Hanshithispantz

4-4-2 would suit him if we wanted it too, he can go past people for fun and his delivery can be outstanding (the latter mainly going from what i've heard). He's technically the perfect winger for an old fashiioned 4-4-2, but apparently he doesn't track back or something like that...

It's very debatable and we'll not know until he actually gets a decent run of games. He's our 'star man' though without a doubt.

Is evidence needed to back up an opinion nowadays like?

It's fucking pathetic tbh, we could be a very good outfit if we actually tried and it's infuriating as fuck knowing that.

I don't think it's too knee jerk to suggest that should he start Sammy/Shane/Vuckic/Best ahead of Ben Arfa on Wednesday his contract should be terminated with immediate effect.

It's fucking obvious what needs to be done here, it's also obvious that it isn't going to happen.

Bizarre

at Obertan's defensive qualities been one of the reasons for our good form earlier in the season

It's the same drama every year man, this is the start of the inevitable delusion leading up to the game before we dick them and shatter their dreams.

Is everyone still pissed from last night?

meow

Pity the sad basdards have to litter facebook with "FTM". Be happy yous won man you fucking plebs

Ergh

Pointless including Taylor as we SHOULD have a replacement in within the month, so as of current: ------------------------------------------------------- Krul Simpson Williamson Coloccini Santon Jonas Tiote Cabaye Hatem Ba Best ------------------------------------------------------- There is obviosly still a couple of weak links in the squad, and the right side will not link up well at all, but unless we bring anyone else in I would atleast like to see us try something like this.

The only baffling decision he has made so far that has actually came off is the Ameobi sub against Tottenham. Everything else that has been "Pardew what the fuck are you doing?" has proved to be fucking idiotic after the final whistle.

The man is a fucking idiot, it's quite apparent now.

Looked decent during that minute period of decent possession we enjoyed

Routlege is a far better footballer, he suffers from the same phobia as Paul in that he's shit scared to run at anyone in the Premiership, but he could actually cross a ball to some degree, and most of all he made full use of his pace on the break. If there was space to run into Routlege would find it, if there is space to run into Obertan will come to a halt and start dancing about on the ball like a mad cunt.

That has very little to do with him losing the ball a few times tonight like, but yeah you are correct. He's a far better footballer than he showed against 'pool though, pointless making excuses for him

honestly cant remember him receiving a pass or anyone looking to play a pass after he came on. He did receive a pass a few times and promptly lost the ball attempting to get past people when he had no chance of doing so. Yeah, I cannot really blame him like but he lost the ball a few times on his own accord tonight. He did show Obertan how you relieve your team of pressure in a defensive situation once though (when he took the ball back to the touchline and played it back across to Williamson)

You say Tiote, but I lost count of the amount of times he lost possession tonight with fairly short passes. If you're relying on him to be creating something then there's something wrong. Cabaye has some quality about him, certainly, but it's not exactly been abundant from the games I've seen. I guess that can partially be explained from having to work with utter crap like Obertan. Indeed did Jonas actually do anything of note at all tonight? When Tiote gets crowded out he can start going a bit daft tbh, he's a differant player when we're not allowing a team to effectively press us constantly for the majority of the 90 minutes. It is a flaw of his though. Cabaye has shown his quality, some of his passing is excelent and with reletive ease. There has been a fair few games where he hasn't been able to offer much other than his work rate and 'bite' though, which hasn't always entirely been his fault I would guess. But as you say, the praise is a bit strong at times, especialy when people are pinning him as one of the players of the season so far etc.

As I've said before, i'll seriously look into getting him sectioned

Weren't sure if it was Cabaye's or Ba's probably

Cabaye and Tiote are getting bypassed at the minute, we just look completely shite as a whole and I hope it changes. Cabaye's ball into Ba (where he cliped it round Reina and off the line) tonight was the kind of thing he can do when we get a hold of the game.

In that case, fucking hell :lol: