BottledDog

Right, well, that's proper taken the edge off. I'll be out trying to find solace in a pint or five. Have a cracking weekend lads!

Same reason HBA was dropped. So we'd win.

Great defensive header too. Wrong end like. That was horrific like. He did alright at a push, but really doesn't excite me seeing him out on the pitch again.

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Fkn love him. /please don't be injured, please don't be injured, please don't be injured, please don't be injured.

Yay! You may well be right, but that just earned me a whisky. Oh, and there is no way you can argue we sat back when we came out for the second half. That's just nonsense. We ended up sitting back once they scored though, and we did it really badly. They were charging through our midfield without much resistance and swinging in crosses without much pressure either. Luckily none of them looked like they knew where the goal was so we weren't really punished. They got their peckers up and we lost our composure. It's not great, I agree, but my point was we didn't come out looking to be defensive in the second half. We were trying to score again and if we got the 3rd rather than them it could have been hella different.

Love him, want him to play (as I do Anita), but I'm far from convinced that that would have been the case. Far. From. Convinced.

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Looked a fair bit livelier. I still have sod all confidence in him actually finding the net at the moment though. /a feeling he seems to share unfortunately.

Was just about to ask this as I haven't been able to watch the game...... Basically the typical good half and shit half we are used to seeing this season? Apart from the fact we did have chances 2nd half. If Cisse was someone else we might have been more comfortable tbh. We had 3 shots on target second half, they had 2. They had a little more posession and a great deal more urgency about them. We sat a whole lot deeper than we needed to and hoofed it too much. We had came out second half and started it looking as positive as we finished the first half. You have to expect a reaction from the opposition when they've been victim of a beating like they had. Palace did the same at Anfield second half. Yeah. 'bout sums it up.

Good win. The mirror image of the Everton game. Unlike last year we always look like we are trying to, and are capable of, scoring, but on the downside, I'm still scared shitless whenever another team attacks us. As long as we score one more than them etc etc, but that simply isn't going to happen every week.

Great half. Please God don't let Cardiff get an early goal.

Unless we end up spanking the Dragonbirds 3+ to the nil, the team sheet better be on the flip side of his resignation letter if he drops Anita like. Not having that.

Pardew has been closer to a cup directing a poor team than anyone we've a chance with. This is why he's here. This is why we will all be bathing in the blood of our enemies come May. /slightly drunk.

I'd be open to seeing Sunderland do fairly well (and ourselves to do considerably better than them obviously). It's shit for the whole region to have such a weak group of teams and relatively little success in recent years.

Find that very hard to believe, seems to me that most owners don't generally demand back any money they put in. I'm sure most don't see ownership as a charitable money pit any more, especially foreign investor. One way or another they need to get it back, even the Emirates bods must be seeing some value in the increased profile they've gained. To protect themselves, most owners I'd have thought tend not to use their own money to fund loans, but if they do directly (or through a parent company) then they tend to charge interest unless the club can't afford it (in the case of Bolton, they were charging 10% a while back, more than the interest rate from the banks I'd have thought). For instance, on loaning Villa £49.5m Lerner charged £4.1m per year interest. After the loans increased to £120m+ he had to waive £20m worth of interest payments because the club simply couldn't afford it. Ashley takes neither interest, or a salary, but allows one of his companies free advertising. Doesn't seem a particularly diabolical move by him, though the excuses that nobody else might pay a few quid for the spots seems feeble in the extreme.

Giggs?

The first 10 mins against Hull, we looked as if we'd destroy them. We were God damned awesome! 'Fuck went wrong? /too attacking?

Yip, thought Ginola v man United as well. Shearer v Chelsea was way further out than that and he also backed Dessailly a good 10 yeards back as well. For a turn yer man and shoot, Shola Vs Chelsea was pretty damn lovely.

I like Marveaux, but I'm struggling to see that his recent performances have done anything to suggest he should be starting.

Nar man, he's happy for you to dislike the Pardster. Just do it for the right reasons.

Not necessarily.

That's the problem for Pardew now though. Gouffran has done really well, but Cisse has finally got his goal. To drop him after that would be a killer for his fragile as fuck confidence.