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Ive toyed with the idea but cant bring myself to use him. Then who would be a cheap good mid other than Sigurdsson?

How do you guys feel about Sidwell for 5.5? Stoke has a lot of easy games to start and he should be getting goals IMO.

Why wouldn't they pay £37m for Mata? My thought exactly.

What nice move. I have huge respect for all parties involved (except us maybe).

I think the biggest problem with that sub is that we dont' have any better striker than Papiss to put on.

He is saying that we can use that to attack them on the wings. And that we should try to keep possession and attack them. That seems very positive and correct to me. Shame he isn't playing our only winger capable of doing that then. Sissoko, gouffran and santon can attack as well!? Anita and cabaye can attack and keep possession!? You're wrong. ok, sorry about that then.

He wants to have a positive outlook on the game, he doesn't want us to sit back and he wants us to pressure their flanks which he believes is a weakness because their wingers don't like defending . What a cunt eh? Yes I'm sure we'll press high and force City to defend. Can't wait to see if the team on the pitch actually sets up to do what Pardew claims they will. Why not? we did against Man utd.

He is saying that we can use that to attack them on the wings. And that we should try to keep possession and attack them. That seems very positive and correct to me. Shame he isn't playing our only winger capable of doing that then. Sissoko, gouffran and santon can attack as well!? Anita and cabaye can attack and keep possession!?

Pardew seems spot on tbh. He is not a Mourinho, but he is intelligent and honest.

He is saying that we can use that to attack them on the wings. And that we should try to keep possession and attack them. That seems very positive and correct to me.

Why!? I like him better that way.

the latter.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/25521267 Very interesting for me that Pardew didn't want him to take the penalty. Even if he didn't know Cabaye is our free-kick take, he should have known that he himself wasn't. Stupid that, and I hope Pardew gave him a talking to, and is only saying it was his fault to protect him.

I cant stand Hughes as nothing is ever his or his teams fault but all he did was kick the ball back on the pitch. That really was all he did as shown on Soccer Extra this morning. His sending off was a joke and ridiculous and shows just how precious 4th officials can be. I feel so wrong sticking up for him. There was already a ball on the pitch though, so he was just being a cunt. Not according to Kamara this morning, ah well then, hang the cunt. They came back to it after the break and Kamara apologised as he didn't realise. Didn't he leave the box as well to kick the ball onto the pitch? It's easy to feel sorry for stoke after everything went against them in 5 minutes, but they really have noone else to blame than themselves. They should actually consider them lucky for getting away with only 2 penalties, 5-1 and two red cards. It sounds absurd though.

I agree with this actually. We can't really afford HBA on the wing against the best attacking side in the league. Still he has to play though. Haidara or MYM on leftback is also understandable. Really hard team to decide though and I trust in whatever AP decides.

Was thinking this yesterday. Despite the shit thrown at Pardew, he is quite possibly the third best manager some of us have had in our life times. Sounds a bit of a bonkers thought. Nevertheless, it's a valid one, unless of course you're inclined to give more of the credit to Ashley for investing in a squad he can't fail with. I agree with this. Have done really well under Mr. trying-to-buy-our-own-player and Cashley. Any other decent manager would have walked a long time ago (and rightly so tbh), so there really isn't any other way than to support Pardew and the team. If we ever get another owner, we can discuss him then.

I thought he really Hatem at that last chance.

Don't think anyone will read too much into a victory now, no matter the size. Stoke have absolutely nothing to lose.

Ben Arfa will have so much fun in the second half. Will be like watching him play in a good team.

I think the opposing team has as little an idea as us fans have, of which direction pardew is going to go, which is quite a big advantage. Credit to him for getting the team to play well in very different styles of football. Still nervous as hell for this match though. Really think we can destroy them though, but I also hink it can be 3-0 either way tbh.

one + remy. With noone leaving sounds perfect. Maybe a youngster or two for width, would be nice.

Thought he did very well today. Playing against a very good side, we were the better team and should have won. A draw is irritating, but not a bad result, all things considered.

Ben Arfa, Giroud, Van Persie © and Benteke goals. Assists for Giroud, Ben Arfa and Jenkinson. Clean sheet for De Gea. It should bring me up to at least 3rd in the N-O league. Now I only need Nolan and Ivanovic to bang in a few

When do the substitutions go through and how do I see that they have (other than by calculating my points)?

Looking alright for now. My 'Sturrigde instead of van Persie'-bet payed off, I'm quite pleased with that one. Up to number 2 in this league and I'm only getting started.