Wullie

You don't need anybody to slip up. In every season up to this point, if you get 65 points, you'll always finish in the top six.

65 points will almost always guarantee a top six finish. Don't know why people get so het up looking at what other teams may or may not do.

Must be nice for the papers to give enough of a toss to put pressure on a lame duck manager.

Moyes rebuilding the squad would have had them in far more bother. He's a negative underdog manager and always has been. Nothing necessarily wrong with that in the right place (a skint Everton for example) but in charge of one of the biggest clubs in the world who pride themselves on attacking football? God knows what Ferguson was thinking when he endorsed him.

How come that never happened under Ferguson?

David Moyes. Never has there been a more predictably disastrous managerial appointment.

And then Gouffran trumped it?

They want the best possible to help the club flourish. Must be why they scraped a shit stain off the floor of League One to be the manager.

Cabaye and Remy missing against sunderland, Spurs, absolutely anyone in the league - the club's line is "we've got injuries, can't be expected not to get absolutely murdered with those two out" Cabaye and Remy left out (sorry, "injured") against Cardiff and Man City - the club's line changes to "that team was easily good enough to win"

Nope, not allowed to advertise anything other than official UEFA sponsors.

Is there a PDF anywhere that discloses them properly?

Having to listen to them all discussing their travel plans in the office is absolutely unbearable, and not just because of the accents.

After four appearances, he's too knackered to make the bench. Sounds plausible.

Has there been any explanation for his absence on Sunday? Is he in the flair players' doghouse with Marveaux and Ben Arfa?

Here's me thinking there was nowt to look forward to this season.

Which is a bit weird really because last season when we were hovering just above the drop zone all season, we were often told that the only league position that mattered was the 5th from the season before.

Gouffran seemed to play much of the game centrally too when Cisse was sent out to the right and Sissoko left. As usual we chopped and changed formations and I struggled to understand what the midfield were all meant to be doing and where they were meant to be at any given moment.

Boro really shot themselves in the foot winning the 2004 Carling Cup like. Bet they never realised they'd get relegated five years later. Mugs.

So you still think Pardew should be sacked immediately then HF, as you did after Spurs?

Using statements like “amongst the best times any of us can remember” is either deliberately inflammatory or simply a quite astonishing misunderstanding of how most people feel about the club. A club who sell their best player when well placed in the table and don’t replace him, despite knowing since August that he was leaving A club who freely admit they will not attempt to win cups and do not want to qualify for Europe A club who plead poverty whilst at the same time, deliberately minimizing club revenue for the benefit of the owner A club who regularly go on runs of form that rival the worst in the entire history of the club A club who have thrown away thirty years of psychological advantage and now take regular hammerings from sunderland A club that plays football that is at best functional and dull, at worst humiliatingly awful You could make a list like this that goes on for weeks, if you want to start mentioning things like the manager consistently talking the club down and blaming the supporters for defeats on a regular basis and his refusal to use expensive players that our poor club managed to scrape the money together for (whilst at the same time crying his eyes out about injuries) and on, and on, and on. But no. We’re all wrong because Brett and Happy Face (predictably back on board with Pards! TBF his stats over the last ten minutes of football are outstanding) have consulted the league table. I wouldn’t care if it said we were 3rd but 8th?! It’s the definition of mid-table mediocrity and that’s apparently a plus point. It’s certainly better than last season, I’ll give you that. Easy game this for the manager isn’t it? Take the club to a pathetically low ebb as a result of chronic mis-management, then next year they’ll all be grateful and asking me to wave when I serve up something that is slightly less dreadful… apart from when the mackems turn up of course.

Not much difference between 7th and 10th? Nowt apart from possible European qualification that the club and manager have made it clear they want to avoid at all costs.

It's a thinly veiled dig at the supporters (again) imo. As Dave says, the only people who perceive us to have done badly are those who actually have to sit and watch it and who care about it. Pardew knows perfectly well the litany of reasons why our season compares infavourably to Everton's, he's just being a self-satisfied wanker as usual.

Means they get to keep the bragging rights for longer and I really hate that. I'd still rather see them go down, because we're now a banker six points for them under this man. You don't retain bragging rights if you are in a division below. We're talking about a club that are still going on about a game they won in 1908 in a season where we won the title.

Means they get to keep the bragging rights for longer and I really hate that. I'd still rather see them go down, because we're now a banker six points for them under this man.

How come teams full of shit players keep knocking us out of the cups then Alan? Fuck off. The mackems must have absolutely brilliant ones. Fucking utter wanker.