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In fairness, it was fairly clear that there was some sort of conversation between Taylor and Mbiwa (possibly at Pardew's instigation) that they should switch when it came to Graham. They just didn't seem to follow up on it particularly well.

Debuchy was probably our best player yesterday.

Yeah - at least it would be entertaining! Would be interesting to see what attacking coaches like that could do with our players. Continuing the football 'hipster' trend - the other option would be Dragan Stojkovic. Is he the one Wenger wanted as successor? Manager of some J-League club I think. Edit: http://espnfc.com/news/story/_/id/876897/arsene-wenger-lines-up-dragan-stojkovic-as-arsenal-successor?cc=4716 Yeah - that's him. Read an article on him in the Blizzard a while back and he seems pretty good.

Yeah - at least it would be entertaining! Would be interesting to see what attacking coaches like that could do with our players. Continuing the football 'hipster' trend - the other option would be Dragan Stojkovic.

You need to remove those specs you borrowed from Pardew - they were by far the more dangerous side and could easily have scored more ; Taylor lucky to escape a pen award for shirt-pulling in the box for starters... We were second best in every department bar goalkeeper, mainly due to Pardew's lousy selections and hopeless, outdated tactics. Whilst he remains at the club, there will be more days like these..... Fair enough - was at the game with my dad who has wanted Pardew out from the start (even after last season) and he agreed/brought it up so I don't think 'Pards specs' are really relevant. Obviously saw the game completely differently. If Cisse's goal stood and we went into the last 25-30 mins at 1-1 (having been on the ascendancy), I can't see us losing that game.

Let's get him in then - at least we would have an interesting formation to analyse.

I mentioned him on an earlier page, but what is Bielsa's situation at Bilbao? I assume he is wildly unrealistic, but I was wondering whether he will be staying on after season and how long his contract is etc?

Is he really missing too many chances? Isn't a good conversion rate for strikers about 20% (I suppose you can't judge whether one chance is harder than another etc)?

Keegan used to practice 5-aside football just to get movement and one touch passing instilled in the team. It was old fashioned, but still light years ahead of what Pardew does IMO. i said this exact thing yesterday about 20 mins into the game...if pardew can do nothing else he needs to have them playing 5-a-side for a couple of hours every day so they can learn to pass to each other, how to make space for a pass when it's tight...football basics really I'd agree with that. Would probably insist on a one touch five aside game and no balls above head height.

I haven't been on the forum since the game so haven't really followed what has been said previously. Aside from whether Pardew should still be our manager and general anger at our performances this season as a whole, I genuinely don't think that 3-0 was a fair reflection of the game. If Cisse's goal has stood, I am fairly certain that we would have won that game. I fully expect to have a load of people asking if I was at a different game etc etc, but I stand by the fact that our performance did not merit a 3-0 defeat. Thought it was interesting to see that the Sunderland players that seemed most keen on 'taunting' the NUFC fans were Johnson and Colback. Didn't see what Graham was doing...

Jesus, I didn't even think he was that bad yesterday...

Bielsa, Zemen, Laudrup or Jol. All unrealistic but I can dream.

No doubt already been mentioned but there must be a way that a song can be made up for him to sussudio by Phil Collins? Surely?

Spot on.

Same here.

We can definitely get at them - I am still not convinced they are that good at the back.

Apologies - misread your post. I thought you meant we had had a keeper who did that recently - didn't realise you were referring to FF as I didn't he'd really played enough to be missed!

Who did we have before who did that? Not having a go, just interested as your description doesn't seem to fit any keeper we have had.

I love the idea of a 'song book'. I mean.. Does anyone really say that? Sounds incredibly camp.

I think working on defensive positioning and team shape is one of the most important things for a new manager to do and paid dividends last season. If he could now just work a bit more on the creative side, I would be happier. And to be honest, the creative side is just as 'structured' as the defensive side so there is no reason, hopefully, why he can't begin to work on this and improve us in this regard.

Part of the Guardian's "10 things we learned": Unlike some peers, Newcastle United's manager is what the continentals call a "field coach", devoting countless training ground hours to improving, among many other things, the positioning of individual players. He cares deeply about the job and, after landing from Lisbon on Friday afternoon following Thursday night's Europa League 3-1 quarter-final first-leg defeat at Benfica Pardew seemed unusually anxious about Fulham's potential line-up. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2013/apr/08/premier-league-talking-points Just thought it was vaguely interesting.

1 exceptionally good season, 1 exceptionally bad season - give him another one and see what happens is my view.

It's usually a 15 min walk (downhill..). So I reckon a 7-9 min run is doable. Going to be bloody tight though.

In a how short a time do you reckon you could run from the station to the ground? 7-9 mins?

The ball went a fair bit over his head... not sure it would have made any difference.