Decky

The day some rich cunt buys Cork City and they sign Ronaldo, I'm done.

The thought of all those players in Ligue 2 Living the life of complete luxury in Monaco while earning a million quid a month for banging in countless goals against shite opposition.

How UEFA can just sit back and let Monaco spend like this is ridiculous. It's like someone has used the Football Manager Editor and given themselves £500 million to spend on about 8 players.

Some of the stuff the Dortmund fans do is absolutely class. I'd really love to see the likes of that at SJP.

..........honestly except Keane thats not all that bad I think it's shockingly bad for international level and the worse squad we've had in a long time unfortunately. Just look at the players we'll be up against for England too.

Starting 11 against you lot tomorrow: Forde, Coleman, O'Shea, St Ledger, Kelly, Walters, McCarthy, Whelan, McGeady, Keane, Long If England don't absolutely hammer Ireland there is something wrong.

Part of me hate him for leaving, but then again I can't blame him for chasing silverware before the end of his career. Given leaving also helped Krul's progression into the first team too as Given would probably still be starting for us now.

Howay Mike, get Sports Direct on there.

If we sign any players from Real we know we have to thank One Direction for it.

That's a similar position we were in last summer to be fair. No one is suicidal btw, people are just fed up of the never ending shit. Course it is, and most summers, that doesn't mean it's not valid. We could be starting the season with a squad full of utter shit and without a 5th place finish in our very recent history. PS I didn't mean the suicidal thing literally. We could still be starting the season without some of our better players who could still be replaced with shite or not replaced at all. My point is we had a good squad last summer, one that finished 5th and we still nearly got relegated, so having a good side is not necessarily a reason to be positive when we have a poor manager in charge. I know you didn't mean suicidal literally btw.

That's a similar position to the one we were in last summer to be fair. No one is suicidal btw, people are just fed up of the never ending shit.

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Yeah I'm with you on this. I can understand people taking a break from NUFC until Pardew is gone if it's just going to be more of the same as this season. I considered it myself during the season and probably will next season too, but I just can't take myself away come match day. However when I was considering it I was asking myself why get involved with something when it just pisses me off and could ruin my day/weekend, why sit and waste two hours of your life watching terrible football and why allow yourself to become frustrated and pissed off due to the mistakes of someone else (Pardew). It's likely that we'll be served more of the same next season so I can totally see why people can't be bothered with it. I'll be watching and following same as usual though.

I'm worried about what Ben Arfa, Cabaye etc think of the owner's ambitions. I can't see players like that settling for mid table mediocrity, and rightly so.

Top 7. Minimum 7th. That would mean, imo, we were taking on other teams and trying to beat them, rather than attempting to stop them from scoring, which appears Pardew's main objective. 7th? Dunno like, that could mean dreaded Europa League football and a relegation battle in 14/15.

We've got a manager in charge who absolutely hates the Europa League and doesn't want us anywhere near it. So why aim for the European places? Why win a cup as well if it just cripples us the season afterwards? The man is embarrassingly bad and we're stuck with him for years to come if the thread title is anything to go by. I just hope we're still in the Premier League with a decent squad when him and Ashley finally fuck off.

It's going to be fucking devastating when we lose that first game because of this man and the realisation sinks in that he's here for another season at least.

Well that new season buzz is going to be well and truly killed knowing this joker is in charge. It's so typical of us to finally have a good squad of players but to also have an incompetent manager who will seriously underachieve with them. I just hope and pray some of our better players are still at the club when Pardew eventually leaves.

Still a club legend imo. I can't really blame him for leaving, no matter how pissed off I was at the time. The club was on an obvious decline and had Joe fucking Kinnear as manager. Given was at a stage in his career when he had just about one last chance to achieve something and he took the gamble, to a club that was clearly on the road to winning silverware too. I find it ridiculous how so many hold Given's departure against him yet have a lot of time for other players who left us, all of which didn't give a fraction of what Given gave to this club. I definitely wouldn't take him back, not unless we were stuck and he was on about 10k a week. But to hate the guy after everything he gave to us is very harsh imo.

You get it sorted here: http://www.bt.com/sport/3-ways-to-watch-bt-sport.html The HD thing is only available when you order before the 1st August.

Full figures: For us: http://i.imgur.com/s3Ao1WX.png If anything that shit might get him sacked so fingers crossed.

Someone started a rumour on Twitter that Pardew has left the club and so many people are believing it ffs. It must be so easy trolling people on Twitter.

If this happens we may as well just give up on football.

Got an email from BT earlier, BT Sports 1 and 2 with ESPN for free on Sky, with the HD channels added for free for the first 12 months too. You get it if you're a BT Broadband customer, so get it on.