Foluwashola Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 CaulkinTheTimes George Caulkin Pardew: "Gervinho dived - that gets the blood boiling, whether it's Joey Barton or any other footballer ... he's been stamped on & slapped." Hear hear. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp40 Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 New style of play: pick two big men up front and whack it long to them for the first 45mins. Mint. sunderland were doing it with 1 little bloke. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexthegreat Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 I'm far from his biggest critic but thought his substitution late on was a poor decision today, not for the first time. (Sunderland away, Spurs at home, West Brom on the last day) Saw no need to change it today, particularly since we had already made two subs. Couldnt help noticing this match report on bbc either: Birmingham 1 - 0 CoventryBirmingham edged a keenly-contested Midlands derby to give Chris Hughton his first points as Blues manager. Hughton was instrumental in the outcome of the match as the introduction of sub Adam Rooney proved a turning point Those little decisions towards the end of a game can make a big difference Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Icke - Son of God Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 I'm far from his biggest critic but thought his substitution late on was a poor decision today, not for the first time. (Sunderland away, Spurs at home, West Brom on the last day) Saw no need to change it today, particularly since we had already made two subs. Couldnt help noticing this match report on bbc either: Birmingham 1 - 0 CoventryBirmingham edged a keenly-contested Midlands derby to give Chris Hughton his first points as Blues manager. Hughton was instrumental in the outcome of the match as the introduction of sub Adam Rooney proved a turning point Those little decisions towards the end of a game can make a big difference Funnily enough I was chatting to wor kid today about Hughton and we remarked upon how he was quite good at making substitutions. Even Robson was fucking awful at changing it up (unless he was making a triple change). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 New style of play: pick two big men up front and whack it long to them for the first 45mins. Mint. Yeah it was pretty depressing. Being generous I'll say it might be down to lack of preparation for one reason or another, and it was still a decent point. It's one thing buying technical ability players though, and another being able to utilise them properly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexthegreat Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 I'm far from his biggest critic but thought his substitution late on was a poor decision today, not for the first time. (Sunderland away, Spurs at home, West Brom on the last day) Saw no need to change it today, particularly since we had already made two subs. Couldnt help noticing this match report on bbc either: Birmingham 1 - 0 CoventryBirmingham edged a keenly-contested Midlands derby to give Chris Hughton his first points as Blues manager. Hughton was instrumental in the outcome of the match as the introduction of sub Adam Rooney proved a turning point Those little decisions towards the end of a game can make a big difference Funnily enough I was chatting to wor kid today about Hughton and we remarked upon how he was quite good at making substitutions. Even Robson was f***ing awful at changing it up (unless he was making a triple change). you were not alone mate Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 New style of play: pick two big men up front and whack it long to them for the first 45mins. Mint. Yeah it was pretty depressing. Being generous I'll say it might be down to lack of preparation for one reason or another, and it was still a decent point. It's one thing buying technical ability players though, and another being able to utilise them properly. Agree with all of that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frazzle Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 New style of play: pick two big men up front and whack it long to them for the first 45mins. Mint. To be fair to Pardew, as I said in the other thread, Arsenal aren't the best team to implement a new passing football style, the result was the important thing today. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 New style of play: pick two big men up front and whack it long to them for the first 45mins. Mint. To be fair to Pardew, as I said in the other thread, Arsenal aren't the best team to implement a new passing football style, the result was the important thing today. Glad you said it. People were apparently expecting the team to match Arsenal's style of play in the first game of the season, against the masters themselves. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Reasonable comments from the puppet on NUFCTV. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frazzle Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 To be fair to him, I like his BBC interview. 'Alex Song seemed to stamp on Barton' '...well he did' Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan_Taylor Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Was good to hear that Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sifu Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 To be fair to him, I like his BBC interview. 'Alex Song seemed to stamp on Barton' '...well he did' Yeah, thought his interview was good. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wil Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Honest interview, and a touch of defiance which I liked. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
UV Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Credit to Pardew, he saw Shola & Ba up front wasn't working in the first half and earlier than you might have expected he took the least effective of them off which was one of "his" new signings and replaced him with a player who improved us as a team. That was a good move and took some bottle I didn't expect. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderson Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 I'm far from his biggest critic but thought his substitution late on was a poor decision today, not for the first time. (Sunderland away, Spurs at home, West Brom on the last day) Saw no need to change it today, particularly since we had already made two subs. Couldnt help noticing this match report on bbc either: Birmingham 1 - 0 CoventryBirmingham edged a keenly-contested Midlands derby to give Chris Hughton his first points as Blues manager. Hughton was instrumental in the outcome of the match as the introduction of sub Adam Rooney proved a turning point Those little decisions towards the end of a game can make a big difference Funnily enough I was chatting to wor kid today about Hughton and we remarked upon how he was quite good at making substitutions. Even Robson was fucking awful at changing it up (unless he was making a triple change). Lua Lua, Cordone and Glass. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 I'm far from his biggest critic but thought his substitution late on was a poor decision today, not for the first time. (Sunderland away, Spurs at home, West Brom on the last day) Saw no need to change it today, particularly since we had already made two subs. Couldnt help noticing this match report on bbc either: Birmingham 1 - 0 CoventryBirmingham edged a keenly-contested Midlands derby to give Chris Hughton his first points as Blues manager. Hughton was instrumental in the outcome of the match as the introduction of sub Adam Rooney proved a turning point Those little decisions towards the end of a game can make a big difference Funnily enough I was chatting to wor kid today about Hughton and we remarked upon how he was quite good at making substitutions. Even Robson was fucking awful at changing it up (unless he was making a triple change). Lua Lua, Cordone and Glass. turned the game upside down, good finish by Glass IIRC too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TherealnorthernTOON Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 I bet we kinda would look like Arsenal did against Barcelona if we'd try to implement a possesion based strategy against them today. What pardew chose to do was strap it up and see where it took him. At the end of the game they could chase it, and they tried by spunking in what pace he had to try to stir things up abit. Many of the new players wasn't there tonight so the technical ability was pretty meh tbf. I think he did what he could. Allthough he could've chosen other players to sit on the bench. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 observations: 1. his tactics were shite yesterday, played it safe and it's lucky for us arsenal weren't on their game 2. if the grand plan is sholagoals playing 90 minutes we're in deep, deep trouble 3. can someone email him or something and let him know we sold carroll in january so they're gonna have to kick it as far as liverpool to land it on his napper must do better, fast (derby i mean), that game was crying out for us to put balls on teh ground into the channels and use wingers to get in behind them...cabaye seems to have a lovely eye for an angled and weighted pass but jonas' game is not to play in behind and barton is not a winger and playing in front of his marker need marveuax and obertan playing high and wide imo off ba with shola nowhere near the fucking pitch, work the angles and get people in behind the opposition defence so cabaye/barton can catch up with play or, you know, play shola and fucking lamp it up to him for 90 minutes, whatever works Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 You need your head checked if you think his tactics was shit yesterday. How many players we are missing, and who are we playing at left back? Looking solid throughout the game, decent chance to get 1 point and almost get all 3 if Cabaye could bury the chance, what else could you ask for? Or you have forgotten how terrible we are during that 4-4 come back, when we trying to play an open game in the first half? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 he got it wrong with shola, he got it wrong with best, he got it wrong with orangutang what more is there? fair comment on the injuries, i mistakenly thought he'd left marveuax on the bench but even so more could have been done arsenal are not the team they were man, no fabregas/wilshere/nasri they were there for the fucking taking imo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Best is clearly unfit. He got it right to start Ba/Shola ahead of Best. If you want to have a dig on Pardew, you should criticize why play 2 forward when we are so defensive in the first half, and why Loven got a bench place ahead of Vuckic. I could guarantee you Arsenal would definitely finish higher than Liverpool at the end of this season. Their defense looks very solid, Song is immense, Rosicky back in form, Gervinho a lot more dangerous than Walcott and Arshavin (I'm serious). Yes they are unlikely the champion this season but they are still a far far better team than those outside big 4. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shak Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Shola and Ba together was a mistake IMO, would rather have played Best alongside one of them to at least give us a bit of energy up top. Unless we sign another pacey striker (i.e not a Bendtner type) then we'll be relying almost entirely on Ben Arfa as our outlet up front this season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 I could guarantee you Arsenal would definitely finish higher than Liverpool at the end of this season. irrelevant, we played them yesterday when they looked weak and out of sorts yeah vuckic is another where he got it wrong orangutan up with ba then and no other changes would still have been better than what he played - wrong tactics and selections, he got it wrong mate Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Shola and Ba together was a mistake IMO, would rather have played Best alongside one of them to at least give us a bit of energy up top. Unless we sign another pacey striker (i.e not a Bendtner type) then we'll be relying almost entirely on Ben Arfa as our outlet up front this season. if marveuax gets fit i'd have no issue with playing him and obertan as wide forwards playing off ba obviously the preference would be another forward as you say but i don't see it, anything better than shola as part of a front 2 imo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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