Mauricio Isla

[goldie]

Agree totally that we should have played the kids as the season fizzled out.
We would have reaped the benefit this season.

Pardews an idiot simple as that!

He's been sating it's clear we have more offensive options...

Since marv Ben arfa Cabaye and obertan will have left along with shola and we've brought.in 3 I fail to agree. I know obertan and shola are no big miss but the numbers sur
say everything.

This isn't happening anyway so any hope that the intelligencia have realised our squad is not even wafer thin anymore look over.

 

[Albert's Chip Shop]

Pardews an idiot simple as that!

He's been sating it's clear we have more offensive options...

Since marv Ben arfa Cabaye and obertan will have left along with shola and we've brought.in 3 I fail to agree. I know obertan and shola are no big miss but the numbers sur
say everything.

This isn't happening anyway so any hope that the intelligencia have realised our squad is not even wafer thin anymore look over.

I think there's two distinctions to be made here.
In terms of individuals... Cabaye out hasn't been replaced like for like yet.... in terms of quality (get's prayer mat out for Grenier).
From what I saw of Jamaat he's on par with Debuchy.
Now.. looking at the squad, we have most definitely improved the wider squad with the departures of Marv and Shola (thus far).
In return we've brought in Perez, Riveira, De Jong, Cabella and Colback.
One of the big moans I had with NUFC was the depth of the squad and lack of therein but the club (albeit a bit late) are finally starting to address this.
The one potential spanner in the works is of course Pardew and how he sets his team up.
I wait with baited breath.

 

[Siem's sexy swagger]

The missing piece really is a replacement for Remy, without his goals we would have been relegated.

 

[Warmir Pouchov]

Pardews an idiot simple as that!

He's been sating it's clear we have more offensive options...

Since marv Ben arfa Cabaye and obertan will have left along with shola and we've brought.in 3 I fail to agree. I know obertan and shola are no big miss but the numbers sur
say everything.

This isn't happening anyway so any hope that the intelligencia have realised our squad is not even wafer thin anymore look over.

The only one who is any kind of miss is Cabaye. The other 4 are all dross.

 

[Warmir Pouchov]

More serious comment than my last one is that Pardew should have "blooded" some of the kids in the latter part of last season. We weren't going higher and we weren't going lower, or at least not to any relevant degree.

I doubt whether Aarons would have been one of those "blooded" and there was the issue of the losing run which ideally is not the time to "blood". Pardew could and should have played one or two of the kids once we were safe but once the losing run had picked up momentum then that would not have been the time to try the kids.

Put simply, there was a few games where he could and should have but he missed the opportunity and once missed it was then too late for the sake of the kids' confidence.

Two arguments here as you note. My view aligns with that of the top youth systems e.g. Dortmund etc. That of young players should be blooded when the team is going well. They should start games in winning sides. They should not be used as an afterthought or pitched in hoping to change a team performing badly. Whereas I like the idea of youngsters getting a go, I'm not keen on them suffering as a result senior players failing.

Tough one for me but I just didn't agree with the likes of Armstrong/Aarons etc being chucked in back end of last season. You could argue about playing them earlier in the season to protect some legs from getting weary but then again they were very young and we didn't look tired, just ****/demoralised/disinterested.

 

[goldie]

The only one who is any kind of miss is Cabaye. The other 4 are all dross.

We still can't survive injuries in goal in defence or attack and what we've signed could be flops we just don't know