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I'll be joining tonight! I'll send you over dat cash Taylz.

I'm up for this I think.

I love Sagna's crossing, personally. Think he'd be suited in a team that plays differently, perhaps.

I'd happily see Colo gone on current form, like. Everyone's shite though, and we need players. At least at some point he's been class.

:lol: Amazing! Great spot like.

This has been a great match so far!

I don't understand this. What do they gain? Like a few hundred quid? To be a complete tosser?

:lol:

What reports say he's staying? Can't find it.

The teeth, right? And the eyes. You're all dead inside, you can tell a true American from his eyes.

:lol: As if Viera and Petit had no scoring or creative duties, man. I agree with Hughesy. Both were excellent passers but neither genuinely creative or a consistent goal threat. City moved to Fernandinho - Garcia double when Aguero went off. Fernandinho can be creative but in that system he's there to allow the two wide players and Yaya to create magic while keeping it tight. Even 2002 Brazil had Gilberto Silva - Kleberson double pivot again - to allow the attacking 3 to do their thing. I agree fully that most 4-4-2 or 4-2-3-1 formations tend to have two midfielders who don't have much responsibility to create or score. I'm happy with Tiote-Anita as long as there's genuinely an attacking midfielder in front of them and some wingers with some "threat". Anita is mobile enough and moves the ball up the field fairly quickly to be part of that defensive two. I'd rather the other defensive midfielder was someone a bit smarter (and more aerially dominant) than Tiote, but he's not the first thing we need to fix in our lineup.

I remember Hanz' double life. He's got frisson.

Arête Pards.

That whole Everton thing on Sky Sports was truly sickening Kenwright ffs.

Unless he was fouled for the penalty or am I imagining that? Yeap that I was I recall it. Incredible.

What's he doing in there? Are we paying him soldiers wages? :lol:

Jejune? jejejejejejeje

Proper hater you, Hans Not sure what you're trying to achieve by bringing up a balanced opinion of mine from months back like. Calm down, Hans You're one of the ‘Pardew lovers (Although we don’t really love him, just means you don’t want him sacked)’ sometimes, was just showing you that. Rather than comments like 'I've want him sacked for fucking ages', which looks like you're in the group with Mick/Santoon 'who want Alan Pardew physically torn apart and scattered across a pig pen'. You are a balanced poster and you do get swayed which is fine, was just giving you a reminder not to let this headbutt distract you from our superb performance on Saturday and things on the pitch have turned around after our disastrous Jan/Feb. Pardew made a massive error of judgement and showed his true cuntness on Saturday but if we all sat down with a bit of reason about things, it’s certainly not a sack worthy offence even if we could have played that card if we wanted as an excuse. He’ll get a worthy ban, we’ll accept it then carry on for the remainder of the season and see how things pan out. We’ve been shown in the last couple of weeks that the players haven’t given up on us and are still willing to fight for the highest position possible. Don't be so condescending, man. It's football, I reserve the right to change my opinion at any time.

Evidence is that this is the most turbulent period the top of the table has seen of recent times. When teams are capable of beating teams around and above them, it allows teams to close the gap. Our astounding lack of ambition has meant we've failed to be anywhere near taking advantage of that, but don't kid yourself that it wasn't possible. Liverpool are doing it right now.

8th or 9th "another good league finish" We finish top 8, i'd class that as a good finish. Sure Everton would think the same. If you put yourself in that mix, you give yourself a chance to push on to the next level following season. The problem is the fact the top 6 now look rock solid imo, going to take some real investment from us or Everton to break into it. Man Utd are still certain for a top 6 finish imo. I know they've shipped in some awful performances but with most of their squad getting back to full fitness, i think they'll do enough to cement that spot ahead of anyone else. Then next season you'd fancy Liverpool to spend big money since they haven't over last couple of windows, especially with potential CL money coming in. Spurs always seems to pluck up money out their arse to invest and then Man Utd are rumoured to go on a wild spending spree. I do really struggle to see someone breaking into that top 6 anytime soon. This was potentially a great season to do so with a lot of changes taking place and we got ourselves in a position to go for it but decided to sell our playmaker and sign no players permanently. Ultimately let down by Ashley once again to no great surprise. I'd say that the 'top 6' looks as easy to break into as ever. It's not long ago the 'top 4' were totally impenetrable, now Spurs, Everton and Liverpool are all fighting for champions league places, whilst Man Utd fuck about down in the table with us. It was this season we had the chance to move on, push on into what is quite obviously a very open top end of the table. To say the 'top 6' is cemented is ridiculous, and you're only doing so to support your own point.

This. Cristiano is fucking amazing, but Ronaldo was just unreal to watch. It's about entertainment in the end, and Ronaldo was that.

Fucking hell man Ronaldo, you creep.