Mick

The pretty good first half is true when looking at points gained and league position, the quality of football isn't that much better. Does selling Carroll and Enrique not qualify as selling our best players? Or does the selling our best players start at a future date?

I asked at what point does the manager become a proble, you said "when there's a threat of relegation." I defined nothing, you did. You do realise that we are currently going through what is probably our worst set of results since relegation, don't you? If we are to improve on last season then we have to finish higher than 12th, we finished 12th but were 45 minutes from 10th.

The season isn't over and I doubt very much that we'll be 8 points better off than last season when it is over.

Pardew hasn't upgraded us and it was you who mentioned relegation not me.

A threat of relegation? He was brought in as an upgrade so why should a threat of relegation be his benchmark? Your second point, I agree with and that would be the main reason for keeping him.

I don't rate him so I would be happy to replace him at the end of the season, the problem would then be finding somebody who would or could work for the morons running the club. We'll do nothing with Pardew here as he's more than happy to go along with selling players at a profit to help his mates out. He's an average manager who is here because of who he knows, not what he can do. This isn’t the right thread for this but the questions have been asked so I’ll answer them.

We'll not be 7th much longer, at what point does the manager become a problem?

I'm no more qualified to sack managers than anybody else on here and me naming a potential manager is irrelevant because I could easily name better than we've got.

Should we have kept Souness because Shepherd had appointed managers who has failed?

No, that's a strange question.

It was 1-0 to Man U before he won the penalty it was 0-0 against Bolton before he scored his goal, your point is?

We're a joke club because of our owner and his MD, not the fans.

That wouldn't be my problem and it's irrelevant to the question that was asked.

I'd be happy to see him go at the end of the season but can't see it happening.

Did that no longer apply once Pardew left?

If that was true it would say more about the manager than the player.

That sounds like us for most of this season.

I think we'll finish between 12th and 10th which will be poor if we do because we have a better first 11 then last season when we lost 10 place on the last day of the season. In the FA Cup we'll play as strong a team as possible and that will also impact on our league position.

We've played long ball most of the season, we're just doing it more than ever now.

Obertan has the ‘F O Factor’

He's appealed his sending off.

No white text?

I almost pissed myself when watching that again, even the ref was shaking his head.

I guess you haven't seen him on the wing.

I didn't see Willicini.