Mick

Then we should pay for them and get the best that we can. If we finish where we are in the league we'll have lost at least £7.5 million in prize money from where we finished last season.

I'm confident that we could replace him with someone who is better, I'm not sure Llambias is up to it though. I expect that if we keep Pardew we'll play negative football more often than not and our better players will not want to hang around.

My biggest mistake with one of our managers was in thinking Gullit would do well.

Stability is bollocks without the right manager, that doesn't mean that the right manager will always be an unmitigated success from day one as you put it but you should be able to see something in the right manager.

I don't really want to think about it TBH, if he was sacked in those circumstances I wouldn't complain. I wouldn't really complain that much if he was sacked now, except for the effect on morale and club stability. Hopefully it won't come to that. Stability is bollocks without the right manager.

Steve Kean?

Wigan had the worst home record in the top 4 or 5 English leagues before they played us yet we needed them to go down to 10 men to give us a chance of winning.

So is that down to the players following Pardew's instructions, or the players not following Pardew's instructions? It happens far too often to be the players, they'd have been dropped or got rid of by now if it was them.

It would be class if they brought Monkey's Heed back just before the derby.

I don't know and I can only guess the players are still trying to work it out.

We didn't squeeze the pitch enough, that's what we failed at today.

Pardew used to say he was working towards better football, he's spun a myth.

The football we played last season was the foundation for this season, people need to look further than the results.

That template was binned before a ball was kicked this season and we'll be lucky to score as many again from so few chances created.

The effective football last season only worked because Ba was finding the net with virtually everything in the first half of the season and then Cisse did the same in the 2nd and you can't expect that to be repeated over a season.

Another hissy fit, pet.

So that's nobody then.

How many people other than you or people who have quoted you have used 'fact' in a post?

Fair or not, it's basically true.

You know the answer.

Who created that "far worse mess" at West Ham?

A honeymoon period for the derby, great.