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More of the same please, chaps.

OK.

Take a bow, you absolute fucking nutcase.

That is fucking fantastic.

Gouffran the first forward we've had with genuinely threatening pace since Bellamy?

Giggs has scored.

Fulham 2-1 Stoke City Arsenal 4-1 Aston Villa Norwich 0-0 Everton QPR 0-3 Man Utd* Reading 1-1 Wigan West Brom 2-1 Sunderland Man City 2-2 Chelsea Newcastle 2-0 Southampton West Ham 1-2 Tottenham

Please be real. That's a play on a classic Brent line Ah yeah, I remember it now.

Please be real.

Everyone needs to stop worrying as Pardew will no doubt play the situation expertly.

It's not really about being greedy and thinking we should have picked up more points before Christmas, it's about remembering how incredulous I was when watching games where we were clearly struggling and that cretin in the dugout refusing to bring him on whatsoever. Or when he did first give him a chance from the start (Man City and Man Utd away in November) he was our best player. One dodgy first half against Chelsea and he was dragged off at half time and back on 20 minute cameo duty (if he got on at all) for the next month and a half. I remember the period vividly and I thought he was wrong then and I think he was wrong now.

It wasn't supposed to, I didn't quote you as it was a comment in general and not at anybody. Fair enough.

I'm not sure how this is contradicting that tbh.

Double denim, boi!

In 10 years he will. What an utterly meaningless comment.

If Pardew plays a shit team against rubbish opposition and we win the game 1-0 when we could have won 4-0, did he play it perfectly? It's a similar argument in that we'll never know, I just know what my opinion is. I think we could have picked up even more points before Christmas last season if we'd used him now and then when we needed him. His quotes in the article Jack Flash linked to are a perfect example, he bottled playing Ben Arfa away to Norwich because we were weak at the back (Pardew's words, not mine) when he could have lifted the pressure with some attacking impetus. I was at that game and we were crying out for it. People claiming Pardew's a football Einstein aren't talking about the fact he played him central for so long either, which in my opinion was part of the reason he was ineffective as he looked lost.

Aye, he's just a fairly clever player in that respect - the player's quite often all over him but he's drawn the foul with the way he shapes his body and buys the free kick. Going back to Solano, he was one of the most intelligent players we've ever had playing for us. Apologies for slagging off Obertan but he was the opposite to Obertan in that his football intelligence was off the scale, his reading of the game was fantastic. Loved that spell when he was sort of on his way out and played right-back for us for about half a season, he had a brilliant tendency of committing a cynical foul when the opposition was on the break, making it look like an accident then backing off making that gesture of a ball shape with his hands. Totally knew what he was doing every time and alleviated the pressure expertly without picking up many bookings.

His tweet's out of fucking out of order tbf.

Aye, he's a nice bloke who plays the game with a smile on his face but he's on his arse constantly. Solano was similar mind, both excellent at buying fouls.

Jonas loves a bit of that like.

Think that was tactical/conservative myself, given the other wide players that were getting a game at the time.

He played 608 minutes in the League over the course of us having 21 games from his first match back (Blackburn at home) to the mackems game. Seemed excessively under-used at the time, and I still believe he was excessively under-used. Pardew also flat-out refused to play him on the wing until he swallowed his pride and realised he was being a tit about the whole thing.

What do you mean?

OK, just ignore my whole post. My comments in a similar situation at work would be similar, I'd imagine it would be easier to curry favour by acting like it was no big deal and I was just happy to muck in at the time. It's easy to do that after the event.

It suggests that Ben Arfa was not being selected whilst he was fit and ready to play, I cannot possibly see how it could support what I'm saying more Of course he's going to say that at the time though, Hans. He was a frustrated man, itching to get back, show what he can do. I'm glad he made those comments at the time, but it's what he's said in hindsight, what he feels after the time, is what is important I reckon. I disagree, it's like when my boss knows I've had a pig of a time recently and has been too busy to offer any support whatsoever. They ask me while it's going on and I'll go off on a massive rant about it, they ask me when things have calmed down a bit and things are going better for me and I'll say it's no bother and I can barely remember what the fuss was. Couple that with the fact that it does him/me more harm than good to whinge once matters have improved, well there's not much chance of there being a great deal of moaning going on by that point. Doesn't mean he seriously agreed with it.