Hughesy

Paul Dummett is basically Paul Huntington. In disguise.

I won't - because he is clearly a better player with a lot more potential. He actually has some of the attributes required of a Premiership footballer.

If Swansea go down, I'd love us to go after Bony.

Exactly - I can't think a single thing he does well. He is slow and has poor technique. He just doesn't look like a footballer.

Haidara is far better.

This.

They haven't really been any better for a side everyone on here seems to admire so much.

Wish they would stop talking about Stones' gash.

Game is made for Ben Arfa.

Probably picked for his brilliant corners.

Dummett is so shit - god knows what Haidara has done wrong.

I would agree with that - whether it was a deliberate shunning is not entirely clear. I thought they seemed slightly more reluctant to pass to him on occasions.

Bony looks an absolute class act now - really wish we had gone in for him.

Good to see the floated corner to Williamson was in full force at the weekend. It works so well I am surprised more teams don't use it.

I think we have got a decent chance of a win in this game. I don't think Everton have been particularly convincing over the last few games.

I was just torturing myself and thinking back to the Sunderland match - why is that pitch invaders at matches are all, to a man, terrible at football? If you are going to invade the pitch and get a ban, you might as well at least lash the ball at the goal from 20 yards out as opposed to waddling towards the ball and scuffing it along the ground.

Ahead of who exactly??

Yep. Totally agree. There were two things I noticed on Saturday though. First, I was surprisedthat quite often our players didn't pass the ball to him when he was free (as alluded to above). Secondly, Ben Arfa seemed a little reluctant to move to make himself available as often as I thought he might do/used to do.

He actually did ok..

I really find irritating that whenever there is a spitting incident in football, immediately people will say 'I'd much rather be punched than spat at'. Neither action is acceptable, but it strikes me as some sort of fake macho stance to immediately trot this line out.

Probably believed the stories about the debt Pardew owes Ashley and wanted to help him out.

Care to paint us a picture of how this scenario may have played out? Maybe Pardew stole 100 pairs of Donnay socks from Sports Direct and owes Ashley loads of money. Like £4.50.

Spot on. Love the Europa league, for all its flaws. Really hope we qualify for it again this year, however unlikely that is.

Gouffran is not a good example, he has been one of our better players irrespective of where he has played. He's never performed like a wide player should in my book. You seem to have quite a fairly unique book though in fairness.

Yeah - there are quite a few stories about Pardew's 'extracurricular' activities.