Flip Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Hope he gets lucky today, because once again his team selection is absolute bollocks. The absence of one player makes it bollocks? Its not only today though. And yes its absolute bollocks that he is benched after having scored twice and having an assist in his last 4 games where 3 were cameos. Hope he gets lucky today, because once again his team selection is absolute bollocks. If we win well it won't be luck, I'd have picked Ben Arfa but we do have other players. Aye we do, but where will the goals come from? 2 out of form strikers? Best and Shola REALLY have to turn it around today. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flip Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Hope he gets lucky today, because once again his team selection is absolute bollocks. If we trash them 5-0 nobody will speak about how lucky we were... Its a fickle game, so aye. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Pledges to deliver edge-of-your-seat football. Plays Ryan Taylor ahead of Ben Arfa at home to winless in 457 QPR. [/scumbag Pardew] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Pledges to deliver edge-of-your-seat football. Plays Ryan Taylor ahead of Ben Arfa at home to winless in 457 QPR. [/scumbag Pardew] However, it's not as though we've never won or played well without Ben Arfa - I like the player but the constant doom-mongering and hair-pulling out is ridiculous on here. There's plenty of reasons why Ben Arfa should and shouldn't be in the team, ultimately, Pardew is judged on results. Ben Arfa scored a cracking goal last week but by eye-witness accounts, he had a poor first half before waking up on the wing in the second half - maybe the other players don't trust him enough to win the ball back once he's lost it? Either way, in Pardew we trust. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theregulars Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Has got us challenging for Europe so I'm willing to go with him for now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Pledges to deliver edge-of-your-seat football. Plays Ryan Taylor ahead of Ben Arfa at home to winless in 457 QPR. [/scumbag Pardew] However, it's not as though we've never won or played well without Ben Arfa - I like the player but the constant doom-mongering and hair-pulling out is ridiculous on here. There's plenty of reasons why Ben Arfa should and shouldn't be in the team, ultimately, Pardew is judged on results. Ben Arfa scored a cracking goal last week but by eye-witness accounts, he had a poor first half before waking up on the wing in the second half - maybe the other players don't trust him enough to win the ball back once he's lost it? Either way, in Pardew we trust. I think the exasperation stems from not utilising what we have to best effect. Especially when something special is so eminently reachable - in terms of where the team could be. (ie. it's not a resource issue, or something beyond our means). If you repeat that same mistake (ie. not phasing Ben Arfa into a starting berth) over and over, it begins to look like a familiar story to me. [We did the same with Santon, and it cost us massively during December IMO]. You don't have to wait until something breaks entirely before you make amendments. It's brave management to make changes before you're forced to, but Pardew doesn't seem to have that valour /astuteness in his arsenal. (eg. He waits until Obertan gets injured before he drops him). Bit disappointing, that's all. That's really badly written. I'll edit it later. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 There's plenty of reasons why Ben Arfa should and shouldn't be in the team, to be honest, there really aren't that many Stu, especially for a home game against an average to poor team like QPR still least he didn't singlehandledly win the game vs chelsea so maybe pards is right? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayson Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Hopefully it works out for him. He'll deserve a whole lot of criticism if it doesnt. Big chance for us today to push on again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flip Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Best decision would be letting Obertan rot in the bench. Fact that Ben Arfa aint playing is terrible but at least its not Obertan instead of him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tachikoma Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Hughton was never this fucking predictable and I will stand by this whether we win or lose. This is fucking doing my head in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flip Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 What I dont understand is how he has gone from playing well to changing tactics completely. Fucking hoofing it all the time. Its sad really. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Fuck knows what has happened to Alan like. Are we playing 4-2-4 or something? It just seems weird how he's so reluctant to play Ben Arfa, Cabaye gets injure and the safest thing to do was bring on Abeid or Vuckic but he's made a pretty radical change. I'm not complaining like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
timeEd32 Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 He deserves some credit for going with Ben Arfa and switching the formation rather than the easy change with Abeid or Gosling. Hope we destroy them in the second half. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Our tactics are fucking awful and Pardew is starting to piss me off with this and his fucking poor team selections. You're kidding no-one Alan, just stick to the simples. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Craig-NUFC Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Heard him shout 'diaganol' a few times today unfortunately. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David28 Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 He deserves some credit for going with Ben Arfa and switching the formation rather than the easy change with Abeid or Gosling. Hope we destroy them in the second half. Agree. Would have agreed with Pardew if he had brought a 'real' CM on instead of Ben Arfa. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lotus Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Can't bring myself to praise a guy for these changes as they were forced on him. If Cabaye was still on we'd probably looking at 0-1 deficit right now with what was our 'set up'. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest je85 Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 When was the last time we went 4-3-3 for any decent length of time? Someone's just asked me if it was Owen in behind Viduka and Martins. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Well that's us in the top 6 despite Pardew fucking up AGAIN.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Can't bring myself to praise a guy for these changes as they were forced on him. If Cabaye was still on we'd probably looking at 0-1 deficit right now with what was our 'set up'. As someone said above, he had other options to bring on instead of Ben Arfa, those would have been in their natural position too. So basically, that post is a load of shit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lotus Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Can't bring myself to praise a guy for these changes as they were forced on him. If Cabaye was still on we'd probably looking at 0-1 deficit right now with what was our 'set up'. As someone said above, he had other options to bring on instead of Ben Arfa, those would have been in their natural position too. So basically, that post is a load of s***. You're just f**ked off Obertan didn't get on. I can't be f**king bothered with you, actually. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Can't bring myself to praise a guy for these changes as they were forced on him. If Cabaye was still on we'd probably looking at 0-1 deficit right now with what was our 'set up'. As someone said above, he had other options to bring on instead of Ben Arfa, those would have been in their natural position too. So basically, that post is a load of s***. You're just f**ked off Obertan didn't get on. I can't be f**king bothered with you, actually. Makes as much sense as your first post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Our tactics are f***ing awful and Pardew is starting to p*ss me off with this and his f***ing poor team selections. You're kidding no-one Alan, just stick to the simples. Piss off, man. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Two big men up front didn't look very good despite the result. It was only when we started to get the ball down we took a control of the game, in the first half when we were hoofing it we looked awful. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 6th place with a squad laced with bargain basement Championship rubbish and he gets criticised for not playing pretty enough football. Pathetic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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