Exiled in Texas

Wonder what else we could get from Ajax that might improve our team. Would love to see some more of that movement/passing in the team

Interesting note...... So at the same time as the fans are demanding Ellis Short to put his hand into his pocket and invest more money into the club, the fans are doing the opposite and are investing less. Hmmm, looks like the fans have no ambition.

It's s matter of perception. The general process is to let the play finish it's active phase. While technically time may have expired during imagine if the referee blew for time during a 1-on-1 breakaway. Just won't happen. So the referee will always try to finish the phase of play. It's not written into the LOTG but it's the accepted procedure to only end the game while the ball is in play.

Pfft. Still see bot all wrong with the reply. The only part of this that is pathetic is the Chronicle and anyone else making hay out of it. Wondering that myself (sensationalism to one side) it is simply the head employee of the club saying that if you want to talk about the club then please contact them directly. Mike is the owner of NUFC but not the Chairman. It's also well known that Mike doesn't do interviews, and this seemed to be a request for a one-on-one meeting rather than a business meeting which was, not unexpectedly, declined.

Isn't Hoddle running that second chance youth academy in Spain for young players release from clubs to see if they can earn new pro contracts

Wears Sunderland badge in court.......a court in Newcastle. And he thought that would help?

So did Cuban actually say No!

Cool. Gaglardi has done a nice job reworking the Dallas Stars front office and head coach since taking over the team from Tom Hicks (of Liverpool Hicks-Gillette fame). If true that would be a good ownership team, with a realistic plan for making progress. They don't throw money around like its water but they do make careful investments in players

No offence but that sounds like a load of s****. I know - straws being clutched at. he seemed quite sincere about it. oh well, we can still live in hope. I'm just desperate to believe there is a buyer out there. Interesting....Their CEO owning the Dallas Stars is decently relevant. Hope he's partnering with Jerry Jones Whoa!! wait ... Who owns Sandman hotels? Tom Gaglardi ??

So would I.......right up to about an hour ago when Laudrup became available.

Not sure if its Ashley who has photos of Pardew, or if its Pardew who has photos of Ashley.

Why would you expect us to sign someone so early in the window...that would suggest we have a plan. That also assumes that his club wanted to sell (loan) him so early in the window.....while we heard that they wanted to line up their own replacement.

Thanks. I guessed as much, but it wasn;t shown on the NBC feed in the US.

What did Borini get booked for after the goal? Excessive celebration? Did he remove his shirt or something?

Interesting article on BBC.com about transfer day and being the director in charge of transfers. Peter Ridsdale's guide to deadline day http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/25951414

He looked like a player in a pre-season game. Given his situation of having only played a mininsucle amount of minutes this season for BMG I thought he did well. Of course we would have loved him to have come in a changed the game with a couple of goals, but that was never realistic under the circumstances of his season so far.

Thought Phill Dowd had a good game today (seemed to get all the big decisions right.....or at least didn't get them wrong) I was frustrated that he kept giving us advantage for fouls in the defensive area (sunderland forwards fouling our defense) and didn't really get the same fouls called in the attacking half. But in all honesty, that was probably just frsutration at how crap we were rather than any real injustice. Crappy game from us, but not the fault of the referee in this one at all.

Not his best day today.....got beat way too many times by his man. had a couple of good attacking moves and a couple of great defensive moment, but overall a poor day for him. (Pretty much matched his teams anemic display).

Sadly, that is probably true. But I think the club is capable of better results (and I don't mean winning games) and the goals for Pardew should be raised.

Ashley is going no-where baring a Middle East Miracle......the best we can hope for is that Pardew is removed and a new competent manager brought in. I put my hopes in a business review where Ashley concludes that Pardew is not meeting his performance goals and is replaced. I don;t actually beleive that this will happen though.

Nope. Didn't look fit. And neither did the whole team. Too much jogging not enough running.

Really wishing we would change managers....just the thought of getting someone in like Roberto Di Mateo would lift my confidence in the club

Exactly. And worse when your bogey opposing manager becomes their manager.

We looked better in the second half than the first (although that's all relative in terms of shitness) but I thought Luuk made us less shit than we had been in the he first half. A run of games for fitness and to get him back in the flow of things and I think he will be good for us.