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It was the Hull game that did for him, he got switched left against Everton. Aye, forgot about that. So it was a bad 90 minutes that fucked him, after winning all our points up until that point more or less on his own

He won us the games at Villa and home to Fulham single handedly. He'll be back in the side soon enough when flavour of the week system is abandoned and we need him to save our arses. He was playing well at right wing, had a bad 45 at Everton so was subbed and then dropped for the next game where we won convincingly. Only to randomly return playing through the middle. just making it up as he goes along, man.

In Pardle's head the game is almost completely decided by luck, magic and superstition and if they don't go your way then you're fucked.

Exactly, Gouffran will definitely start getting criticism if we stick with him on the wing. As will Sissoko (who IMO was poor up until the game opened up later on). Neither are wingers in a flat 4-4-2. You can't play a 4-4-2 with no wide players because not only are you leaving yourself outnumbered in the centre but you're playing with more less no width which is the entire point of playing a 4 man midfield. In a microcosm Saturday was great because it worked. We kept it 0-0 and then (unbelievably) got a goal from a set piece and suddenly they were desperate. If they'd got the first goal? Roles reversed and they'd have destroyed us on the break once we were chasing it. Gouffran's a forward for me, who can also do a job wide in a front 3. Sissoko I'll be honest to having no clue what his best position is, but I'm fairly certain orthodox winger is not it.

Dr. palnese

He changes the formation/philosophy/system week to week, game to game, even multiple times within games. He simply isn't going to settle on a system, ever and we will continue to lurch from game to game being wildly inconsistent hoping his ingenius gameday management can pay off. That's just the way its always going to be, we simply don't and won't ever have a set style of play like Swansea or Arsenal or Man Utd do as long as Pardew is in charge. He manages each game individually, look at all the work we put into preparing what the opposition have to offer and setting up to counter it. That happens every week, it's all about trying to get the result on the day rather than anything long term. The system on Saturday worked in keeping it tight with two banks of four and knicking the goal later in the game, but Gouffran and Sissoko wide in a 4-4-2 is an absolute nonsense long term and will be scrapped the moment we look like a mess. Probably at home to one of the weaker sides we have after Spurs.

Are people championing Gouffran and Sissoko wide in a 4-4-2 long term based on that Chelsea game?

We should have gone for Garcia like.

He's not like. He's saying Anita is Mourhino's Mata in terms of a player he's not happy to give starts to. He's then saying that Anita has little influence. It's funnier to read it the other way, but he has clarified. Surely a more appropriate wording would then be 'Anita is Pardew's Mata'. It reads terribly and does also appear like he's also saying Mata has no influence on games.

64 games 20 goals 35 assists Wish we has somebody who had that little influence on games over the course of a season.

He wouldn't get in their midfield.

:lol:

If I was to go on a murderous rampage it would probably be in the Squawka/Whoscored offices.

What conditions? Looks like a nice Autumns day. Slightly windy mate. Should have been called off. Sun was in their eyes too.

It was. The conditions were to blame though according to the Sky commentators.

I didn't notice that, it makes you wonder what is classed as a long ball. Anything over about 5 yards by the looks of it.

Are the figures really per game? 'long balls pg' ?

Arsenal play 53 long balls a game apparently

Gouffran is not a tin and has nothing written on him explaining his functionality. I think its time we had enough of Parky's conspiracy theories.

Anybody with eyes knows what constitutes a long ball. Whoever/whatever is counting them, is failing disasterously. 70 long balls a game God I hate stats.

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70 long balls per game? What an absolute load of shite that statistic is, because no team plays 70 long balls a game.

Stop horsing around.

Cerci is great