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Also get the sense that they believe their new raft of players are going to play for free and cost nothing. They're losing loads of players for nothing which is being spun as slashing their wage-bill, which it will obviously but they'll need replacing and this will cost money. They've worked out that the parachute money will tide them over but have chosen to forget they'll need to spend to replace the loanees and out-of-contract players. Another 15 players out and another 15 coming in would be my guess.

Was embarrassingly poor from the pair of them. Schoolboys would have been dropped for doing that shit.

Exactly. M'Biwa and Williamson were doing perfectly well for a while until M'Biwa got dropped for precisely fuck all. There was no reason to change things other than to give preferred players a starting place they scarcely deserved. It stunk at the time and it still stinks now. Proper rank bad management.

No. The further down the league pyramid they are the better.

Champion.

Tompkins has been excellent.

Downing should have finished this man.

Scored too early the bastards.

Still think if they bring a defender off and replace him with Johnson then they'll get back into this. I refuse to believe they're dead until I see Nolan holding up a severed head.

Still think they're wining this. One goal and they've got the momentum back.

One for the purists tonight like. Fuck me.

Shit or bust for them tonight, a draw isn't really enough for them. Still think they'll pull a rabbit out of the hat and win it.

Completely emotionally detached from it all now. Wins mean nothing substantial other than it keeps the points ticking over, losses don't even register any more. Complete ambivalence and it's utter shit. Got the champions at home on Saturday and I genuinely couldn't give the first fuck what happens, the enthusiasm and passion has long since been kicked out of me by the cunt in the dugout and his owner.

Basically Dave's post yesterday with a bit of flesh on it.

Still think he was bought that summer in the event someone made a big bid for Cabaye. Yep. Not exactly like-for-like but he was bought with the intention of drafting him into Cabaye's place in the first XI when he inevitably moved on.

Definitely. They'll score as many as they need to.

*Mute*

"Tunderbolt"

Can't believe Brett's got the sheer audacity to have a pop at anyone on this board over their opinions of individual players/managers. That's fucking staggering given his previous.

Where's this come from? Sportsballsdeepdirectnews.com or whatever it's called.

Where's this come from?

Nobody has failed to score as many times as us, nobody has lost more games than us and only two teams have conceded more goals. Those teams are currently in the relegation zone. Yeah but Pardew's got letters saying how well we've done so there you go, point proven. #proudofgettingto40

Taking the bullets for their boss. I agree, it's criminal. I'd like nothing better than to hear 50,000 go for the jugular of the main culprit in the dugout. Proper venom, spite and abuse aimed directly at the bloke responsible for results and performances.

Better managers than this prick have been run out of town far quicker. I'm at a bit of a loss as to why he's getting such a long leash by the rank and file.