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first half attack cisse ba hba midfield of cabaye perch guthrie defence of jonas colo willo simpson second half a few changes went back to 442 and then 4411 sholas ended up playing as right wing did pretty well actually and gosling was playing behind BA. and, again i'm led to believe, depsite all those changes we never really managed to get the ball down and play nor dominate norwich, norwich i'm just not on board with pards like, great we're 6th but what alpal said is pretty much on the money yep, and to think, we were playing the same exact shoddy type of s*** last time round when we got raped 4-2 by the same norwich i think its a great indication of how bad the teams are below us, then yet again they seem be able to get points off us or even beat us quite often. leaves me to the question, how the fuck are we in 6th. the mind boggles.

i was a little angry when pardew said oh we won and we had 8 senior players out injured. fuck off with that shit, he really does sound like a con man when he comes out with shit like that, 8 players ! really??? like how many of those 8 players would have started today Pardew? fuck off

first half attack cisse ba hba midfield of cabaye perch guthrie defence of jonas colo willo simpson second half a few changes went back to 442 and then 4411 sholas ended up playing as right wing did pretty well actually and gosling was playing behind BA.

We do not have infinite stamina. That said, our game plan is to score a few during the first half to finish them off. We wasted a few sitters and that leads to the pressure for 2nd half. i dont like it personally. didn't looked like we were that interested or desperate to finish them at all after the first goal, we pretty much crawled into our shells after the goal and attempted to counter for the rest of the half quite timidly.

i disagree we were very good for about 15-20 min max. the rest of the half degenerated and carried over to the 2nd half.

just trying to emphasize how stupid and irrelevant that word is when it comes to describing the match.

That's very relevant to the topic of passing, cheers. Quite pertinent to the topic of winning football matches, which Alan Pardew (the perosn being discussed in this thread) is paid to do. Just broadening the debate is all I don't think anyone's debating that we won the game. Could've fooled me. We beat a confident Norwich side. Who don't forget, beat us 4-2 last time out. a confident norwich side? we were raped 4-2 last time, were norwich confident back then?, so they been confident for how long then? what about us then? what about our confidence, why can't we have their confidence?

^this if anyone think that was a straight forward home win, then sorry you only watched match of the day .

Actually, when the opponents have 4 players upfront for pressing, most of the time it's either hoofing or a decent dribbling from the side backs. im talking about keeping the ball so the opposition can't pressurise us in the first place. they can have as many men pressing, if they dont have the ball they can't do anything. If that's as easy as in FIFA. i wouldnt know lol i dont play it, but its not rocket science, string a few passes in midfield to keep procession of the ball , something our team havent tried for a long time. or incapable of doing.

Actually, when the opponents have 4 players upfront for pressing, most of the time it's either hoofing or a decent dribbling from the side backs. im talking about keeping the ball so the opposition can't pressurise us in the first place. they can have as many men pressing, if they dont have the ball they can't do anything.

wtf? do you watch football matches or do you just watch stats?

just curious. is it really that difficult to keep hold of the ball? is not rocket science. just pass the fucking ball and move, keep it in the midfield and pass it around. it gets diffcult when teams try to pass and move and walk it into the goal, im not asking for that. all i expect is our team to be able to string half a dozen passes together in midfield now and again and relieve some pressure off themselves. fucking hell , either these players are completely shit or the manager is. or maybe even both.

we looked good for the first 20 minutes then we scored and went back to same shitty self that we are, no urgency, no cohesion and no direction. exactly the same as when we played wolves, played well for first 20mins and went to pot. are these changes due to alan pardew? or are they they due to the weak mentality of the players i really don't know. all i know is, we havent looked remotely like a football team for more 45mins in a game since when? cant remember. the win over man utd?

i thought it looked like that after 15mins when we scored, no?

wow seems like ages since we got a 3 pointer pffff!!! Stinking game! off to open the windows now

delia smith looks gormless. dont worry delia so are we

shola look like the best winger we had in the last 3 years

True enough.. Questions can be asked about what is being said in the dressing room at half time when we're up at home against a side we should normally be able to beat.. My guess is the players are filled with defensive instructions, and it puts us under a lot of pressure.. question needs to be asked if the manager has lost the dressing room, because they look like they cant be arsed or they havent got a clue.

beardsley sitting there with his legs crotched to one side, he looks a bit bored

4-4-1-1 now gosling behind ba shola on the wing

yes gosling is on! we got this lads dont worry!

bring on oberdong

pardew show us your notepad!, what does it say?

people we been shit since the 15min mark in the first half.

back to? not as if there wasnt enough hoof already