Mick

did he not get injured while being challenged?

I've got no complaints about him tonight, we did what we had to.

Has anybody said they haven't?

I'm not looking forward to this.

You've just told half a story are you now going to compare Maratimo to Real Madrid? Nice try though. Well - if we merge our half stories, we might end up with a full story. You've just told half a story are you now going to compare Maratimo to Real Madrid? Nice try though. Well - if we merge our half stories, we might end up with a full story. We would, it wouldn't end up with the Europa being harder than the CL.

You've just told half a story are you now going to compare Maratimo to Real Madrid? Nice try though.

Keegan did no work with the defence, all of his work was with the forwards. It's strange that a tactically naive manager (as many claimed) would spend all of his time on attack yet we only let in 41 goals the first season back in the league. Last season we concentrated our training on defence for 4 days a week and let in 51 goals and played 4 league games less. Attack is the best form of defence.

I agree with most of that and really hope that he can turn things around because I don't want to see what a load of bollocks Llambias and Ashley can make of another appointment.

That was him, he seemed to just disappear. He didn’t give anybody any stick and didn’t get much in return either.

He's full of shit, how can he complain that we are suffering because he is having to field two teams a week then complain that other teams have or use more players? Also, how is playing Maritimo at home then Southampton away any harder than playing Real Madrid at home and then Chelsea away like Man City are doing? Chelsea has played 21 competitive games so far this season if you include the charity shield, we've played 19, he should get somebody to read his script before he puts it into the public domain. He's feeling the pressure and he's using any excuse he can think of to deflect any blame for results away from him, some will fall for it.

If Cabaye requires an operation, why hasn't he already had it? I can only think that an operation will have a reasonably fixed recovery time and we're only extending his injury by delaying sorting it out.

Give him a chance, he might be OK.

All right, you've passed. It would be good though to have a decent mackem on here, you could be the 2nd as we did have one a while ago. You'll have to accept some piss taking but you can also give it in return.

If that is the case then it's still down to the manager because it happens so often that he should do something about it. Haven't we had quotes from Stone only this week about us hitting it long? Anybody reading some posts on here would think a manager has no responsibilities because you can find an excuse for everything. He’s the manager, he’s responsible for choosing incoming signings and he’s gone out of his way to tell us that he plays a part in this. It’s tough if that’s not the case because he’s tied himself into our transfer activity through the claims that he’s made on the subject. He’s responsible for coaching the players on a daily basis, the same players who hoof the ball as if it was a bomb ready to go off. He decides to concentrate on defence for 4 out of 5 days so is it any wonder that we aren’t very good at playing the ball and opening up the opposition when we rarely practice it? He’s responsible for picking the team, the same team that has looked like a middle to lower league side. The same team that changes twice a week when we play in Europe so it’s no wonder we’re disjointed if we practice for part of the week with one team for one game then another team for another game a couple of days later. Pardew is responsible for team morale, it’s up to him to get his players performing to the best of their ability, if he can’t then he’s not doing his job. He chooses the tactics, it his responsibility to pick the best players available to play against the opposition using the most likely tactics to get the most from each game, it’s not working yet he still goes with the same shit time after time. He could have changed things around against Swansea because of Cisse not being available, it was the easy option but he didn’t make the most of it even though it had been recognised that we were being outnumbered in midfield. Something has been said to him even though he thinks our two can outnumber 3, how does that work? Why does it become a surprise that 3 people can walk the ball around 2? Pardew is responsible for our substitutions and more often than not he leaves me scratching my head. 2 out of 3 changes on Saturday made no sense at all and he's lost the plot if he thinks taking one player off needs another 3 players to move to allow that 1 player to come on. Pardew is the manager of the football club, he is responsible for managing the team and should be held to account when we are playing poorly and/or losing games. We’ve got some very good players who are proven quality and have been used to winning, I refuse to believe that what we see now is the limit of the ability of the players that Pardew has at his disposal. If people want to happily go along with thinking that what we have now is good enough, or as good as it can get with our current squad then that's up to them. Personally, I think we're well below par and the reason for that is fairly easy to see. It's coaching, tactics and players being unable to play a style of football which is both alien to them and shambolic. I doubt for one minute that any professional footballer would want to play the way we play on a regular basis. As a fan, I don’t want to have to see it. The players are not blameless in all this but I don't see them as the major problem.

It's just not 2 very home performances, it's a season of poor performances. i disagree, a season of playing below par so far. however only the west brom game was one where we didn't get what we deserved. could argue we deserved more from the west ham despite not playing aswell as we should. What about Everton?

It might have been wise if I'd noted who I was replying to, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the others had posted it.

I'm quite happy to see him in the middle, I don't mind it at all.

I worked him out after 3 posts.

I'm not 100% sure but I think they are classed as self employed.

Things are that bad people want to see Obertan, we really have hit the bottom.

Of course.

I've fixed your post, you missed the bit in bold out.

Mare.