BottledDog

Yeah, just seen that. /Oh, and Gosling looking for a tutor? Sounds like he's off to Spain in January!

Thats the sort of thing I was hoping to hear......Lets just hope Pardew was there and takes note. Cheers chaps. He wasn't.

Where's that quote from? Maybe clutching at straws here, but if it was a report based on the nutv interview it seemed to me that the brilliant bit was more directed towards the centre backs - 'our resilience, our full backs.....our center backs were brilliant today'. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14897089.stm Fair do's. Collectively they achieved a clean sheet, but Raylor was having a mare. I'm a little worried Pardew hasn't mentioned Santon in any of the post match interviews I've seen.

Where's that quote from? Maybe clutching at straws here, but if it was a report based on the nutv interview it seemed to me that the brilliant bit was more directed towards the centre backs - 'our resilience, our full backs.....our center backs were brilliant today' and then continued to talk about the centre backs having too much to do.

It was shite like, and if Pardew had done a Brucey and papered over it I'd be pretty worried, but he hasn't. We know tactically where we went wrong and he accepts that he held onto the formation for to long, but there we also the unavoidable factors that some players were simply not clicking on the night and some of the passing was well... beyond shite. Hopefully we'll get to see Santon on the left today and Pardew follows through on his insistence that they'll be focusing higher up the pitch against Villa. Looking forward to it oddly. /oh apropos of nowt, noticed there was a quote earlier in the thread from Pardew where he said the full backs were terrific which was criticised. That's fair enough, but in the interview I think that came from, the terrific bit was really aimed at the centre backs imho (was part of a bit of a rambling sentence).

It's not pretty though, is it? That was one of his major selling points upon arrival, that he would bring us a "better brand" of football. This season has been pretty shocking so far in that respect. Not complaining about the points haul, mind. Where's that "better brand" quote from? Definately hoping for an improvement but not too worried yet. The players we have brought in should get us there but may take a while to gel, and it's not helped when we lack the kind of striker that can give us the confidence to be more adventurous.

Right, perfect time to shut down the thread. 666 pages on the village of the damned.

Oh, aye. Lot of branding was there? /no, no there wasn't.

Eh? Ryder's mental if he thinks there are any goals to be found on the free agent list.

Exactly, said before the game, there is no way anyone should get pissed if he doesn't play when we have no idea where the level of his preparation is for the game.

With his pace though, it's just something that's bound to happen. Terrible player, but he'll have some great debut tonight. SWP is far from a terrible player. He is like. He's fucking crap. Oh, really.

With his pace though, it's just something that's bound to happen. Terrible player, but he'll have some great debut tonight. SWP is far from a terrible player.

If that's your problem then I'm left scratching my head. Years and years of wasting money on the likes of Smith (£6m + $$$wages over 5years) does nothing for NUFC on or off the pitch. We've been guilty of this time and time and time again. So long as the quality is there, I don't have a problem with the £xm spent. always, always with the worst case man...why is it "we could have spent 6m on another smith" when it could have been "we could have spent 6m another enrique" rather than done fuck all? ??? everyone i think, everyone, agrees with prudence but presently we're on the wrong side of it imo there always has to be risk to succeed, we take no risks We've have taken plenty of risks in the last few windows, on incomings, and probably to a greater degree on big name outgoings. So far we have done pretty well though in building up a youngish talented squad to be fair to them. Really, really need a fucking striker mind. Criminal we haven't got one yet.

I'd obviously like to see him start, but if in the little training he's had with us it's deemed he's not quite there yet and doesn't, I can't see why anyone would have a problem with that. Good luck Davide.

Doubt it, because they are not.

Again, very fair words from Pardew.

Don't sack Bruce.

Saw nowt of him in the press confrence clips on nutv. Has Santon even been training with us yet? If not, or at least not much, I'd be amazed if he made the starting 11.

Regarding the bit in bold: He said very clearly after the shitstorm post Keegan that while he had been willing to put in £20m every season, that would no longer happen, the club now had to look after itself until he could find a buyer. That £20m was his gambling money as you put it, and I guess it may take a while (if he remains the owner) before he gets back to the point that he feels something for the club enough to stick in his own chips again.

He's hurting. Channel that frustration on ripping QPR a new one please.

Wow, couldn't have imagined ever seeing someone call Sammy a cunt.

<------------------------------------------THIS MUCH------------------------------------------> Nah seriously, love the lad, but he's a bit of an enigma for me. I just can't imagine us having a team where he'd be a regular starter mainly because I can't grasp what kind of player in what kind of position he'd turn out to be.

Seems a bit unfair, Marveaux is on his hat trick.

Just found himself at Left Back. :-[ Arf.

It's clear that he is, just not party to the financial side of it which is fair enough. Marvaux, HBA and Cabaye off the top of my head have all commented how he helped sell the club to them (and I'm pretty sure there were others as well).