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Don't agree at all, like. Look around at sides like West Brom and even Swansea. Even with our suspensions and injuries our first 11 on match days is no inferior to theirs. It's Pardew's obstinacy and lack of tactical nous that's cost us. f***ing 442 every f***ing game with no real attacking threat. The difference between us and sides like West Brom is that their manager knows how to get the very best out the players at his disposal. Our joker relies on individual brilliance to pull us out of the s***. We've not looked like a 'team' this year at all. No game plan whatsoever. I don't think its even tactics. I think there is a systematic failure to get the team playing football as a cohesive unit. Getting the team playing 'football' would be a start, tbh. I do agree, nonetheless.

Don't agree at all, like. Look around at sides like West Brom and even Swansea. Even with our suspensions and injuries our first 11 on match days is no inferior to theirs. It's Pardew's obstinacy and lack of tactical nous that's cost us. Fucking 442 every fucking game with no real attacking threat. The difference between us and sides like West Brom is that their manager knows how to get the very best out the players at his disposal. Our joker relies on individual brilliance to pull us out of the shit. We've not looked like a 'team' this year at all. No game plan whatsoever.

No that would be Pardew. http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQiDlIIibPjQoigjBc8HNRG99SISRfMqkFsLM-xm4iDBgnWZgE0IA This, undoubtedly, is the picture that best sums up this club tbh. By some fucking distance.

Fucking hell.

It'll be the same old shite trotted out by Pardew. He'll not address the real problem though - we've been waiting for him to do something for weeks. Such a shame the way we're going, like. Thought we'd be consolidating our status as a top side this year. Could you imagine if, by some miracle, we did manage to get into the Champs League last year.

Was going to buy Football Manager to play on this evening. Lost all enthusiasm for it having watched this. Dire.

Nowhere near a Premiership player yet.

Aye. But we'll get the same old platitudes from Pardew - 'tiredness', 'Europa League hurting us', 'injuries', suspensions', etc. He's losing the fucking plot this year.

So frustrated and annoyed at the mo. Bereft of ideas.

Exactly. Fucking bonkers. Pards is losing his shit imo.

Aye.

Latte and a jammie dodger.

He's poor, tbh. Nowhere near good enough at the moment.

It's also a mentality thing, I feel. We've seemed to excel in previous seasons/situations when the media etc have written us off. This year there's an expectation that we're going to do well. Whether that's Pardew's fault for not installing in the players that 'siege mentality' I'm not sure, but he needs to do much more to fire up the squad before a game. The way we've started more or less all games so far this season is nothing short of farcical.

It's up to Pardew to change that, though. Whether it's dropping players or man-motivating them (something that we know he can do, in fairness) the buck stops with him. His 'tactics' have been nothing short of fucking criminal these past few weeks with little sign that he's willing to mix things up. I can see why players would become demotivated under the current system.

HBA is a flair player that thrives on confidence. Not surprising he's been shite given that he's effectively having to do it on his own.

Starting to look bereft of ideas. No way could someone even remotely competent fail to notice the lack of creativity in attack.

Given that Nolan played under Pardew, he should at least have identified a way to shut him out. We're fucking shocking given the talent at our disposal. Play some fucking possession football.

Really struggling to understand why we're seeing the same shite starts week in week out. Baffling that nothing has been done to correct this.

Can't see us winning this one. Fat Sam always seems to do well up here and Wham are good at what they do. 0-2 with yet another frustratingly static performance.

Frustrating the fuck out me at the moment. We've been utterly garbage so far this season and there's absolutely no sign that he's willing to change things. No signs of improvement whatsoever in the attacking third.

Aye. Given that many here expected a bumming I think it's acceptable. We've gotten absolutely rotten luck lately with shite refs and injuries. Fingers firmly crossed that Cabaye, Perch and Ba are ok though. We're fucked otherwise.

Give over.

Aye. Words will simply not suffice in a situation like this.