Dr Venkman

doing a blowy

I have to say, that description of Shearer ties in with everything else I've heard about him, even down to the way his charity operates. Someone I know paid in the region of 2K for a game of golf with him. That was 2 years ago and it still hasn't happened.

:smitten: Positivity.

Haha, I've seen that on the A19 before.

Don't think we'll be willing to pay Sinclair's wages.

He doesn't care about Paul Sturrock

We may have bought a replacement.

Imagine if we sold him, we'd have a good chance of not scoring until September

Well they're closely related but different points. Ok, I just don't think it matters what he says, I think that was the whole point in employing him after Keegan.

Ok, just think it's an odd point to make that he 'doesn't accept absolutely everything without any input of his own' when you acknowledge he's basically got no authority on anything that doesn't involve taking training and picking the team.

What do you honestly think Pardew says behind the scenes? He just accepts absolutely everything without any input of his own?

Quality not quantity isn't anything new.

What do you honestly think Pardew says behind the scenes? He just accepts absolutely everything without any input of his own? Absolutely, why else appoint a League 1 manager? He might 'say' things, but authority on anything other than training/picking the team? No way.

Can someone explain the big deal about that hotel? Thats about the tenth time I've heard it being mentioned by various mackems, I know theres next to f**k-all down there but they seem inordinately proud of it! Guess it's a bit of a novelty for them. They're just glorified Travelodge's imo.

I'll be absolutely delighted to see the back of him.

I'm keeping my season ticket, managed to justify it to myself by a combination of believing he'll be sacked by January and sharing it with a friend. I suppose I shouldn't let my dislike for Pardew stop me watching my team

Shouldn't be selling him, we should be finding a few players/a system that works with him.

Never seen him play, what's he good at?

Aye, I think a lot of people have unfairly written him off. Pardew included too probably. Not according to his quotes, which we're supposed to take as gospel around here. Even the lies?

I agree but I was too scared to post this myself! His style is safety-first and conservative a lot of the time, but I don't think he's a long ball manager or much like Pulis at all. he doesn't have a style man bolded is all he know and favours, football firmly comes second, and as we're seeing if you don't coach good players into playing football as a team they rapidly become a nervous pile of shit and resort to treating the ball like a hot potato Disagree with this (to an extent). Where I'll agree with you is that when our backs have been up against the wall this season (in terms of league position) he has certainly played conservatively, particularly away from home. He's played conservatively every week man, since he took the job.

Found out as what? A striker with a really good record? 2003–2004 Douanes Dakar 26 (23) 2005–2009 Metz 95 (36) 2005–2006 → Cherbourg (loan) 28 (11) 2008–2009 → Châteauroux (loan) 15 (4) 2009–2012 SC Freiburg 65 (37) 2012– Newcastle United 50 (21) National team‡ 2009– Senegal 22 (11)

So put into context it isn't really that negative, fair enough. What was the full quote around 6ft 4" players? "We need to have more dominance in that area and it's all well and good saying the set play problem is down to tactics, delivery or whatever. Ultimately you need 6-foot-4 in this division to go and head it in or at least get first contact on it to head it across the box and we've not had that all year." Didn't take long for Ian to be proven wrong on 'he's not a moron'.

Painted on in the first place I think?

Why on earth would Liverpool accept an offer from us? We won't be paying £15m for anyone. Didn't you make similar statements before we signed Cisse?