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I think people should get hold of a list of our fixtures this season and calculate the number of games where they think we have played well. I counted 6 where win, lose or draw i thought we played very well. But there were a lot of games i thought we were really poor in even if we won that game.

I have a feeling we will see Shola start ahead of Cisse in this. Purely for the fact we had no-one to win headers today and with Pardew's style of play it requires a big man upfront.

Villa away back in august was one of the best games i've seen from us in terms of possession and short passing.

dunno what happened to him but the most basic of passes he was putting straight out of play.

All this talk is meaningless. If i'm not mistaken he is the only player to play every single game this season for us?? Which is amazing considering how crap he is. Ryan Taylor should be given a chance, because if someone was laying back the passes for him to cross in like simpson had today, then you can bet they would be a hell of a lot better.

We really struggle against counter attacking teams with pace. So i fully expect us to play a high line and hoofball like against west brom.

Yeah we would be raving about the performance because it would have been one of obertans best.

like every game basically, he is crap.

He played like he did when he just returned from the broken leg. Rusty, dodgy decison making,lack of pace etc. Probably due to his lack of game time. Yet he still almost won us the game. Play him advanced enough and we will reap the rewards

You sit back like that and coast it's inevitable that the other team could get a fluky goal. Then it's 2-1 and all to play for and it's impossible to just suddenly flick a switch and hit top gear. Fucking shit. They were there for the taking and we just couldn't be arsed. Haven't played well since the man united game.

getting outplayed by fucking wolves

Iv'e defended Pardew alot but today i am seeing alot of the things that people have been criticising him for. Yes we're winning (most important thing at the end of the day) and very comfortably so lets get the ball down and play a bit rather than giving it to Williamson to punt down field.

Has great work rate and good movement. Defiantly a more off the shoulder player compared to Ba. Partnership is very promising.

God we are boring sometimes. Despite occasionally scoring great goals. The annoying thing today is that every time we go forward we look like scoring so we should be all over them but we're just letting them have the ball now because we know they're shit.

I wonder what would happen if someone spray painted "sports direct arena"? They would probs just leave it up and say that is the permanent sign.

wow

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I simply can't stand the Harry loving at the moment. It was bad before but it's kicked up another gear now and is utterly unbearable. Edit. Oh and on that Pardew quote. Redknapp is proving again what a bellend he is. Pardew was asked directly about being named as a potential successor to Capello and he said he didn't consider himself to be in the running.

Your following the wrong team I feel your pain though. Not sure ill ever witness our team win something in my life time.

HTT, your saying if we played better more attacking football we would be even higher but I have to disagree. The more open we are could expose us defensively. Which we haven't really been this season hence wins we have with narrow margins. The times we have been exposed, West Brom/Fulham/spurs we have been torn apart at the back because we lack pace. I am a huge critic of Pardew and would love him to play Ben Arfa more etc. But I believe we have played a certain way as some of our players are not top 6 quality and therefore have got the best we can out of them. I think we need to get as high as possible this season and then try and upgrade on the crap in the squad and kick on and play better football next season. It remains to be seen whether Pardew can produce a team that plays good football but it would be extremely harsh to make a judgement on him in his first full season with his team. I think he has just stuck with what has got us placed so high this season and doesn't want to mess with it. Next season will be the time to judge as if we try to replicate this season with the same style we will go backwards in my opinion.

Let's keep the Harry party rolling

Need Pardew to do another phone-in so he can give us some information on this because it's becoming a real nagging moan from alot of people every game. I just don't understand it.

Pardew, the man who gave out token substitutions to people like Alan Smith just to keep him happy won't even give this guy a few minutes.

I know people are getting sick of this whole debate but I really think it's something personal between him and Pardew. Clash of personalities or something? Reminds me alot of Souness/Robert or even Pardew/Tevez.