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Pyewer flewk marra. Just like that Seesayer one.

Crying out for a 4-1-4-1. Or a variation, as long as we've got 3 in the middle, one up top and pace/flair on the wings then we should win games hand over fist. The personnel is now there, there's no more excuses not to go for it and give average teams a hiding, particularly at home.

Exactly. The likes of Cabaye, Sissoko, Gouffran and Ben Arfa (when he comes back) playing mean he can stop overdoing it and get back to his bread and butter of winning it and giving it on. The pressure is not there to hold it or bring it forward.

There's another goal in this game yet.

Pick that cunt out.

Bleurgh.

Hope City fucking pulverise them.

Shit news for Defoe but that looks bad enough to put him out of next week's match. Can't even get his boot back on.

Really, really impressed me today. The difference on the wing compared to Shola or Cisse is unbelievable. The passing, control, movement, fitness he showed just today has surpassed Shola's cumulative efforts over the course of the season. A million quid? Fucking hell.

4 down to a 2.5 Still work to do but the green shoots are there and Pardew must learn that sometimes doing nothing is better than doing something purely because you know you can. The game didn't need to be changed as the players were always in it. He knew he had 3 subs to use and in the past I think he's made subs because he knew he could rather than to change a game in our favour.

That was fucking excellent! Shame about the lad in the row in front who lost his diamond ear-ring when the winner went in like...

Held his nerve and did nothing. Resisted the urge to throw Shola on and we won the game because of it. Got it right today so fair play to him.

Points lost from winning positions: 12/13: http://stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/PR/ptslost.html 11/12: http://stats.football365.com/2012/ENG/PR/ptslost.html 10/11 http://stats.football365.com/2011/ENG/PR/ptslost.html

Afraid not chap.

Sorry boss.

http://stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/PR/ptsgain.html 12/13 http://stats.football365.com/2012/ENG/PR/ptsgain.html 11/12 http://stats.football365.com/2011/ENG/PR/ptsgain.html 10/11 goes back about 10-12 years iirc.

Struggling to see 3 of the current bottom 5 gaining at least 4 or 5 more points than us in the last 14 games. Pretty confident we'll get more points than all of the teams below us.

there is one simple reason I can defend him, we've not been consistently dreadful, we've had many games where awesome one half awful the 2nd but rare we were just awful for 90 mins. We've also had plenty of games we're we've just shot ourselves in the foot through ridiculous defending for 10 mins or so (stoke game comes to mind in that regard). We've had consistently dreadful results but not performances as a whole Sorry but that's just not true. We've been awful for months with the odd 20 minute spell here and there. Can't remember us being 'awesome' at all this season. I can remember us being consistently 'dreadful though' tbf.

tonight people haven't been defending his season but the furore about the second half on tonights game. Some people have tbh.

The league table doesn't lie after 24 games and we've been dreadful for prolonged periods of the season. The manager of a football club is responsible for results and performances and our results and performances have been dismal for months. No idea if Pardew is going to get binned or not but he certainly deserves to on the evidence of this season. Quite how anyone can defend his decisions/results this season is beyond me. Well it's not as some people simply love to be contrary and wind people up.

Me, Stu or the manager? Not you.

What an absolute bell-end this bloke is.

No he doesn't. His idea of counter attacking is to throw on a 6ft centre forward and hope one of our clearances lands on his head and someone miraculously is close enough to follow up and score despite all our players being in our own half. We needed his strenf.

Tell you what, Pardew's worked fucking wonders with this squad of players. To keep us bobbing abut just above the relegation zone is fucking superb stuff. He's been fucking mint, hat's off.

6 to a 3. Massive win for us and gaining 2 points on QPR and Wigan as well as 3 points on Villa mean they've got to get significantly more points than us in the last 14 games for us to go down. Can't see those 3 catching us now but we're not out of the shit yet. Still need another 4 or 5 wins to be comfortable.