Ash Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Absolutely disgusting. Fuck off Pardew. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole_Toonfan Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 To be fair to Pardew he's clearly trained since Arsenal based on Ba starting, so this is no real surprise. He wouldn't change everything at the last minute. Disappointing yes, but not surprising. Didn't think about that, if Shola starts the next game though Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
STM Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Shola brace. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Alan, you're wrong. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmk Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Reckon it might be 4-4-2. My only thought is that we did exactly this (with Ba) in the second half successfully against Everton earlier in the season after getting absolutely panned doing the other in the first half and Anita has done OK on the right and will get back defensively. Hopefully. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 To be fair to Pardew he's clearly trained since Arsenal based on Ba starting, so this is no real surprise. He wouldn't change everything at the last minute. Disappointing yes, but not surprising. When you've got a goal scoring CF why not play him there, then work out which other player could play wide right? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Reckon it might be 4-4-2. My only thought is that we did exactly this (with Ba) in the second half successfully against Everton earlier in the season after getting absolutely panned doing the other in the first half and Anita has done OK on the right and will get back defensively. 4-2-3-1 again according to the wrong once official Twitter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Proper harsh of them to do the Demba Ba business now, tbh. They're not going to play him today, they've just deprived us of him against one of their potential CL rivals. Could have nabbed him before the FA cup game to stop him from being cup-tied. Twats Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoU Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 I'm guessing people are not happy with the line-up? It looks alright to me. It's going to be a tough game, but I think we might just take them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unbelievable Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Wow, besides Shola's inexplicable inclusion, that looks a tad offensive no? None of those front four will be any help defensively. Can't see this working in an attacking sense with Cisse out wide and Shola up top, but neither does it anything to help shore up a very vulnerable defense. To add to that, playing Shola from the start also robs us from our only plan B in case things don't work out as planned. Don't know what Pardew is thinking here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
themanupstairs Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 To be fair to Pardew he's clearly trained since Arsenal based on Ba starting, so this is no real surprise. He wouldn't change everything at the last minute. Disappointing yes, but not surprising. Bollocks he has. This transfer didn't just come out of the fucking blue man! He should have been prepared for all eventualities. Besides, this is top level professional football! Not the fucking theater! Sorry man, nothing personal. I'm just livid with the decision to keep playing the same old tired shit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
timeEd32 Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 I'm sort of ok with this if it's a 4-4-2 because there aren't too many other options. Who would play on the right if Cisse was lone striker? Sammy? Obertan even though he's been good on the left recently? Add in Bigi and have Anita play a little wider? Ranger? None of these are ideal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole_Toonfan Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 The Looney Toon @The_Looney_Toon Reason cisse is starting out wide is because that was the original game plan which included ba . Cisse to start up top in next games Hope he's f*cking right hasn't steered me wrong so far but twitter is twitter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 To be fair to Pardew he's clearly trained since Arsenal based on Ba starting, so this is no real surprise. He wouldn't change everything at the last minute. Disappointing yes, but not surprising. Bollocks he has. This transfer didn't just come out of the fucking blue man! He should have been prepared for all eventualities. Besides, this is top level professional football! Not the fucking theater! Sorry man, nothing personal. I'm just livid with the decision to keep playing the same old tired shit. As of yesterday Pardew said he expected Ba to start this match. I don't disagree that he could have prepared for Ba going, but we all know Pardew's a very 'safety first' manager. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sima Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Fucking hell. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 To be fair to Pardew he's clearly trained since Arsenal based on Ba starting, so this is no real surprise. He wouldn't change everything at the last minute. Disappointing yes, but not surprising. We watched Cisse walk into our squad after a days training with his new team mates to score a cracking volley with his left foot, you start him up front and he tends to do that. Regardless of what we've been training for, we would be far better off playing an actual winger on the wing and our number 9 up front. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filflop1 Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Alan Pardew @AlanPardewNUFC The agreement with Shola about him not going to the ACN - he has to play upfront and go on post-match meals with Tiote as a woman. #nufc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 I'm sort of ok with this if it's a 4-4-2 because there aren't too many other options. Who would play on the right if Cisse was lone striker? Sammy? Obertan even though he's been good on the left recently? Add in Bigi and have Anita play a little wider? Ranger? None of these are ideal. I think I'd rather play Danny Simpson there rather than waste Cisse out wide. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varadi Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 To be fair to Pardew he's clearly trained since Arsenal based on Ba starting, so this is no real surprise. He wouldn't change everything at the last minute. Disappointing yes, but not surprising. I think that's the point a lot of people seem to be missing. One thing Shola does better than Ba is hold the ball up, should give Obertan, Marv and Cisse more time to join from deep - thinking positive! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikon Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Can we ban Neil until after the game at least? And then see how it goes before we give him access again? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nufc1892 Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Shola playing to mark the nutcase from LMFAO on set pieces? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoU Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 I'm sort of ok with this if it's a 4-4-2 because there aren't too many other options. Who would play on the right if Cisse was lone striker? Sammy? Obertan even though he's been good on the left recently? Add in Bigi and have Anita play a little wider? Ranger? None of these are ideal. Shola has done alright on the wing actually, maybe that's it. Or they'll be switching positions as they go. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider Jerusalem Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 To add to that, playing Shola from the start also robs us from our only plan B in case things don't work out as planned. Don't know what Pardew is thinking here. I didn't think that we had a Plan B. Unless that's what Pardew is doing when he's throwing on random sustitutes for any player except Jonas. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EthiGeordie Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Cisse still out wide. Pardew can burn in hell. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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