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oh bo ho ho. I almost posted something on the "Like. Meh. Despise" thread about how I didn't care one way or the other about most of the players because it wasn't their fault that they are shit-- the real problem was Ashley,etc. But then I realized by the same logic I'd have to absolve Carver and Pardew of their sins as well. And in any case I despise all of them (Janmaat and Perez excepted) and I'd be delighted if they all just went away. Wouldn't miss any of them. Surely, we can't do worse than Iron Mike Williamson. Is there a John Carver out there to Williamson's Pardew?

I was reminiscing about Glenn Roeder the other day. What a fckn mess.

I don't think I can ever hate anyone more than Pardew if only because at least Carver knows he's s***. If he knows he's shit, and he loves this club as much as he claims to, why in God's name is he constantly licking Ashley's balls to get the manager job? Precisely. Carver's the perfect example of someone stupid enough to be totally oblivious to just how far out of his depth he is. yep. Case study of the Dunning-Kruger effect. Somebody should write their thesis on this clown.

locker room.

Another season of failure. Carver has a run of success. We lose. He gets the job permanently. Carver does as expected. We lose. Relegation battle. Mike Ashley wins again. Just fuck off already.

First he was Hulled, then Sunderland'd, next he'll be Ipswiched.

Far cry from the "player power" days of Nolan and Barton. When they backed their manager-- and the manager backed them... that just wasn't allowed. And now they're turning to Coloccini for advice. After he backed Pardew over Ben Arfa. Yeah, we be stuck with Carver. No doubt about it.

Would be delighted with him. Keegan aside, it's been a pretty uninspiring decade. Souness. Roeder. Allardyce. Kinnear. Shearer. Hughton. Pardew. God, that's really awful.

Israel used to qualify through Asia. They represented Asia at the World Cup in Mexico (the 1970 World Cup.) I think they qualified via a walkover? Somebody refused to play them.

fuck off

Oh imagine...

A ban on images of Pardew would be good as well. I'm tired of looking at him.

"Fun to watch" Yes, please.

Um. No. More perplexed than anything else. Hughton was quite popular. It was hardly an upgrade. You having a giraffe? ? No. Were you celebrating the hiring of Pardew? Apologies, but I don't remember being happy about it. (And I still like Hughton.) Sorry, I thought you were saying in reply to Froggy that people weren't fuming on here at his appointment. They most certainly were. I thought Froggy was implying that we were fuming about the comments made in the video. Or something. Nevermind. I was pissed (American) at the time and now I am pissed (British). Just forget about the whole thing. Drinking.

Um. No. More perplexed than anything else. Hughton was quite popular. It was hardly an upgrade. You having a giraffe? ? No. Were you celebrating the hiring of Pardew? Apologies, but I don't remember being happy about it. (And I still like Hughton.)

Actually I've completely got that wrong. It was a fella called Stewart Robson and it was on Pardews appointment. Here you go: Bet a lot on here were fuming at the time. Um. No. More perplexed than anything else. Hughton was quite popular. It was hardly an upgrade.

It's called cognitive dissonance. It's what separates the hardcore cultists from the sane.

Retired, I think.

De Boer or Hitzfeld (for old times sake) As long as we're being delusional.

I think Sissoko is gone. Pardew leaving. He sees it as some kind of principled stand.

Give us a new poll. Yes, it's all pointless, but I need an excuse to linger a little longer.

Well done.

Don't BS me.

Goal drought. He hasn't scored all season.