No because they will wait for several losses in a row whereas if we get little points out of the next 4 games it's not going to be so bad to us now. If it's vs any opposition then you have a problem because it becomes risky..... What if you lose vs dross several in a row and then can't beat top 6 in a few games in a row? You become in trouble. At the moment we're beating who we can/should/expect to/ however you put it so that deserves respect and relaxing of pressure going into hard games or a couple of bad results.

Edited by Rudi Hedman (24 Sep 2016 9.22pm)

COYP

Townsend's set pieces were worse.

That's Life
And as funny as it may seem
Some people get their kicks stompin' on a Dream.
KEEP THE FAITH!!!!!

Worse than what? I was saying a manager ought to tell someone whose set pieces were s***e that someone else should take the next one. I didn't name any names.

It was I who mentioned Townsend on the basis of the performance last week. But my point really is that Cabaye seems to be insisting on taking these kicks and lately he seems to have been pretty much wasting them.

Lee didn't exactly do badly with his, either.

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Townsend didn't have his best game yesterday, his free kicks failed to beat the first man, but that doesn't stop the anti Cabaye group still failing to see why Pardew picks him at every opportunity.

I love what Cabaye brings to the team, but his free kicks and penalties are mostly poor and often terrible. Punch/Townsend on free kicks and Benteke on pens is the sensible choice.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.