West Ham were weak....and we managed to play worse than them. It's disappointing in terms of looking for consistency.

I was kind of hoping we were going to be a top half side this season...somewhere between ten and seventh position....But that was a performance befitting a relegation side.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Benteke in particular wasn't at his best. We can't rely on individual players be on top of their game ALL the time. We were the better team second half and not just after the sending off.

As another poster said, it really reminded me of last season, where we just couldn't score despite dominating play. Either our wingers had a s*** final ball or, when they smashed in a peach of a cross (rare) Benteke or whoever would fluff their lines.

Lessons: Cabaye looked really good. I say go back to McArthur/Cabaye in the middle next game.

Delaney needs to stop hoofing it. This was much better second half when we had Cabaye on. When Dann's back, Delaney drops to the bench for me.

Wingers, as usual, need to work on decision making. Townsend kept trying to go the long way round when that wasn't always the right decision. Zaha electing to beat the man when 2 feet from the back line instead of just poking it back in (did his whole 'beat the man 3 times thing' again today too).

Kelly is relatively solid defensively but doesn't offer a HUGE amount going forward. Prefer Souare. Couldn't really see what Fryers did wrong but he didn't add a lot. Was better at getting up the pitch I guess.

Benteke had a bad game by his standards. This, as I mentioned above, means we need more of a plan b if this happens again. For me, this is why Cabaye starts so we can play to feet a bit more.

Steve is immense and I feel much more confident with him in goal than Hennessy. Shame he hasn't kept a clean sheet yet.

So: not disastrous, we weren't at our best, but the international break was always going to balls up our momentum.

Onwards to Leicester!

Obs second half was much better but you know in first 15 mins when we didn't win one header from a cross, why did AP tactics persists?

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Indeed. Pardew out!

I said earlier that we have no right to beat them, and so it proved. We weren't shocking, but they played better. They don't warrant their position in the league at the moment, but neither do we.

It's early days.

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Let's not go there just yet

"Look at that. Accident blackspot? These aren't accidents! They're throwing themselves into the road gladly! Throwing themselves into the road to escape all this hideousness!"

Great catch by the man in the crowd from Benteke's pen all the same!

THE 17th OF MAY. MY 17th BIRTHDAY. MICHEAL HUGHES SCORES THE WINNING PENALTY, WHAT WAS HIS NUMBER? 17!!!!!