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On a different subject, I wasn't impressed by the way he criticised the younger players. The senior ones have been below par, but they're not so easy a target.

 

Aye he's done that before too. I remember when we got beat away at Stevenage and he decided to portion all blame for that on Tim Krul which was quite baffling indeed.

 

A big concern for me at the moment is how we can't mix our play up to any degree of success. Take yesterday for example - we try to keep solid at the back which worked. Yet we posed no threat at all going forward. We looked good going forward at Old Trafford and The Emirates yet our defending was shambolic. We just can't get that balance right at all.

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Glad to see that they appear to be backing him in the transfer market.

 

Of course it remains to be seen if anyone else is sold to balance the books.

 

Once it was clear Ba was leaving we were always going to have to buy a replacement. Even Ashley's not stupid enough to risk relegation which has started looking more likely with every game.

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On a different subject, I wasn't impressed by the way he criticised the younger players. The senior ones have been below par, but they're not so easy a target.

 

Aye he's done that before too. I remember when we got beat away at Stevenage and he decided to portion all blame for that on Tim Krul which was quite baffling indeed.

 

A big concern for me at the moment is how we can't mix our play up to any degree of success. Take yesterday for example - we try to keep solid at the back which worked. Yet we posed no threat at all going forward. We looked good going forward at Old Trafford and The Emirates yet our defending was shambolic. We just can't get that balance right at all.

 

Agreed. AP seems to have no idea to get this sorted either. Taking yesterday, we were a little open in the first half but that was mainly due to Perch and Anita being all over the place in the middle and having no structure in protecting the defence. I think if we'd have just shored Perch up a little better, then we would have been a lot more balanced, but instead we went completely into our shell and moved everyone, bar Cisse, further back.

 

His interpretation of high pressing is weird as well and was a big factor in being vulnerable in that first half. I get Marveux pressing along with Cisse but the former was closing down full backs too, despite having wide men to do that job already, rendering the 3 man midfield pointless. And sometimes Perch was the furthest man forward with Marveaux taking up a defensive midfield role. It just seems over complicated, we were too fluid in the middle and looked weak as a result.

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On a different subject, I wasn't impressed by the way he criticised the younger players. The senior ones have been below par, but they're not so easy a target.

 

Aye he's done that before too. I remember when we got beat away at Stevenage and he decided to portion all blame for that on Tim Krul which was quite baffling indeed.

 

A big concern for me at the moment is how we can't mix our play up to any degree of success. Take yesterday for example - we try to keep solid at the back which worked. Yet we posed no threat at all going forward. We looked good going forward at Old Trafford and The Emirates yet our defending was shambolic. We just can't get that balance right at all.

 

Agreed. AP seems to have no idea to get this sorted either. Taking yesterday, we were a little open in the first half but that was mainly due to Perch and Anita being all over the place in the middle and having no structure in protecting the defence. I think if we'd have just shored Perch up a little better, then we would have been a lot more balanced, but instead we went completely into our shell and moved everyone, bar Cisse, further back.

 

His interpretation of high pressing is weird as well and was a big factor in being vulnerable in that first half. I get Marveux pressing along with Cisse but the former was closing down full backs too, despite having wide men to do that job already, rendering the 3 man midfield pointless. And sometimes Perch was the furthest man forward with Marveaux taking up a defensive midfield role. It just seems over complicated, we were too fluid in the middle and looked weak as a result.

 

He needs to develop the foundations from which we build attacks and ensure we are not so vulnerable to counter. We need a better CB than Williamson, Debuchy will hopefully help. We also need discipline in that midfield 2/3 to ensure we close out the space as other teams do to us

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On a different subject, I wasn't impressed by the way he criticised the younger players. The senior ones have been below par, but they're not so easy a target.

 

To be fair we've got quite a few young players who should be banging on the door and playing out of their skins when they get on the pitch, yet some of the performances when they've been called upon have been absolutely dire. You can blame lack of experience, match readiness etc. but that's no excuse for them looking disinterested.

 

Bigi is the only 'youth' player who has really impressed me this year. The likes of Sammy, Fergie etc. simply haven't played well enough and considering they've been on the verge of the first team side for a 18 months plus now you can understand why Pardew's a bit fucked off.

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On a different subject, I wasn't impressed by the way he criticised the younger players. The senior ones have been below par, but they're not so easy a target.

 

I think he did it for a certain reason,  he was having a go or venting his frustration at the clubs policy of buying younger players.

 

I believe he want more senior players through this window because he believes that would help him as he's completely bricking it over a relegation battle.

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On a different subject, I wasn't impressed by the way he criticised the younger players. The senior ones have been below par, but they're not so easy a target.

 

I think he did it for a certain reason,  he was having a go or venting his frustration at the clubs policy of buying younger players.

 

I believe he want more senior players through this window because he believes that would help him as he's completely bricking it over a relegation battle.

 

He's been getting progressively less subtle about it.

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On a different subject, I wasn't impressed by the way he criticised the younger players. The senior ones have been below par, but they're not so easy a target.

 

To be fair we've got quite a few young players who should be banging on the door and playing out of their skins when they get on the pitch, yet some of the performances when they've been called upon have been absolutely dire. You can blame lack of experience, match readiness etc. but that's no excuse for them looking disinterested.

 

Bigi is the only 'youth' player who has really impressed me this year. The likes of Sammy, Fergie etc. simply haven't played well enough and considering they've been on the verge of the first team side for a 18 months plus now you can understand why Pardew's a bit fucked off.

 

You've got to give young players a run of games.  Playing them once or twice a month will do nothing for them.

 

The big difference between Bigi and the other young players is that he's played constantly for a season before he joined us.

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On a different subject, I wasn't impressed by the way he criticised the younger players. The senior ones have been below par, but they're not so easy a target.

 

To be fair we've got quite a few young players who should be banging on the door and playing out of their skins when they get on the pitch, yet some of the performances when they've been called upon have been absolutely dire. You can blame lack of experience, match readiness etc. but that's no excuse for them looking disinterested.

 

Bigi is the only 'youth' player who has really impressed me this year. The likes of Sammy, Fergie etc. simply haven't played well enough and considering they've been on the verge of the first team side for a 18 months plus now you can understand why Pardew's a bit fucked off.

 

I think too many have been chucked in wholesale for it to work. I don't really think it's fair to suddenly put 3 into a side and expect them to gel straight away.

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Probs bollocks but the local ITK reckons he's got 2 more games to sort it, if not he's gone.

 

If we don't sort it out in the next two games you don't need to be ITK to work out he'd be in trouble.

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Probs bollocks but the local ITK reckons he's got 2 more games to sort it, if not he's gone.

 

Reading and Villa.  Would sound plausible.

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I don't have an issue with poor performance per se, you don't expect youngsters to come in and tear it up on a consistent basis, but I think complacency has set in amongst some of our kids. They seem too happy to have a bit part role and when they're given the chance to make a mark they just don't do it. They don't play like they want to start every game. The one thing young players need is hunger and I just don't see that amongst a lot of ours.

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Ron Liddle in the Times reckons Pardew is said to have lost the dressing room. Obviously that is probably just speculation, but the performance yesterday was very lacklustre.

 

Christ, how do you lose an entire dressing room? Has he tried going around the players houses? They might be there.

 

It might be going round the players houses that lost him the dressing room.  :naughty:

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Umpteenth time in saying this - but this is what happens when you have non-football men running the club. :(

Horseplop. Citeh, Manure, Chelski, Ar*e all have non-football men running the club but they are all prepared to spend big. The rest like Reading Scumderland, Villa  have the same non-footballing men  but aren't aren't prepared to invest... same as Cashley. The game has changed.. it's now a business/billionaires playground.

Rubbish

They might have billionaire owners but they arent running the clubs they have the likes of Ivan Gazidis (arsenal) David Gill (manu) Daniel Levy (spurs) doing that, weve got a casino owner

 

You mean Daniel Levy the businessman, David Gill the accountant and Ivan Gazidis the lawyer?

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Ron Liddle in the Times reckons Pardew is said to have lost the dressing room. Obviously that is probably just speculation, but the performance yesterday was very lacklustre.

 

Liddle is a Boro and Milwall fan who does seem to have an agenda. Before a ball was kicked last season he was predicting that we would be relegated. Even as late as January he was saying we would finish in the bottom half of the table. In his article today he says Remy will sign for Arsenal rather than us. Hmmm...

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Ron Liddle in the Times reckons Pardew is said to have lost the dressing room. Obviously that is probably just speculation, but the performance yesterday was very lacklustre.

 

Liddle is a Boro and Milwall fan who does seem to have an agenda. Before a ball was kicked last season he was predicting that we would be relegated. Even as late as January he was saying we would finish in the bottom half of the table. In his article today he says Remy will sign for Arsenal rather than us. Hmmm...

 

Yup. The bloke's a ringpiece.

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