Colos Short and Curlies

Going down isn't destroying them? I'd love them to go this season but it's looking unlikely because of their GD and the Swansea score. Shame. I actually think he'd do alright in the champ and they'd be back up in a season or 2. A full year in the premier league however, his ego is going to destroy the club from within

One thing making me slightly hope Sunderland stay up - Watching DiCanio absolutely destroy them next year

Can't see Swansea doing anything tonight - on the beach, lots of ties with Wigan, no strikers bar Luke Moore (1 goal all season against guess who!?) Pinning my hopes on us beating QPR and Wigan/Villa losing to Arsenal/Chelsea. We're then matematically safe and we all drop a collective cow pat on Pards head

2 magpies just landed in my garden

I think part of this may well be to discredit the tabloids now, knowing fine well that this summer is going to see a oat load of rumours about each and every player at the club

We have an internal Instant Messanger system in work - I've changed my 'status' to read 'No work until Pardew is gone'. No one has taken the piss about the weekend yet

I can see both Villa and Wigan getting 4 or 6 points in their 3 games before they play eachother. Hope I'm wrong, but both have a fairly easy game in their runs and I would expect Villa to pick up at least a point tonight. We really need a win from somewhere, not sure even another point will do it

Soundbite Chairman.

Pretty sure I heard a round of 'et out of our club'. Could have been to MA and DL of course

a Williccini return vs West Ham? Wouldn't bet against a back 4 of Jonas, Colo, Willo, Simpson vs West Ham. Damn

So if Liverpool did decide to sell / Suarez decide he's had enough in the summer.... Who would actually be prepared to spend big on him? Can't see any of the top European teams going for him due to his discipline. Qatar maybe? :-)

Considering that the Europa League was always going to lead to a disjointed training program, why was pre season not set up to develop and embed a style of play to be used in all games for the reserves and first team to allow interchanging of players? On the same theme, why was there a staggered approach to the return times of players involved in the Euros? Even if they were not at full training, all players should have been involved in the majority of pre-season and not returning a week or 2 from the start of the league campaign. The poor pre-season laid the foundations for our season, and its no surprise that clubs who occasionally qualify for Europe suffer in the league due to a lack of foresight on the impact it will have between games.

What amazes me is that despite knowing that our season would be disrupted with Thursday games our pre-season started fairly late and our Euro Champ playing players seemed to arrive when the hell they liked. It seems to happen to all teams who qualify for Europe just on the odd occasion, to me it seems obvious that you need to get people in early to establish a method of play for at least the first third of the season.

Never mind watching Benfica - look at City's second yesterday - 4 or 5 players in the box attacking a ball from open play. We can only dream of that level of attacking support. For all we know our crossing might be world class, but with nobody in the box its wasted!

Need him in kill mode - target Macmanaman

Jason Koumas been mentioned yet?

One thing in their defense - although they make mistakes, they rarely repeat the same mistake. Learning (making it up in some case) as they go along, but definitely learning.

Not denying that the treatment of Keegan was shocking - but lets not kid ourselves that any other owners haven't shat all over club ledgends. SJH, his son and Mr Shepherd for example pretty much forced KK out with the floatation, sacked SBR in the worst possible way and who can forget Poppins gate? Inconvenient truths, Ashley not matter what happens will never be accepted by some due to the Kk man love factor. The Man Love for KK is justified mind, he's a huge part of why we're where we are as a club now. I just find it irrational that most things people hate Ashley for are replicated across the entire football world and would be replicated by anyone who came in and bought the man out

Not denying that the treatment of Keegan was shocking - but lets not kid ourselves that any other owners haven't shat all over club ledgends. SJH, his son and Mr Shepherd for example pretty much forced KK out with the floatation, sacked SBR in the worst possible way and who can forget Poppins gate?

How much is the exposure of a premier league club / champs league club worth to a Qatari at the moment with the wc around the long corner? £250m? £300m? £350m? Thats the only way Ashely will find a buyer, and as glamorous as it sounds to have a team worth £100m plus, I'm not sure I want that model - Chelsea and City are pretty souless clubs really. We're on the right track, just as long as Ashley realises that as we progress we need to up the investment levels to keep the incriments in income coming

You just know that when they go down, the non-Odemwingie signing will be what Droopy says is the reason. Anyway, he gets to look at Lousie Redknapp over the Sunday lunch table every week so I'm sure he wont mind too much if he gets relegated/sacked (and for the same reason he deserves both of these to happen)

MA give him a free pass with the signings, but his decisions today were odd to say the least. Won't be our manager come pre season

Aye, can see him trotting aorund with a massive 30% off sticker on the back of his shirt come April

So thats Villa, Chelsea and maybe Spurs before he's back? Could be worse, we'd struggle to beat Chelsea even with him in the team

Just been on Take Me Out