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Cardiff did spend quite a bit in the summer to be fair.

He'd be electric at Liverpool. I'd fucking hate to see him at any other premier league club as you know he'd be awesome and we'd be all

He's talking about the first game of the season against Man City. Quite frankly wasn't true. Mbiwa was fine then Taylor stupidly got sent off and Mapou switched to CB and Dummett came on to play left back.

Feels like the players will get fined if they go for a third after scoring two. Can't wait for the day we do score three again, although I can see it being something lame like that Wigan game where we limped along against 10 men for most of the game, rather than win in style.

Gouffran missed some absolute sitters at the start of the season. One against West Ham I think and the other against Fulham.

Think our last 6 away form reads something like LWLWLW Guess we're due a loss then?

Dropping Remy would be ludicrous in my opinion. Sure he missed a few chances but he's still comfortably our best striker and scares opponents with his movement, particularly away from home. Shola is far more useful in home games.

Depends who you believe but the other theory is he didn't pick those players but was given them by Baldini.

Jaime Redknapp sounded bitter as fuck on SSN when talking about Spurs because his Dad lost his job there.

I feel he must have been told not to bomb on so far ever since the Everton game. Think both full backs have been noticeably more solid defensively ever since.

Saw some quotes from Pardew saying how it won't be cheap if teams want to take Cisse. Kinda get the feeling he's starting the motion of phasing him out. I know he's saying he doesn't want to sell him but I think that's just to make sure it doesn't seem like we want to give him away. Any decent offer and I think they will accept.

Agree about Haidara. Would be a bit nervous to put him in from the start in the premier league still. Maybe give him a start in the upcoming FA cup game. I am quite intrigued to see how we do with a left footed left back again. See if it gives us a better balance? I mean it's been a long time since we had a regular left footed left back with Ryan Taylor playing there post-Enrique and then obviously Santon since.

Liverpool really made me stand up and take notice today. They absolutely battered Spurs from start to finish. At the same time, Spurs were horrific. Having to play a young midfielder adapting to a new league at CB against Suarez was always going to be a nightmare. But everything about them was poor. Absolutely nothing in the whole game for the home fans to get excited about.

I noticed again against Southampton but when Ben Arfa came on and got the ball, everyone runs away from him. That could be because they know he likes taking on the defender, or they know he isn't likely to pass. But what's important is they don't do it with Gouffran. When he gets it the rest of the team move for him as they know he isn't as comfortable taking on defenders. Simple small thing but actually makes a lot of difference to the way we attack.

Think he made a mistake for the goal but also don't think he should take all the blame. No idea why about four of our players were just standing completely offside. Didn't leave him with a whole lot of options and he seemed to panic and just try to chip a ball over the top.

Don't start the body language bollocks on here again He missed a good chance, it happens, move on.

People's standards seem to be incredibly strict when it comes to a player like Ben Arfa. They ignore the good stuff he does but then slaughter him if he makes a bad decision or takes a bad corner. If it was a lesser player I don't think anyone would bat an eyelid at his "mistakes" today. They were hardly that bad, and having so little time to impress of course one mistake is magnified.

Genuinely mystified what he thinks offside is. He's basically permanently standing off.

Think we did miss Cabaye. Certainly in that second half. I didn't get why half our team were standing offside when Santon was looking for a pass and gave the ball away leading to the goal.

Main thing I take issue with is Cisse often being the first person to come on. He hasn't done anything to deserve that, and even if you dislike Ben Arfa, you cannot deny he has brought more to the team than Cisse recently coming from the bench. Yet Pardew prefers Cisse before him every time.

You could argue he's trying to do too much to impress as he is only getting short amounts of time to do what he can do. However he was being a bit too greedy before he was dropped too.

I don't know why he keeps coming on ahead of others. He has contributed sweet fuck all for ages now.

Yeah feels like 2 points dropped really. Poor mistake for their goal and poor miss from Remy. Thought Pardew got the tactics and subs wrong second half also.

Southampton are one of those annoying, quite boring, teams to play against. So glad we scored because it was becoming painful watching them pass it around the back four. Think Sissoko may have a knock because he seemed to be struggling towards the end of the half and I think that's why Remy was switched to the wing and he went to play off Shola.

I think describing us as inconsistent is more than a fair comment. Yes we have been on a good run and are currently the form team but I don't think any of our fans can be confident which version of us will turn up. The one that beat Man United and Chelsea or the one that lost to Hull and Sunderland.