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He's no better than Ben Arfa according to some on here, like. Best player in the league atm IMO.

To be fair our movement is no existent and the fact we drop off so far means we can't get out as Chelsea just push up and compress the play That sounds familiar. As you know, Until we bin Pardew this will always be an issue. He doesn't understand the basics of football despite some peoples belief he's a decent manager/coach.

To be fair our movement is no existent and the fact we drop off so far means we can't get out as Chelsea just push up and compress the play

He will probly Sub Sammy again at HT

Nice to see Taylor busting a gut to be back in position

Why lump it to De Jong when he has no support ffs? I hope Krul gets a game for Holland so I can see if he does this bullshit for them as well.

To keep the score down

We have so many players back yet their always seems to be oceans of space in front of our back 4

Clear it and give it right back to them for them to start over? Seriously we may as well just play 11 defenders and have done ffs.

The usual 40 yards between our forward and anyone else I see

Too bad he's unable to make that formation work.

In http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01591/pard_1591800a.jpgwe trust.

This lol. Why did we even buy him? No Marv either

Too bad he's gone backwards during his time here. Well Barry and Bale struggled as left backs and it was only when they adapted to midfield and more centrally that they showed respective international and world class quality. Obviously if this is a defensive strategy it is a bad one, but if it is a chance to develop Santon it could be a good move. Santon only ended up at left back by chance anyhow. Maybe against Mourinho he will get a chance to establish a new better position. In the case of Barry he's a more intelligent player. As for Bale he's a devastating attacking threat santon isn't

Too bad he's gone backwards during his time here.

Play santon central midfield sounds like a wonderful idea /s

Aye...it was all part of Pardew's lull them into a false sense of security for 70 minutes tactic and then attack for 20. It was a genius masterplan for two reasons. 1) When the 70 minutes mark came, Benfica would be completely surprised but be too tired to do anything about it and 2) We would conserve energy for the next league game despite it being an unimportant one against whomever. Simple but f***ing ingenious. It's the reason why manager of the year accolades were bestowed upon him. Don't get me started on the stupidity of that whole charade

You didn't smack the Cunt?

Rather comoli than let Pardew buy the likes of Tomkin's and Bent

Yet we can't reach a consensus on this point FML

I want to like total sport but its garbage just a bunch of fence sitters who are afraid to to upset the apple cart. Fair play to harps though, when they were going overboard on us being gready wanting to spend lots he stopped them and talked about the happy medium

Is it me, or is little being done to try and get him back into form? The problem Cisse has is that he isn't very good at football: he's absolutely dreadful at controling the ball under any sort of pressure. He isn't strong at all for a centre forward. He isn't particularly good in the air. He seems to have some sort of issue with being offside as well. Worst of all is his complete lack of technique. When your number 9 is through on goal you want some belief that the ball is going in the corner of the net. The most simple way is head over the ball - laces - corner - goal. Worked for Ferdinand - Shearer - Collymore - Fowler - any number of top England centre forwards. Cisse has never shown he can do that on a regular basis, that is why I would snap anyone's hand off for £3m plus and if some one is actually willing to pay £10m for him then they must be on drugs. Yup Pardew playing him on the wing or as a target man hasn't helped either

Am I the only one concerned by the idea that Pardew will now be able to pick who we buy

That's one get out of jail free card Ashley has used. Wonder if he will roll the rice and get another one

Everyone on here also blames Ashley et al. Most of us however also see Pardew for what he is.