Ashley17

Ireland's improved us ten fold like

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/6513359.stm

Been coming.

Loven-goal!

Did anyone see that during the EVerton lineup?

Ah man it still cracks me up that the arsenal mascot lined up with the team for the minute silence

No real gossip from the Nolan talk in, other than he really, really doesn't like Dowie. Quick summarY; Worst trainer: Ranger - Nolan has offered to stay behind with him at training and work on finishing etc. Nile always says no. Best trainer: Coloccini - Nolan adores him. Shearer: Had too many preconceived ideas, biggest mistake was brining in Dowie. Dowie: Was "just a crap manager" - did a funny as fuck impression of him. None of the squad knew what Dowie was saying most of the time. Leyton Orient meeting: Everybody knows about this now, was led by Nolan & Smith. Those who they wanted rid of, Smith/Nolan etc used their own agents to shift them out to speed things up. Who Nolan would sign if he was manager: Connor Whickham & Matt Jarvis - expects there to be 4-6 new players in the summer. 5-1: Best day of his life (except his kids being born) Allardyce: Still friends with him, feels big Sam was a little bit unlucky with the timing of coming up here (new owner, some people i nthe dressing room) Pardew or Hughton: Pardew because he is better equipped to take us forward Carroll: Carroll didn't want to go. Nolan only did piece for Liverpool TV because it was a mate of his who works there. The Chicken dance (the quack): His mate dances like that...acknowledged that chickens don't quack. Newcastle: Loves the place to bits, in the middle of negotiating a new contract to stay here longer. Asked Gary Speed's advice before joining. Speed predicted our relegation at the time. Rivals: Wants Blackpool, WBA and Wigan to go down. Blackpool & WBA to show well we've done and Wigan as obviously a rival from the Bolton days. Liverpool: Would never sign for them as he loves it here too much. Doesn't consider himself a Liverpool fan anymore. Barton: A lot of little jokes about Barton being the best midfielder in the world. "He's a nutter, but a good nutter." Nout else of note really, probably forgot some stuff but I think that's the bulk of it.

Going to a talk in with Nolan tonight, man off twitter will probably turn up and abuse him for that all night.

Well he's suspended, so he'll have to smuggle something.

Not even remotely comparable. Carrick's from Wallsend, it's more than comparable.

Yes. I'm from the school of you fuck about with everything else before your back four. Fair enough. Evidently Pardew was expelled from that school.

For those baulking at the team, are you saying you'd rather have Ryan fucking Taylor playing? Really? Or Loven or Ranger on the wing? Be interesting to see how Colo gets on in there, will either give us an extra option or stop the myth forever.

Yes, on a Wednesday night

Classic forearm smash by Eboue.

Think it'll be one of Ranger or Loven on the wing, sickening. The Sky Sports match preview has Ranger on the wing and I laughed to myself and thought "fucking amateurs" but we'll see.

Stoke at home

I think the one time they did this season it was fucking Nicky Butt. The derby at SJP was a classic pundit selection. Ex Mackem manager Peter Reid, who led them to their two most succesful seasons in the Premiership, and Sam Allardyce, who was here for 6 months and hates us. Good balance

Really pisses me off how Sky rarely seem to get anybody in to represent us in the studio. Oh look Villa are playing so here's Dwight Yorke and to even it out...why it's Danny Murphy. Of fucking course. Rounded off by that mackem Dave Jones presenting, do Beresford & Lee just not answer their phones these days?

Diaby

Don't forget Robbie Elliott & Steve Caldwell. World class defenders.

Had a dream last night he went off injured after 10 minutes against Villa, however he gave the armband to Shearer as he was trudging off so I doubt the validity of it.

Hope someone snapped his clipboard in half. Tosser.

Surely you can see the difference? We're a newly promoted club and it became Bruce's priority in November to finish above us. You should have completely different priorities to us this season, we were looking for 17th you were looking for 10th. Now the situation is different for us, in that we are almost certainly safe and 10th is still your target. I'm not a big fan of using your rivals as a yardstick but it's your stereotypical Pardew craic, trying to get onside with the fans and set a short term goal, as he can't keep saying "we've got to stay up" when we're 9th with 7 games to go.

Yet they're only 1 win away from safety even if they lose this. The league's so close because there are many defences that are also pretty terrible.

It's the next big thing in contract negotiations, "I'll sign for you if you name a bar after me"