Kanji

His blueprint is probably a lie. This thing seems to pin completely on Graham Carr working his magic, and his cheap manager throwing some players about hoping one of them work their magic. Joke. (awfully negative post, sorry)

I'd happily accept being wrong, 100%. I'd celebrate being wrong. But backing the man who got us within points of going under again is incredibly unambitious. 1 season can destroy everything that was built. We were absolutely fortunate to have the players we had and the manager to bring us back up in style. Many clubs don't enjoy that same sort of luck man.

Please. As a football owner Ashley's an unambitious loser and it's reflected on each of the last 6 seasons. With Ron here. Its called 1 finish in the top 8 since he's been here including NASTY fan backlash in most of those seasons, a club relegated, and a club nearly relegated. We've done absolutely nothing since he's bought the club but hired 2nd rate managers. The only good thing he's done is cleared our indebtedness to a financial institution and brought in Graham Carr to scout for us. And those 2 things are looking at the bright side. Football is a results business and we've been woeful apart from 1 season. Add up our attendance records in the league and in all of Europe and he's sold us short for quite too long man.

Deep down you wonder/fear that nothing will ever change until he eventually decides to sell the club.

What would the club say? They told the world that hiring Alan Shearer was the best thing he's done and that he's working on making Alan the man to lead us forward. Only to not appoint Shearer and CH became our interim manager until finally getting the full time role. In all honesty, I'll back whoever is our manager as there's no point in wasting my own energy on being pissed off with the manager. Hopefully he changes, hopefully we bring in some new coaching to work on the attacking side, and hopefully we continue to bring in quality players.

Opportunity to push on failed.

My last bit of hope is we've heard nothing official from the club and I just think back to Big Mike Ashley basically telling everyone he was going to give Shearer the full time job only to not.

So much awesome there - Bigi singing and dancing the Cabaye song, Hatem proper loving on Colo, Debuchy has a f*** load of kids, oh and Colo Such a sucker for players loving our support, always feels good to see that.

He has worked with a couple of our players already, Debuchy and Cabaye to name a few. And if im not mistaken, a couple of the other french players aswell during his time as a national coach. The Under 21's i think. Good attacking football, got Lille to win the league and to the CL. Wants to manage in the PL. (more or less begging for a job in the PL if you believe the papers) That's Rudi Garcia Isn't Gerard just exactly the same but with Montpellier? Kinda but Girard has worked with Franch national team at all youth levels and a big part of why they won the WC in 98 and the Euros in 2000 behind the scenes. Didn't really work has a first team manager till Montpellier but youth coaching and behind the scenes stuff. To Parky and or other people who haven't read about Girard... Girard is my no.2 option behind Rafa if we were to sack Pardew. Everything I've seen, read or watched is that this a football man who's forte is working with young players, very attacking-minded (football is a game of entertainment) and never finds the "big clubs" who spend a ton of money as something to look down upon, rather he shows no fear versus these sides. He seems like he is close with Wenger and you can google a few articles on him. So on top of working with our players at youth level, he appointed Mapou as his captain and they went on to win the league with an under-valued, young side in a league where they barely spent much. He also worked for a madder man than Mike Ashley "I think our triumph is a real shot in the arm for French football. It just goes to show that everyone can beat everyone and that money isn't the be-all and end-all. We're a club of mates, a club that brings young players through and gives them a chance. At the end of the day, it's worked out well for us. We played some great football, with a well-balanced team and I'm overwhelmed." The Article I referred to which many people have posted and or seen before a month ago: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/premier-league/10004456/Montpellier-coach-Rene-Girard-wants-move-to-a-Premier-League-club-after-discussions-with-Arsene-Wenger.html "I am proud when people say ‘Montpellier are like you – they have personality’. My philosophy is that I ask my players to be aggressive. I tell them you have to master the ball.”

All he needs to do is learn the deepest midfielder positioning for this team and use his pace and intelligence to read the game and either be in the right place first, or work on his timing of nicking the ball. I'm thinking with time, he'll learn that and be a top player (hopefully here). The young kid was schooled at Ajax man, his training was far superior before he came here to work under the excuse-man.

Kick in gut but I still believe we'll get a team

Skirge would lose his shit if West Ham sign Bony.

19th richest club in the world with the 10th highest in average attendances and we have a manager who constantly tells us "the big boys" will come in and sign our players and we just can't compete with those type of clubs.

I had typed up a few things, but then just deleted them in favor of basically this. Fuck Pardew.

Santon's hair is always generally shocking. Absolutely terrible

Colin and Isaac having dialogue back and forth.

My twitter feed is blowing up with Pards being sacked rumors. Oh lord don't do this to me... Second thought, epic fail on my part for following some of these clowns.

Confirmed by Rennes. Well don't you just break hearts. Damn it. Just saw that on twitter.

With his defeatist attitude and always trying to pour ice cold water on any sort of opportunity to galvanize the troops. Every window he has to throw his stupid disclaimer about the "big boys" - I hope this 48 hours is good to us and he gets the fucking boot.

Benitez, Montainer, and Girard are all out of jobs right now......unbelievable

Those Barca kits are fantastic in my opinion.

Would be crazy to see "Wonga to pay the termination of AP's contract"

I really want to like Tiote as much as I used to, but I seriously can't trust him and its sad b/c there are times when he runs the show and he's forcing those 1 on 1 duels that Nixon alluded to and its really awesome to see him win those with such ferocity. I think our man Anita is the man to play the deepest in all honesty, and we've seen many quality players take time to adapt, so maybe he's the one; and hopefully for the sake of his career it's soon. But as of the end of our season, I think a more potent trio is Cabaye deepest, Sissoko box to box and Marv playing advanced behind the main striker. Madness such a technically gifted player like him has sat on the bench for so long; but fully expecting many on here to say Marv is never going to be able to play in midfield for us.

Designers at Nike put in numerous hours to eventually decide that a plain white shirt and blue collarless crew-neck worked. Umbro's last few designs absolutely destroyed this one.

Kids ran up to a car thinking it was Papisto, realized it wasn't him. Didn't identify it was Moussa and walked off? Poor Moussa indeed Drowned his sorrows later on that night clearly. Exactly. It was a crowd of about 10 kids, and they ran over screaming "It's Cissé, it's Cissé!". Moussa wound down the window and smiled out at them, clearly ready to sign a few autographs, and one of them shouted back "Nah lads, this isn't Cissé" and they all walked off. I smiled over at him and gave an awkward wave, but you could see he was devastated. Given the calibre of woman sitting beside him, and the money he earns, I'm sure he cheered himself up later. Holy shit - that's fucking shattering man "Nah lads, this isn't Cisse." Cold blooded.