BottledDog

What is this, I don't even... What?

Did they bollocks.

Bing-fkn-go.

It's a lot easier to acceptably pick faults in every edited quote when you're doing badly.

Defensively he's average tbh. Simpsonesque?

Meh, he's made the difference like. Thank god he didn't fuck it all up by buying (or selling) anyone.

Bah, hoped it wouldn't be. Gave an interesting record of how people felt at the start of the season. That's why I saved it. Good man. Are you piecing together a meaty historical summary of previous votes in the first post, or is that a massive pain in the bollocks?

Bah, hoped it wouldn't be. Gave an interesting record of how people felt at the start of the season.

Was thinking this yesterday. Despite the shit thrown at Pardew, he is quite possibly the third best manager some of us have had in our life times. Sounds a bit of a bonkers thought. Nevertheless, it's a valid one, unless of course you're inclined to give more of the credit to Ashley for investing in a squad he can't fail with.

and knowing us it would be in the 88th minute. Ah jaysus, what a thought.

1-5. Debuchy scores first.

after 40mins, with both teams full strength i'd have been happy to get a draw. I wouldn't, they had what? 3 shots on target the entire game? I was absolutely confident we could get a win and it isn't luck their players stupidly got sent off. They cheated, we beat them by a big margin and could have absolutely stuffed them. yes they were stupid in getting sent off and they should have no complaints about them, at 11 v 11 though they looked better and their goal was coming. Sorry can't agree, we obviously looked better as their players were sent off but apart from a couple of Charlie Adam hopeful strikes they didn't look remotely dangerous. We failed to get enough players in the box but this was looking like the typical game where Remy/Gouffran/Ben Arfa/Cabaye/Anita would grab a goal or two and we would win. Stoke were showing very little. We did very little in that first half either. Just for the sake of argument if it stayed as it was after the 0-1 then we had a fucking long day ahead of us. We did the business though against a poor opponent, nothing to complain about really. Next game I want to see us build on this, should be riding a high and full of confidence. Would be fucking astonishing if we build on this against the Arse to be fair.

Check a slightly longer and somewhat more enjoyable version here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25521267 I meant Shearer. Fair enough.

after 40mins, with both teams full strength i'd have been happy to get a draw. I wouldn't, they had what? 3 shots on target the entire game? I was absolutely confident we could get a win and it isn't luck their players stupidly got sent off. They cheated, we beat them by a big margin and could have absolutely stuffed them. yes they were stupid in getting sent off and they should have no complaints about them, at 11 v 11 though they looked better and their goal was coming. They were certainly brighter than us in the first half, but I wasn't at any time before the sendings off bricking it that we couldn't turn it around. There was still plenty of time to get the team clicking and you tend to think we're good for a goal or two at the moment.

Check a slightly longer and somewhat more enjoyable version here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25521267

Didn't strike me he was sleeping. Looked like he was just giving someone down and to the left of him the evils.

Yup.

It's happened two games in a row now, hmmm. My theory is that if the game is pretty much won then someone else takes the penalty but if it's a pressure situation then Shola Cabaye steps up? s*** theory I know. FYP. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25521267

This guy. Fucking love this guy. :icon_salut:

His prudent spending isn't going to keep hold of our better players who have ambition, he needs to match the ambition of the players to keep hold of them if we're ever going to do anything. We're a club that has generations of fans who have not seen us win a trophy and it's his responsibility to prove that we can do something about that rather than just surviving. You're suggesting that under Ashley we are particularly more susceptible to losing our better players? Historically I'd be surprised if that was the case. We have used what he has deemed responsible (always arguable) over recent seasons, not lazily, not particularly conservatively, but pretty cannily. That in itself indicates a certain ambition.

I get the feeling that as long as the club doesn't cost him any further money, signings have nowt to do with Ashley. He has his man in place he trusts (fuck knows why) to do the job with what the club generates. If we don't buy players, it is either because we haven't the cash (which you'd struggle to believe), or Kinnear is at fault.

Prudent spending is, and he's done it remarkably well.

Dave Cusack.

Not sure whether you think he was a good player or not should have much a bearing on his opinion of Pardew (to add to a list of other past players who have said similar). Brian Deane is also a manager now so that should give him a bit of perspective on his choices you'd have thought. Nobody is trying to convince you that Pardew is the bollocks, but do you not think that the oft trotted out team talk line deserves some tempering?

Just watched it. Take it this is the bit with him telling Deane to take a management course being the best bit of advice he was given from a manager (but didn't take because he was pissed Pardew was releasing him ). Also worth noting was that when Deane was asked who gave the best team talks, he picked Pardew, saying that... "Very passionate, and got the players to believe in what he was telling them about". Take that team talk haterz.