lovejoy

Tiote is fucking awful. Haul the useless fucker off

Precisely. Canny obvious really. Being 3-1 down is misleading because it suggests we have to go for it but the away goals rule turns that completely on its head. It was absolutely imperative we got to half time with them at nil - that was the only priority in the first half and rightly so. If that means killing the game, and it did, so be it. Agreed. People mentioning how suspect they were in defence, forget how strong they looked on counter. We go for it first half, they can counter, game over early on. Like I say, no complaints from me tonight.

Going against the grain here it would seem, but I thought he got it pretty much spot on tonight. The plan was for them not to score first half, it had to be that way otherwise its game over early doors. Around the hour mark he changes it and we go for the game, and we nearly got it to be fair to him. No complaints from me tonight.

the kevin nolan point is absolutely spot on imo.

This is one of the times where I hope Ashley is ruthless.

Rafa anyone?

I disagree, I think he might be off in the summer. I'd love you to be right, just can't see it. Think he'll get next season (or part at least) to try and put it right.

I forgot to add, I also think this is all by the by, he isn't fucking going anywhere.

What's the crack with him? His wiki page doesn't say much?

Martin Jol for me. I dont know enough about Adkins. Martinez' teams spend too much time in bottom 3 for me to be convinced (you'd have expected him to have at least 1 breakaway season where Wigan do really well, he hasn't). Di Matteo is a chancer imo, Poyet wouldn't' happen due to links to Dennis Wise (although same could be said for Jol/Hughton). Anyone who is tactically astute would do me tbf.

would so many people still go for adkins?

bump

anyone?

More galling is that he doesn't speak any english and has no clue about the PL. What he does seem to have is tactical understanding of the game of football. Spot on.

Is there a 'who would you replace Pardew with type thread btw? I'd love to read peoples suggestions.

Its haunting me! the fella cant even speak English and they're flying under him!

Cheers!

I've been relatively supportive of Pardew this season, admittedly based on what we did last season. I have even been p*ssed off many times when seeing this thread shoot to the top of the board as soon as we concede a goal (let alone get beat) when the same didn't happen when we got a good win. Mick (as much as I like you mick!) has driven me mad at times this season (and last at times) with his views, but he's been right all along. For us to be in a relegation battle in April with the squad we have is absolutely indefensible. We cannot keep on basing arguments in support of Pardew on last season (i include myself in that btw). Southampton are a recent example of a team who have binned a manager (who did a superb job for them, far better than Pardew has for us) and replaced him and have improved. Their chairman simply felt they had outgrown Adkins, time will tell, but he seems to have made the correct decision so far (he made the right decision getting rid of our current manager too btw). I feel the same has happened with us, we've got to replace him with someone who takes us to the next level. We are in a very fortunate position in that we have a very good squad of players (imo obviously), we are a back up striker and a winger/fit ben arfa away from having the strongest squad we've had in many years and we are deep in a relegation battle, how can this be ok? he simply has to go. I'm at the point where I believe that it doesn't matter which team we are facing, if their manager has an ounce of tactical awareness Pardew is f***ed and we are beat. We are an attractive proposition now for both players and a manager, far more attractive than when Pardew arrived, he deserves credit for this but that shouldn't mean he is bullet proof, he needs to be replaced, that's for certain. If he doesnt go, we'll face an exodus of our top players (undoing some superb work to get them in the first place) and will go backwards yet again. Get rid.

This.

Lineker tweeting it now?

Yep, fascist bastard.

As well as those. Dave. I agree, he'd be a shit manager.

I could name someone who couldn't do that. me? you? cajun?

have to say, I think he'll do the business.