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Playing well. Just a few tweaks and we should take home 3 points.

Another fine BBC journalist at work.

That wired article is a bloody good read.

I've seen several people complaining that Gouffran looks jaded. If that's the case, then he needs rotating to avoid burn-out. Yet, rotating players and maintaining form seems pretty tricky and not something Pardew has managed this season. I guess he's playing it ultra safe in not rotating the team too much and would rather players like Cisse, Ben Arfa and Marveaux rot slowly on the bench. Sissoko is certainly a key component of the team right now and shouldn't be dropped.

6 game sample size is laughable. Everyone knows that the new manager honeymoon period is a real thing and that is exactly what Sherwood is enjoying. Also laughable is his assertion that Tim Sherwood some sort of miracle worker in getting Adebayor to perform over a short period of time. Anyone with half an eye on world football could tell you that the real problem with Adebayor, which nobody has found a solution to, is to get him to sustain a high level of performance throughout a season. The stake of football journalism and analysis is appalling.

Mixed feelings about Cabaye leaving. On one hand, I don't want the best midfielder our club has had in (what?) ten years to leave, but on the other, he's getting into his peak years now and deserves a shot at a Champions League club. I guess I can see and understand both the wants of the player and the club. However, it doesn't feel like the end. Not that there is a predefined end to Cabaye's time at the club, but I'd convinced myself that he'd play out the year and move on in the summer, which I'd sort of come to terms with. So, I hope this is just speculation, created by Rabiot's injury and the French press adding their own numbers up, so he stays the rest of the season and either moves to a big club or just stays all together.

Realistically or on the Fellani scale? 'cos the latter would put him around Bale money. Probably £20m after the season he has had. And that is a complete guess.

Yeah, he's managed in Europe before. I'm referencing the whole club though. From players through to coaches. Whatever structures were in place there last season would not be suited to the demands of this season. Training, match preparation, travelling etc. It will all be knew to, I guess 75% of the staff, including players and backroom. They have to put everything in place to the best of their ability and hope it works.

Swansea are in exactly the same position as we were last season. They lack the squad, knowledge and experience to prepare for 4 competitions on a weekly basis.

Just watched the highlights of St Mirren's game. Before I get onto Campbell's goal and assist, I need to say what a brilliant 75 yard through ball Newton played in the build-up to one of the goals. Eye of the needle stuff at dead weight. Anyway, Campbell slid his goal in well and burned his defender from a standing start before picking a man out with his cross. I'd be really excited if he didn't have a pinball machine first touch.

Courbis, Montpellier's manager, took a swipe at us in the press today. That's the same guy who was adamant that we wouldn't get Yanga-Mbiwa. I can taste his tears from across the channel.

That story backs up what my seemingly ITK chap told me a couple of days ago. Old man Cabella is holding out for a substantial fee and that is all that stands in the way of the transfer.

A trustworthy chap from another (non-nufc) forum that I frequent told me that the Cabella transfer will be finalized in the next few days. I know that these kind of posts can be greeted with an entire spectrum of responses, but I have no reason to doubt the guy. Make of it what you will.

Haha, only just processed the original post. Your TV cannot display 1080p. Your image will be at 720p regardless of what you set your one to output at.

Can't predict the future, but can use the current cross platform releases as an indicator. Aside from EA, whose next gen work is far from next gen, the cross platform developers have created graphically superior games on the PS4, whether that was from release or patched in. That is a fact and an indicator of what is in store over the coming years. I'm more than able to provide numerous sources that support that conclusion. As for your point about over-sharpening. If you prefer your games to lose details and textures, that's well, an odd personal preference. I mean, I can see why you could consider sharper colours as appealing, but the filter alters the look of the game from the developer's original intent.

This is wrong. Just look at this page: http://uk.ign.com/wikis/xbox-one/PS4_vs._Xbox_One_Native_Resolutions_and_Framerates Assassin's Creed, Battlefield and Ghosts are the three big cross platform releases at launch and are all graphically inferior on the one. Wont go into the technical details, but will say that the PS4 is capable of running games in greater detail, be that frame rate, resolution, AA... Nothing is certain, but most guess that cross platform graphics disparities wont increase over the life-cycle. So FIFA, CoD etc. will always look better on the PS4, but the gap wont grow too much. However, you will see significant disparities between the two consoles on their in-house exclusives. So, PS4 is and will remain the graphically superior console of this generation, but the differences in quality may very well be negligible for cross platform releases. You can play guess the console with these gifs of the graphically uninspiring Ghosts:

The upscaler adds a sharpening filter, which results in crushed blacks, thus a loss of detail.