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How does this still bother you so much, man? It's been almost 20 years now!

Berbatov is the ultimate confidence player.

His comments on Ranger were pretty disgraceful IMO. What did he say? http://www.nufcblog.com/2010/12/24/pardew-not-satisfied-with-nile-ranger-application/ Nothing heinous, but to say that to the press in the way he did means that Pardew would have to swallow his pride to start him. You just know Ranger won't get a game now, even if it's the best thing for the club. Nice to see he's making enemies already. nothing wrong in those comments, imo. For me, it's indicative of the classlessness of the guy. There's a way to manage players, especially young players and making thinly veiled swipes at Ranger isn't the best way to deal with it. It's the reason why, I reckon, Pardew will begin to erode the team spirit and harmony which people loved under Hughton and which had a material effect on getting a partnership of Nolan, Barton and Carroll to be so potent against Sunderland etc. and encouraged fantastic shifts from players who aren't perhaps the most talented (Williamson, Simpson, Nolan etc). Hughton's "spirited group of players", "there will be ups and downs" etc speeches may have been repetitive but it was the right way to handle matters, and he dealt with issues internally as it should be and kept the squad happy. Even his replacement of Perch with Simpson was seamless and painless. Those set of comments alone are a small thing in the big scheme of things really, but I'm certain that the way Hughton got the squad to play for the team compensated for a lack of numbers/talent in the squad... and Pardew will take that away, and all we'll have are a few brilliant individuals (Carroll, Enrique, Tiote) and a dogshit team full of passengers/unmotivated/unhappy wantaways. [/iMO]

His comments on Ranger were pretty disgraceful IMO. What did he say? http://www.nufcblog.com/2010/12/24/pardew-not-satisfied-with-nile-ranger-application/ Nothing heinous, but to say that to the press in the way he did means that Pardew would have to swallow his pride to start him. You just know Ranger won't get a game now, even if it's the best thing for the club.

His comments on Ranger were pretty disgraceful IMO.

For the love of dear sweet god, play 4-4-2

didn't see many people blaming him for the city defeat...... but today he made a shit and crucial decision to jonas off. We needed someone to stretch them......... that wasn't going to happen with tiote and smith on the field. Because Jonas was so effective in the first 65 minutes.... Honestly forgot he was playing. People can question his starting XI, but it's hard with 2 games in 3 days. If we dont get results against Wigan and West Ham then it's time to start worrying, but losing to a top 4 side away from home thanks to 2 pretty decent goals is nothing to be worried about. http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/172/udnercarpet.jpg

Enough's enough.

Urgh. Blow the full time whistle.

Awesome save. Is it just me or is this ref a bellend? A fairly flagrant two-handed push on the back of Tiote and nothing given with no other distractions going on?!

Stoke/West Brom double.

:lol: Really wants that tenner, I guess.

Both teams to score for our match today is only 8/11 - skinflint bookies, man.

All my mates have brought in and captained VDV - I couldn't bring myself to do it AC9 ©!

Switch to 3-6-1 with Routledge and Jonas as wingbacks and Ranger/Barton/Tiote/Smith () along the middle.

Ambivalent. Good business decision/housekeeping. Pardew's comments intimate he's first choice, and from what I've seen of the four defenders, Williamson and Colo are the best - they also have a sound partnership/understanding with one another.

Just saw this, from Mancini:

Let's save this thread, shall we? Might come in handy one day.

My eyes just did a cartoonish "jump out of their sockets" when casually glancing across the forum threads Seriously, wtf?

Carroll had a free header straight after we conceded the second - can't help but wonder what could have been. Giving away two goals is certainly a mountain to climb, but I don't feel it was insurmountable by any means. Had enough of talking about it though! Onwards...

A man can dream, Niel!

NUFC vs Barca - exhibition match! Rocky IV Apollo (Messi) vs Drago (Carroll) style.

Carroll would rip Pique to shreds tbh

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