spudwiser Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 that pass for best with about mins to go was class Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mistle17 Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Life will be made easier for him should he have a new striker and a fit Ben Arfa to work with. He looked promising today, I'm very pleased with him Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan_Taylor Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Be better when he's not chasing Aaron Ramsey about like. Lee Cattermole next week for example Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Nearly got into a fight with some dickhead who shouted 'fuck off and don't come back, ya shite' when he was substituted today. Incredible. He was never going to look particularly impressive today. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenham Mag Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Nearly got into a fight with some dickhead who shouted 'f*** off and don't come back, ya s****' when he was substituted today. Incredible. He was never going to look particularly impressive today. Hate wankers like that. Reminds me of a guy who hated Hugo Viana , "fucking Pele here , fuck off" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEEJ Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Nearly got into a fight with some dickhead who shouted 'f*** off and don't come back, ya s****' when he was substituted today. Incredible. He was never going to look particularly impressive today. Unbelievable. He was far from shocking today like, knackered by the end of the second half but nice and tidy on the ball. Some people man. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chubby Jason Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Nearly got into a fight with some dickhead who shouted 'f*** off and don't come back, ya s****' when he was substituted today. Incredible. He was never going to look particularly impressive today. Why would you get so upset at someone who was obviously a moron? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallowgate Toon Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Will be very effective when he's not shackled. Good to see that he's also disciplined when he needs to be though. Really wish he would just take all the set pieces. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prophet Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Nearly got into a fight with some dickhead who shouted 'f*** off and don't come back, ya s****' when he was substituted today. Incredible. He was never going to look particularly impressive today. Unbelievable. He was far from shocking today like, knackered by the end of the second half but nice and tidy on the ball. Some people man. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
midds Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 He'll need a few months to get up to speed with our league but looks like a player. Arsenal today followed by the derby is a bit of a baptism of fire for him and we don't need him blowing out of his arse after 70 minutes next week. That said we won't be chasing the ball as much as Sunderland don't keep it as well as Arsenal do. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Some nice moments. Needs to be utilised better by the manager in a clearer system. Until half-time, I wasn't sure what Pardew's plan was for our midfield. Both Tiote and Cabaye were sitting deep. Even after the break, both were reluctant to advance up the pitch. Still optimistic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 I thought that Cabaye did enough to show that he could be a very good player for us. You could see that he's got an eye for a good pass, if only we'd had more movement up front today. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Nearly got into a fight with some dickhead who shouted 'fuck off and don't come back, ya shite' when he was substituted today. Incredible. He was never going to look particularly impressive today. Fuck's sake. Some of our 'supporters' make me want to weep tears of blood. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incognito Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Im not convinced we'll see the best of Cabaye with Barton in the same team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Doesn't help that he and Tiote haven't played together, and that Cabaye seemed to be playing the holding role in pre-season despite Pardew telling all and sundry he'd be more advanced. Partnership needs time to gel, that's why pre-season was such a joke. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nufcmichael Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Think he did okay today, he'll get better... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prophet Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Doesn't help that he and Tiote haven't played together, and that Cabaye seemed to be playing the holding role in pre-season despite Pardew telling all and sundry he'd be more advanced. Partnership needs time to gel, that's why pre-season was such a joke. Absolutely Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skirge Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Will be a brilliant CM partnership with Tiote, just need games together. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Predictably not overly impressive but nor worrying either. It might be that he just needs time to adapt to the pace of the Premiership but he doesn't seem to have a great engine on him. Joey picked up a lot of his slack but he may just need extra fitness. Kept possession well and got better as the game went on. Having Shola upfront doesn't really help. Definitely think we should play with a 3 man midfield. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davy Ren Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Bold statement but he's our fabregas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ykmkmdd Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Clearly has a touch of class and vision in centre mid we haven't seen for a long while. Decent enough debut, can only get better. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eliassenfredrik Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 He will do fine. Excellent passer, and time will do good to his partnership with Tiote. Barton in there as well, so possession will be fine, if we get a new striker. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGuv Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 I thought that Cabaye did enough to show that he could be a very good player for us. You could see that he's got an eye for a good pass, if only we'd had more movement up front today. This. We were less creative (we hardly were anyway) when he came off Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nufcjb Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 I thought he did pretty well but I was seeing him like Fabregas too in terms of height and ability..and also no 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
afar Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 I thought Cabaye was poor today, but as others have said, the excuse we had for a pre season could explain the lack of cohesion in the middle of the park. He needs to work on his strength though, that's my biggest worry, he's a little lightweight for this league. You can be lightweight and effective in the PL,, players like Benyoun (sp?) show us that, but you got to work out what they do to compensate for that lightness, couple of times today Cabaye got in good positions only to be muscled off the ball. Still have a lot of hope that he'll adapt, if we had had a proper pre season him and the likes of Ba could be working on adapting to the club/PL but unfortunately now we have to do it in real games. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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