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I think without a doubt Pardew will get rid of Jonas in the summer and his position will either be taken up by Ben Arfa or LuaLua. And yes, I will party like its 1999. If Hughton were still here I could agree with this, as I think Hughton definitely saw HBA as a left winger and Jonas very much as his cover. But Pardew has been making noises about HBA playing up front. We'll have to wait and see where he's played on his return. Gutierrez was our best player against Everton Don't have to tell me that, but I still think (as Hughton did) that Ben Arfa is better than Jonas. If Enrique goes and the partnership between him and Jonas is lost, I'd like to see Jonas get a try on the right wing.

I think without a doubt Pardew will get rid of Jonas in the summer and his position will either be taken up by Ben Arfa or LuaLua. And yes, I will party like its 1999. If Hughton were still here I could agree with this, as I think Hughton definitely saw HBA as a left winger and Jonas very much as his cover. But Pardew has been making noises about HBA playing up front. We'll have to wait and see where he's played on his return.

Not to mention that everyone who's talking about him is talking about him as a left-back, not a winger, and it was at left-back where he put in a good performance against Chelsea.

Does Lee moonlight for The Sun? That one-line-paragraph shtick is straight from the worst rags. I want Ferguson to succeed as much as I want every other player at this club to be a success, and I'm pleased that he looks like he has something about him. But I don't think he's at a level to provide cover (or heaven forbid, be a replacement) for Enrique and I think he should've been sent out on loan to gain first-team experience. Of course, that would've required us to sign a specialist left-back to cover Enrique, and that would've required "planning." If the plan is, indeed, to have Ferguson replace Enrique when he leaves in the summer, we're going to be in real trouble.

You should be the last one to talk about what "nobody cares for." Remember a certain poll where you were told to fuck off?

That was atrocious. Hibbert should've been off though. I'll settle for top 10. I'd also like Best to get crocked so that Pardew doesn't think he won't need to buy strikers because we've got Soopa Leon.

Could be a good move by Pardew. Certainly better than putting the likes of Guthrie out on the right wing, God forbid.

I'm not sure he exists. Same as Gosling - that could've been anyone in his shirt for 5 minutes against the Mackems. Both Ashley conspiracies if you ask me, providing the illusion of cover.

Is this thread a piss-take? We didn't bid for N'Zogbia as a "joke", we bid for him so it'd look like the regime were trying to sign replacement players after flogging our best player for 35m, but - so tragically - we just ran out of time to make a deal. Never mind that N'Zogbia would never return, and that Wigan are the club least likely to sell to us. Wouldn't have him back for free. He's better than Jonas technically, sure, but there's plenty of other available players who tick that box who don't also have baggage equivalent to Heathrow's daily turnover and an absolutely shit attitude to boot. Plus he knocked Birmingham back in the summer because he wanted more money - no doubt he'd be wanting a fortune from us. This isn't even a case of "no thanks", it's just "no."

We can beat these. Am I completely alone in thinking S. Taylor could do a job on the right side? He looked good going forward after coming on v. Bolton and, let's face it, he's always been suspect defensively. Giving him free rein to attack might bring out a different side of his game. Obviously, this only applies if Barton isn't fit.

What they saying like? It's actually inconceivable to me how people could slag someone off who took us from the brink of non existance to one of the best teams in Europe within three years. "What difference does it make? He's in the past now." © Toonpack 2011

Your full of shite mate and always have been. You hate the fact that I had Jonas down as utter shite seasons ago while you were pulling off in your spider mask. Your like a few of the kids on here who cant see any player they have man love for, criticised. When he has played well I give him credit for it. Its not my fault its so fucking rare. Numerous times the whole stand was screaming at Jonas to make a run down the line to get into a dangerous position to receive the ball but time after time he made no attempt. With regard to Ranger....a "match changing sub" needs to come on and change the match. He is quite frantic but consistently doesnt score. Thats a fact. And as for Best, apart from his hat-trick I thought that was his best performance BECAUSE he won quite a bit in the air and directed those headers, flick ons into the box. Thats not biggging him up you tit, thats telling it how I saw it at the game. Oh really? How about when he was clearly MOTM against Brum and even then you couldn't admit it? It's not that I have 'man love' for Jonas, you utter plank, it's that you have an irrational hatred for him! It makes anything you say about him difficult to take seriously. Jonas is one of our best attacking players. If you want to criticise him for not being as good as fucking Jesus Navas, well, we aren't Sevilla if you haven't noticed that. If you had any brains, you'd recognise him for what he is, which is one of the only relevant attacking outlets we have. I remember you tried to make out that Routledge was better than Jonas too after we signed him. We can all see how well that's gone. Ranger completely changed the match when he came on. I guess you really did take that extended piss I mentioned and missed it all. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say that must've been how you got rid of all the Kronnenberg you ingested pre-match, which plainly clouded your judgment for the other 70 minutes. He doesn't score? Neither do any of the rest of our shit strikers. He gave us an outlet to hold onto the ball when we were a man down and looking for possession, he harried opposing defenders, he opened space for other players to get into, and in general completely changed the nature of the game. We had looked completely penned in before Ranger came on, and once he was on we had a way to move forward when we had possession. A striker isn't only as good as what shows in his goals column, and a player can have a match-changing impact without scoring or assisting a goal. Perfect example of how someone can go to the match and not see shit. I notice you didn't even waste time trying to defend your ridiculous criticism of Enrique, who is the best player we have and the 3rd best left-back in the league. Either you're blind as fuck or you don't know shit about football. I think it's plain by now which it is.

If he thought Ranger 'came on and ran around like a fanny without any end product' then I'm not sure if he did go to the match, Skidders, or maybe he was taking an extended piss for the last 20 minutes and missed it all. Slagging Enrique, Jonas and Ranger (three of the best performers offensively) and bigging up Best (complete shite) is where the 'knows bog all about football' comes into it. And "yank" doesn't come into it at all, but I don't expect any better from a troll like you who gets his rocks off trying to wind Leazes up.

This. Enrique was shite apart from two decent runs. Jonas was a disgrace and shouldnt wear the shirt again. As usual a shite display without Barton. (only found out minutes before kick off and not sure why he was missing). Ranger again comes on and runs around like a fanny without really any end product. Singing corner singing "Theirs only one Ryan Taylor as he's sent off". Praise be to Best who put in a good shift and won some great balls in the air. 2 points chucked away tbf. You're a fucking idiot who knows absolutely bog all about football. Just fyi.

Good performance, hell of an exciting game. If not for R. Taylor's moment of madness, that was ours.

Worked, didn't it?

Here I thought we were going to push on for the 3 points, now we'll be lucky to hang on to 1. Brilliantly done.

Looking like this one might be a cracker.

More importantly, what are you drinking/eating/seeing outside your window? What minutiae of your life can you regale us with via your mobile device? Inquiring minds want to know.

o i forgot 2 add we're gonna win 10-0 an pards will come off da bench 2 score da last 3 lol! more updates later on, i noe ur desperate 4 them lol

What'd u have Besty? Sweet onion chicken teriyaki is my faves totally lol! Sat here eating oatmeal, not feelin well but anythin 4 da t00n lol!

Should be shite-chatters.co.uk judging by TM's crack.

Wovers? (FWIW Billy I think there's 3 teams comfortably worse than your lot this season. I am a little worried that Venky's may turn out to be the "tastes like chicken" version of West Ham's dildo twins.)

KK summer, didn't we have a "super signing" coming in that turned out to be Colo? Muntari only spent one season at Portsmouth - can you blame him? Inter came in for him. If Inter came in for Tiote at the end of this season, I don't think I'd blame him for wanting to be off, and it wouldn't make him a mercenary or unreliable.

I was hoping it'd be a white one like the one Best wore for Coventry.