Smal

Mike Williamson reminds me of that useless southern gym teacher on Waterloo Road. Never liked him since. Guthrie, Cabaye and Best were my picks. Would've picked Smith as well if I had a 4th option.

Of course Barcelona, Real Madrid and Milan would want him. Just because he won't play 90 minutes every week doesn't mean he won't improve their squad.

Is there actually any legitimate reason why he would say these things to the press? I don't understand it at all. All it seems to be doing is (wrongly) turning fans against HBA.

He'll be replacing RvP, surely? Can't see him staying past the Summer

He needs an extended run in the team. Something he has never had. More than 10 starts in a row would do the trick. It reminds me of Sturridge a couple of seasons ago at Chelsea. He would only get 10-15 minutes at the end of games occasionally; and in these games he showed ability, but was always (even more than he does now) shooting from miles away or trying to take too many people on. HBA just needs a run of starts and to be told he should play his natural game rather than just to try and do everything by himself. Unfortunately under Pardew he will never get that chance, and we will never play with the football that will get the best out of him.

So all in all better than Raylor and Obertan.

That didn't happen though

Graham Carr for manager with HBA as assistant

It's been like that all season. We're fortunate enough to have one of the most in form strikers in the league in Demba Ba (and now seemingly Cissé). I dread to think what results would be like if we didn't have a striker in the form of his life

Demba Ba's the main reason we are where we are in the league. Pardew's had a minimal effect imo

He is; I don't disagree with that. But it doesn't mean that Guthrie's been better recently

I love Yohan, but he's not been good recently and there was no way he should've come into the team for Guthrie today. Guthrie's been affecting games in a much more positive way than Cabaye recently

When he's been our best player over a period of games I don't think he's wrong to think that he should be starting. Even ahead of Cabaye

He was terrible, but there are entirely plausible reasons for that. In the form of his life before the game, consistently our best player and then gets dropped as soon as possible. All the confidence he'd been playing with will have been demolished

If I was Cabaye I'd be off this Summer, like. Pardew's sold him a complete lie about the style of football.

Kind of wish we'd have got Mariappa now. Ahh

Can't believe he's come out and said he's not disappointed with our performance . Even said we drew because Wolves were really good

Why didn't we sign a right back and a centre half in January or even last Summer, man Can't expect to get into Europe with Danny fucking Simpson and Mike Williamcunt

His ratings are all over the place on FIFA, like

Think I've said it before, but if he does go, I really hope he goes abroad. Could excel in Spain

Why couldn't Spurs have played like this against us?

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Oh yeah, I forget that Obertan made one tackle two games ago. He's perfectly fine then. Seriously though, I don't see how Guthrie could be worse than Obertan on the right. He deserves to be playing a lot more than Gabby does

instead of Obertan, who just stands still and leaves Simpson exposed

Think he should play right side of midfield against Wolves if Pardew isn't going to play HBA. He has all the attributes of a wide midfielder and he's improved since he was last tried there. Better than Obertan, anyway