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No of course not. Pardew-ball was shit and bad football. So far SMC-ball is aimless and also bad football. Good football = getting into attacking positions and creating chances. Yes at the moment it isn't good Football, again that's why I said "trying" to play not playing. At least it appears that's the aim, its an attempt to play good Football which currently isn't working. The shit we played under Pardew wasn't a failed attempt to play good stuff, it was a successful attempt to play utter shit.

End result meaning scoring goals and not conceding. Or more accurately looking likely to score goals (creating chances) or looking less likely to concede (stopping chances at our end). That to me is the end result. Increasing / decreasing the quality of chances. Good football to me is a team that creates chances. That's positivity. That's trying to play good football. I haven't seen any improvement in this area, we are arguably worse in this regard than under Pardew. You're basically saying that if you create chances in a game and don't concede goals then that means you've played good Football. That's not in the slightest what I mean when I say good Football. I mean do you sit and watch a game and see some lad smash the ball out of defence, the defender clear it poorly and a striker scramble it into the net and say "Now that's good Football"?

Football is absolutely not just about the end result. I mean we watch Football, not just look at a final score. Of course if two systems are equally ineffective then its never going to be good to watch. However again the positivity comes from the fact that the intention is their to try to play good Football which could actually end up with something decent to watch and decent results if things click. That's far better than watching disgusting rubbish that your manager has no intention of ever even trying to improve.

I said "trying" to play better Football. Obviously right now its not working, but at least theirs a hope that its a work in progress that can improve. Pardews hoofball was the finished article, it was working in Pardews mind, despite the fact it was soul destroying, pointless and completely sickening to watch.

Oh aye Footballs all about forgetting and moving on like

Shit results under a new manager with new staff trying to play better Football and the hope that they can at some point make it work. Or Shit results under a insufferable cunt who plays disgusting hoofball, has been here for years and has proven again and again he can't change.

This cunt will be a league one manager again in a few years time, forgotten about, just like he was before Ashley dragged him out of the shit.

He's practically brain dead on the pitch so its no surprise that he's brain dead in general.

Closer than when?, the end of last season?, yeah we are.

Except only one of those has ever been anything like a real goal scorer (Defoe, and he's on the way out). Lens is decent for a winger but isn't going to get double figures, neither is Borini. Meanwhile M'Vila has 3 goals in 194 games

Think it would take a ridiculous sum of money for us to consider selling Perez. I wouldn't sell full stop, he's one of the most classy players I've seen at the club and in future could be world class. But I have no illusions that if someone offered a huge amount we'd sell.

Nah it'll go tits up, just wait.

No idea about any dodgy knee (has he ever failed a medical) but he scores goals and still has 2 years left on his contract. £3.6m is a pathetic amount, if he only had a year left then maybe we should consider that sort of fee, but not right now.

£3.6m?, yeah not a chance they're accepting that for Cisse.

What players who are proven at this level should we have signed instead? As far as being able to get rid of dead wood, most of them are out of contract next year.

Absolutely, if it was someone like Abdennour then it's a excellent window IMO.

Shouldn't this thick cunt learn English himself before suggesting others do?

Then you read the comments below: "The leader is good! The leader is great! We surrender our will as of this date!" Fuckers like Derren Brown on a mass scale.

That article is guess work from start to finish. The jist of it is basically "Newcastle obviously don't want Williamson, so maybe they won't buy Abdennour until he's sold?"

Would describe it as belief rather than desperation. Aye, can't be desperate for something that's inevitable. I'm just sitting back nice and relaxed and waiting for the carnage to begin

Definitely, not bothered about Austin at all now.

Fucking hell, Sullivan is such a classless knob

wasn't he a favourite of biesla (allegedly) too and doesn't bielsa play pretty attacking stuff? you'd have expected him to have been decent if so Of course he is man, you don't go from a exciting skillful winger at 20 to slow and talentless at 22. He's had a bad season and some bad press and it just seems like he's disliked in France. no i meant he had a poor season under bielsa when you'd have expected the opposite that's all I only know what I've read here and in articles which say he was basically played as a wingback. Expected to man mark the opposition winger but also get forward to attack and most of the time looked knackered. I'd hope with Pardew gone we won't ask him to do the same here.

To the tune Who let the dogs out: Who killed your dog's France?! Thau, Thau, Thau, Thauvin

Did this bloke kill everyone's dog in France? I mean I'm happy to get info on him from people who have seen him play more than me but I have absolutely no doubt that it's quite some crazy exaggeration to claim he has no talent or pace