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Would need to cleanse it of forum idioms such as 'moar stability' and the reference to Disco etc., but go for it Santoon.

Do vaguely recall it, just wondered if it'd been transcribed anywhere

Godddd. Where's the link for this one? It's brilliant

This plane is Pardew's next excuse - not bad

Not to pat ourselves on the back too much but the OP is a fantastic read

I'm not sure yet, the jury is out until some of the Pardew supporters come into the thread and give a verdict. Yeah the other side of the debate needs to be heard IMO. We're all probably just blinded by our hatred for Pardew tbh. We could use a level-headed opinion like Ian's, or an objective, analytical appraisal from HappyFace or Brett. Give some balance to the debate IMHO.

Cash out for 138 profit or ride it for 300? Haven't seen Spurs much and Liverpool seemed nervous against the mackems.

You want prontonise?

Can we have a football manager instead of a glorified PR man, Ashley?

Sometimes I wonder why the media give him a free ride but unlike Man Utd's flying banner gimmick we've done jack but fill the stadium, so of course the media won't bat an eyelid. Not saying media attention will mean anything in terms of action from way on high but it'd be a little less galling than this. He's what the 50,000 fans deserve if they continue to back him. Would have been good if we'd picked a home game against an Everton for instance. One that any fan of above-Brett intelligence could see we'd get hammered/outplayed in, with little credible excuse (ie. no sovereign state bollocks) beyond "the manager can't manage a team".

Yup. Can insult the area very plainly to its face, and still have 50-odd-thousand turn up and not turn on him in the slightest.

It dipped a little bit in terms of goalscoring but he was still playing well. Wilshere and Walcott came back too, but then they all got injured. Giroud really was the weak link and, sadly for Arsenal, the only one who remained injury-free!

Didn't last especially long either. SAS have been by far and away the best strikers in the league (Kun has been injured too much). There's not really been much competition at all. Lack of top quality strikers in the league. Even those like Lukaku and Giroud aren't especially well-rounded or able to create for themselves. Quite optimistic for Bony next season, think he could do well.

I've caught up on this btw, but on an old file (which only had scores up to GW23). Revolution hit a cracking score in the mega GW - 22 points, I think. Need to do a vlookup once I get the latest version (up to GW28) off my old computer this weekend, then I can post it up.

I'm still clinging to the fact we seem to raise our game against the big teams. However I'm resigned to the fact we're probably going down. I've seen this too many times to be hopeful. Sorry about the penultimate sentence btw, as both you and StrayMackem have been a great addition to the forum, but it's a painful experience losing 6 points to you every season

Let's not forget science. Nothing beats the spying fans. He had a point on that one. How else could other teams have cracked the code of our set piece routine?

Liverpool / Soton double - just over evens.

They've got 6 points off those in the reverse fixtures, beat Man Utd over two legs, knocked Chelsea out of a cup and made Man City have to pull out two wonder goals to turn the tide of a League Cup final. They're much better suited to playing sides who they can sit back against. Still quietly hopeful they'll go down, but it's far from a certainty. Especially with Palace/WBA not exactly in a hurry to pull themselves clear.

My first reaction was to read the post, my 2nd was to look to see if Ian had posted. Not quite at Spudil's level, but I'm getting there. ...

Just makes you want to wring his neck Ian W, incoming, in 5... 4... 3... 2...

Zanetti and Cafu are in a league of their own

Be typical if the mackems stay up by 0.2 points mind. Spurs ahead of Benfica

The Premier League 'brand' So the Chief Executive of the Premiership thinks that it harms the League when Manchester United aren't competitive at the top? Wonder if there is any correlation to the dodgy pens, ungiven pens to the opposition, extra added on time and disallowed goals to the opposition, that Manchester United have so regularly benefitted from over the past 20 odd years? Came in to post this There's no way the message/ambition for Man Utd to do well doesn't cascade its way into the details from way on down. Years of Man Utd fans saying their good 'fortune' was coincidence, luck or refereeing incompetence rather than pre-meditated bias.

Ah yes, an epic contest with the soul of midtable mediocrity at stake. Southampton to win by a few, walk in the park IMO.

West Bromwich win this weekendo would be good.