BottledDog

Tomorrow meaning tomorrow, or meaning today? How in Gods green and blessed Earth do you figure that tomorrow means today?

What the SSN transfer man said. Oh. It's also in the L'Equipe article (where the SSN transfer bloke most likely got his info from). Says they are supposed to meet with him/his people today and us on Wednesday. Uh oh.

Quite a few as it happens. i understand taking him off, i don't understand the replacement and tactics nor those surrounding the marveaux sub. I was more referencing Beren and Jack. I think most people are in broad agreement. Pardews reasoning that we needed to put our foot on the ball as we'd lost the initiative is fair, but that didn't make it the right thing to do and just put us further on the back foot. At home. Against Reading. Cabaye had to go off and the crowd reaction was rotten, but perfectly understandable in the context of the match. Something that Pardew said about the substitution was interesting though. He said that while he'd have liked to put on an attacker, for him Bigi wasn't a defensive sub anyway. I think it's an indication that we'll see him end up further forward than expected, and adds weight to the need for someone like Sissoko coming in.

Quite a few it seems. Beren in particular.

He'll have been told to say that by our beloved manager as he didn't mention any of this straight after the game. ...and this one. http://www.nufc.co.uk/articles/20130119/goal-but-no-glory-for-comeback-cab_2281670_3046871 No mention of injury. It's very amusing to see the same people desperately defending Pardew at every chance Like clockwork. Pardew? I'm defending Cabaye on this one. It's an odd mixture of depressive bemused amusement to me that your first though is that Cabaye has been forced to spin a line.

He has been such an unbelievable miss for us this season (and I think I underestimated his importance to Pardews team at the time if I'm honest), and could be our most important player for the remainder. If he stays fit, I think we'll be ok.

He'll have been told to say that by our beloved manager as he didn't mention any of this straight after the game. ...and this one.

Woah, someone get this man a tin foil hat, stat.

Me too Thank you, but no. Not on your nelly.

LOL

Willing to put the Cabaye one down to a communication balls up. Have no problem with it. It was the Marv sub that got on my tits. I can understand his reasoning, that we needed to get back on the ball as we weren't in control anymore. I still think it was a terrible decision though.

I guess if the Cabaye one was unexpected, rather than a planned withdrawal, then the Marveaux one is a bit unlucky. If Cabaye had lasted we might not be having this discussion. If the Cabaye sub was just because he's generally not up to speed, then the Marv one is crazy. I thought he felt his groin and asked to come off? Yeah, some reports suggest he did. In which case I suppose Pardew was unlucky to have already subbed Marveaux. 'Some reports'? How about from Cabaye himself, in almost every paper.

You're sympathetic towards Ashley. Now that's not quite what I said is it.

We are only going to spend what we bring in unless there is a massive change of heart (something Pardew has clearly been pressing for). Still p*ssed off that the fallout from the Keegan debarcle saw Ashley saying f*** it, the plan was to throw an extra £20 million of my own money a year but I'm bollocked if I'm going to do it now. I'm fairly sympathetic to the reasons for him falling out of love for the project, but christ, think of the difference it would have made to us. Although he has been here 5 full years and, since buying the club, has put in an additional £140 million so that's well over £20 million a year on average....is one way of looking at it. And probably is the way he looks at it. The £140m was his own fault for not getting due dilligence done though. See your point mind. True and I think there's a solid divide between covering the clubs loses with (admittedly low interest) loans and actually sticking in £20m a year on top once we started breaking even/generating a profit. Would make a fucking monster difference to who we could afford and at what level we could compete down the line. Hopefully he'll get his mojo back one day, but looks hella unlikely.

Not sure how it'd work... but £4m Danny Simpson.

We are only going to spend what we bring in unless there is a massive change of heart (something Pardew has clearly been pressing for). Still pissed off that the fallout from the Keegan debarcle saw Ashley saying fuck it, the plan was to throw an extra £20 million of my own money a year but I'm bollocked if I'm going to do it now. I'm fairly sympathetic to the reasons for him falling out of love for the project, but christ, think of the difference it would have made to us.

Still a fan of Mouhamadou Habib Habibou myself.

Can't see it, but HBA my beg to differ.

It's bloody great to have reasonable prices, wouldn't ever want that to change. Doesn't help us to be any more competitive with the richer clubs though.

and how do we show that ? announce to the press officially who we've bid for, how much for the transfer and wages ? Seems to need re-stating every day. We do not comment on potential transfers. The only stuff we hear is media speculation, a player or players agent drumming up further interest, or the selling club breaking the silence (again primarily to smoke out other potentially interested parties). For anyone to base any solid opinion on what we're up to or how hard we're working behind the scenes on what spills out into the public domain is wanton idiocy.

Yeah, can imagine a Southampton reject given lots of time by our support. Like Southampton reject Alan Pardew? Yeah. http://drawception.com/pub/panels/2012/4-6/rLt36nGSxY-2.png

Do you not accept it though? FWIW I agree it's sad, but the problem is with the league not us. Not long-term I don't, which is what the question is. Might as well not bother. Surely the whole point of football is to try and win stuff? Especially the domestic league. Course it's the point, but the current situation in the league makes it virtually impossible. Whether or not people will start to think of football as pointless remains to be seen. For me, it just about offers enough on a weekly basis to help me forgot how futile the bigger picture is. Obviously it needs to be done in steps, but it can be done. In our current model we'd need to get into the CL first to garner the revenue/status necessary to get the class players in/keep our current ones, of course. It's naturally a lot easier if you've got someone chucking money at it. Spurs operate a similar way and got relatively close to challenging at the top, mind. They're still up there amongst it now despite a rocky period, although of course they're not in the title race right at this moment. I dunno, taking a long-term view I just don't see why a club of this size shouldn't be trying to compete at the top-level and harbouring the aim of winning the PL. Spurs will have a bigger stadium and revenue will go through the roof in a few years too when they've their new ground. They already have around double our matchday revenue don't they? We may have a big stadium, but we are way behind the London clubs in terms of the money generated per seat.

Yeah, can imagine Southampton reject given lots of time by our support.

So Colo's problems aren't that huge according to Pards. Good to hear.

It looks suspiciously like you're taking a positive angle on this. Good luck with that.