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At least we've finally got some honesty from the club. This statement has confirmed the new MD as a total cunt, straight off the bat.

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That's mint. I think it's a bit half arsed really. There's loads of genuine ridiculous ones you could put in (Science, Notting Hill, spies) without having to pad it out with daft ones.

This for me was the absolute worst thing that happened on Saturday. How this one substitution wasn't followed by howls of exasperation from the home fans, and shouts of "Pardew Out/You don't know what you're doing", I'll never know. This one hopeless useless substitution perfectly sums Al Pards up for the fraud that he is. GTFO man ffs. He'd fucked off from watching the match by then. As I said over the weekend I think he's played an inadvertent blinder by not being on the touchline during this spell it's hard to have ire at a bloke who isn't really in the ground. Even one of the contributors on True Faith says "Pardew's absence from the touchline has had more of an impact than expected" - presumably it completely passed them by that Spurs had done the same a couple of weeks before Hull, or that it has been a very regular occurrence to the point where he's more than halfway to our previous Premier League amount of heavy defeats on his own? Where the fuck do they get these people?

First ever issue of the Mag: http://www.themag.co.uk/assets/2011/10/001-mag-cover-rev.jpg 26 years on and nowt's changed, just hoy a photo of Yohan Cabaye up instead.

Lambert's a classic example of what I said earlier. Absolutely no guarantees with managers. There was nothing between him and Rodgers two years ago, both had done equally well with unfashionable clubs, finished on the same points total and Norwich actually scored 8 more goals than Rodger's Swansea - and 14 more the previous season in the Championship! Now Lambert's in charge of a turgid and dull Villa side whilst Liverpool are one of the most exciting and ruthless teams to ever play Premier League football. This is why I don't believe in sticking with a manager out of blind hope, it's too easy to make a mistake that's not necessarily anyone's fault, just a mismatch. You've got to keep rolling the dice if you think you've got the wrong man. Get out early or it can really fuck you.

Indeed. Although anyone who defended him after November 25th 2012 should be shot out of a cannon.

Even then the only time I had time for him during that season was those five games. The vast majority of the season was excruciating despite the results.

Photo and a convo where he said forget about tactics, formations etc. any Pardew side would play liquid football. I called him from the start and did so even when we were riding 'high' in 5th. The man is a fraud and easily our worst manager in the time I've been following us. That's fine, but we all softened on him and gave him credit. I remember sticking up for him for the first few games of last season, when he was criticised for going back to 4-4-2 against Spurs and Chelsea and I defended it on the basis that they were exceptional circumstances due to the opposition and that the 4-3-3 with Ba and Ben Arfa wide of Cisse would quickly be back. It was when we got to Villa at home and needed a Ben Arfa screamer to save us against a desperate Villa side that I realised we were back to his status quo.

HTT, you definitely want to a talk-in and jumped on the Pardew bandwagon only to leap off after the next game.

Ronaldo was one of those who fell completely for Pardew's "suave sophistication" or whatever the fuck they used to call it, back when the Pardew thread had more than a sense of homoerotic undertones. Happy to say I've always thought he was a complete cunt. Grudging credit is as much as I've ever given him, whereas I did a complete 180 degrees as far as Hughton was concerned. Changed my opinion and then some, the magnificent black-and-white headed man that he is.

I used to buy The Mag and TF religiously for a while but eventually I just found that they dated too quickly. I would buy one before a game and by the time I actually opened it, it was out of date, and where I just wanted to read about issues created by whatever had happened on the pitch that day, I was reading about stuff that had happened weeks ago. It was fighting a losing battle against this place where I can read interesting stuff immediately from people whose views I respect and can engage with. I think forums are the modern fanzines more than digital versions of the traditional ones, although I do still read those regularly.

Some people are trying pretty hard mind. Bit sad innit. We have had enough inept cunts to whinge about over the years rather than bend over backwards to try and put down a decent bloke who did a very good job. It's a familiar, rather nasty trait amongst our support. Look at the way some of our fans talk about Kevin Keegan and Alan Shearer.

A shite manager who did a brilliant job at 2 of his 3 clubs. I know, I know, he had a fantastic squad at Newcastle and that made the Championship very easy that he barely needed to come to work. Just like Harry Redknapp at QPR.

Gutted for him.

Won both Player of the Year awards like.

Veria 2-0 Bastards.

There was a huge bust-up with the players at the back end of last season, hence the Telegraph still being banned for reporting it.

Put this in the other thread but probably better in here. As far as managers go, no matter how much we pore over managerial records, it can never tell the full story. Some managers just click at certain clubs and there are no guarantees. In December 2009, Brendan Rodgers was sacked at Reading, with the club one place above the Championship drop zone. Five years later, he's within touching distance of the top prize.

Martinez' problems were always defensively - in that sense, Moyes did the hard work for him having created an incredibly solid back four who know each other's game inside out. That's not to take away from what he's done, much better than I imagined he would.

Good shout. Done an extremely good job x 2.

Don't forget he still counts Cabaye.

Got my numbers wrong a minute ago. Before Pardew arrived, since 1993, we'd lost 35 Premier League games by 3 goals or more. He's up to 19 on his own.

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