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He was caught in possession because he had nobody moving and creating the space he was looking for. Thats the thing though, Guthrie gets caught in posession because he's s***, Tiote gets caught in possesion because everyone else is s*** Tiote for me needs to stop turning into his blindspots too often as he has lost posesion a few times in recent weeks because of it, and eventualy players will cotton on and purposely charge him from behind whenever he wins the ball in the hope he turns the ball towards them. He is absolutely brilliant at what he does, but when we are playing s*** and underpressure like today he is always more likely to be pressured into giving it away cheeply.

I agree, hence how I think it's a bit cliche when it gets tossed about, I have no doubt he does have an effect on the team like but not to the extent that they somehow fold withought his valliant presence amongst them.

He is when he doesn't score. Not realy like, he's not the best on the ball and his array of passing is nowt to be envious of but he offers a bit of bite in the middle (a lot more than Guthrie has shown recently) and he always offers top support for Carroll. I don't think it's any coincidence that when Nolan plays Carroll seems x10 the player he does when he's not. His presence on the pitch (both vocaly and physicaly) seems cliche but it cannot go unoticed, he definatly is the type of charicter that can boost a team low on morale. Obviosly there are a lot of cracks there that are papered over when he gets on the scoresheet, but they aren't as bad as people tend to make out when he doesn't.

I would say Nolan was the most underated player to be honest, he's no where near as inept as people on here like to make out.

I'm willing to wager that he does that because there's jack-all movement around him. I'm also willing to wager that he'd prefer to be sitting with spelks in his arse from the Twente bench than play alongside Puffrie again. Simply awful

Was justabout to post the exact same thing Cajun, Chelsea are also proving how difficult it can be with key players missing.

Probably faked tbh, I know I would have

Although he was poor today he was made to look even worse by the fact Tiote doesn't get forward either (but he has an excuse as it's he's job not to), we we're effectively playing with 2 deep lying midfielders who both prefer to play the simple pass and lack the ability to split a defence open (ala Barton). I know he's a better payer than that as i've seen it with my own eyes, but if he keeps this up then I echo others sentiments, get rid.

At the very least Nolan would have pressed the ball and atleast tried to move forwards, the first half especialy we just let WBA have the ball and do whatever the pleased with it, it was embaracing to watch.

You were hardly Brazil and caught us on a particularly bad off day, missing key players. We'll beat you at our place with a couple of players back. Will we? well thats nice to hear

from what I remember he was only beaten once all game by tchoyi and thats when he picked up his yellow, other than that he never put a foot wrong, nowt spectacula, but he was far from poor.

Hopefuly Barton and Nolan aren't out for much longer, we offered absolutely nothing in midfield today, fucking pitiful.

Probably the laziest performance from any team i've ever seen. Honestly, what the fuck was that? We need to pack thoofing it up the pitch in aswell, Carroll more often than not wins the ball but heads into fucking no-mans land, literaly EVERY time we've went long we've conceded posession.

Amazing read, especialy the last few posts

And the tropical wonderland that is Russia was a better choice? The English bid was by far the best for everyone in every way minus the Iberian weather.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/columnists/jimwhite/8178265/As-Russia-and-Qatar-will-find-when-you-invite-the-world-Fifa-hitches-along-for-the-ride.html http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/sport/duncanwhite/100014090/qatars-world-cup-victory-shows-full-extent-of-fifas-greed/

On a bright note 2014 in Brazil should be a fun world cup

isn't qatar about the same size as Newcastle?

The SA World Cup was by some distance the shittest tournament i've ever watched

i'm a spacker man, leave is alone

what a fucking rediculas choice, I imagine the Russian attempt at hosting a world cup would be the equivalent to a geriatric disco at the local comunity centre. Such a boring fucking country

what the fuck is this cunt talking about

It's not even England not winning it (going by reports), buut theyve literaly selected the 2 shittest options, atleast I could have flew ove to spain on a 2 hour flight and got pissed on a barrel sangrea.

arghh quatar man, what the fuck seriously?

hardly the most jovial country in the world is it, shite weather aswell