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Guest BooBoo

for a man who sees himself as a tactical mastermind and ready for containing the other teams at all cost, he was fucking bamboozled by wigan today. like we'd never seen them before.

 

motivation also seemed to be a problem. whereas martinez has them fighting to get what they want, pardew has let them soak in their own ego. awful management

 

What a load of shit. Well done.

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Guest andrew

want to apologise for the second part of my post. That is completely wrong, i stand by the first part though. Im just angry. sorry lads, howay, let's try to enjoy the game.

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Guest andrew

I won't post again today, apologies again for the second part of my comment, half time was just such a horrible time and the whole champions League dream got to all of us didn't it :D Oh well, pressure off for Chelsea, who knows. :)

 

 

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At this time we are 4 points behind third with a game in hand, 3 ahead of 5th and 4 ahead of 6th but they have a game in hand (and we still have to play Chelsea).

 

Worst case scenario we finish 6th BUT we are certainly not finished in regards to 4th place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Start of the season) 'worst case scenario 6th' :yao:

 

 

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Guest bimpy474

6th will be brilliant and Pardew will get the praise he and the team deserves, despite todays or the next 3 games results.

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Guest BooBoo

Why did he take Ben Arfa off? He was just starting to boss everything.

 

The game was gone, sensible to save him for Wednesday. You really think we were going to score four times in the set twenty minutes?

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If we hadn't basically done everything but score, HBA would have stayed on longer. At first as a fan you're thinking 'but we're just getting back into it!' but Pardew obviously recognised it was just going to be one of those days.

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0-0 in the second half, hit the woodwork twice and put another couple of good chances wide. Wigan obviously eased off, but it's better than nowt.

 

Yeah. Understood why he took HBA off. If the Cisse efforts hadn't hit the bar and post respectively, then sure keep him on.. but no point really. Save it for Chelsea.

 

No need to overreact. Outmanoeuvred by the superior manager, and a much better team performance on the day from Wigan. Hope Blackburn can do us a favour tomorrow.

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Feel for him a bit today. I don't think many managers would have had an answer to the way Wigan came out of the traps.

 

Much harder trying to change a game so early on when you're on the backfoot.

 

That said, today did highlight our obvious weaknesses at rb and cb.

 

Hey ho, onwards and upwards. He might be well advised to write off the champs league or talk Spurs' chances up to take the pressure off.

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We never got behind the ball. The space they were finding was ridiculous and the tracking back at times was heartless. Pardew just needs to get them all together defensively again.

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when the 2 goals went in quickly he made a decent change to match their formation, only problem was it was purely a containment measure and when goals 3 & 4 went in that was it clearly...after 2-0 we never threatened

 

we met the wrong team today, shame...let's hope spurs lose and it won't cost us

 

hate wigan man, graveyard, fuck them though....htl

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No need to overanalyse this one. Terrible day out, started with the best XI we have at the moment, we were outplayed comprehensively by a severely motivated side. It is a reality check as to the limitations of our defence and our team when the spirit isn't there. Hard to play at the level we have been playing at for 2 months straight. Form does dip. Let's see how Pardew gets them back up for Chelsea - it is the biggest match we have had in some time.  A draw or dare say a win would still be so massive.

 

One of those days, certainly doesn't invalidate the incredible work he has done this season.

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