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Could have sworn he came on in place of Albrighton (sp?) and played right mid during the 6-0 game.

What we played in the second half yesterday with Ben Arfa ahead of Ferguson could work in theory, i'm hoping that with Cabaye and Tiote returning he'll atleast give it a try.

You play 4-4-2 in the Premiership and most see you as some kind of swash-buckling pioneer of sexy attack minded football.

Man City, Ivory Coast, Valencia treble

I agree with all of that, like.

Agree with Beren. I suppose I have to say it otherwise this will get taken out of context, but he's undoubtedly done a good job and i'm happy with him, even if we were 10th he'd be within his target range and it would be hard to critisise him. However there are many times this season where he's made some baffling choices that just havn't paid off (from both a performance and results point of view). My biggest gripe with him though is he seems very set in us playing 1 way and 1 way only, a direct and organised 4-4-2, and other than an odd moment of madness where he randomly seems to "let his hair down" that's all we've played regardless of our personnel, for better or for worse. In a couple of games he went mental with Best and Ben Arfa on the wings and Jonas in the middle, it was quite refreshing to see, we then had a horrible second half against Fulham (after playing probably our best football of the season in the first) and he seemingly has been shocked back into his old 'tried and tested' ways. Now there is no doubt it's worked for us, we started the season very well and other than a few blips we've carried on to this point in similar fashion, but I feel that if we have the same philosiphy next season we won't be half as lucky.

He isn't a scapegoat, he's just shit. No one is blaming him for the defeat yesterday, because it wasn't his fault, he was however shit and has been pretty much 90% of his time here.

Because it makes no difference whatsoever and who would you rather have out there risking injury? I would rather a player who by Pardew's own omission needs to get used to the English game given a bit of pitch time. I'd also prefer to keep said player happy and not completely take the piss out of him by bringing Lovenkrands and Ferguson ahead of him. Yeah, let's keep him happy, that's the most important thing. The obsession with Ben Arfa some people have on here is amazing, he really can do no wrong in their eyes. The reality is that the criticisms of him are fair and in a game we were always going to find tough defensively I can totally understand why Pardew opted to leave him on the bench, it didn't work out, but it was a totally reasonable choice to make. The game was lost from 5 mins in, you could tell that the whole team just wasn't up for it today and putting Ben Arfa on wouldn't have changed anything, he could however have got injured. If we'd have had our first team today then we would definitely have had a legitimate chance of getting something out of this game, but we didn't, and when we don't have our best players on the pitch we're always going to have to rely a bit on luck against the better teams in the league. In that situation we don't have the squad to have a balanced and quality team and Pardew has to make a decision which way to go; defensive or attacking? He chose defensive, defensive didn't work, but in all likelihood if he'd have chosen to go for attacking and start Ben Arfa, it would have ended up going the same way. Once the game had started so badly nothing Pardew could do from the bench was going to change things and in that situation I can understand why he chose not to risk our better players. Yeah, we got a total kicking today, but nothing Pardew did or didn't do was actually that wrong, let alone outrageous, so to get so enraged at him is a bit mental. The players simply weren't at the races from the start, but sometimes that just happens, if we were playing like that all the time then you could pin the blame on the manager, but we aren't, we're doing really well, way better than anyone expected and the manager deserves a huge amount of credit for that. It's fucking pathetic how some people react when we lose at the moment, you'd think we were in the bottom three, not sixth in the league! Christ So err... Yeah, I would prefer our best players to be happy at the club and I do believe it to be quite improtant that they are. I thought (like many other times this season) it was a missed opportunity to get him some game time which I think would ultimately be better for the club. A daft theory I know.

We get it man, settle down. People are overreacting so I'm joining in. Anything's better than your pathetic comments in here earlier. Go and have a cold shower or something man. Go get some fucking respect. Are you pregnant?

We get it man, settle down. People are overreacting so I'm joining in. Anything's better than your pathetic comments in here earlier. Go and have a cold shower or something man.

Because it makes no difference whatsoever and who would you rather have out there risking injury? I would rather a player who by Pardew's own omission needs to get used to the English game given a bit of pitch time. I'd also prefer to keep said player happy and not completely take the piss out of him by bringing Lovenkrands and Ferguson ahead of him.

You cannot make it up man. Peter Lovenkrands ffs. Pardew might as well just reply to every question he's asked after this match with "lol".

Aye Alan bring Lovenkrands on. Tactical genius is Pardew like.

We get it man, settle down.

That's what he's on the pitch for

Some granda coming on

What has he done to Pardew's family?

Shane Ferguson? Aye he's a fucking spacker like.

"Alan Pardew diagnosed with Level 2 Downs"

Might as well just change the title now

He just made a defensive interception in our box. Earned his place tbh.

Are we pissed?

Just stop it, man

Right, get him off the fucking pitch

Is this cunt blind?