littlelunchbox

talent? i forgot

tunnel vision the boy has, gets the ball then run, gets the ball and run, gets the ball just runs.

pardew had enough of his offsides?

its europa league not champions league, plus a lot casual fans havent even heard of maritimo.

Confetti bounces up and down? just everywhere i guess. bouncing would be like ping pong balls more like. your right. remember that sony advert when millions of balls get released into a san francisco street? and balls goes everywhere, thats how i imagine our training ground looks like. just players kicking thin air whilst footballs are out of control all over the place

i said it all along our team cant pass, cant control a simple football. it's like rocket science or something, its beyond them. i would have thought thats one the first things you learn as a footballer, control the ball. i wonder what these guys do in training with Pardew, oh I know it goes like this ...... Pardew doing his salesman routine, standing far out in the sidelines with his megaphone, shouting... "good lads! wow you guys are amazing, champions league spot contenders , honest! keep going" and then he watches the players run around the field like crazy headless chickens whilst he orders footballs to be fired from cannons with balls everywhere like confetti bouncing up and down like mad.

yes i can take my 15 min power nap, fucking hell that was tiresome to watch. zzzZZZzzzzzz

when was the last time HBA started in the middle? last season vs chelski? when we got battered?

oh wow all of a sudden Pardew decides to field a full strength side, how predictable, not shytting himself a bit after Di Matteo got the boot is he?

Where is this from btw? Simpson plays alot of long balls, but yes i agree i would include Cabaye and Colo as well.

the worrying thing is problem of lack of movement is very much by design. The more movement the more holes you got in the team, Pardew does not like that. The are told to keep their shape and not move unless they have to. Our team only begins to move when its for the second ball straight after the long ball.

That Wigan one was hard to take as we got raped. Was it Di Santo that scored that weird beast? dont remember who scored but it was definitely a filthy scoreline ive tryed best to forget but couldn't.

yep mentioned it a few post earlier we actually played 4-3-3/4-5-1 that game ironically, also remembered the collapse vs WBA and getting tonked by Wigan 4-0

then you shouldnt have any complaints about Pardew. swansea game this season was a great example of when we didnt play enough turgid football and lost because of it.

because the players have been indoctrinated , its the only way they can play effectively. like brainwashed by Pardew. when we try to pass it around they play even worse.

my biggest concern now is not that the opposition has found Pardew out, im just really really worried that its our own players now that have found him out. From what the players are still saying i think he's ok with them, but if we keep losing i dont think that'll stay the case. I know its a broken record now but using 4-4-2 and hoy it footy with the players we have is not good, but more importantly the teams we are playing have figured that out and are just countering it. That and as Wullie was saying, why stop using such a good tactic such as the 4-3-3 (worked for us anyhoo), when it quite plainly gets the best out of more players than 4-4-2 does. Baffling decision like. because 4-3-3 wouldn't work either. It worked over a handful of games towards the end of a season vs teams that had nothing left to play for. People forget that. We also tried 4-3-3/4-5-1 atleast once this season, the most memorable was the first half vs Everton when we got virtually bent over and taken to task. Switched back to 4-4-2 second half.

you can at least rub out one from that list, the away win vs Stroke was a win but a shocking one, at the time i enjoyed it because any win vs Pulis the turd is a great one, but damn did we stink it up, we smashed them at their own game using their towels to dry the ball and launch with throwings and long balls all night long. Don't want to see too many of those games tbh. I know if a neutral was watching it, they wouldnt had got any jollies from that game.

im convinced the only way we can finish this season in any decent position, is if we go straight back to turgid football, back to the defend deep, start cautious and catch teams on the break with direct play. not saying its the best way. But it's the only way Pardew knows how to do it. He has shown that his great strength is organizing a team to defend and he does it well. Are we not already playing this way? Turgid football - Check, defend deep - check, start cautious - check. It ain't working its worked relatively ok this season , not as great and lucky as last season in regards to results, our biggest non results when we came unstuck vs teams we expected to do well against., westham, swansea, bruge etc. We actually change the usual Pardew game plan in regards to those games, we went into those game to pass and attack and fell flat on our asses, we did a comeback vs bruge after we switched back to route one football. Trust me its the only way Pardew can get any type of results from his team.

my biggest concern now is not that the opposition has found Pardew out, im just really really worried that its our own players now that have found him out.

im convinced the only way we can finish this season in any decent position, is if we go straight back to turgid football, back to the defend deep, start cautious and catch teams on the break with direct play. not saying its the best way. But it's the only way Pardew knows how to do it. He has shown that his great strength is organizing a team to defend and he does it well.

nah the only time i was truely convinced of Pardew was when he first took over from CH, when he first took over we went from somewhat direct play of CH to some great mixture of passing and attacking game with some directness thrown in. It was a period in this latter half of the season when i thought wow, this guy knows what he's doing , but sadly that turned out to be a honeymoon period, the following next season, yes we finished 5th but our football style has deteriated into route one defend deep and hit on the break with long balls, didn't complain too much as it got results. I wasn't even that convinced with that handful of games when we played well towards the end of last season, it was pretty much open season against teams that didnt have anything to play for but we did by trying to get that 4th spot. there were big warning signs, getting smashed by teams like fulham and wigan during that season, showed when Pardew wanted to deploy an attacking line-up it just falls on its arse. Pardew has got no clue when it comes to tactic in regards to attack.

they had one less on target compared to us , hence the scoreline ...err what yep we're shyt

brilliant more pressure on pardew

our team is too conditioned in the Pardew way. As in cautious football, defend deep and hit on the counter attack. its great when it works to a certain extent, as in terms of giving us a solid foundation and a defense thats hard to break down, we are organized in the back four. the problem is ....that is the only way the team knows how to play, when they are encouraged to attack as in vs Swansea, Bruge etc, the whole defense turns to shyt because they are not accustomed to that form of football, like being coached out of their game, too conditioned, sort of like institutionalized in school of Pardew. the only way our team knows how to flourish is be on the backfoot, and hope to catch teams out on the counter.