thomas

A pleasure to meet you Guv

Shocking how often it's brought up though. Managing the French National Team to 5th place was the mother of all anomalies when you factor in his performances as a manger before that year and after that year. It is in no way the "Get Out Of Criticism For Free Forever" card it gets played as.

Jozy's a nice lad but he plays for a really shit team and also Sunderland

Rubbish.

masterstoke from hughes and his players tbh. could have put pardew to the sword with a 6-0 hammering, just a 1-0 might keep him in a job and give him easy points next season

Can't get over the feeling that he's under no pressure whatsoever anyway. Would rather the humiliation stop in that case tbh.

what a caulk tease

seems to try, at least. I wonder if we can just keep a revolving door of players coming in with energy/effort and then get them out in a season or two when hope and joy has been drained entirely from them

nah mate. nah. ashley is a 10 on the shiteometer and FFS was a 7.5, don't know how you're rating him a 7.6 and here's 20 pages of historical opinion why because it really really matters to me that you don't consider him as bad as you do

i listened to t that interview at half speed and it sounded a lot better

if only pardew was under any pressure at all, this continued absence and undoubted goal drought would have at least a silver lining.

http://i.imgur.com/flqpUQJ.gif

Good for them.

Fuck off Webb.

more like bored of directors

that's random, sociable animals actually blame guy ritchie http://i.imgur.com/OgqgWpg.jpg

No one's mad at honesty just the complete and utter lack of ambition. Just because they're honest about that doesn't mean you have to accept it or that it forgives the reality of what they're being honest about. Bit like those cunts who go around laughing "I'm a cunt but at least I'm honest about it" well good for you sunshine, it's no excuse or free pass.

"We don't look at transfer windows in isolation, but rather as a full trading year, and our intention for the first team is to sign one or two players per year to strengthen the squad." Utterly depressing and baffling. One in in the summer, maybe one in in the winter. I suppose anyone who leaves who they didn't plan on replacing will have their position filled by a reserve team player.

Feel like there's some rose tinted glasses being worn here; accepting the reality of his abilities as a manger doesn't actually diminish his time here.

Agree with this 100%. Despite his shortcomings (of which, as a manager, there are clearly plenty) he was absolutely pivotal in us not sinking like a stone. Others played their part of course, but he was at the helm when it mattered. Aye, Hughton was almost Machiavellian in the way he backstabbed his way to the top. He didn't even backstab him man, he did it in front of his nose too. http://www.espn.co.uk/PICTURES/CMS/17900/17991.2.jpg wow. just ... no.

Wish it didn't sound cliched at this point but it is like they're playing a different game than us

Remember wishing we'd gotten Jarvis at some point.

too american, would lead to timeouts, commercial breaks,sin bins and multi-ball bonus rounds </retard_slippery_slope>

yisss