Mick

Maybe he's testing the water with the fans before making a decision whether to see out his last 12 months or to do off, maybe it is him saying goodbye before doing a runner. Who knows?

http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/trlrky.gif Perfect.

You don't need a tin hat, it's probably the only way to stop him embarrassing the club with his normal excuses which change from minute to minute.

Refusing to speak to the written press.

What was that?

22 players on the pitch and absolutely no goal threat between them.

It feels like the 1000th.

In that case we should have left him on the bench so they don't see how bad he is.

Oh good, I was just thinking that I hadn't seen enough of Obertan.

This really is painful to watch.

Other than fitness, this pre-season has been a total waste of time. The fraud has had enough games now to work on things which offer something different but no, a few new faces and the same shitty failed formations. The good thing from that is it will probably put an end to his time here sooner rather than later.

The comments posted were in response to something about Pardew and were in defence of Pardew, funnily enough they were posted in the Pardew thread. Just because people don't agree with you doesn't mean it's not intelligent.

I can't see any reference to us getting a top manager in the quote you agree with, what's your point? How was he stitched up by Hall & Shepherd? He stitched himself up by rushing into buying the club, he stitched himself up by not even doing basic checks like using Google to find out who owned the ground because all of us knew that we didn't own it. We had a thread on here about debt and I think we had discussed just about everything that was classed as debt. We all knew how Michael Owen was being paid for and that was the only thing they didn't know apart from the loan which we had discussed to death on here so it was public knowledge. I think most would agree with that minor point, a minor point which had nothing to do with what Disco had originally said. It's not a point which should be used to justify anybody being happy with Pardew or a reason why anybody should be willing to accept his position at the club. That's happening now, I don't think "could" even comes into it. We're an advertising billboard for his shitty brand and the only reason he'll allow the club to use it's own money is to keep us in the Premiership and that is because of the cost of relegation and no more. Again, what has the comment got to do with the original point regarding Pardew? He could decide to sell at any time. Again, what has that got to do with Pardew? Wrong, talking about Pardew on here went a long way towards what happened in our last home game. Talk on here was enough to have banners produced and a walk out. Talk on here was probably the seed that ended up in Pardew sitting in the dugout because he was boo'd every time he stood up.

I felt it would be at the time, having said that, I didn't think for one minute that he'd get away with some of the shit he's served up since. The only plus going into this season is that I doubt the fans will wait until the last game of the season before giving him stick if we're not performing. I also don't think the club can allow too much unrest before acting, he's not bullet proof and he needs to perform, something I doubt he's capable of pulling off. I haven't even looked at our fixtures yet but I wouldn't be surprised if he's gone before the end of the next transfer window. The only thing which might save him is if they think we're better off waiting until the end of the season if nobody is available.

It didn't take him long to lower his expectations, I guess we can expect more of that from the fraud.

My mate who went tonight just texted me to say that he would rather spend the rest of his life in intensive care than another minute watching us.

He actually said it on radio last week, I heard him actually say it.

Good play by Campbell.

We're actually playing some nice football now.

3-0

Aarons

We've played better as a team and scored a well worked goal, other than that ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Wing play, what is that?