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Glorious brush off.

Such a fucking flirt, Ikon.

Heard she was a bit of a Pardy cow anyway.

That belongs in one of the Ben Arfa limb threads.

I'm shocked.

And yeah, I really like the merging of threads tbh. It did my head in when there were effectively 2 or 3 transfer threads in the summer so God knows how I'd feel if there was one about Ben Arfa's last game, Ben Arfa's injury, Ben Arfa's mental health, Ben Arfa's body language, Ben Arfa being French, a thread for each of Ben Arfa's limbs (that's FOUR threads), songs about Ben Arfa, the fact that Ben Afra almost rhymes with John Carver (coincidence?), Ben Arfa training pics, etc. With like 4 posts in each thread. Nar thanks.

I know what TooonDoom means but it's an issue that takes seconds to sort out man, howay. You click new, you realise you haven't read that thread in a few weeks and you have a quick click around and you're at the posts from today. It even says Today in bold above the post. I thought I needed my hand held.

Fuck's sake, thought not.

Arseholes.

Fuck, I've just hit the 'Mark Read' button so I can't hit the 'new' button on anything to take me where I was. Is there a way to undo this?

Put it on Chelsea, Arsenal, Valencia, Barca instead - 7/1.

Oh well, that was a good idea.

Might see how good the odds on Barcelona get the further the game goes on and whack a massive £3.53 on them. Evens atm.

I agree but as I implied in the other thread (despite my annoyance at us buying him in the first place) this wouldn't have been as much of a problem if he'd been brought in as part of the squad. Instead he's being asked to put together a run of games, as first choice, for the first time in his entire career as far as I know. In other words it would have been fine if he was Routledge's replacement and Barton stayed, or Barton was adequately replaced. As it stands I have my fingers crossed about the likes of Marveaux, Ben Arfa and Gosling, because I sure as fuck don't want Obertan starting every game for us.

I fucking hate it how we've replaced Barton with Obertan man, the more I think of it the more it does my head in. One of the better midfielders in the country last season replaced by some nobody that everyone had forgotten about, it's just fucking mind-blowing. Fair enough if you've really scouted Obertan and you've came to the conclusion that you believe in him - OK, so you keep both players to fight for the place, but plucking this fucker from Man Utd's reserves and expecting everything to work out is beyond optimistic. The squad just looks worse imo. Technique-wise it's comparable or possibly better, but in all practicality will probably end up proving worse. Especially since we're playing hoofball, it defeats the idea of replacing Nolan with Cabaye, or Barton with Obertan. If we get Marveaux, Ben Arfa, Gosling and Ba into the position of being serious first team players then we might be on to something, but that's a big 'if'. I don't know why I'm even putting this in the Pardew thread tbh, I doubt the poor fucker's got anything to do with how his squad's turned out.

Every game should be the sort of game to play free flowing football with the kind of players we have. Pretty sure Nut told me we'd be playing free-flowing football almost by default without Nolan in the side. Wonder what happened there. I doubt we'd have had a point tonight if Nolan was in that midfield that's for sure. Or we might have managed to look like scoring. Yeah, after conceding five. Imagine Nolan alongside Tiote in his current form. Ha!!! Such a simplistic view of things, you'd think we never won a game with Nolan in the side. I very much like the look of Cabaye but he was invisible tonight and doesn't carry the same goal threat. Who's to say Tiote didn't enjoy playing alongside Nolan anyway? Really don't see how having Nolan in the team tonight would have meant that QPR would have scored a few of their countless sitters, however we might just have scrambled one in ourselves from a set piece or something. In reality I'd have liked to have seen all three in the middle with a couple of wingers either side, or at the least the option of bringing a goalscorer off the bench but we're covering old ground. Only decent chance was Best's which he created himself. He is sadly looking like our only goal threat at the minute.

Snap.

Every game should be the sort of game to play free flowing football with the kind of players we have. Pretty sure Nut told me we'd be playing free-flowing football almost by default without Nolan in the side. Wonder what happened there. I doubt we'd have had a point tonight if Nolan was in that midfield that's for sure. Or we might have managed to look like scoring.

What the fuck is going on with Cheick at the minute? He's playing like an absolute meathead.

Very concerned for us as an attacking force and the luck at the back won't continue. Delighted we've picked up 8 points, they'll come in handy if things start to unravel. On performances alone would be well happy with another comfortable bottom half finish. But besides that we've sold a lot of my favourite players and aren't much fun to watch anymore. Ah well. Seems like all of our eggs in one Ben Arfa-shaped basket for this season not to be a bit of a struggle imo.

Switching to a 4-5-1 on 81 minutes. Oh, I see what he's trying to do actually.

So fucking lucky that they're not out of sight already. Really unimpressed.