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Usual behaviour down here. Kabul is an improvement. Aye they'd certainly concede less goals with him in the centre of defence.

Maddison seems to be finding the net with some regularity lately.

Nurpur in the 6.30 at Dundalk @ 7/2 and Den Maschine in the 6.45 at Wolverhampton @ 9/2 as an e/w double. *no idea what I'm doing meme*

I think Tav might get a start on the back of his performance at Old Trafford. Harper Tavernier Perch S.Taylor Santon HBA Anita Tiote Gutierrez Ba Cisse

Tavernier will make it here, I've got absolutely no doubt about that. He has all the tools to be successful, seems like a sensible lad, and Pardew obviously rates him.

And what happened to Xisco being in the squad? What a shitehawk.

1.35 Stratford - Hawkhill @ 7/1

Backed Lost Glory @ 6/1 in the 1.05, class odds for AP McCoy. Was just £2 but still gerrin.

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Load of bollocks. He played his role well, as usual. He set up that chance that Gosling fluffed in the first half and won a vast percentage of his headers. His touch, control and passing were spot on too. The error was not replacing Gosling or Vuckic with Cisse earlier.

2-1 win imo, with a nervy last 20 minutes after a goal from Pogrebnyak to reply to a Cisse pair.

He's a great little player and he needs to start getting more regular pitch time for us now.

Same here. We've got enough games with the Europa League and the Premier League until January when you have the added FA Cup games. Having said that, I don't think he'll play a 'Hughton at Peterborough' side bereft of any experience. At a guess I'd say Taylor, Coloccini, Santon, Shola and possibly Tiote will play and that's a nice experienced half core of outfield players.

Tomorrow: Shola FGS, 2-2 correct score @ 155/1 Man U at halftime, Newcastle fulltime @ 40/1

He's better at right-back now than those first five PL games, like. He's still pretty poor there, but he's improved. Best positions for him are CB and DM.

ujpest has 'been told he's in the squad', who by? his care worker?

I swear every time Rooney is injured he either returns against us, or the papers just say he will. Is it just me? Anyway: Elliot; Tavernier, S.Taylor, Coloccini, Santon; S.Ameobi, Gosling, Tiote, Ferguson; Vuckic, Shola is what I reckon we'll see, in the conventional 4-4-2. Pards did allude to Fergie and Shola Jr playing in this.

I prefer to just call it 'the play' for short. "Oh, gerrin, free kick. Time for the play."

Quite strange how the shit 1-0 win over Norwich last season and the shit 1-0 win over Norwich this season are probably two of the poorest games of top flight football I've seen involving us in years, probably since Roeder was manager.

His decision making pisses me off royally pretty much every time he takes to the field, but also his lack of bottle and the fact that he often misplaces short passes and his touch is so heavy makes me wonder how the fuck Man U ever decided to sign him, let alone us. I'd love to see a stat from some choice games of number of times NUFC lose possession vs number of times Obertan is involved in breakdown of possession (either through a bad pass or a shit touch) as a ratio. Games such as the Arsenal and Spurs away games last season and the away leg at Atromitos this season I'd wager it would be well over two-thirds.

It does feel like we're muddling through so far this season, Pardew keeps on saying we'll play better but I swear he said that after the Spurs game on the opening weekend as well.

True enough. He should never have been taking it anyway, but that's another argument.

I'm sure there's been some really great strikers over the years who are shit at penalties. It's a flaw in Cisse's game, but that suddenly doesn't make him shit

I think we're gonna need Shola for Cisse after the hour mark.

Ben Arfa scored the last one, so why the fuck didn't he take that pen? Cisse's form (and the pen he took in pre-season) means he should be away from pens unless we're 5-0 up or summat. Daft and shit.