agreed substitution made no sense. Lita wasn't great, but lets be honest, he's still a threat more than Gray in his current form.
We ended up with two lumps with their backs to the goal, against two centre halves that won every header all day long. If one of them by a miracle had won a flick on, it would of gone straight to their keeper.
Game was up then, the best we could take was a draw.
I have noticed that the arrogance has gone out of Pardew now he realizes that perhaps he isn't a messiah as I suspect most of us thought when he was appointed. The squad has too many players and most of those do not appear good enough for a team that is supposed to be chasing promotion. I cannot imagine that the board would provide Pardew with much money for any more players as quite frankly only one or two of his buys have come off. He has had a load of money to spend and has spent it very badly, his loan signings with the exception of Sodjie and Mills have been even worse.
Personally I thought Gray was ok for about 75 mins. Held it up well. Did win some headers. And was better at that role than Iwelumo. Of the 2 front men thought Lita had to be the one to come off. Shame Varney was injured.
The problem to me remains midfield. WBA were much better and of course Greening runs the show.
It wont be popular with some on here but I remain of the view that Ambrose is too lightweight to get us out of this league. Also thought ZZ was a huge disappointment when he came on although Semedo had to come off before he was sent off.
Will be surprised if WBA dont make it as one of the top 2. By that performance we should be top 6.
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We ended up with two lumps with their backs to the goal, against two centre halves that won every header all day long. If one of them by a miracle had won a flick on, it would of gone straight to their keeper.
Game was up then, the best we could take was a draw.
Gray is a complete waste of space.
I'm still reserving judgement on Gray,as our midfield is absolutely shocking and has been for some time.
The last time he scored was 1st December 2007 - he netted twice.
Against us :-(
He was injured.
The problem to me remains midfield. WBA were much better and of course Greening runs the show.
It wont be popular with some on here but I remain of the view that Ambrose is too lightweight to get us out of this league. Also thought ZZ was a huge disappointment when he came on although Semedo had to come off before he was sent off.
Will be surprised if WBA dont make it as one of the top 2. By that performance we should be top 6.