Interpolic

Nah man, you've got it all wrong. Getting it right a handful of times in the last 40 or so league games isn't going to appease everyone though, it'll take a little while yet. Personally I'm really encouraged by our last 2 performances, if we don't suffer from too many injuries then maybe we'll do alright.

We were also playing against a team that wanted to try to win the game, which wasn't the case against Fulham.

I think he is captain material if he stays fit, he's our talisman. A bit like Henry was for Arsenal, the classiest player on the pitch who leads by example and wants to win.

In real-time it looked like a pen, but sort of a soft one in the sense that the guy didn't hack Ben Arfa down or anything, rather it looked a clash of bodies. Still looked a pen. Replays showed it to be ridiculous, Ben Arfa about to pull the trigger (albeit at a stretch) and the defender stops that happening by pushing him over with 2 hands.

He always seems to worry about this type of thing when a less cautious manager would simply say he trusts the players to produce more of the same.

Aye, draws at home to shit teams managed by a red-faced dafty who used to manage the mackems are the stuff that N-O dreams are made of.

We need to beat teams like Hull and we will. 2-0.

Please change the poll to Win/Draw/Lose. Sorry.

I'm trying to give him a break today but that is a truly outrageous comment like.

Spot-on.

Aye, 2 and a half years with him as manager and I reckon if his appetite for attacking football was clear then I'd know about it by now. He should be able to play something other than tedium ball when a few players are out injured. We generally play better stuff with a fully fit squad, admittedly.

Managers wearing shorts in the dugout FFS. Aye I'm talking about you, Owen Coyle.

Agree, they showed 5 or 6 passages of play FFS. In a fairly eventful game. Stop showing so many replays and talking shite after the coverage.

Eh, why's he a cunt? I really like the look of him personally but it's just a shit situation when a young player plays well for a few games and is immediately linked with a move away.

Doing my fucking head in, this.

SANTON.

I can barely summon up the energy to run for a bus, that must be why I really like Marveaux. Thanks HV, hadn't realised.

That's not really what people are saying, it's that he's repeatedly picked the wrong team with the players available to him. People aren't expecting him to play players that are injured. I'm really happy with the last 2 performances (and obviously results) and hope we stick to that lineup when everyone's fit. Apart from Gouffran perhaps in for Cisse, given the form they're both in.

He's spot-on when he compares the 2 performances, he had way more going right for him today than against Fulham. It's a 7 or 8 out of 10 performance versus a 10 out of 10 performance. By nature, Ben Arfa should have more joy when we're the away team and there is more space to play in though. Pardew was also going on about him improving his consistency, which I think is a bit rich considering he's usually the best (or one of the best) of a bad bunch. Keep him fit, trust him and let him play, we don't have to worry about his consistency because he'll generally be our most threatening player. Some days it'll come off, some days it won't so much but he'll always have that threat.

I've had 3 so far like, doing canny.

Cannot believe I took Sigurdsson out today, thought his playing time was about to become limited then he scores 2 goals.

Where are my Steve Harper testimonial tickets? I still haven't received them and somebody told me that the game's already been played.

Such a stonewall penalty, he's just pushed him over to stop him scoring FFS.

Sissoko is so sloppy at times.

Been a 9 or 10 out of 10 performance today, can't fault it.