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If his head isn't right and he's not going to play, what's the point in keeping him? If he's not going to be sold, play him.

Not fixtures btw. These are results since Feb '11: Home Chelsea Lost Away Stoke Lost Home Spurs Lost Away Everton Lost Away Arsenal Draw Home Liverpool Lost Away Man City Lost Home West Brom Lost Away Birmingham Lost Home Wigan Won Home Fulham Lost Away Bolton Won Home Wolves Lost Away West Ham Won Away Liverpool Draw Home Newcastle Lost Wins - 3 Losses - 11 Draws - 2 Points - 11 Possible Points - 48 Read more: http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?p=10616518#post10616518#ixzz1Vhp0L6Rm Fucking hell....

17 points from the last 66 available. 7 points from the last 33 at home. Best team in 50 years though. Obviously...

Absolutely.

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I beg to differ tbh. I'd happily take another bottom half finish (as long as we're not in danger) as opposed to finishing 8th-10th if it helped us get to the League Cup semi's giving us a decent chance of winning something. It's been too long since we had a good cup run and we're not going to win the league any time shortly. That's fair enough. It has been too long since we won something and realistically this Cup is our best chance of doing it. I'm just saying we shouldn't be putting our first XI out on Thursday night knowing we've got Fulham on Sunday afternoon. Mix a few young lads in with a few older heads whilst giving players like Tiote games to get him up to speed. Oh I agree because we shouldn't need to put a full-strength side out against Scunthorpe to get the win. I went to the 4-0 home defeat versus Arsenal last year and was pissed off that we'd fucked off another chance to have a good go at winning a trophy by playing a weakened side. But a few days later I was torn because we beat the mackems 5-1. In hindsight I'll forgive it because it was our first season back up in the top flight and matches against Sunderland are a special case, but in general we're not in a position to basically deliberately lose a cup match when we've went such a pathetic amount of time without a trophy. And seen the likes of Birmingham, Leicester and Portsmouth win trophies in the mean time. I'd be astonished and annoyed if any of our lot genuinely wanted that tbh. I want us to win every game but some games (and competitions) are more important than others. The team we put out against Arsenal that night was akin to deliberately losing the game imo, we wanted to get it over with and move on. I was on about the fans like, but it's a fair point well made.

I beg to differ tbh. I'd happily take another bottom half finish (as long as we're not in danger) as opposed to finishing 8th-10th if it helped us get to the League Cup semi's giving us a decent chance of winning something. It's been too long since we had a good cup run and we're not going to win the league any time shortly. That's fair enough. It has been too long since we won something and realistically this Cup is our best chance of doing it. I'm just saying we shouldn't be putting our first XI out on Thursday night knowing we've got Fulham on Sunday afternoon. Mix a few young lads in with a few older heads whilst giving players like Tiote games to get him up to speed. Oh I agree because we shouldn't need to put a full-strength side out against Scunthorpe to get the win. I went to the 4-0 home defeat versus Arsenal last year and was pissed off that we'd fucked off another chance to have a good go at winning a trophy by playing a weakened side. But a few days later I was torn because we beat the mackems 5-1. In hindsight I'll forgive it because it was our first season back up in the top flight and matches against Sunderland are a special case, but in general we're not in a position to basically deliberately lose a cup match when we've went such a pathetic amount of time without a trophy. And seen the likes of Birmingham, Leicester and Portsmouth win trophies in the mean time. I'd be astonished and annoyed if any of our lot genuinely wanted that tbh. I want us to win every game but some games (and competitions) are more important than others.

I beg to differ tbh. I'd happily take another bottom half finish (as long as we're not in danger) as opposed to finishing 8th-10th if it helped us get to the League Cup semi's giving us a decent chance of winning something. It's been too long since we had a good cup run and we're not going to win the league any time shortly. That's fair enough. It has been too long since we won something and realistically this Cup is our best chance of doing it. I'm just saying we shouldn't be putting our first XI out on Thursday night knowing we've got Fulham on Sunday afternoon. Mix a few young lads in with a few older heads whilst giving players like Tiote games to get him up to speed.

It's always tough to balance between putting out a side strong enough to beat Scunthorpe (or whoever) whilst not jeopardising the chances of winning the following league game. The League will always be more important than Carling Cup. I'd be tempted to start with Best and/or Ba up front. I'd like to see Vuckic and Abeid get a full game each, Tiote needs another hour, Marveaux needs to start. I'd rest Cabaye and start Gosling. Perch (if fit) could start along with Williamson and Tavernier. It's all about rotation and giving whoever needs games/fitness what they need.

The praise got progressively bitter towards the end. He's not given the Sunderland ratings I notice... Bearing in mind he's admitted we deserved it I'd like to what he made of his own players after slagging many of our lot off.

Credit where it's due, Pardew got it spot on today.

They never learn do they? This will fucking sting.

Get the fuck in you dancers.

Surprised there's no Gardner or O'Shea for them.

The closer its getting the more confidence I'm getting. Just seen their likely starting XI and there's fuck all on the park or the bench to be frightened of. Doesn't mean we're going to win but we can handle them.

My derby day record (born 76): P 36 W 14 D 16 L 6

Trying to drive the price down a bit. Could have saved us £15k had it worked.

Ironic seeing as you're clearly fucking hammered.

Don't get shirty.

He'd be a mint signing.

I think Pardew is the most important man for us tomorrow. He'll need to set us up right to make the most of the players he's got at his disposal, something he didn't do last week with Ba in particular. I just hope it's one of Pards more inspired days tactically rather than the odd brain fart match he's liable to produce every now and then. If he picks Shola and Ba as a front 2 and our tactics consist of pinging it up to them then we'll lose. The midfield won't be close enough to support them and Cattermole and Gardner will mop up and bring it straight back at us. Pack the midfield and try to play football rather than hoofball.

If we go 5 across the middle then we could/should have a bit more control of the middle of the park. We're going to need intelligent movement because if we lump it up to Shola for 90 minutes we'll lose. He is incapable of holding the ball up and bringing others into play. We're better off trying to play the ball into channels and get our midfield beyond Shola and into the box. Delivery from the wings has to be good too. We can win this but we need several players to have really good games. The main one being Shola.

Has anyone done any zany anagrams for him yet?

There will probably be a round of highly charged haggling going on. We'll probably thrash a deal out for £113,597.60 which keeps everyone happy.

How fucking ridiculous. They deserve all the pisstaking from other fans they get. They're a joke.