Guest TrEe Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 We play worse football then Stoke at the moment! An absolute joke we are at the moment. Pardew has got to go. I can't think of a team who passes a ball worse then us, and there is no movement from any player. the tempo og our game is way to slow. Every goal kick, free kick and throw inn take a f***ing age. I realise people are p*ssed off, but lets not get silly. We certainly didn't play good Football, but Stoke spent the entire second half launching the ball aimlessly into the area at every single opportunity, even from throws. Our shocking defending rewarded them for it though It was us who were hoofing the ball at every given oppertunity. to our luck, Cisse and Ba got 2 of our 3 good chances from a hoofball. I'ts just so frustrating to watch 90 min. of anti football and lose every week. When we lost to swansea, I wasn't as frustrated, because, at least we tried to play a passing game. That loss wasn't as hard to take, because the performance wasn't as s***. I'm not going to repeat myself, all I'll say is you must be completely ignoring the other team when you watch our games and only focusing your eyes when we get a decent chance. I'm not saying that Stoke were brilliant, wich is the worringing part. Maybe my expectations are a bit to high, but I was hoping that we could at least string 5 passes together with out losing the ball. If we were playing against man utd I would have been okay with our performance, because I wouldn't expect us to see alot of the ball, but not against stoke. But todays performance has been better then against west ham and Southampton. We did work hard, and I think Santon, collo, Anita and Santon all had a decent game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Got to keep in mind that we were 10mins from everyone being pretty delighted with the result and us sitting in 11th right now. The performance was okay up to that point too. Doesn't change the fact that we're still losing games, but it's certainly a bit of light at the end of the tunnel. Worrying thing is if any confidence we built up evaporated at the end. although it doesn't excuse an embarrassing last 10 minutes filled with poor play. Confidence evaporated when they equalised, they didn't have to work that hard for the goals or anything. Do you not think our legs had gone by then though, we worked bloody hard tonight after having played Thursday and again on sunday? A bit yes and it should have been addressed but Colo didn't play on Sunday so it's no excuse, the others to a degree I can accept it but still we shouldn't have been caught so open at that stage of the game x2. Krul played 31 long balls tonight. Given the amount backpasses fired back at him I'm not surprised, not a lot you can do some times despite all the will in the world. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Krul played 31 long balls tonight. Amazing when you aiming them at Huth and Shawcross, might as well have just kicked them straight out. He did on a few occaisons! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Krul played 31 long balls tonight. Amazing when you aiming them at Huth and Shawcross, might as well have just kicked them straight out. He does do a fair bit of the time like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bimpy474 Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Krul played 31 long balls tonight. Amazing when you aiming them at Huth and Shawcross, might as well have just kicked them straight out. He did on a few occaisons! Aye i noticed that, and kicked quite a few to where none of our players were. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MW Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 sometimes the ball was played back to him for absolutely no reason. just fucking square it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 There are only 2 explanations for the Krull long ball thing, he's doing it cos he's nervy passing out, which not sure holds too much water even if his distribution isn't his strong point, or Pardew just doesn't trust our backline in possession. Colo and Santon for me are fine, the other two liabilities so can see half why, but odd. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mistle17 Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 I absolutely hate the way when we retrieve possession from a corner or committed attack, Krul (which he is obviously instructed to do) waits until the opposition are all back in position along with us, and then he knocks it long and we lose it (again). I appreciate the fact that this can be good to calm things down and take the sting out of the game, but with players like Jonas, Cisse, Ba and Santon, why don't we focus on trying to hit teams on the break???! Get wide, push out immediately. It's all so negative. Doing this played right into Stokes hands. We allowed them to set up and swallow up the long ball. Pardew's a buffoon, man. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest icemanblue Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Proper sickener, that. More so after an improved display. Anita and Cisse looked like different players tonight. Hopefully they can carry that level of performance into the Wigan game, because we'll need it. I just hope that hasn't knocked the team's confidence completely. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shak Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Sounds like we were at least a little improved, hope we can take something from that and beat Wigan. Team really needs a win right now, it's getting dodgy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ujpest doza Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Sounds like we were at least a little improved, hope we can take something from that and beat Wigan. Team really needs a win right now, it's getting dodgy. Wigan have just been on MOTD and despite getting beat off man City 2-0 they were superb. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Ba and Cisse looked like they hate each other there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenBartonCentrePartin Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Ba and Cisse looked like they hate each other there. exactly the same thought. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenBartonCentrePartin Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 skips past Jonas far too easily. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Embarrassing defending from both of our centre halves. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 That second goal is absolutely horrific. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenBartonCentrePartin Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 embarrassing how Jones completely out-jumps Williamson. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sifu Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Horrific defending. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 I initially blamed Williamson solely for the second goal but after seeing it again what the fuck was Colo doing? I think he has to shoulder more of the blame. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Didn't even get confirmation if that throw for their first was actually theirs or not. Bollocks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Does anyone else believe that we "deserved to win" this by the way? Fair enough we looked hungrier, sharper and played with more of that "verve" Pardew's always going on about than we have done recently, but I'm not sure if we "were the better team" personally. Thought a draw would've been a fair enough result. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cronky Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 I initially blamed Williamson solely for the second goal but after seeing it again what the fuck was Colo doing? I think he has to shoulder more of the blame. Well exactly. You can forgive someone for being beaten in the air by Kenwyne Jones. Letting someone run right past you like that and giving them a free header is terrible defending. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Does anyone else believe that we "deserved to win" this by the way? Fair enough we looked hungrier, sharper and played with more of that "verve" Pardew's always going on about than we have done recently, but I'm not sure if we "were the better team" personally. Thought a draw would've been a fair enough result. Deserve is a bit strong but they didn't have a chance of note til they scored really. Draw wouldve been fairest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Does anyone else believe that we "deserved to win" this by the way? Fair enough we looked hungrier, sharper and played with more of that "verve" Pardew's always going on about than we have done recently, but I'm not sure if we "were the better team" personally. Thought a draw would've been a fair enough result. They were better team 1st half and it took us 5-10 mins after our goal to regain a small control on the game . They probably shaded it IMO. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEEJ Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Ba and Cisse looked like they hate each other there. Ba was clearly trying to bite Cisse's lug off man. They can't stand each other, clearly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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