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i'm gonna go off totally left field and wait for evidence before having a go.

I think that describes me quite well, tbh. na change it..too reminiscent of johnny vaughan strongbow ad's

totally different,at least in the case of bellamy as we had no-one to play wide right (where he has played before) and could play shola through the middle instead. What? As far as I can remember we had Bowyer, Ambrose, Dyer and Milner who could all play on the right and allow our best player (which was undoubtedly Bellamy at that time) to play in his proper position. I seem to remember one match when we had Shola, Bellamy, Kluivert, Robert, and Shearer all on the pitch. The fella was a mentalist, man. bowyer was playing centre mid at the time (or going throught one of his s*** spells)...dyer injured (at a guess)ambrose was s*** and i'm gonna check toonstats to see where milner was Look, I know you love Souness, but there can really be no excuse for playing Shola on the left. Even worse than playing Martins on the right. righto.....look i never made an excuse for playing shola on the left. and totally agree re martins

totally different,at least in the case of bellamy as we had no-one to play wide right (where he has played before) and could play shola through the middle instead. What? As far as I can remember we had Bowyer, Ambrose, Dyer and Milner who could all play on the right and allow our best player (which was undoubtedly Bellamy at that time) to play in his proper position. I seem to remember one match when we had Shola, Bellamy, Kluivert, Robert, and Shearer all on the pitch. The fella was a mentalist, man. bowyer was playing centre mid at the time (or going throught one of his shit spells)...dyer injured (at a guess)ambrose was shit and i'm gonna check toonstats to see where milner was

totally different,at least in the case of bellamy as we had no-one to play wide right (where he has played before) and could play shola through the middle instead. What? As far as I can remember we had Bowyer, Ambrose, Dyer and Milner who could all play on the right and allow our best player (which was undoubtedly Bellamy at that time) to play in his proper position. I seem to remember one match when we had Shola, Bellamy, Kluivert, Robert, and Shearer all on the pitch. The fella was a mentalist, man. Fulham at home when we lost 1-4 wasnt it? and was Jenas right back for most the game? due to injury wasn't it ? not a real tactical brainwave but a forced move

yes the players have to take a look at themselves but when the manager sends out teams like allardyce has you have to think someone else could do better with the tools at his disposal (every pun intended). in the same way we can look at two different squads and rate them we all have opinions on certain players (beye can cover a number of positions where as owen i'd only play up front in a two.....milner can play either side but i wouldn't play n'zogbia on the right) so it then falls on the manager if he fucks up. with roeder and souness (who both had horrific injury lists to contebd with....which the latter didn't help himself with)i could see what they were trying until the death throws of their respective terms...........with allardyce i'm at a complete loss.

pass and move when you have the ball organised when the oppo have the ball a simple game made complicated.

totally different,at least in the case of bellamy as we had no-one to play wide right (where he has played before) and could play shola through the middle instead.

I didn't see anything in his body language to suggest that he was expecting the sack, I'm not sure what you could see. Why would he expect the sack when our league campaign was no worse than the couple before and had finished the season in a reasonable league position? there was a massive difference between the season the 2 seasons. yes we finished in a reasonable league position but like the mackems under peter reid you could feel the tide change, they kept him when all the fans knew change was needed,we did the same with robson. he should have gone at the end of the season.

sounds like viz to me. shearer as manager with a 90's pop band as the assistant. (mind you gwen stefani stupid hair will take a back seat to alan smith's)

re libertines success and stability thing. if those managers you quoted had seen no improvement in their teams in half a season they may not have been allowed to stay. there is anargument to be made that success brings stability,not the other way round.

I think it's time to get your head out of the sand rather than elaborate. I don’t think expecting to give the s**** of the league a good game once in a while is too much to ask. It's only my opinion but I expect to see an improvement next season, if it doesn't come then so be it, but please explain how doing away with the manager help at such an important time of the season? Who is available that could do a better job? almost everyone is available at the right price

no no,we play for a draw to relegation fodder. we'll play to keep it to under 4.

typical nufc is to go,play well,unluckily get beat 1-0. (then get raped off citeh)

aye the chelsea game was canny

Explain how Viduka fits into that list. explain how he doesnt? just because he scored 2 goals v derby means hes good? he does nothing for the team and the team does nothing for him. i see a pattern here

people didn't expect miracles but improvment....we havent improved.

I've never seen the like away from home. Some of the stuff that went on, not from a small minority of pissed up charvas either (some have temporarily escaped my memory, others will know): Obviously chanting for Oba from about 15 minutes onwards Shearer, Shearer - long, loud and persistent Very loud booing when Allardyce picked up the ball when it went out of play Booing at half time and full time Most tellingly, the vast majority for most of the second half: "We're s*** and we're sick of it" All totally justified too imo. Today went beyond the pale. ashley was in the crowd aswell. i think it's a question of when rather than if. Did he join in? he paid £2million to paul macca to come up with the lyrics "we're shit and we're sick of it". then he started it

it's a "period" thats lasted since august

then concentrate on allardyce after your act of self mutilation

we didn't expect magical results but after 19 games and 7 months you'd expect some sign of improvment,not the feeling that the performances arethe same as the last 2 mangers who at least would atempt to win away games. "not playing well at the moment"... that moment has lasted since august. we played well 1st half at bolton,then against spurs and arsenal. don't fall into the trap that we beat west ham and everton seemingly comfortably because we didn't play well and there were long spells in both games when we were under the cosh. Our last two managers did NOT attempt to win away games. Roeder took a whole season to win a couple of away games, and don't even mention Graeme f****** Souness and his ineptness. they did attempt to win away but failed,i'd rather fail trying than not attempt.

I've never seen the like away from home. Some of the stuff that went on, not from a small minority of pissed up charvas either (some have temporarily escaped my memory, others will know): Obviously chanting for Oba from about 15 minutes onwards Shearer, Shearer - long, loud and persistent Very loud booing when Allardyce picked up the ball when it went out of play Booing at half time and full time Most tellingly, the vast majority for most of the second half: "We're s*** and we're sick of it" All totally justified too imo. Today went beyond the pale. ashley was in the crowd aswell. i think it's a question of when rather than if.

I agree. Tony Daley at our place was the fastest player I've seen, faster than Agbonlahor, but with absolutely no clue what to do with the ball when he ran out of space to run into. Ashley Young is nowhere near as fast, but can cross very well. James Milner has little pace but is also a very good crosser of the ball. Decent wingers will create space. at villa he did and the crowd there loved him. the question should be why can he do it there but not here ? what differing circumstances are there ? did he have someone to aim for at villa ? Cos he isnt good enough? Villa were piss poor at the time. We are piss poor now. Doing the odd stepover and shuffle then hoofing it into the Holte/Leazes end is manna from heaven for some man. Whichever way anyone wants to dress it up I'm not having him down as a very good crosser of the ball maybe the last 4 words in bold but all six is way over the top. but thats not what he done. he created. i don't think he is the best wide player in the world but your going over the top is getting a bit fetishistic Not really, the kid has been piss poor all season and way over-rated last. People are starting to see that now thank f***. Only the manager left to go and we all know what a tool he is proving to be. i don't think he's been poor all season and people aren't starting to see it some have always rated him and some haven't. i don't really think anyone has changed their mind.

for those who were there. what was the fans reaction. at half time you could hear the booing on the radio. the away crowd are normally pissed and have a partizan "it might be shite but it's our shite" mentality but it seems like allardyce has even lost the backing of this partizanship.

I agree. Tony Daley at our place was the fastest player I've seen, faster than Agbonlahor, but with absolutely no clue what to do with the ball when he ran out of space to run into. Ashley Young is nowhere near as fast, but can cross very well. James Milner has little pace but is also a very good crosser of the ball. Decent wingers will create space. at villa he did and the crowd there loved him. the question should be why can he do it there but not here ? what differing circumstances are there ? did he have someone to aim for at villa ? Cos he isnt good enough? Villa were piss poor at the time. We are piss poor now. Doing the odd stepover and shuffle then hoofing it into the Holte/Leazes end is manna from heaven for some man. Whichever way anyone wants to dress it up I'm not having him down as a very good crosser of the ball maybe the last 4 words in bold but all six is way over the top. but thats not what he done. he created. i don't think he is the best wide player in the world but your going over the top is getting a bit fetishistic