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Was possibly a case of just not rushing him back from his injury too soon and giving him the correct amount of time to put himself right.

Very promising prospect that'll only improve. Very solid displays in two tricky away trips for such a young lad. Encouraging.

6 goals in the last 2 away games and we come away with nothing cos of this defence. Only so much work you can do with the personnel but we're talking about the basics just not being done here. Very disappointing.

He's areet like.

The odd game possibly but Ben Arfa has been magic at times for us on the right. The kind of player you accommodate the rest of the team around. Might work some games where the opposition have a poor right back but a strong left back.

Ba will be a huge miss for us when he does go, wouldn't be too confident of any striker coming in (that we can reasonably attract within our budget) and emulating his goalscoring for us. Ideally would like him to stay, while also adding someone like Remy into the team. Think it would be a great sign of intent that we actually want to qualify for Europe regularly, and want to keep the better players at this club by adding players of a similar standard. If we do lose Ba, got a feeling we'll have to wait until the summer for our striking replacement.

That's the problem with cutting your teeth at a big club like that, you always get underrated. He didn't just click his fingers to make the team start playing attractive attacking football, a lot of work will have went on to achieve it. Guardiola should have proven himself to be a very good manager by this point, it's a shame for him that for some there is still that lingering doubt over him.

Much more positive for this than I was. Tough game but I don't think a draw is totally out of the realms of possibility. Just need to approach it positively, no sitting back waiting for the opposition to make the first move.

Debuchy has a contract until 2015, as does Loic Remy.

He better lock up Cathy Ferguson. It's Pardy time.

Love that we've got under his skin so much, for such a small club to wind up the manager of the biggest club in the world, it's really something.

Ferguson has always talked about NUFC with respect, just looks incredibly childish now.

Some might lose their cool once in a while, football is an incredibly tense game. You won't find any manager in the modern game who takes the piss as much as Ferguson does though.

The kind of bloke you love to be on your side but hate to be with the opposition.

Hopefully now Pardew has enough faith in his players ability to go out and give teams something to think about going forward, rather than sitting back defending clean sheets.

How could the club have ever seen this situation coming to put something like that as a clause in his deal. Doubt it'll stand up like, if they want him there they'll get him, or he'll be fined/suspended.

Oh ffs don't tell everyone.

Crucial 3 points, would have been staring down a barrel had we lost. 5 points from the drop zone now, hopefully that gap won't decrease by much over the next 3 games.

Crikey.

Ian W's hopes crushed here. Very harsh indeed.

Dyer out is a huge miss for QPR, can see their confidence dropping now.

Somebody name and shame these muslims, so that I may stone them as they go out about their normal business.

Think it would have possibly done them some good to have gone ahead and had it.

So this turned out to be the perfect set piece that Pardew was fine tuning pre-season?