Darth Crooks

Basically a decent bloke who will give his all; which is ultimately not quite good enough to cut it regularly. Would be fine as some alternate back up further down the pecking order, nothing more.

After sitting itht he stoke fans on weds, watching this should be relatively nice...Can see us getting beat here like for definite. The way they have been playing recently I don't think our tactics will weather such pressure.

Some sort of 433. Cisse was often out wide on the right. Tiote, Anita and Jonas were more or less central, but Jonas drifted out wide at times. Ba played quite deep for some time too. It was a little bit all over the shop, but it seemed to work ok because the players stepped up a notch from the previous few horror shows. So he finally goes 4-3-3, and has a choice of whether to keep Ba or Cisse central, and guess what it's bloody Cisse who ends up out wide. Pardew's actions in keeping Ba central are so blatent they're almost laughable. Has Ba got photos of Pardew nobbing the Queen or something? Cisse can only play centrally. Putting him anywhere else is just a joke, especially when Ba is reasonably competent as a wide forward. http://images.thevine.com.au/resources/VAR/000/017/an-open-letter-to-her-majesty-the-queen_h.jpg 'Arise Sir Pards, for services to my regal fanny'

Most frustrating time to be a NUFC for me. At least when we got relegated I knew our squad was complete heartless shit.

"You can't doubt your risk-taking, because actually, that's what it affects as a player," said Pardew. "When they say people are struggling with confidence, I always think it's our struggling with risk-taking because you don't take risks, you play safe and sometimes when you play safe, you don't get any reward. "There's a balance between really working hard and risk-taking, and that's what we need to get right at Stoke. http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8iupwENNC1qlcuvqo1_250.gif

I like the bloke who looks like he's wanking the dick on his own head.

I might as well shit on the floor and nut it.

He have a girlfriend from Newcastle too if i am not mistaken. Adopted Geordie Davide knows where his bread's buttered... http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_flE8xAxihOg/TPRdtdH7mZI/AAAAAAAAInc/gauXBqN4BpQ/s1600/%2527Howay%2Bman%252C%2Bit%2527s%2Bnot%2Bcold%2521%2527%2BAs%2BBritain%2Bshivers%252C%2BNewcastle%2Bgirls%2Bprove%2Bthey%2527re%2Bnot%2Bfrightened%2Bof%2Ba%2Bbit%2Bof%2Bsnow%2B%2B1.jpg

If you are preparing plans and dossiers of stats on the opposition at the expense of fluidity and the ability to string passes together then something majorly wrong imo.

I think the majority of the problems are down to instruction. Even if he has lost a yard; Jonas looks completely alien to what he used to do before, Cabaye hangs back looking anonymous, Ben Arfa is criminally deep and bears the entire weight of our attacking play, Defensive and conservative substitutions outweigh attacking ones and the alarming rhetoric that comes forward in the uotes mentioned by posters like Wullie. Yes, the players need to turn up and pull a finger out, busting a gut each game. I won't have it like players like Jonas, Colo, Perch, Ben Arfa, Cisse and the hungry young lads that we have, desperate to show their worth, are doing anything. Quality is of course found wanting in many areas but to have such a dire endemic approach, the likes of which we are witnessing. beggars belief without a significant proportion of the blame lying at the feet at the management.

Wigan are playing good football. Wouldn't use that as a great yardstick. Another gutless display against shitehawks like Stoke would be more worrying.

Faster running.

Because we're shite cus of clueless Pardy AlanWilliams99

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The amount of players Wigan had bombing forward at every opportunity when I was watching MOTD was inspiring and exuded confidence in the ability of the team; the opposition were relentlessly on the back foot and you could tell the players were feeding off that. So far Pardew's rhetoric and performance showcases the exact antithesis of this approach; evoke anxiety about your own sides ability to do the basics of defending; so much so that they become obsessed with shape and cultivating a sense of fear. That sounds drastic, but the contrasts between the two approaches were stark. It may seem churlish as one of the uninitiated to the professional game to see things in such a black and white fashion; though Pardew needs to show conviction in a paradigm shift away from whatever the fuck this apparent system is. He needs to do it quickly, with a win in the next two games I reckon, if he is to see out the year.

Get to fuck, man. I haven't said anything to him there that hasn't been said, in much harsher terms, a million times before. Fucking dishing out warnings, man. Stick to whipping up the emotional kids and foreigners with your over dramatic waffle, man. http://ih0.redbubble.net/image.12735319.6103/sticker,375x360.png

Two games more of this shit and I think this thread will be entiely pertinent. If it were under any other owner/regime I don't think the naysayers about this thread would be so hesitant. We're being served complete rot and have been from day 1 of this season. I don't want to get rid of a manager that seemed to help us achieve a fantastic place last year. One thing is certain there needs to be a fundamental paradigm shift is this guy's approach. It will be the 1st true test of his character at this club imo.

Not a fucking scooby; giving him the benefit of the doubt that he isn't devious enough to just shift blame to easy targets that is. I think we're all trying hard to see what he's trying to tap into; it just doesn't seem to have any subtance to any fans looking on. Use of 'luck, magic' and 'magic plans' as serious football discussion is extremely worrying.

No. I hate to say it but if I'm honest there doesn't seem to be any indication of a corner being turned from Pardew. Exacerbated by the lack of investment even further up this is an absolute nightmare. We'll make Stoke look tika-taka on Weds too now I'm sure.

Let's be honest. We all know how that game is going to turn out. Zero points it is. Going to that on Weds! Yipee ky fucking ay! Lost faith tbh. There is no change from game to game.

I'm equally not having it that injuries are a viable cause of dictating the way we play; even if the youngsters can't cut it just yet they don't look like they are being actively encouraged to have a go. There's only Santon who seems to be reaching anywhere near the pace and tempo needed.

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We play soooo bastard deep its unbelievable.