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There's that guy at Brentford - but I think even he played football at some level - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25734351

Sounds like the title of a terrible book - 'God, Ronaldo and his favourites'.

Paddy Barclay's written another Pardew article for the Bleacher Report (http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2292969-alan-pardew-successfully-tackles-premier-league-big-guns-to-rejuvenate-newcastle?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=programming-UK). I want to respond to him, but I know it'll get me nowhere..

Aren't fatties more buoyant? Knowing our luck he'd float.

I wish journalists and 'itks' could be specific about what HBA actually does wrong. Real facts though - not made up bullshit. Because the work rate thing is a myth, the lack of end product is a myth etc etc. If challenging Pardew is enough to get him ostracised, that says a lot more about Pardew than it does about HBA. No one ever has specific details.

That kind of proves the point that although he probably could have done more with his talent, his output is pretty good compared to two of the best wingers we've ever had who were playing under far superior managers in a far superior team...

Totally agree - his end product was actually pretty impressive, especially when you consider his fairly sporadic runs in the team. And the stuff about his workrate was always overexaggerated - I'd be interested how many goals where people could directly point to HBA as being the main reason why the goal was conceded.

He's got 1 goal and 2 assists in 606 mins of football this season (the equivalent of about 6.5 to 7 games). That's the same number of assists as, among others, Silva, Cazorla, Nasri and Ramsay. All of whom, I think, have played more minutes than him. So - not exactly stellar, but not quite an attacker who doesn't score or create.

He's a 22 year old who has only played 38 Premier League games and I assume a lot of those might have been as a sub. It isn't that strange to point out that he might improve with more games and coaching (although probably not here) nor does his current level of ability indicate that he'll never make it. Players develop at different rates and, given his limited game time, Sammy might be one of those players who develops later than others. From what I've seen of him, he's pretty raw but he's certainly got talent. He doesn't look out of place in the Premier League now so I am not sure why he wouldn't be worth persisting with.

A 22-year-old with the potential to improve. Brave assertion there, like. Cheers mate. Not impossible to work out what I was saying without being an arse.

I am really surprised how underrated he is on here. He always looks dangerous to me and looks like he has the potential to improve.

So much wrong in one post.

How would Redknapp at Spurs work? Or is he a bad example given that Spurs have arguably got worse since he left?

I don't really get how the fact that HBA hasn't done that well at Hull is somehow relevant to his time here or whether it was the right decision to get rid of him. We know how good he was and the direct effect he had in terms of goals and assists, how useful he would be to have in the squad now and how exaggerated his lack of work rate actually was.

I think he should start to be more selfish and take more shots.

Can't see any reason to get rid of him. He's shown enough to be kept on - his wages are hardly going to be astronomical.

In a team full of terrible performances today, there is absolutely no way he was one of our worst performers.

But it's a perfectly valid opinion to think that both Haidara and Santon are better LBs than Dummett. It's nothing at all to do with nationality. I can't understand why you would think anyone would unfavourably judge a local player because they are local. It's completely nonsensical.

How is Dummett an easy target? If anything, I would think he gets more leeway because he's local. I think people watch him play and don't think he is that good.

People having different opinions doesn't make them weak minded.

Yeah, he was pretty effective as an RM in our s*** formation last season, but it's not where he's best or where I want to see him. His style was to overrun the ball, but then win it again as he's built to crush pretty much every LB in a 50/50, before drilling a low cross/cutback. Not ineffective, but not exactly good to watch. Completely agree - just saying that even in the wrong position and playing badly, he was still incredibly effective despite some people swearing blind that he was crap.

Think I was on holiday in Singapore and got a text about it. I had always been fairly disparaging about people being upset about famous people dying before that, but I was absolutely amazed about how much it affected me.

Isn't there that stat about Sissoko creating the most chances in the PL last year or something? Even when he was playing badly, he was still a massive threat. Think this was it - http://eplindex.com/53792/epl-2013-14-most-creative-midfielders-nasri-hazard-coutinho.html Obviously not top of chances created but pretty impressive.

Absolutely spot on. Even domestically, I don't think he is that close to Shearer. If Shearer hadn't had those two serious injuries, you could easily add at least 60 more PL goals to his record, if not more.

Really reluctant to bite on this, but are people genuinely suggesting that Paul Dummett is a better centre half than MYM?