thomas

I agree too. If Pardew was world class and getting the best out of this group week in and week out we'd probably be neck and neck with Spurs in 3rd. As it stands he's a middling to good manager with us in 6th who has seen his team beaten for pace and on the counter after playing a high line for half the year and has adjusted with a more defensive mindset to consolidate position. This is an overcorrection and I don't know if he'll ratchet it back or not. He is not - I repeat he is not - the anti-christ. I'm pretty sure of that.

Hope Michael Alan likes his name.

Genius that.

horseshit, really? I catch about a third of their games so fair enough I might have missed some bad games but he's never looked horseshit edit: or just relatively horseshit? I'm an unapologetic fanboy either way.

I know I profess my Ozil mancrush every few weeks and restate how I'm shocked he didn't cost Carroll money, but goddamn. And Higuain + Ronaldo is just ridiculous.

For the purposes of .. uh. er.

Aguero.

Unbelievable! also I think the stat is never as a spurs manager?

Agreed, he should sit in a giant puffy Wenger jacket and watch the game like a depressed vulture

Any level of derision and scorn is acceptable so long as you preface it with "I'm of course happy that we're in sixth, but" because that makes it objective and unbiased.

On the contrary, if we set the team up to pass the ball I think we'd see many similar performances in the first 45 mins as well. You're talking about changing a lot of variables, I'm saying if HBA was in in place of Raylor from the start, and given the intensity (and the rest of our teams lack of) in the 1st half it wouldn't have been as sparkling, whereas 2nd half they were either sedated or MoN told them to sit back more and everyone on the pitch was getting more time and space.

Would have been destroyed in the 1st half imo. Night and day attitude for the scum when they turned out 2nd half and of course the sending off helped him. Not taking away from a great performance but I don't think it's reasonable to suggest he would have had the same impact in the 1st half against 11.

oops

go on and win this fucking win this lads plenty of fucking time and you may get to live after that first 60 minutes

Rotten

oh my god

fucking finally

Slays me to hear the commentary. David Pleat: "No, not for me. That newcastle player clearly jumped in the way of the Sunderland players bullet. At worst a yellow for the man in black and white."

FUCK OFF DEAN

well look at that, Dean's just been upgraded to semi-useless tit

get pleat off the air.

few bumps at halftime never did anyone any harm

We have no one stepping up into the acres of space created when 7 sunderland players converge on whoever has the ball and, worse, no one daring to make that pass. I can't guess why this is but when they press high up there's a fear that it's better to lose possession by hoofing than run the risk of a pass not coming off.

Fuck you Dean fuck you and die

Pleat is worthless