Decky

Where's all the Sports Direct stuff?

All dem slick new buildings. I'd no idea that Shark Bar was up there until about 6 months ago, what's it like before a match? Also just dawned on me that I've never been to The Strawberry in my many travels over.

Is there a higher resolution for it? It'd make a good desktop background that.

I'm surprised people think Hatem would be great craic in the pub, dunno why. I'd go for Krul, or possibly Elliot.

I don't doubt for a second that the players get on with Pardew and have faith in him. It still doesn't make him a good manager.

Had two free transfers so I got rid of Terry and Lukaku for Distin and Giroud. http://s24.postimg.org/p1exmsjj9/fantasy.jpg

52. I'll take anything above average.

Thank fuck. Once I seen RVP scored and Rooney got an assist I was nearly crying my eyes out.

Can you stream MOTD on the BBC website when it's on TV?

Fuck that then.

If you make a load of changes today, does it take points off your total from this week or next week? I'm on course to lose in my head to head league again ffs and my team isn't even that bad. But I'd need to make about 3 or 4 changes, I'd rather that came out of my points this week if I'm beaten anyway.

Time to get rid of Lukaku. I also have too many shite players consistently getting me fuck all in Lampard, Barkley and Terry.

ITV have no more football now? The pundits and commentators will just end up else ware.

I never put a single player of ours in there after last season. I think you were asking for trouble there mate with Colo and Cisse in particular.

It's no different to any other live coverage out there tbh.

Brilliant news. It's about time Sky had some real competition for these things.

"Pardew currently has a long-term deal on Tyneside and has done a good job since taking over in 2010."

Had a terrible week last week. I lost my head to head game by 4 points, and I didn't captain Aguero. Desperately need a win this weekend.

I think our squad is capable of beating them, but then you've Pardew who will more than likely go for the draw.

Better than last season (I think?), and probably the best we can hope for under Pardew. The mackem result was disgraceful, but I can't help but feel the mackems have that mental edge over Pardew now after two wins in a row, because we've been shambolic in both despite having a much better team. We've look absolutely terrible for the majority of the season, but football is a results game and we're doing pretty well considering we've a League One manager and a weak squad in terms of depth. It's hard to predict how the rest of the season will go having looked at the first ten games, because we've shown before under Pardew that we can suddenly hit terrible runs of form. Infact at this stage last year we started a run of two wins in 3 months. Off the pitch is once again a shambles that we've come to expect under Ashley.

Who wouldn't love to see that?

Derby also beat us when they went down ffs. We've rotten luck against bad sides, having said that Pardew has lost the mental edge in the derbies.

Anita saved his skin, because we were woeful up until that point, but he makes the decisions and he gets credit for that. Taking Cisse and Obertan on was just plain stupid. If he has to change it up like that then he can at least stick on someone who'll actually do something - Ben Arfa.

Shit, what a run that was.

I'm worried about Pardew's approach to the last 20 minutes here.