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Aye, the smug approach seems a lot more natural to him.

Fucking hell that's ridiculous

Second in the current form table: http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/matchday/form-guide.html Especially impressive with some of the teams we've faced.

Aye, I think so too. He does actually do the tracking back when playing wide right but you can just tell he doesn't have the defensive awareness to be very effective at it, there's a lot more to covering your fullback than just being there.

To be fair to the mackems they've always been decent against 10 men, unfortunately for them most weeks they'll have to play 11.

We've beaten Chelsea, Spurs and Man Utd in recent weeks so no reason we can't turn these over as well if our players are on their game. I expect a big performance from Cabaye in particular - think he's only worth 11 million you cheeky bastards??

Wasn't great again - think Haidara must be running him very close for a start now.

He just looks lost in central midfield, and his first touch lets him down a bit - is far better on the right at the moment I reckon.

Hope he plays it sensibly and doesn't try too hard to do everything himself.

Has Moyes always been this much of a cock or is he just growing into the position?

That was some genuinely amusing defending

Think he might actually start HBA today and save Shola for Sunday, reckon Arsenal is more the type of game he might try rough them up with the big lad up top...

Happy Christmas everyone!

I don't think there's any doubt that the extra European games had a big impact on our league form last season, but a big part of that was how poorly he handled it. Hopefully if we do get back in some big lessons have been learned. Although it doesn't look like the one about not whining on about it has been!

Mackem mate just been bemoaning the fact that they haven't scored a goal away from home since August - had to check, but it is actually true!

I quite like that they've appointed Sherwood, if only because he seems like a massive bell-end so I can get back to despising them properly.

This might end any interest we might have had in the lad: Or bring his price down, which we know Ashley likes!

Aye, Cardiff are pretty shite. They're also 7 points ahead of the mackems, who are worse.

Have to admit I continue to find it amusing that Martinez has Everton so far ahead of Moyes at Man Utd.

Did Vasquez win a competition to get a game for Swansea? He's turd.

Disappointing game so far.

I also suspect Shola quite likes his "never missed a penalty" record and was happy not to have to risk it....

Pretty sure that'll be it, hopefully get to see HBA for more than 10 minutes at the end too.

Santon is probably the only one of the current starters not in top form, if he gets back to his best we'll have real threat down both flanks for the first time in absolutely ages...

Superb performance today, brilliant.