Ashley17

Jonas took a pen!? Fuck that.

Player/Manager I hope.

It'll be like a party on here if he goes, until the replacement comes in.

He's a dick, I watch as little of MOTD2 as possible these days because of him.

In other years where we've been poor I've not liked a lot of the squad, but this year is different. Got such good memories from most of the players, it'll be 100x worse than when we were relegated last time, I'd be gutted to see this squad broken up. It is all on the manager this time

Not after the"touch of a rapist"comment on MOTD2 That isn't what he said. There was a bad tackle and he said "he's absolutely raped (raked?) him."

He plays three at the back, one of which is Gary Caldwell. No thanks.

Even if we had beaten Reading and lost this, 5 wins from 12 would match the total number of wins we've had all season.

Yes!

Look at QPR scrapping to keep that out. Can you picture us doing that?

I saw Cabaye signal five minutes when Jonas was down injured after that elbow incident, Cabaye went over and spoke to Pardew and then came off five minutes later. Also in the podcast Pardew admitted it was a mistake to take off Marveaux. So that's alright then.

Felt like he was the captain today, was absolutely exceptional.

Funnily enough I watched them in the warm up and they did about 10 consecutive near post finishes identical to that

A very good post, makes me a little bit sad to think that things will probably never be as good as they were. Today was a bad day for many reasons but it's also one of the few days I've been ashamed of our fans. Obviously, as a paying customer they have the right to do what they want but right from the word go today it's as though people wanted something to complain about. Jonas was atrocious, yes, but the fucker was being lambasted from the first minute. I was in level 4 of the Leazes today and it was as miserable as it gets, which got a lot worse as the afternoon went on. As a side note, I'm not sure where everyone went on 25 minutes but the ball wasn't even dead and a good few hundred people headed for the concourses. Anyway, there was a father and son combo in front of me, the son was about 8 and trying to watch the match whilst his dad swore like a trooper and had about 16 pisses, once we went 2-1 down the Dad decides to go home, the son put up some resistance but it was no good, his match day was over. Sadly, many other people walked out at this point too - so this is what it has come to, the team goes behind and some of the fans fuck off. If people want to vote with their feet then so be it but surely they must realise how detrimental this can be. The booing of the subs, whilst understandable, probably didn't help either, but surely most people saw Cabaye signal five minutes to Pardew when Jonas was getting treatment? The philosophy of the modern day football fan is so far away from reality it's a real struggle. It's all chat about systems; one in the hole, false 9, holding midfielders, hanging on to one goal leads; it all makes me sick, everybody thinks they're wiser than everyone else but in reality nobody has a fucking clue, because the only thing that matters is scoring more than the opposition, something we seem to have lost sight of. When you were a kid or a student it was easy enough to be apathetic about the team if things weren't going well, there were few troubles between 1 game and the next. But now, as the opening poster alludes to, you spend a week grafting for the privelege of supporting these fuckers and you get half arsed performances, fucking terrible punditry on any televised games and you spend a week talking about systems and diving. Bring back the 90s.

10 days until this, and what a long 10 days they will be

First half was nice, I enjoyed it. A competent right back, people feeding Cisse, runners off the ball, a great free kick, what a lovely day it was. Then that abominable second half happened, where all our creativity was subbed and replaced by defensive midfielders (and Obertan). Cabaye was best player on the pitch by a mile and I understand taking him off due to not being up for 90 minutes just yet but the choice of replacement was weird. By contrast their manager brings on a sub who scores twice, whilst Jonas inexplicably plays 90 minutes.

With most of our games recently you can tell an hour before kick off what sort of afternoon it's going to be.

12-16m i reckon. who is Bony? Mrs Bimpy definitely isn't.

I'm all for it in principle, the problem is we need at least one forward and a centre back as priority, and this is a backup left back.

Fuck this, just sell everyone.

And therein lies the problem.

I actually hate myself for how dull I have become, pissing on parades left, right and centre.

On the wing or in the middle?

Then we sign Andy Carroll on 31st Jan and everybody says its a bad window. It would be shit considering he couldn't play for us until next season [/pointless accuracy]

If we got Aubameyang & Mbiwa and kept Coloccini I would be ecstatic.