BottledDog

Yup. Bag checks and scanners will be out too. Security will be insane. Likewise at the Training Ground and Academy. So I wouldn't expect much joy for those saddos that queue up outside the training ground all day trying to get autographs. Nope should be a fair amount left, will go on sale again shortly. Got two for the 4th of August @ £20 a pop... which I now can't use. If you're selling them, let me know. If you can't pick up any, i'll happily lob you them for less than I paid, if none of my folks take them up. No idea when they actually start sending them out though.

COOOOOOOOMOOOOOON!!!!!!! /still got a game in hand if we fuck this one up though.

Nope should be a fair amount left, will go on sale again shortly. Got two for the 4th of August @ £20 a pop... which I now can't use.

Fuck sake man Dinho, the Shearer tip was a piss take. No money, then? Ah sorry Dinho, thought the sleeping in a bookies bit would give it away. I'd stay away from both of them tbh, the odds for Clark are a bit risky nowI'd have thought, unless Bluestar really thinks it's nailed on. /hope it is mind, stuck a fiver on at 20-1. //never learn.

Great point.

5 live have been banging on about Jed Moxley saying Conner will stay on for next season fwiw.

Confident enough to lump all the winnings I'll get from Bluestars Lee Clark tip on it.

Mate who sleeps in a bookies is instructing us to get money on him as next wolves manager after a 'big tip'. Still 66 to 1 at William Hill.

Donachiiiiiiieeeeeee.

It is as well. Having to listen to a half time talk from Donachie would destroy any spark I had for the second half as well to be fair.

Are you suggesting that you and your merry band held our season together by sticking your heads in the sand ? I've heard it all now. Not sticking the boot in because you genuinely felt that that spell was not an accurate reflection on what Pardew was wanting to do is sticking your head in the sand? I've heard it all now. /I don't think anyone's saying he didn't deserve some criticism either for what it's worth, just that a lot of the criticism was way too black and white.

I think it being pretty gusty might have a lot to do with it to be fair.

What's Blanc doing speaking Spanish? All seems a bit fishy to me like.

Yup. Was great there as well, but think the ball kept getting nicked? Ah fair enough. Struggling to imagine what repairs needed to be made to a solid bronze ball mind.

Yup. Was great there as well, but think the ball kept getting nicked?

Oh please be true.

Magic. Great spot for him.

Hooo.... Nah, some of the things I have said about Pardew were idiotic. Although to be fair, I never demanded his sacking or said he should be sacked, I just offered that I myself would replace him after the season ended if we were still putting in poor performances/hoof ball/dodgey tactics/not playing the likes of Ben Arfa. As for the whole point scoring/who is right/who is wrong thing, sadly when debating on here it can lead to that kind of crap and I've been guilty of it myself once or twice. In general, me, I'm absolutely delighted to see my team playing like we are and Pardew has helped that happen massively so all credit to him, long may it continue. And yes, he is winning me over and yes I was wrong to say some of the things I did about him in a personal sense and regarding replacing him. Oh and Bottled Dog, no I will not start getting stuck back into him if a few results go against us. I will criticise abject performances, bad decisions and poor team selections etc. though where I see fit just as I will praise good performances and good decisions whether we win or lose, and that has always been my way. Fair play.

Very balanced view that.

Thought his lack of international recognition would cause him to do a Jose and not sign, so was brilliant when news of his new contract broke. To get in the team of the year is fantastic and really hope he does gets further recognition now. Just fkn love it that he's our captain.

No doubt some of them have a neb at the forums, but yeah, (despite it cropping up in more than one post) I'm presuming that was toungue in cheek to be fair.

Spot on as usual. There have been a lot of valid criticisms and discussion points, it never got daft barring a very few exceptions. In fact I actually think this has been one of the best threads this season because nearly all of the content was well balanced and argued. Despite our results and position, Pardew had questions asked about his selections, tactics and style of play (some of which were prompted by his own comments in the media) and he has answered them emphatically in the run-in. Dunno why some are so preoccupied with point-scoring. Not point scoring as such, just a pretty unbridgeable difference of opinion. When people say that Pardew has actually had a fundamental shift in his style or philosophy (possibly even to the extent of taking pointers from this forum) it's difficult not to at least have a go arguing against that. Whether he could have got the team playing like this much earlier in the season is a bit of a mute point without knowing what was going on at the training ground, but as Noisewater and others have said, there was plenty of evidence in his past or at the time to suggest that he had as little joy in seeing us resort to clunky defensive football as the rest of us.

Supposedly? Fuck off. You highlighted in my post "Sometime that faith looked shaky at best, but I thought that there was very little to suggest he was a negative manager, or married to the concept of 'hoofball' that some here kept banging on about.", then suggest i'd not seen any of the games in question. But that's what I've said all along, not just this season but the last as well. I didn't believe he was tied to or had any desire for that kind of football, and I'm delighted he is now able to let the players off the leash to a certain extent. There is no revisionism on my part. As you say though, it's not about being right or wrong. But I think the case does repeatedly have to be made, for no other reason than the vain hope of slightly stemming the inevitable round of rants and bullshit the next time we hit a slump.