BottledDog

Don't see why we need to sell him either, he's far from a 'shithouse' as Colocho states, and we need a decent squad. Unless he wants out for first team football, I'm very happy for him to be emergency backup.

Not against Ireland coming in either. Not had many minutes on the pitch obviously, but what he has done has left me wanting to see more of him.

Pretty facepalmy us doing the cheer up Stevie Bruce when they went behind looking back.

Expect dick all, a shite performance, and an absolute hammering. Anything would be a ludicrous bonus.

I'd add Williamson to your list of thumbs up, had a decent game. The rest of them (bar Kuqi tbf).

He doesn't say that in the interview to be fair. Have a listen.

Not if he only plays in 2/3rds of your matches due to suspension he isn't.

Well, to say that I haven't loved the characters that make up our team so much since at least Robson's time in charge isn't to much of a stretch. That makes me pretty happy.

Aye, can't believe we're yet again letting a player go on the cheap. Why does Ashley hate money. /please, lads, take off the elastic trousers off for once, eh.

When Tiote called them United as well, I can't help thinking Simpson was close to creasing up.

Why does any of that no surprise me.

I didn't see it, but I'll watch it later too. I only just realised it was a sham when they advertised the TV show TBH, I wondered why it all went tits up so quickly! Was a unbelieavable stunt, and makes an absolute mockery of the leagues fit and proper persons test. Loved that they sent Sven over to North Korea though to be the face of that billion doller share deal or whatever it was. Fuck me.

What did people think about his interview about his future on Late Kick Off? Even when he said he would be happy if he had(!?!) to stay, it was quickly followed by he'd be happy to stay in England, happy to move abroad, but 5 years ago he signed a contract to stay for five years and this is his last year. Seemed pretty set on moving on tbh. /full interview next week apparently.

This, just hoping for the next year that we don't develop that second season syndrome. If we are looking good Jan/Feb and we are still in a cup, then by all means. How depressing. Not sure why all competitions can't be approached with an equal sense of importance. Birmingham and Stoke will both finish quite pleasantly in mid-table and have enjoyed cup success. The prospect of prioritising mid-table mediocrity over the possibility of actually winning something for the first time in 40 years is incredibly dull. Prioritising mid table mediocrity? Give over man. If that were even possible, would that not suggest that if we did prioritise a cup we might not even make that? All I was saying was that the greatest concern for every club is going down (moreso in your second season up I would hazard), then beyond that you try and win anything and everything you are still in with a chance in. Any priorities will naturally develop only once one of those things is within touching distance.

This, just hoping for the next year that we don't develop that second season syndrome. If we are looking good Jan/Feb and we are still in a cup, then by all means.

Pardew started it, he's got a cheek having a go at others for doing what he was one of the first to do. Did you look past the headline and read the quotes? He isn't having a go at anyone, and the only one with any cheek here is the editor.

Uh oh. Absolutely disgusting the latest attacks on Simpson today. Unrepeatable and simply unfarking believable.

Squirm.

Well at least that knocks on the head the ludicrous theory some still trot out, that Pardews appointment was in part down to Hughtons greater reluctance toward any deal for Carroll. huh? the rumour, as you called it, was actually that pardew was brought in as ashley thought it would make it easier to flog players, specifically the higher earners, to reduce the wage bill and make the club more attractive to buyers in the future. this was a "rumour" that came from golfmag when he mentioned that pardew was being lined up weeks before the media got a sniff of anything going on. hughton's comments don't have the slightest bearing on whether or not there was any truth to that. huh? I niether called it a "rumour", nor was I in any way referring to any of Golfmags 'revelations'. I was in fact simply harking back to a number of people who said at the time of Carrollgate that Pardew was in no small part brought in to dance like a puppet and go along with his sale, as opposed to Hughton who'd have kicked up a stink. Now that Hughton, as with every other commentator it seems, has said he'd also have sold him, that theory has indeed been shown to be bollocks. fair enough, for some reason i typed out rumour when i meant to write theory. semantics aside, this "theory" as i should've said, comes directly from golfmag's statement that pardew's been brought in for that kind of reason. nothing hughton has said has any bearing on that. what matters is whether or not ashley thought, at the time, that getting pardew in would make selling players easier (whether or not that, in reality, is true). think i'll trust golfmag's source on that issue, after all, he nailed the hughton-pardew change weeks before anyone else had a clue. Not wishing to get into a pointless arguement, but the idea that Pardew was brought in as he would be more of a pushover when it comes to players sales (Carrols in particular) was not simply one originating directly from Golfmag, but was/is a pretty standard reaction when there are rumours of players being sold left right and centre. Hughton, in discussing Carroll (and what we should expect over coming seasons) has severely undermined that arguement, if not felled it in isolation. I have no idea what it does to your and Golfmags wider conspiracy.

Well at least that knocks on the head the ludicrous theory some still trot out, that Pardews appointment was in part down to Hughtons greater reluctance toward any deal for Carroll. huh? the rumour, as you called it, was actually that pardew was brought in as ashley thought it would make it easier to flog players, specifically the higher earners, to reduce the wage bill and make the club more attractive to buyers in the future. this was a "rumour" that came from golfmag when he mentioned that pardew was being lined up weeks before the media got a sniff of anything going on. hughton's comments don't have the slightest bearing on whether or not there was any truth to that. huh? I niether called it a "rumour", nor was I in any way referring to any of Golfmags 'revelations'. I was in fact simply harking back to a number of people who said at the time of Carrollgate that Pardew was in no small part brought in to dance like a puppet and go along with his sale, as opposed to Hughton who'd have kicked up a stink. Now that Hughton, as with every other commentator it seems, has said he'd also have sold him, that theory has indeed been shown to be bollocks.

Well at least that knocks on the head the ludicrous theory some still trot out, that Pardews appointment was in part down to Hughtons greater reluctance toward any deal for Carroll.

Fair enough. Good to hear.

Says exactly what needed to be said.

Sorry, I thought you were just a simpleton. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YpKgmE2pNGw/Sdlt2C7kJaI/AAAAAAAAAJY/m2Uk6TfVd0o/s400/irony+meter.jpg