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You bored of watching it now? This is what I forget in between games, how much I hate watching the games. Kind of hit home a bit today. There's no need for it to be this tedious. We're basically safe now IMO, so maybe that will see the shackles come off a bit. @CaulkinTheTimes Pardew (on safety etc): "I think we're done. We've got to get 40pts and we're 7 from that, but I expect this team to follow through." Oh yeah, - well done, Alan.

If that's what passes for a good performance these days then that tells you all you need to know. We were clearly the better team but you'd see more spark at an ME disco.

Well yeah. Was still rubbish though.

You bored of watching it now? This is what I forget in between games, how much I hate watching the games. Kind of hit home a bit today. There's no need for it to be this tedious.

True, I'm really glad we appear to have sorted that out. Just shows these things are psychological blocks and once you've cracked it you've cracked it. Next: set penises.

I'm really relieved and happy at the result, but the nondescript non-football performances are becoming a big concern now. Bit sick of devoting 2 hours of my day to watching it, and it's even worse when you actually go. I'd change managers in the summer, but that's coming from a fan who wants to see decent games now and again.

We've sort of done to them what they did to us at their place, nice one.

It's been very functional as usual. Not much fun at all.

That's a brilliant free kick. My stream is so fucking far behind.

Score please.

Sissoko really should do better there.

Fucking woeful performance this, there's no excuse for these players playing with such a lack of spark.

GTFO.

He's a good player when fit, easily good enough for where we want to be (as 1 of 3-4 good centre halves).

Well done Jonas, got MYM out of a pickle there.

Terrible Philosophy.

he is sitting down

What´s funny? It´s true! Shit start - AGAIN Go support another club, you're not cut out to support ours.

He isn't a winger in this league. He'll never win the one-on-one battle consistently. I'm not sure he needs to. He'd just be bullied out of it. I much prefer him through the middle when we need to make something happen. I'd 100% prefer him in the middle too, but second to that I'd prefer him on the pitch rather than inferior players being there. I think it's worth a shot anyway.

He hasn't been given enough time on the wing to work out whether he's useless there, I think we'd benefit from his delivery from wide positions and it's worth trying. Certainly when the alternative is Jonas, who for all I love him is looking a bit spent at the minute.

He isn't a winger in this league. He'll never win the one-on-one battle consistently. I'm not sure he needs to.

You say that like there's a hope in hell of Jonas being dropped for any league game with the personnel currently available.

I don't see why we've totally counted Marveaux out as a winger, I know his defensive work ain't great but surely some games you're not that arsed about that.

With some he can't lose either. and some can look at each situation without going either "f***ing c*** Pardew f***ed it up again!!11" or "Howay he got us 5th last season so he iz the best manager ever so shut up!!1". Some need to stop thinking they know more about Ben Arfa's fitness than the medical staff though. As I said there wasn't much complaint on Thursday about his inclusion. Who thinks they know more than our medical staff? There were plenty of comments about how he "should be getting 20 minutes in this game" etc.. Can't actually be bothered to get into it tbh as there will be the usual "when was this said", "well yeah but when else" nonsense. Had my rant, will try and ignore the inevitable moans every time he doesn't start till the end of the season You seem to be waiting for the slightest hint of a moan and jumping on it, you'll send yourself loopy doing that. You'll get all kinds of opinions on this forum, some of them will be cynical and/or untrusting of Pardew, it's something you need to deal with in the same way everyone else needs to deal with reading stuff they don't like. It's not like there are hundreds of people shouting and balling about the Ben Arfa stuff. Sorry but people having a rant about things they don't even really know about (See the Mike Williamson thread when some paper said he was in line to start against Stoke) annoys me, a lot. The Ben Arfa thing is a particularly sore subject given the way it went on last season. I'll be good now Ah man, you don't want to know my opinion on last season then. I don't think things are as black and white as people like to make out, it doesn't have to be that Pardew played it perfectly or totally fucked it. He could have totally fucked it by playing him for 90 minutes every game and forcing a knock, or he could have fucked it by leaving him out for the entire season (which at one point wasn't looking that unlikely). My view is that I don't think he played him enough before the Sunderland game, partly because he didn't know how to use him. This season he did know how to use him, and realised he's one of his most important players or in other words one that can get him out of jail. I think that's the reason that he rushed him back for the Fulham game. Now we're seeing a different approach, where he's trying to ease him in for fear of fucking up the situation, but that's why I found it so odd that he started the other night. Like TT says, if it was simply because Cisse was out then it was the wrong decision. Pretty sure there were quotes from Pardew a few days previous saying there was fuck-all chance he'd take HBA to Russia.

We've played well more often than not since the new players came in, I think we'll play well again and win. We have improved, I agree. I'm not sure I agree that we've played well, especially when you look at the weapons at our disposal. Compared to the majority of the season it's been fucking liquid football.