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What Kanji said

Unbelieveable and Dropout are usually too busy queuing up the "Cisse " posts for when he misses a volley on his weaker foot to realise he spends the majority of games level with Sissoko. He's not exactly Sheringham but he grafts his arse off every week helping out in midfield to the benefit or hindrance of his own game. He's nothing even remotely close to what you would describe as a poacher, but that still doesn't completely negate his need for good service. He's got 3 in 8 since Ba left (who on an unrelated note has 2 in 7 at Chelsea), it's still not spectacular by any means for a forward but it's a definite improvement on what it was, we just need to hope he regains the rest of his form sooner rather than later.

Definitely the worst post I've ever read.

He has a better than 1-in-2 record since 2009, his strength is scoring goals.

I probably would have just replied "bucked yer ma"

It wouldn't have been as bad if he just replied "6 years in the army" tbh, it's the "served and protected your country"

Yeah definitely, Ben Arfa should provide the extra bit of cutting edge we're lacking up top, other that it's as good as we can expect at the minute.

Hahaha As I said I agree that the players' quality has a lot to do with it, that is total bollocks though.

I do think there's a lot of truth in this like. We undoubtedly have the quality in the side and it really shines through at times, Swansea still had far better movement today though when they went forward, it wasn't even comparable.

They were but he's still way ahead of us with a significantly worse squad. It's not about Laudrup anyway, it's purely about Pardew's performance this season being utterly shameful. Well yeah, I completely agree with that.

What the fuck is actually expected here anyway? That we go to Swansea and absolutely flatten them, creating a mountain of chances banging goals in left right and centre? We played well and were unlucky to lose, that's the end of it for me. Pardew didn't exactly "play a blinder" but he didn't do anything worth criticising.

That sums it up really well. At 0-0 he wasn't desperate to get a goal and that is totally unacceptable given the circumstances. The only change he could've realistically made would've been Marveaux/Obertan for Jonas and even that would've been churlish considering how well Jonas and Debuchy linked up in the second half. We had no other game changers on the bench. Yet Luke Moore has changed the game for them by shuffling the pack and sending Michu back to run midfield. Last season against Man City, Mancini took a striker off for De Jong to release Toure, who scored within five minutes. You don't always need a "game-changer" if you think about it enough. Pardew is embarrassingly poor at doing this because he's a tactical dud. Sometimes as a manager you have to do stuff to change the game that goes beyond hoying Shola on. That is all he knows. You talk an obscene amount of shite Wullie Luke Moore did absolutely nothing when he came on other than stand prone and swing a leg at the ball while our defense disintegrated around him. I like Laudrup, but it was not a tactical masterstroke by any stretch of the imagination. Michu did little when either up front or in midfield today. It's pretty clear there are a small number of people on here that will not accept that we can get dealt a bad hand and Pardew can't be held accountable for it. He's damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. I never said Luke Moore did anything (other than score the winning goal), I said Laudrup shuffled the pack by bringing him on. You obviously think a manager can only change the game by bringing on some sort of super-sub. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. We're 15th ffs. Most teams in the league would have beaten Swansea today, they were appalling, very much "after the Lord Mayor's show" and yet they still won. We didn't need to change the game though, they did. We were creating chances and were pretty unlucky not to be ahead, what could he have done to change things? Well he plays one of his forward players purely for his defending, maybe he should have taken him off for a start. And replace him with who? Obertan? I don't think Jonas was that bad today anywho.

Laudrup looks a far better manager than Pardew like, I fully agree with that, but SUPER MASTERMIND MICHAEL needed a last grasp flukey winner at home to take 3 points, up until that his side were 2nd best.

That sums it up really well. At 0-0 he wasn't desperate to get a goal and that is totally unacceptable given the circumstances. The only change he could've realistically made would've been Marveaux/Obertan for Jonas and even that would've been churlish considering how well Jonas and Debuchy linked up in the second half. We had no other game changers on the bench. Yet Luke Moore has changed the game for them by shuffling the pack and sending Michu back to run midfield. Last season against Man City, Mancini took a striker off for De Jong to release Toure, who scored within five minutes. You don't always need a "game-changer" if you think about it enough. Pardew is embarrassingly poor at doing this because he's a tactical dud. Sometimes as a manager you have to do stuff to change the game that goes beyond hoying Shola on. That is all he knows. You talk an obscene amount of shite Wullie Luke Moore did absolutely nothing when he came on other than stand prone and swing a leg at the ball while our defense disintegrated around him. I like Laudrup, but it was not a tactical masterstroke by any stretch of the imagination. Michu did little when either up front or in midfield today. It's pretty clear there are a small number of people on here that will not accept that we can get dealt a bad hand and Pardew can't be held accountable for it. He's damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. I never said Luke Moore did anything (other than score the winning goal), I said Laudrup shuffled the pack by bringing him on. You obviously think a manager can only change the game by bringing on some sort of super-sub. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. We're 15th ffs. Most teams in the league would have beaten Swansea today, they were appalling, very much "after the Lord Mayor's show" and yet they still won. We didn't need to change the game though, they did. We were creating chances and were pretty unlucky not to be ahead, what could he have done to change things?

I don't think Tiote put a foot wrong today personally, he got booked and everyone instantly assumes he's a wreckless nutcase and starts shouting at him Having said that I think Anita could have done Tiote's job against Swansea's midfield and obviously is a far better option when we're on the ball.

With Ben Arfa coming back though there isn't really room for him if we are to play with both Tiote and Cabaye. There probably would have been a decent case to play Sissoko in Jonas' role like with the 3 of them in centre but he's been just fine through the middle.

In what way? Just out of curiosity. Well just the Routledge stuff really, seems a really strange and needless dig to have given the majority thought exactly the same. He never looked like the player he is now with us or Villa or Spurs. Ah aye, I thought I was in the matchj thread for some reason Thought I'd missed something

Jesus wept, man Eh? did you say something? He said "Jesus wept, man" and then chuckled.

I'll slate Pardew when he's bad like, this is just fucking nit picking though.

In what way? Just out of curiosity.

Cisse missed 1 chance on his left foot. That chip when Sissoko was busting a gut to get round the outside of Williams was exactly good mind. Know what you're saying though. genuinely the worst effort on goal I've seen by any player since his back heel attempt earlier in the season.

Cisse missed 1 chance on his left foot.

I agree that we probably should still replace him in a idealistic world, but I really cannot criticise him since the new players have arrived.

Because Carr thought Lallana was shite?

And yet his sub & the subsequent moving of Michu back in to midfield changed ended up changing the game in their favour and allowed them to see out the win. Not that I think Pardew did owt wrong today, maybe could have made changes but we were in the ascendency so that would be reactionary/hindsight loaded guff from me.