be sustainable relative to our points tally. Hopefully something good will come from this.