Interpolic

You're really fucking good at this.

The same tactics that has been criticized by plenty on here even after four wins... I was going to leave that for tonight and bring it up tomorrow but the claim of sitting back "all the time" after taking a lead etc, I watched west brom-villa the other week, west brom 2-0 up at half time and the second half they got battered, was that because they sat back or two teams without a gulf between them and when one takes a lead the other has more of a need to attack a bit more (like the start of the second half tonight actually). i don't think we have tactics to do that constantly, we have done it at times and we've normally paid for it, but most times it's the natural way of things like we witnessed on the box at the hawthorns. Yep, happened in one game involving 2 different teams that madras saw so we can discount it happening before our eyes as "the natural way of things" in almost every game under Pardew in which we've taken the lead. i used a recent game many would have saw as an example, you don't think it's natural that a team after going a goal down pushes on a bit more ? we saw that we did tonight got caught doing it but we did. Of course it happens to a degree but as usual you're treating situations as black and white, one or the other. When we have a lead we regularly go from playing some very decent football indeed to not being able/willing to string 2 passes together, switching to hoofing as the only means of defending, sitting 10 yards further back, and generally inviting pressure. There's no way it's a coincidence that this happens to the extent that it does under Pardew as you suggest, and I'm basing that on 20 years of watching football matches including NUFC ones and seeing trends rather than 1 game in the Midlands. naturally you know I'm basing it on longer, to my mind it;s a mix of things, the team going a goal down will want to push, the other team will be expecting this, it's not a tactic. hoofing was a problem last year but watch other teams, they do it aswell when under pressure. fwiw i do think we suffer from struggling to handle the pressure that other teams naturally put on after going a goal down, also why we struggle after going a goa l behind but it's not necessarily tactical, it's the players being quite one paced in that they can't up the tempo for longer periods that are needed. I wasn't trying to have a competition on who had watched football longer, i.e. who's older. I just think you're wrong, I think certainly you'll encounter more of a backlash when you go in front but under Keegan, Robson and even the likes of Roeder at times there'd be plenty of games where we'd go in front then go on to win the game comfortably, generally playing in a similar way from start to finish. Pardew has been here 3 years and if I thought really hard I could probably only give you a handful of times when that's occurred, tops. But nah, it's not a tactic.

You said we were woeful when we were 1-0 down, you reactionary hater.

Can we make this thread Neil vs Moyes please?

Howay man, when was the last time we ever did that regardless of personnel?

The same tactics that has been criticized by plenty on here even after four wins... I was going to leave that for tonight and bring it up tomorrow but the claim of sitting back "all the time" after taking a lead etc, I watched west brom-villa the other week, west brom 2-0 up at half time and the second half they got battered, was that because they sat back or two teams without a gulf between them and when one takes a lead the other has more of a need to attack a bit more (like the start of the second half tonight actually). i don't think we have tactics to do that constantly, we have done it at times and we've normally paid for it, but most times it's the natural way of things like we witnessed on the box at the hawthorns. Yep, happened in one game involving 2 different teams that madras saw so we can discount it happening before our eyes as "the natural way of things" in almost every game under Pardew in which we've taken the lead. i used a recent game many would have saw as an example, you don't think it's natural that a team after going a goal down pushes on a bit more ? we saw that we did tonight got caught doing it but we did. Of course it happens to a degree but as usual you're treating situations as black and white, one or the other. When we have a lead we regularly go from playing some very decent football indeed to not being able/willing to string 2 passes together, switching to hoofing as the only means of defending, sitting 10 yards further back, and generally inviting pressure. There's no way it's a coincidence that this happens to the extent that it does under Pardew as you suggest, and I'm basing that on 20 years of watching football matches including NUFC ones and seeing trends rather than 1 game in the Midlands.

The same tactics that has been criticized by plenty on here even after four wins... I was going to leave that for tonight and bring it up tomorrow but the claim of sitting back "all the time" after taking a lead etc, I watched west brom-villa the other week, west brom 2-0 up at half time and the second half they got battered, was that because they sat back or two teams without a gulf between them and when one takes a lead the other has more of a need to attack a bit more (like the start of the second half tonight actually). i don't think we have tactics to do that constantly, we have done it at times and we've normally paid for it, but most times it's the natural way of things like we witnessed on the box at the hawthorns. It's like the tides - there is nothing you can do about it. You're leading a team 2-0 at half time? Well they are going to react and there is nothing you can do about it. Its nature. You cant smash teams for 5 and 6 and dominate for 90 minutes in a league as tough as this. FWIW it's literally mental!

The same tactics that has been criticized by plenty on here even after four wins... I was going to leave that for tonight and bring it up tomorrow but the claim of sitting back "all the time" after taking a lead etc, I watched west brom-villa the other week, west brom 2-0 up at half time and the second half they got battered, was that because they sat back or two teams without a gulf between them and when one takes a lead the other has more of a need to attack a bit more (like the start of the second half tonight actually). i don't think we have tactics to do that constantly, we have done it at times and we've normally paid for it, but most times it's the natural way of things like we witnessed on the box at the hawthorns. Yep, happened in one game involving 2 different teams that madras saw so we can discount it happening before our eyes as "the natural way of things" in almost every game under Pardew in which we've taken the lead.

That was absolutely typical Alan Pardew, that moment. - "Alan, you travel to Old Trafford on Saturday, did you know Everton won there tonight?" - (Quick as a flash) "No I didn't. Ah well, that'll just make our trip there even harder". :lol: I was listening to his interview through the ears of N-O. Some proper WUMmery going on, the cunt. Maybe my hate really has consumed my hearing because I could've sworn I heard him saying 'he' has fans Yep, "my fans". Was just a slip of the tongue related to him being a thick cunt though I think, mind.

bimpy man, look up sarcasm in the dictionary instead of finding GIFs FFS.

That was absolutely typical Alan Pardew, that moment. - "Alan, you travel to Old Trafford on Saturday, did you know Everton won there tonight?" - (Quick as a flash) "No I didn't. Ah well, that'll just make our trip there even harder".

It's unreal how Anita still isn't on like.

Fuck's sake man.

Excellent news. What's funny? He misses our game. Wilson told Fenham Mag that he had made a very good point and promptly went home.

Never ever going to get a pen. Don't understand why the other teams don't just start catching the ball. They have to be double-sure when Shola's on the pitch, with it being a guaranteed goal.

Hater.

Why's Shola trying to kill Gouffran with the weight of his pass?

Fucked up you selling him out like that. True. Gonna tell him about the hair product now though.

Gimp's PM'ed me about this hair product. :lol:

Have just started using an amazing hair product, PM me.

Oof.

Just wait until the end of the game and talk about the scoreline only, will you Beren.

:lol: Ah man, that's fucking made my day.

Pretty sure our results were going downhill the longer he was in charge of matters.