themanupstairs

From an attacking perspective he's exactly the type of RB you need if you're going to compress the play as we did today. Not a great defender but he's absolutely spot on as an forward-thinking RB. Such a massive improvement on what we had last season.

 

Defensively he's average tbh.

50 from Suarez, Sissoko, Santon, Cameron and Morrison.

Howard, Coleman, Lampard, Barkley, Ramsey and Giroud to come. Accidentally benched Rooney so i'm hoping Lampard doesn't play (unlikely away at Arsenal).

good

Rooney, Giroud in. Aguero and Khal Drogo out.

He would get his money back quicker if we were involved in the shake up at the end of the season, attract better sponsorship, club would become more self sufficent and he could have his shoddy sports wear company along for the ride.

 

Sigh.

Game over IMO. Spurs will not score unless they get a penalty.

That's shoulder to back, not shoulder to shoulder.

BTW how shit is that Naughton? Looks like a homophobe dear in gay strobe lights.

Spurs are dogshit

One or two usually means none.

When does he ever say anything other than one or two? It's the bog standard line every window.

That's foul.

Drafted Khal Drogo, Sissoko and Howard in for Giroud, Shelvey and Jaaskalainen for this week and took the points hit. My intuition says to captain Coleman or Barkley, as I have the feeling one of them will hit a couple of goals in their match against Fulham.

 

Do your intuitions have a past history of coming to fruition?

Yes except I never follow my intuition and end up opting for the more sensible captain. And regretting it.

Drafted Khal Drogo, Sissoko and Howard in for Giroud, Shelvey and Jaaskalainen for this week and took the points hit. My intuition says to captain Coleman or Barkley, as I have the feeling one of them will hit a couple of goals in their match against Fulham.

Interesting comments from harper if anyone listened to total sport. Said before the start of last season pardew wanted them averaging the same amount as passes as top four(around 550 I think?) but found it hard to implement with the squad changing so much with Europe. Seem to be seeing what he wanted to do last season, this season.

 

Well at least he's recognised that the direct football route will only take you so far, but the worry remains for me that it's not his natural instinct like it was for Keegan, so we'll have to see how it will hold up under pressure. Also he needs to work out how to translate harmless possession in your own half to passing that will actually hurt the opposition. Swansea for example pushed men very aggressively into our half and we found that hard to cope with. Will Pardew be able to do that against the lesser teams?

In theory if he has the right personnel on the pitch, then it shouldn't be a problem. Attack minded and/or progressive minded players such as Cabaye, Anita, Ben Arfa, Remy, Gouffran, Sissoko, and even Vuckic, Sammy, as well as our two starting fullbacks have more than enough in their locker to hurt teams.

That's some serious money laundering. Absolute filth how these cunts are allowed to take charge of clubs and splash money around like it's nothing while billions around the world live in poverty. It's fucking shameful. The human race at its very worst.

Would be nice to win this and put a bit of daylight between us and them. No use getting this far only to get complacent. We are away to Palace and home to Stoke after this, and I reckon 7 points from 12 would be a decent way to end the year

He is the best RB in the league at the moment but he won't be getting any plaudits because he isn't British or playing for a "big" club.

Agreed. I'd even go as far saying he's one of the best defenders in the league on current form.

 

You're precious sometimes like. From your perspective that was a performance that took you by surprise. The only thing that I was surprised by was that it was against Man United away and that Pardew finally got us to win the game through retaining possession.

 

A lot of people have being saying for quite a while that that's what those players are capable of and how we should be playing most of the time, instead of resigning posession and sitting on slender leads.

Throughout the match, and with all of Man U's futile attempt at getting an equalizer, I always thought if there was going to be a second goal in the match it would be us getting it. Never looked in doubt tbh. I didn't feel as nervous as I did in the last few minutes against Norwich or WBA, the reason being the point you make in the bolded paragraph.

Imagine how wonderful it would be to watch every match. Imagine taking life for granted enough that you couldn't be arsed to watch every match and get paid for it.

 

Wednesday night, for example, there was like 8 games. It would be absolutely impossible so I don't know why, week on week, they try and pass it off that they've seen all the games.

That's showbiz

There's that as well, a settled back 4 for once is probably a contributing factor as well.

Yup. I think there's more to his crap performances when he first joined than just him being shit at the time.