Park Life

Too ginger.

Your posts on Hatem have been sensible with a good outreach to both sides of the argument and I've never doubted you're a closet Hatem man.

Anyway I'm just frustrated we didn't put a side shot of confidence and no manager away. Generally speaking we're having a decent season...It's just my opinion that Hatem should start even if it is just the home games for now. The lift he gives the crowd and the players is worth a goal alone.

Military grade.

We'd be top if I popped down the training ground bro and you know it.

Ba and Hatem worked really well iirc cause Ba is very intelligent in finding good space to get shots off. With the addition of Remy on the wide left forward role we'd be really dangerous against anyone.

Yeah he got told off for that and put back in deep midfield where he gets back to what he really enjoys moaning and niggling fouls. We change formation about 10 times a game so no fucker has any idea where their zone of influence is or who to look for...Cabaye did well further foward and started creeping into the box...I don't understand why he gets put back and Shola starts? Hatem after a long chat with Pard comes on ON THE LEFT a position where he has to leave half his weapons behind. Makes no sense. Why is Santon still taking pot shots or standing near free kicks he can't hit a barn door the size of the world? No let's just have a pop at hatem whenever he doesn't score a miracle goal. Sick of it.

OMG! Alien tech?

Why doesn't Pard tell Cisse or Mandigobi to make runs to the near post or at least try and get in front of the cd when Hatem comes inside? The pair of them hide behind so many defenders they can't be found by a laser weapon mate. Who is the mid that should be runing beyond when Hatem gets the ball? Is this ghost actually on the team sheet? When we attack I swear we leave about 5 players behind marking nobody or chewing grass on the half way line. He does miracles cause he HAS TO. The last time I actually saw one of our strikers pull away from the goal for a cutback was Beardsley 3 million years ago. A cursory glance tells you they get very little offensive coaching or positional instructions with regard to attack.

Gouffran is a journeyman who's had a couple of good games. Sissoko after the early hype won't be a French regular. Albeit athletic and pacey his passing is very average.

He prefers Oscar cause he runs back sometimes...Said it a couple of times now in interviews. Mata apparently does some magic and then buys an ice cream. Mou's side isn't scoring many goals cause their manager is more interested in who's running back. Mou criteria for buying players now is: "You run back a lot son?" Boring cunt. Chelsea have been really dire to watch till very recently.

He's really gone downhill the last couple of years and even then very slowly.

Hatem has been playing with the handicap of not having a proper striker to aim at or even more than one player in the box most of the time.

Nasri who is a comparable player arguably in the best side has 15 starts 4 goals and 3 assists. Think that puts Hatem into context.

Just makes me angry when he's told to stay on the left which ultimately rids him of half his bag of tricks. I can't for the life of me understand why he gets put there...Crossing?

The comparison would be with Mata - not in the side for very similar reasons ie workrate and Mou needs everybody def when they don"t have the ball... Oscar seems the only one who has a tiny bit of leeway yet even he chases full backs back when they cross the half way line. The diff between us and Chelsea is that they have 2/3 other players in the Hatem mould and we only have one. Mata not playing isn't the be all and end all for them...But it makes a big diff imo to our ability to change a game or impact a game offensively. It is also interesting to note that their att mid players haven't contributed that highly with goals and also their attack is stuttering...Pard tends to play a kind of Mou lite with Siss and Gouff covering full backs and harassing forwards and in all fairness this has been the touchstone of our recent revival..AND Remy's goals..Take his goals away and we would have been struggling. However imo home games is where Hatem should be starting when 80% of the sides that come here will be in a neutral or def posture this is when there is more breaking down to do and a hint of unpredictability is also an asset....Hatem territory. For people bleating about his effectiveness his strike rate for us is 1.2 in 6 and Nasri is 1 in 7 for Man City.

Elysium. Absolute shit. 2/10

What do you think has brought on this mini-transformation?

Rosciky is such an irritating git.

Too happy to contain them. No real attacking ideas apart from Debuchy trying to steal the cheese when no one is looking...Sissoko and Goof not really at the races with regard to supporting Remy and the game ended with a whole load of hoofing. Remy not that clever with runs unless he's got a no.9 in front of him and can cut in from the left. Cabaye invisible. Really frustrating display against Arsenal who looked fragile and nervous and were there for the taking (you could see how relieved Wenga was at the end). You want to have a chance of winning a game like this you have to start your most creative player.

Should start all our home games at least. It's a crime against football him sitting on the bench.

I had a student job in a nurses residence....Those were the days indeed! iirc they were all pretty much pissed all through the festive period...Nowadays its all new fangled quotas and charts and care plans no doubt...

He's the best player we have and like all Jedi gets bored with football cause he mastered it at the age of 11.

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