Varadi Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Well played today, got pretty much everything right under really big pressure. I just can't help liking the bloke - celebration at the end was magic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foluwashola Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Today shows just how wrong he's been so far this season, if we were used to playing the way we did today we would be much higher up the league than we currently are. Why couldn't he have had this attitude from the start? If Cisse hadn't have scored that winner you'd be fucking raging. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toon25 Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Showed Cisse videos at HT of what he was doing wrong in the 1st half Good stuff. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 If Cisse hadn't have scored that winner you'd be f***ing raging. Not true, we were doing all we could and Cisse could have had 3 or 4 before he scored. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Starting XI was what near everyone wanted, not sure we reacted well enough when Santon went off but 2nd half can't ask for much more really. If nowt else he's finally instilled a never say die draw attitude. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Today shows just how wrong he's been so far this season, if we were used to playing the way we did today we would be much higher up the league than we currently are. Why couldn't he have had this attitude from the start? It's performances like the second half that makes me think there is potential for him to change. He is capable of getting good performances from us but he doesn't do it nearly enough. I don't expect us to dominate teams all game, every game because that isn't realistic but we don't play like that as often as we should. That's why I am one of those idiots who will give him a period of next season to see if he is capable to getting more out of us than he has this season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmk Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Today shows just how wrong he's been so far this season, if we were used to playing the way we did today we would be much higher up the league than we currently are. Why couldn't he have had this attitude from the start? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp40 Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Today shows just how wrong he's been so far this season, if we were used to playing the way we did today we would be much higher up the league than we currently are. Why couldn't he have had this attitude from the start? cos he didnt have the players? he went into the season under manned and the added workload of the EL- just a thought like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 It's performances like the second half that makes me think there is potential for him to change. He is capable of getting good performances from us but he doesn't do it nearly enough. I don't expect us to dominate teams all game, every game because that isn't realistic but we don't play like that as often as we should. That's why I am one of those idiots who will give him a period of next season to see if he is capable to getting more out of us than he has this season. It was 1 game and a game in which he couldn't afford to sit back, he had no real choice and he'll be back to normal as soon as he can do it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Today shows just how wrong he's been so far this season, if we were used to playing the way we did today we would be much higher up the league than we currently are. Why couldn't he have had this attitude from the start? cos he didnt have the players? he went into the season under manned and the added workload of the EL- just a thought like. That doesn't make sense. You can have such a positive attitude and tactics no matter what the personnel are. Look at how entertaining Blackpool were to watch in their season up with what was the worst squad in the league. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp40 Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Today shows just how wrong he's been so far this season, if we were used to playing the way we did today we would be much higher up the league than we currently are. Why couldn't he have had this attitude from the start? cos he didnt have the players? he went into the season under manned and the added workload of the EL- just a thought like. That doesn't make sense. You can have such a positive attitude and tactics no matter what the personnel are. Look at how entertaining Blackpool were to watch in their season up with what was the worst squad in the league. having more better players gives you an opportunity to play better attacking football doesnt make sense? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 cos he didnt have the players? he went into the season under manned and the added workload of the EL- just a thought like. According to him at the beginning of the season we were challenging for the CL, did he not know at that time which players he had? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NG32 Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Today shows just how wrong he's been so far this season, if we were used to playing the way we did today we would be much higher up the league than we currently are. Why couldn't he have had this attitude from the start? cos he didnt have the players? he went into the season under manned and the added workload of the EL- just a thought like. That doesn't make sense. You can have such a positive attitude and tactics no matter what the personnel are. Look at how entertaining Blackpool were to watch in their season up with what was the worst squad in the league. Blackpool wuz relegated. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest icemanblue Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Can't be faulted today. We were missing a lot of first team players, and lost another 15 minutes in. Thought the reshuffle stifled us, but was necessary. We had a lot of players in their half earlier on, with Sissoko looking more of a threat coming from deep. The changes resulted in it being back to just Cisse and Moussa +1, and the first half fizzled out. Thought we came out to the second half looking very purposeful in our attacking though, with Marveaux and Anita having one of their best games for us. Glad he took Simpson off as that allowed us to keep the pace of our counter attacks throughout the team, rather than coming to a stand still with his every touch. Fully deserved win and some class scenes at the end. Hope this gives him the encouragement to attack the Benfica and mackems games. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Today shows just how wrong he's been so far this season, if we were used to playing the way we did today we would be much higher up the league than we currently are. Why couldn't he have had this attitude from the start? cos he didnt have the players? he went into the season under manned and the added workload of the EL- just a thought like. That doesn't make sense. You can have such a positive attitude and tactics no matter what the personnel are. Look at how entertaining Blackpool were to watch in their season up with what was the worst squad in the league. having more better players gives you an opportunity to play better attacking football doesnt make sense? Showing a positive attitude and attacking tactics is nothing to do with personnel. Anycase we had the players to play attacking football at the start of the season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NG32 Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Can't be faulted today. We were missing a lot of first team players, and lost another 15 minutes in. Thought the reshuffle stifled us, but was necessary. We had a lot of players in their half earlier on, with Sissoko looking more of a threat coming from deep. The changes resulted in it being back to just Cisse and Moussa +1, and the first half fizzled out. Thought we came out to the second half looking very purposeful in our attacking though, with Marveaux and Anita having one of their best games for us. Glad he took Simpson off as that allowed us to keep the pace of our counter attacks throughout the team, rather than coming to a stand still with his every touch. Fully deserved win and some class scenes at the end. Hope this gives him the encouragement to attack the Benfica and mackems games. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Can't be faulted today. We were missing a lot of first team players, and lost another 15 minutes in. Thought the reshuffle stifled us, but was necessary. We had a lot of players in their half earlier on, with Sissoko looking more of a threat coming from deep. The changes resulted in it being back to just Cisse and Moussa +1, and the first half fizzled out. Thought we came out to the second half looking very purposeful in our attacking though, with Marveaux and Anita having one of their best games for us. Glad he took Simpson off as that allowed us to keep the pace of our counter attacks throughout the team, rather than coming to a stand still with his every touch. Fully deserved win and some class scenes at the end. Hope this gives him the encouragement to attack the Benfica and mackems games. I've got little doubt that we'll be attacking in both, it's the games after that where things might change. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skirge Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 The footage of Pards celebrating with the fans is just fantastic Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenBartonCentrePartin Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 any chance we can remove the part of his brain which says "Shola must replace Gouffran on 70 minutes no matter what and no matter how much more s**** the latter is"? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skirge Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22060333 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Venkman Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Today shows just how wrong he's been so far this season, if we were used to playing the way we did today we would be much higher up the league than we currently are. Why couldn't he have had this attitude from the start? cos he didnt have the players? he went into the season under manned and the added workload of the EL- just a thought like. That doesn't make sense. You can have such a positive attitude and tactics no matter what the personnel are. Look at how entertaining Blackpool were to watch in their season up with what was the worst squad in the league. having more better players gives you an opportunity to play better attacking football doesnt make sense? Showing a positive attitude and attacking tactics is nothing to do with personnel. Anycase we had the players to play attacking football at the start of the season. This is true. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Can't be faulted today. We were missing a lot of first team players, and lost another 15 minutes in. Thought the reshuffle stifled us, but was necessary. We had a lot of players in their half earlier on, with Sissoko looking more of a threat coming from deep. The changes resulted in it being back to just Cisse and Moussa +1, and the first half fizzled out. Thought we came out to the second half looking very purposeful in our attacking though, with Marveaux and Anita having one of their best games for us. Glad he took Simpson off as that allowed us to keep the pace of our counter attacks throughout the team, rather than coming to a stand still with his every touch. Fully deserved win and some class scenes at the end. Hope this gives him the encouragement to attack the Benfica and mackems games. This is my hope, we could really salvage something from this pig's ear of a season in the next 7 days. I thought today we showed glimpses of decent stuff in the first half and had the better of it but it was pretty uninspiring on the whole, 45-70 minutes we absolutely blitzed them and could have scored 3 or 4 in that period alone. When Shola came on I wasn't that impressed tbh, we reverted to long/medium high diagonal balls into the box in the hope something would bounce our way and it was a bit desperate. Thankfully we had another surge towards the end which led to the goal. I'm happy with our attitude today and therefore can't argue with Pardew's performance on the whole. Did pretty well but I'd admittedly have been fuming if we'd drawn it because it would have been another hard luck story that left us in the shit. I'd back us to stay up now but we're not out of the woods yet of course. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan_Taylor Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22060333 I really do like that bloke. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinotheprehistoricgeordie Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Was having a drink with Disco after the match, he said imagine if he'd jumped into the section Mick and Wullie were sitting in. They'd have beat the crap out of him Almost spit my pint out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Was having a drink with Disco after the match, he said imagine if he'd jumped into the section Mick and Wullie were sitting in. They'd have beat the crap out of him Almost spit my pint out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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