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spoke volumes that he wasn't used at all last night imo. Can't see much of a future at rafa's nufc for him unless something dramatically changes.

Superb tonight. Best player on the park by a distance.

is he still injured?

Don't think Allardyce would go back. He'd he mad to. He was apparently getting frustrated at lack of transfer activity before England came calling, can't see him heading back there like.

One defeat in 12 in all comps. 10 of those wins. Long may it continue.

When do we play Derby at home? early feb.

<b>Didn't have the decency to resign.</b> f*** him. Always funny! I know. As if anyone would walk away from a massive payout. http://b.smimg.net/13/35/ruud-gullit.jpg fair point, but those that do are in the massive minority. Hence I never get how anyone expects a manager to do it. I've many things to hold a grudge with mcclaren over, 'not having the decency to resign' isnt one of them.

i wasn't talking about that bit to be fair, i was on about the part in bold. I agree, fuck him, he was total shit, but i don't blame him for not resigning. I wouldn't have walked either.

<b>Didn't have the decency to resign.</b> f*** him. Always funny! I know. As if anyone would walk away from a massive payout.

back at derby according to sky.

Couldn't agree more. I'd swap Rafa to be me dad, and Keegan to be my mad uncle. It's getting a bit RAWK in here, HawK. Well don't just stand there and gawk. Get stuck in, go on, grab a fawk

More a case of him wanting a specific job in this country imo.

Eh? Has he played for psv yet?

Exactly the same. Took them upstairs at 1-0, came down to see we've conceded at half time again. Bastard

nah. England worked out perfectly for him, he was apparently fed up with lack of transfers/funds. the mackems are fucked man, he won't go back there. my opinion is, if he loses his england job now (dont think he will), stoke or west brom will be his next stop.

I've been his biggest supporter, but it's put up or piss off time. Thought he was pretty disgraceful when he came on today.

this.

I agree, think he came across pretty well tbh.

why?

It's clear alot of work has gone into set pieces, but at the same time it looks to me like much of it has simply been down to Ritchie (and now Shelvey) delivering decent-to-good balls into the right areas at the right time consistently. They're not whipping the ball in particularly well at pace, but just getting enough bend into the right areas (without floating it too much) to give our big lads a chance. Makes such a big difference when the rest of the team know that 7 or 8 times out of 10 they'll have a chance of attacking the ball, when previously our corner takers were hitting the ball terribly with no timing the vast majority of the time. In fact, we've gone for quite a long time since we last had players capable of putting e.g. decent corners in consistently (probably back to Nobby/Robert). Even Cabaye oddly enough was more "miss" than "hit" when it came to them. We've also now got the lads in the air for it. For a long time we had: Colo, Mbemba/Willo, Cisse, Haidara in the box. We can now choose from: Lascelles, Clark, Hanley, Dummett & Mitro We are simply much stronger in the air as well. Pardew evidently knows nothing about set-pieces. But Palace are a danger from them simply because they've got the right type of lads in the box. convinced palace lived off the tony pulis set piece coaching for a while under pardew.

he spoke very well on talksport.

Delighted to say he's proving me wrong. Long may it continue.

Matter of time before pulis leaves West Brom. Trouble brewing

he was awful at fulham i thought, other than that, no complaints. most of the team were awful at Fulham. That's true. My point stands though.