Away Toon

That is really very poor from Cisse. Pity we have no alternatives.

Never offside

Can I be the first to say that Sissoko is playing shit. Mind you the fact that Cisse is offside all the time and he has no one to pass to doesn't help.

Why does Pardew let Cabaye take all the corners for fucks sake.

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Colo just kissed their captain down in the tunnel.!!

First of all, lets be clear, he is not going to get sacked, Lambias made that clear in his interview this week. Even if he got us relegated we'd be stuck with him. I think he's a coward, he chickens out of the big decisions and his natural approach to a game Is cautious and defensive. Not playing Tiote and Mapou is cowardice. Perch is a willing but very limited player, both Taylor and Colo look liabilities especially when playing together. I can understand playing Jonas especially away from home when the alternative in Marveaux the invisible man. He could play Anita instead but that would involve making hard courageous decisions. He's yellow.

Check is obviously better at closing out a game or defending a lead than doing anything about the position we were in when he came on. Still yellow streak Pardew bottled it as usual by starting Perch a far inferior player in the first place. Ditto Colo/Taylor instead of Mapou. Normally I would add Marveaux instead of Jonas, but as he was completely invisible when he came on, I'm not sure he's a viable option away from home when we have to defend a lot.

There are some very bad results out there at the moment for us.

He might start but as a defensive midfielder, which is where Montpellier were playing him a lot this season. Should be better than Perch there so why not?

We played well in the first half but Villa let us, they were terrified, had no confidence, and yes we scored a couple of good goals. The second half performance was inexcusable and we are very lucky to get away with all three points. Our players looked terrified, I blame Pardew for that, and it was the most one sided half I've seen for years, against a very poor team. Villa decided to attack, we panicked and hadn't got a clue what to do. Pardew's substitutions made absolutely no sense at all, we were getting overran in midfield so he takes Perch off?? Shola what was he meant to be doing? Jonas stayed on and even by his recent standards he was shocking. Anita when he came on had absolutely no idea what he was meant to be doing. I'm not sure how anyone can defend the indefensible.

Pardew really is an awful manager, the only thing worse than his tactical ineptness which we saw in the second half today, is his cowardice. We might not get relegated, with this squad we certainly shouldn't, though it will probably be close. However there is really nothing to look forward to with this clown in charge, no specific style of football, no going after a game and trying to thrash the opposition, just more of what we saw in the second half today. A bunch of fairly talented football players, hoofing the ball absolutely anywhere with no confidence gained (none installed by the manager anyhow) that they were so much better than Villa in the first half that all they had to do was continue to play the way they had been.

Relegation form for the last 45 minutes. Players out of position everywhere, Mapou in midfield, Anita the furthest forward, shoal at CH, fucking shambolic.

Shola the best CH we've got

Bravery by Lambert, cowardice by Pardew, what a surprise

Could do with them having a man sent off.

Villa are just playing all out attack, they obviously don't think we can defend.

It was a penalty, stupid Debuchy

surfing the big crimson wave I reckon, or just pre match nerves.

Who said that we gave them the same offer? Stop spouting the same shit as the gutter press. You have no idea of what we offered or even if we offered anything at all.

Live on Fox Soccer over here (Caribbean) so I'll have to suffer through it. Third game in a row they've shown live, we better play better than against Norwich and Reading. A draw wouldn't be the end of the world. Have to watch Bentake, by far the best forward on the pitch.

The twat really has done enough damage just with the negative publicity for his contract to be cancelled and him given the boot. I expect we are worried he will turn up somewhere else and we would have lost out financially. Imagine what the new players must think of this cunt hanging around the training ground and even worse getting playing time recently.

On one of the other strands, people are saying that we are still an attractive club to players and that a few bad results doesn't change that, as if that is the reason why all these players want to sign for us (allegedly). Well deep down we all know it's all about the money, why else would a bunch of French players want to come and play for us? They are all getting serious pay rises. The problem with Pardew continuing is that he's very likely to get us relegated, and this time not only we will lose all the good players we have, we won't be in a very good position to come back up. I'm sure unlike the last time they all have relegation clauses and they'll all be off rapido, and who could blame them. Even if we do stay up, no ambitious self respecting player will want to continue playing for a manager who is absolutely incapable of setting up a team to win a match rather than not lose one.

Best RB I,ve seen playing for us. Maybe Beye got close for a while though he had definitely peaked by the time he deserted the sinking ship.

and QPR are no more likely to go down than we are, even considering they've only got one good player. There last three results, wins at Chelsea and WBA and a draw with Spurs, no goals conceded. If he was our manager do you think we would be going down. Answer is no, where with pardew there is a very good chance.