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I agree but his limitations as an actual footballer is what makes me feel as if we can't play him.

You know things are bad when people are clamoring for Williamson to brought into the starting eleven

Which happen week in and week out... No they don't. a lot of the goals we concede appear to be down to this, How many times have people slagged off various players already? Debuchy, Santon, Colo and & Mbiwa last night. We must have some of the most error prone defenders in the league. Well, there wouldn't be many mistakes in football if players didn't make mistakes. Our players aren't perfect, they make mistakes, as does every other defender. When they do, they deserve criticism, and when it happens often, they need dropping or replacing. I'm not denying defensive organisation is part of the problem (our high number of goals conceeded since the start of last season), but there's more to it than that, such as seasoned professionals not even challenging for a bouncing goal kick.. It appears their is a lack of ownership being taken by everyone in the team. But Pardew is the one selecting the players, he's the one coaching them day in and day out. No one should have a clearer idea of who is good at what. Every single player we've bought has regressed under him.

Exactly, I'm sorry but when everyone in the side is making individual errors I think it's time to look at the bigger picture.

Which happen week in and week out... No they don't. a lot of the goals we concede appear to be down to this, How many times have people slagged off various players already? Debuchy, Santon, Colo and & Mbiwa last night. We must have some of the most error prone defenders in the league.

Which happen week in and week out...

Dear god you are thick. With Taylor being injured if you don't play Williamson you have to play Colo and Mbwia who up until yesterday had conceded 6 in a game and a half. Surely not too difficult to grasp. But we will be facing Fraser Campbell this weekend who isn't no great shakes in the air but is quick. Williamson is slow as f***in awful on the ball. Again it's the organisation of the defense which is the main issue here

Back to hoof ball and inviting even more pressure if we have williamson and colo

We have no width from any of our attacking players they all come in field. I'm not sure having our fullbacks sit back and defend is a good idea it will just make us easier to play against. We need Pardew to actually do what he claims to be good at and coach the team into playing as a unit and pressing cohesively. I've said it over and over we have no defensive structure our players haven't been instructed how to defend properly. We don't press, we don't get tight we aren't compact & we live oceans of space between our lines. As long as we defend in this nondescript way we will be punished.

I saw a tweet from someone last night (Mark Duffy) who said the press are ready to put knives into Pardew now. Did they get a green light from the press ombudsman or something? I haven't seen anyone speak badly about him in the press. He has had such a easy ride the media have sucked up his multitude of excuses.

@ ronaldo You do realise Taylor isn't very good right?

Hatem was played out of position last night. I don't understand why he's getting flack for it, he actually tried to make things happen in the first half

Supposed to be. The rumour was that Carr had him lined up and Kinnear blocked it, which is a worry. If true, Carr presumably realised we needed someone a bit more imposing in that position, but was undermined. Fixed

4 central midfielders and 2 strikers? In a 4231 looks like a Pardew team

Its always this way when he gets shoved out wide. After all he only started playing their when we signed him and our tactical mastermind got hold of him.

We have no shape, at the back and part of the reason is that we're expecting both fullbacks to defend and act as wingers. It leaves us so short at the back because our midfielders don't cover them, we're clueless. Yep, two holding players and we still had neither sitting in front. Something that has been said so many times by me and others it's ridiculous. This is purely a poor managers tactical ineptitude at it's finest.. It beggars belief no one in the team knows what they are doing. It baffles me why no one just sits. Anita did it against Villa, and Fulham. And we played better for it. Soon as Tiote comes in we have stopped doing it. I dont understand how Pardew or the players cant see it themselves. Poor management its as simple as that He doesn't have a clue tactically and has no idea how to get the best out of the players he's been given. For the system of buying players we employ Pardew isnt the manager we need.

This post is utter lunacy like. Every time I see him attempt to "keep it tight" from the start of a game, that's when we get f***ed up the arse, like tonight. Shifting Ben Arfa because he's scared of their full back, that's what he thinks "keeping it tight" is, completely f***ing up your own game because of fear. Staggering that you think he has "shown how to construct a back four" - taking one over from another manager that has been playing together for years does not count as "constructing". He has shown only that he's totally incompetent at putting together a new unit. Aye this has me thinking about how Bayern under hitzfeld exploited Barca's weaknesses instead of trying to stop them playing I call that a winners mentality

We have no shape, at the back and part of the reason is that we're expecting both fullbacks to defend and act as wingers. It leaves us so short at the back because our midfielders don't cover them, we're clueless. Yep, two holding players and we still had neither sitting in front. Something that has been said so many times by me and others it's ridiculous. This is purely a poor managers tactical ineptitude at it's finest.. It beggars belief no one in the team knows what they are doing.

Its not just one bad game in the last 6 months sadly. That being said I'm not judging any of our players until we have a proper manager.

Di Canio? Oh wait

Yes we do. By bringing in a manager who actually knows how to fucking manage.

Doesn't he? if he isn't telling Santon what positions he should be taking up and which direction he should be showing his man he's not doing his job. at the end of the day Pardew picks these f***ing players and he coaches them; they we're highly rated before they came here and have gone backwards ever since. the maths is f***ing simple. Aye I understand that, Pardew takes a massive share of the blame. All I'm saying is Santon is a fullback, his job is to stay goal side of his winger and stop the cross coming in. Colo is an experienced international CB and he doesn't bother to look where the forward is standing. Just a couple of examples of awful individual errors. It's different players every week Ian. If it was a one off individual error then you hold your hands up and accept it, but we sit here saying the same things week in and week out. If we can sit here and see it why can't Pardew? How can we expect our players to be accountable when our manager isn't? We often talk about a lack of leadership at the club but this comes from the manager once again, on the playing side the buck stops with him.

Doesn't he? if he isn't telling Santon what positions he should be taking up and which direction he should be showing his man he's not doing his job. at the end of the day Pardew picks these f***ing players and he coaches them; they we're highly rated before they came here and have gone backwards ever since. the maths is f***ing simple. they're not robots they are capable of thinking for themselves and being supposedly top players they should have some vague clue on the bloody basics As i said they managed the basics before coming here. I just don't fall for Pardew's bullshit that's all.

Doesn't he? if he isn't telling Santon what positions he should be taking up and which direction he should be showing his man he's not doing his job. at the end of the day Pardew picks these fucking players and he coaches them; they we're highly rated before they came here and have gone backwards ever since. the maths is fucking simple.

Aye the media always do this for Pardew. We concede poor goals week in week out he always gets a pass. People seem to forget he's the one managing these players week in and week out. Colo is a Argentinian international and Mbiwa won the league with Montpellier and was highly regarded by everyone! Our players are going backwards through poor management and poor coaching it's that simple.