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If we kill Jonas I'll be fucking livid, suspect the police might be interested n'all.

Spready's to blame. Adds up.

Some people on this forum definitely amaze me like, there's no 2 ways about it.

Geek squad, put your motherfucking hands up.

Even if it took a deflection it must have been very slight, most likely would have flew in anyway. Whereas their goal was lucky as fuck.

1st 40 minutes was an open, end-to-end game, what you on about? After their first goal, they were disgracefully conservative for a home side. Why the blue face?

1st 40 minutes was an open, end-to-end game, what you on about? After their first goal, they were disgracefully conservative for a home side.

The problem is that the result and performance don't exist in isolation because we needed to win tonight as it was our last realistic chance of an away win before the middle of January (and I'll tell you now that we'll get fuck all at Carrow Road). We're long past the point where we can take encouragement from any sort of performance unless we've given someone a real battering or been robbed by a ref and that certainly wasn't tonight. They missed much better chances than we did. Well we can take heart in it if you want us to start playing good passing football with 3 in midfield. Because we've started playing it. We've played like shite all season and I'm convinced we've been told to play that direct football up until now. In which case it's a bit much to expect us to immediately switch into an incisive attacking unit as soon as we switch it. I hope we stick to this sort of system/style until the end of the season, because it'll start working.

Er well, thanks mate, you did put words in my mouth. I never said we dominated, my original post said we were excellent without being incisive. All fucking season long we've been asking why we're hoofing the ball up - well tonight we played 433 and we kept the ball on the deck. We hardly hoofed the ball at all and when we did it was more of a lofted ball from midfield than anything else, and even that was rare. If you moan all season about us playing hoofball (as I have) then we start playing passing football throughout the game then it seems a bit fucking demanding to say you think our passing football isn't incisive enough. Give it time man, hopefully we've reverted back to 433 and back to a passing style. Tonight wasn't that much different to our game against West Brom away last season in terms of our approach, however Fulham had 8 or 9 men behind the ball at most times. It was therefore difficult to open them up. Moan too loudly and Pardew will go back to the hoof. Stick with this and we can hopefully progress. To me it looked like we played 4-4-2 or 4-3-1-2 from HT onwards. Hard to tell though as no-one was on the right. Our only problem with passing it around away these days is that teams are sitting a lot deeper against us this year as we're not a surprise package anymore. It was more difficult to tell the formation once Ameobi came on, however we kept passing it. I could tell because I'm quite impatient with hoofs now and will normally shout "Enough of that shite" or words to that effect and barely did so tonight. I swear we'd have beaten Fulham if they weren't in shite form, as perverse as it sounds. They were so defensive it was untrue. I don't think there was one when Shola came on unfortunately, we lost that link between midfield and forward line for sure. Strange, strange substitution even moreso as you say we didn't just start belting it forward thus rendering Shola pretty much useless. We were on top and for me he had to bring Marveux on for a like for like to keep it going, that sub threw us for 5-10 mins while we regrouped. Exactly what a sub is not supposed to do when you're chasing the game. I was 100% fucked off with Pardew for not starting Marveaux, I gave him the benefit of the doubt and presumed he'd picked up an injury. I was fuming when I saw Marveaux coming on on 85 fucking minutes, it's an absolute joke that he didn't feature more heavily. I definitely had problems with selection / subsitutions.

This was arguably the only time we've played well over 90 minutes this season, just a shame we played against a side that parked the bus and didn't get much of a break.

I feel like Ian W here. Not going to stay in this thread to argue the point. Interesting how people I normally get on alright with on here take a fairly immature, mocking tone when you dare to take a different stance. Grow up. Some of you are angry and beyond reason at the minute so I'm off. We tried to play good football this evening and it didn't pay off. I can't remember being in a much happier (but obviously by association fairly disappointed) defeated away end than I was tonight. There weren't any complaints about the performance.

Er well, thanks mate, you did put words in my mouth. I never said we dominated, my original post said we were excellent without being incisive. All fucking season long we've been asking why we're hoofing the ball up - well tonight we played 433 and we kept the ball on the deck. We hardly hoofed the ball at all and when we did it was more of a lofted ball from midfield than anything else, and even that was rare. If you moan all season about us playing hoofball (as I have) then we start playing passing football throughout the game then it seems a bit fucking demanding to say you think our passing football isn't incisive enough. Give it time man, hopefully we've reverted back to 433 and back to a passing style. Tonight wasn't that much different to our game against West Brom away last season in terms of our approach, however Fulham had 8 or 9 men behind the ball at most times. It was therefore difficult to open them up. Moan too loudly and Pardew will go back to the hoof. Stick with this and we can hopefully progress. To me it looked like we played 4-4-2 or 4-3-1-2 from HT onwards. Hard to tell though as no-one was on the right. Our only problem with passing it around away these days is that teams are sitting a lot deeper against us this year as we're not a surprise package anymore. It was more difficult to tell the formation once Ameobi came on, however we kept passing it. I could tell because I'm quite impatient with hoofs now and will normally shout "Enough of that shite" or words to that effect and barely did so tonight. I swear we'd have beaten Fulham if they weren't in shite form, as perverse as it sounds. They were so defensive it was untrue.

I haven't had time to read the last umpteen pages but I can't believe I'm: a) Coming home to people moaning about that performance. and b) Agreeing (never mind being the last man standing) with Ian W.

Er well, thanks mate, you did put words in my mouth. I never said we dominated, my original post said we were excellent without being incisive. All fucking season long we've been asking why we're hoofing the ball up - well tonight we played 433 and we kept the ball on the deck. We hardly hoofed the ball at all and when we did it was more of a lofted ball from midfield than anything else, and even that was rare. If you moan all season about us playing hoofball (as I have) then we start playing passing football throughout the game then it seems a bit fucking demanding to say you think our passing football isn't incisive enough. Give it time man, hopefully we've reverted back to 433 and back to a passing style. Tonight wasn't that much different to our game against West Brom away last season in terms of our approach, however Fulham had 8 or 9 men behind the ball at most times. It was therefore difficult to open them up. Moan too loudly and Pardew will go back to the hoof. Stick with this and we can hopefully progress.

This. If he's getting criticism for anything but team selection and Substitutions tonight then this is the only answer.

Yet how many clear cut chances have we created? Exactly, not many. As I say we struggled to break them down. I'm sorry Wullie, I think you're being very harsh if you're criticising Pardew's team for passing the ball around too much. We tried and we tried but tonight it just didn't work. I said in the ground that it didn't help us that Fulham hadn't won in the last 6 or 7 games, as it led to them wanting to win at all costs and they left no gaps. We need to keep playing as we did tonight and we'll be alright.

Spot on.

Yeah and we suck and it because the coaching sucks. Well hopefully we'll keep coaching them to pass so we don't suck. You know, like we did for a while last year. Not gonna happen cos the manager sucks. Mature replies, cheers.

His substitutions absolutely ruined us IMO, get the point you're trying to get across though, we started more or less what the masses wanted and played passing-ish football but we still not good enough. We played excellent passing football pretty much from start to finish. If we didn't have such a hard run of fixtures coming up I'd be really bullish. Unfortunately we do. Why we were persevering with the hoof ball for so long I don't know.

Yeah and we suck and it because the coaching sucks. Well hopefully we'll keep coaching them to pass so we don't suck. You know, like we did for a while last year.

He had the team playing the football you all want tonight for the vast majority of the game. Substitutions aside, people calling him a coward are either very disappointed with the result or blind to what is happening in front of them. We tried to outpass them but it didn't work. Hopefully we'll keep trying. Substitutions were fucking bad mind. Nevertheless he scored loads of points with me tonight rather than losing any.

Thought we were excellent without being incisive tonight, can count ourselves really unlucky to lose. Fulham played like the away side from their first goal onwards and were just too hard to break down. Never usually leave an away match feeling hard done by but tonight I certainly did. Whether that tallies up with how people on here saw it I don't know yet. I suspect not.

My mate might have a spare ticket for this, stood with us in the neutral end. If you're interested then let me know asap, price = face value which is around 42 quid with booking fee.

Nope, this is our longest streak without an away win in 20 years. Hmm, that doesn't sound right to me. Feel like I've waited way longer than this before, certainly in terms of games rather than months.