ScottishMagpie

Tell me you're f***ing joking? I'm predicting the excuse. Apologies, no offence intended. Can't wait to hear what the cunt has to say about this.

Surely Mike must just be waiting for end of season to get shot of him. surely?!!!!

Is Lee Hughes wanting to move in to management?

Tell me you're fucking joking?

If I wasn't so angry at Pardew N Quinn would be top of my shitlist.

I could possibly (and I mean just barely) excuse this if we had pounded Benfica for 90mins on Thursday but the excuse for the 1st 70mins on Thursday was that we had this match coming up and to turn up with this gameplan is inexcusable. Mr Pardew I want you gone from this club now.

Thoroughly deserved and that makes me fucking sick in the stomach to say that.

No we don't. We're a million times better than them on paper, and we didn't play for half a match on Thursday. Sorry, but there is no excuse for not winning this.

If we can get one in the next 5mins they'll s*** themselves for the remainder. Pardew's fault for making me have to pray for a 2-2 draw with this facist's shite.

Corner! Game on!!!!

That's what 4 days a week defensive work looks like.

Game over

FFS Hatem.... want that gift wrapped as well?!

No pressure HBA but save us!

Well done tayls there to stop jonas getting into shit.

Oh ya bastard!

Pardew sold his soul to the devil for last season and now it's payback time.

I'm more pissed that's another substitution gone. Will this mean HBA comes on later than 'planned'?

"real sense of urgency"?......

Unlike Cisse you mean?

It's already the paolo di canio "era" now?! FFS!!!

I'm trying to keep upbeat. It's only half time and it's only 1-0 etc but just got this creeping feeling that although we need to go after them in the 2nd half the 1st sub we'll make will be to bring perch on!

that cut and pasted from every prem match thread this season?

If this bit is true then I'm just thinking how much they would have been shitting themselves at the prospect of being got at for a period longer than 30 mins. It's so infuriating to watch us play like we did in that 'purple' period of the match compared with the first half. It's like two different teams. To take 40 mins to have our first shot on goal is inexcusable in my eyes. If we had scored 1 or god forbid (letting my mind run wild now) 2 goals in the first half the crowd would have been a fucking bear pit and they'd be passing the andrex round in the second half. Point is the crowd played a big part last night but only when we decided to try and attack them, could have got the crowd factor involved a lot sooner.

just know the post match is gonna be about how we went at them in the second half, valiant effort blah-de-blah but no-one will ask about the first half.