Kanj

He's got a chairman in Llambias who's clueless about the game which doesn't help. Quite happily take Dekka overseeing the finances/business side and the club appointment a football chief executive to handle that side - but that would probably get labelled as a Director of Football again and I won't get into how gloriously that failed.

Wow. Just wow. Sure going to make everyone's blood pressure rise even more.

The defensive teams that win championships over here actually put up masterclass defensive performances and find a way to score. Therefore we'd have an strong positive goal differential and one of the best defenses in the league, barely conceding any goals.

Seriously can't blv I'm going to be watching this with the fucking nerves of our own match hoping Sunderland win this. Goodness.

We're sitting around watching a Villa/Sunderland scrap and rooting on the Mackems to help save us. That's how fucking low we've dropped this season. Sickening.

The revenue is moot if we go down, no? B/c we'll miss out on the TV revenue income and that's damning. Surely if anything, its clear that Pardew can't even get us in a mid-table safety and collect the TV money without bother, he potentially could negate a massive income stream for the club. I think that is the biggest reason why he's going to be sacked in all honesty. The footballing reasons all trickle down and end up pointing to potential for massive decrease in income, which seems like the only thing Ashley cares about.

Would be the craziest fucking thing of all time too.

Just can't get my head around the fact that this club has been so mismanaged (from ownership and management) in the past 15 years, with the hiring of Sir Bobby the only bright-spot - but of course, true to form - they fuck that up with the resulting sacking of the man and the annual ups and downs is just plain staggering. Brilliant, magnificent stadium with supporters who still travel in numbers and fill a stadium in this economy and position in the table, yet we still get the bus ran over us every single season.

He's a dead man walking I think. He's getting the sack - no matter what happens with the final 3 games. Had we gone and just finished comfortably mid-table I think he'd get another season here but I just don't believe he will given how close we are flirting with a drop and a possibility of missing out on the massive TV revenues. Here's to hoping I guess. Stumble over the line; fire the man, and get this ship steady again. Like I've said before, it seems like our recruiting and financial side of the club are well oiled machines now, its the management side that has totally crumbled and not really aligned with the strides we've made in those areas. Wishful/clutching at straws type thinking here.

Elliott/Harper Simmo-Taylor-Colo-MYM Sissoko-Cabaye HBA-Marv-Gouf Cisse We all know that won't happen.

No worries Dave. I think I'm going to not come back to this board until tomorrow - can't help but be so consumed and upset about our current situation.

Wigan would have 37 points with that man. 32 + 5 = 37.

Don't even joke about it Mike. it's fucking sickening.

Dropped right back down to earth.

Sitting here with so much venom in my veins its not even funny. I'm so angry - seething even.

Fucking coward Pardew and some of these players.

Fuck off Pardew. Fuck off. You're ruining our club.

I generally don't bother commenting on team selection right before kick off - but fucking hell - shit selection.

Tiote-Sissoko ---Cabaye--- Hba-----Gouf ----Cisse----- Should be our fucking midfield and attack today.

Its match day and he's still fucking banging on about Cisse. Back away from the keyboard man.

When we win = everyone happy and this place is more pleasant. When we lose = everyone not happy, slates one another etc.

Manager and players owe it to us to get it right man - tomorrow at least. The fuck am I excited for?

Beat me to it. Glad he's been sussed for what he is these days though, his bollocks went unnoticed for far too long.

He's going to have a blinder tomorrow.