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After January - with 1st team striker left (shola doesnt count) - I'd bet the majority of managers would struggle to get 5 foreign players to instantly fit and gel in the team and its ethos. You can call Man City or something stupid like that, but they are WORLD CLASS established players - not the players we buy. (Deb perhaps excepted)

 

I'm swaying towards the idea that we should just get back to our bread and butter where possible and give anyone bought in January the luxury of impacting things from the bench if needed.

 

I think we only need to rely on Haidara to start in Santon's absence, apart from that we should be able to put out a team that have played together for over a year and know each others strengths and weaknesses.

 

Just put the old slippers on for a few games rather than trying to break in the new smart shoes that are causing blisters.

 

Having Sissoko, Gouffran, Mbiwa and Debuchy on the bench is a lot more comforting when you need to change up at half time too.

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I'm with you HF 100% - however the "2nd teamers" didnt perform and got put out on loan, who would fill all positions?

 

I think we are in a tough place now where we don't even have the luxury of falling back to PLAN A , because the younger players got disgraced in the media by Alan Pardew himself as "Not good enough" after a handful of games - and then loaned out.

 

ah christ, here's me thinking im optimistic - this post doesnt read that way.

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I'm with you HF 100% - however the "2nd teamers" didnt perform and got put out on loan, who would fill all positions?

 

To get all CT about it....

 

 

Elliot

Simpson Coloccini Taylor Haidara

HBA Tiote Cabaye Gutierez

Ameobi Cisse

 

Classic!

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heh, yeah.

 

I still dont think we can put that team out though either, as Colo + HBA aren't fit .

 

It would be Perch and Williamson *Blegh*

 

I'm not arguing mind, I think its much more realistic to add players to the team in a gradual manner, than throw them all together into a league they don't know and ask them to instantly play pardew's way.

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Tiote needs dropped.

 

So does Cabaye.

 

And you can only count on Ameobi for penalties. HBA and Colo half fit at best. Simpson on the way out. Cisse hit and miss. Taylor was awful v Liverpool. Elliot half the player Krul is. Apart from that, its a team with a lot going for it ;)

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So does Cabaye.

 

And you can only count on Ameobi for penalties. HBA and Colo half fit at best. Simpson on the way out. Cisse hit and miss. Taylor was awful v Liverpool. Elliot half the player Krul is. Apart from that, its a team with a lot going for it ;)

 

The old players and the new are all suffering from a total lack of awareness of what's happening around them.

 

If we're dropping players for being shit recently then there'll have to be a lot of u19s that start against West Ham.

 

Get back to what we know and see the season out.

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Nurse/Tommy/Mopeds.

 

From the man with the self professed tiny cock. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Especially when they are fat and ginger

 

Give it up man it's boring!

 

Others don't want football threads taken up with you calling me fat and me calling you four eyes.

 

Your meant to treat mental patients not act like one.

 

Use ignore.

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Nurse/Tommy/Mopeds.

 

From the man with the self professed tiny cock. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Especially when they are fat and ginger

 

As J69 cant use the "I can drink more than you" to highlight his masculinity he uses the "I have a bigger cock than you" routine.

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Give it up man it's boring!

 

Others don't want football threads taken up with you calling me fat and me calling you four eyes.

 

Your meant to treat mental patients not act like one.

 

Use ignore.

 

You're fucking WUM patter about Pardew is boring you cretin. You didn't even go last week because you had a cold ffs

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The old players and the new are all suffering from a total lack of awareness of what's happening around them.

 

If we're dropping players for being shit recently then there'll have to be a lot of u19s that start against West Ham.

 

Get back to what we know and see the season out.

 

Tbh, I wasnt being entirely serious....its as good an idea as any. I dont know what to suggest on the whole but if Colo is fit he has to start v Carroll :good:

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Does anyone seriously believe Pardew will do something different this weekend?

 

He could play a fire breathing Dragon and Willow the Wisp as part of a 1-1-8 formation and not play a pass longer than 7.5 feet....when we lost embarrassingly you'd be on here saying "same old Pardew, refusing to make any changes, long balls and set up defensively"

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Ignore me them.

 

Id rather just keep pointing out how ridiculous you sound and enjoying you flounder when everyone else points out your flip flopping from one month to the next. You could always ignore me if it upsets you

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