Mick

Agreed, we should also keep Shola warming up for the full 90 minutes.

They'll shit bricks if we get the atmosphere right, which we didn't last season but did the year before.

Cisse is on top form and I can't see him not scoring if he plays like he has for the last 2 games, I can see him being massively motivated.

It's laughable that he was posting in the match thread while the people who would like to see Pardew fail were actually at the match supporting the team and by doing so, supporting the manager.

A fair few of them want don't want him to succeed, even if it's to our detriment within reason. From the perspective of those who want him to stay for at least another season, since we signed the players we so badly needed in January we've won 5 out of 9 in the league, including 4 out of 4 at home and progressed past two good sides in the EL. A lot of people were saying the signings would present a definitive test for him. You could argue that so far he's passing it. Who's said that? Nobody's come out and said it, dude. Just the way some posters go on makes it virtually impossible to believe otherwise. So you're making things up, at least you've admitted it.

I don't see anybody being defensive at all, I can't wait to see these "fair few of them want don't want him to succeed, even if it's to our detriment within reason" are.

Don't worry, he'll name them all.

Name them so that we can all take the piss out of them.

We're better than them all over the pitch and no matter what anybody says, the best team usually wins and form doesn't go out of the window. We're at home and we'll win it if we want it enough.

We will win this if we go about it the right way, I think having such a big game on Thursday could actually help us as the players will not have too long to think about this game. We'll win and it will probably be by 2 or 3 goals if we are up for it.

I love this one, it's almost as good as the agenda comment that sometimes gets thrown about.

I've never noticed him ever trying to hide.

It doesn't mean that this place is wrong, does it?

I'm sure it was only the Gallowgate Corner singing it and I heard a few near me end it with "We have Pardew" instead of Sunderland.

Not only is it not popular, it isn't true, he was excellent today.

Booking a player for OTT celebrating is pure shit.

The one that hit the first defender wasn't too clever, the others were excellent.

it was between him and Marveaux, Jonas did all of the hard work and Marveaux did all the stuff that is good to watch but they both kept us moving forward throughout the game.

He's a frustrating player, he shields the ball really well and is probably the toughest of our players to get the ball off when he wants to keep it.

He dropped to the floor and was eventually carried off the pitch either because he couldn't walk or they were trying to protect the injury.

I've got little doubt that we'll be attacking in both, it's the games after that where things might change.

According to him at the beginning of the season we were challenging for the CL, did he not know at that time which players he had?

They don't even win the battles outside the ground, that's as accurate as them being a classy club, they want it to be so it becomes fact.

It was 1 game and a game in which he couldn't afford to sit back, he had no real choice and he'll be back to normal as soon as he can do it.