Jack Flash

What about almost every other year though? And it'd be easy to accept European champions getting in the CL rather than 6th or 7th placed teams who've won nothing imo.

The teams who have a chance to win the Uefa Cup don't tend to have a problem qualifying for it the next year so it's a waste of a prize. The FA Cup could also be a CL qualifier at a push.

Cisse? Anita and Marveaux played well against 10 men last night so they deserve to be in the team more. I agree about that. I just can't see him being on the bench for even a short period.

Cisse?

Cisse worked as hard last night on the wing as Ba ever did out there. Last few games actually.

Who would you play? The same? The 3 injuries aren't bad apparently.

Anyway, 4-2-3-1 against Fulham please. Up the Premier League we go.

The word "variation" is getting a good run out this morning... Haha, right o, that's the best you've got to offer Santon was our best/only attacking player down the left. If that made us into a 4-3-3 then fill your boots.

All work and no play makes Jack Flash a 4-2-3-1. I've said yesterday keeping it on the floor and not in the air is the biggest change. And that was accomplished how? By throwing it to a defender? It's interesting to see how Krul did that and we then subsequently passed it round more than usual and didn't immediately concede pressure. Probably just the formation though.

The word "variation" is getting a good run out this morning...

That's not a tactic then? You might have something to say if we'd stayed 4-4-2 in the last two games and seen an improvement. As it is we've gone 4-3-3 and seen an emphasis on passing and moving because its more achievable in that formation with these players. We didn't play 4-3-3. We obviously didn't as there was no 3rd striker, a key element in the last "3" mentioned. Keep following me around and quoting me though. Makes me feel cool Ok, we didn't play 4-3-3, it changes absolutely nothing. Keeping it simple and short is still a tactic, and playing a 4-3-3 or a 4-2-3-1 or any of its variants encourages that tactic with these players. Show a bit of humility man. Still think Ba should be on the wing? Humility, innit. It's getting childish now. There was no 3rd striker which means there couldn't have been a 4-3-3. Ba in the middle, Cisse favouring the right (as he has done for ages) and...

All work and no play makes Jack Flash a 4-2-3-1. I've said yesterday keeping it on the floor and not in the air is the biggest change.

I saw 4-2-3-1, from my seat in SJP. A 4-3-3 needs 3 attackers, unless Santon counts?

http://www.nufc.co.uk/page/Match/Report/0,,10278~2999440,00.html 4-2-3-1, which is what I'd have said. At no point was there a 3 upfront.

No we didn't. Jonas wasn't a forward in even the loosest using of the word.

That's not a tactic then? You might have something to say if we'd stayed 4-4-2 in the last two games and seen an improvement. As it is we've gone 4-3-3 and seen an emphasis on passing and moving because its more achievable in that formation with these players. We didn't play 4-3-3. We obviously didn't as there was no 3rd striker, a key element in the last "3" mentioned. Keep following me around and quoting me though. Makes me feel cool

Any guesses who they'll be? We've used all of our players already bar the players who have only played in the reserves/u-19's.

He was telling Simpson to mark/watch the red carded player who was walking off the pitch. He's thinking outside the box with that one.

y du we neva hamma teams unda pardew? last wuz west am i fink If a team is there for the taking, you take them. 90's kid mentality.

An interesting contrast in attitudes to the last European game we played.

I'd pay Ba what he wants. I've read a number of times he's on approx. 40k a week and we didn't pay a transfer fee for him so it's not like we've already broken the bank to get him and keep him up to now. Pay the extra for him and spend OTHER money on new players. One in one out is a pathetic strategy at this stage.

£7m (or £3.5m as mentioned above), should be fairly easy. Especially as his greedy bastards ways are the sole reason we aren't playing like 70s Brazil at the moment. We'll get a wider forward in (Ben Arfa-esque? why not!) who'll hit the ground running and leave Cisse as the only capable central striker, which works out perfectly as that's the only place he can play.

26 in 49 starts now? Should be easy to replace.

We still got 2. Don't think those things relates at all.

We played 4-3-3 tonight, no? No. Fairly sure we did, like. Tiote Anita - Marveaux Cisse - Ba - Jonas Jonas hardly went near the box tbh. Certainly not enough to call him a forward anyway.