Dr Venkman

Both of our relegation rivals go away from home and win, we barely create anything. I fucking hate you Pardew, I hate you.

His hair, his new beard, his sublime skills

I'm at work, wearing my toon top.

Wish I had to balls to do that. Take your balls for a walk?

If we try and hold out for 0-0 after 45 mins then we will lose. Or West Ham come out with a bit more urgency second half and make it look like we are trying to hold out. Two seperate things. Not always down to the manager saying 10 men behind the ball at half time. It's all semantics at this point, we're 17th with 3 games to go and we've just lost 3-0 and 6-0 at home, he's fucking rubbish.

I'm gonna miss him

He walked 9 steps

I've just noticed Tiote's wearing gloves, doubtless already mentioned, not arsed.

In which he's still absolutely crap.

Sissoko has been shit recently. Won't make a difference. And anywhere but midfield

Drab, boring, eventless, lifeless, comfortable win for West Ham.

He's setting up his post match excuses and the post season meeting excuses at the same time.

Lining up the excuses for post match interviews and post season meeting's at the same time, impressive work.

Bless his cock and socks.

He did

Yeah, it's not responsible for our form though, or we'd be relegated every season.

I'd guess we'll hear about these articles in Pardew's post loss interview, which I suspect is the reason for the statements.

I'd take competent. Not for long. What? Sorry. I meant that you'd not 'take' us being merely 'competent' for very long. I don't know, I'm just not comfortable with statements, in nearly every thread, about how a new manager will automatically flick some switch to help us realise our potential. I've lost count of the amount of players who'd be world beaters under a competent manager. It's not, and obviously never has been, that simple. How do you know how long I would or wouldn't accept competency? I didn't make one of those statements, I said HBA would be great under good management, and I stand by that. Just a guess, mate. It was just a bit of craic really, nothing definitive. But, you're obviously harder to please than the majority, after not enjoying a season when we finished fifth. It didn't seem like too much of a leap to come to that conclusion. I wasn't trying to place the 'player x will be the best under a better manager' entirely on you, though. So apologies if it appeared that way. I immensely enjoyed that season, trust me I was just worried about the football we played because I didn't think it was taking us anywhere long term. That said I completely embraced Pardew by the end of the season and said so, only to end up back where I started a few months in to this season due to various reasons. I just didn't like the insinuation that I wouldn't be happy with a reasonable level of performance because I was worried about where the style of play would take us (and rightly so, as it turns out). If we'd performed reasonably this season I'd still be pissing and moaning about the football (as I was last season) but I don't think I'd be as balls out livid with him as I am now edit - I'm also prone to making hyperbolic statements about HBA, because i love him and I'll be gutted if he leaves. That's all fair enough. As I said, it wasn't a nasty dig, but rather a bit of craic (I'm desperately trying not to use the word banter here). I don't remember peoples posts from last year really, so was just going off what's been said recently. If I've misread that, then it's fine. People are understandably tetchy at the moment, so I should know better. I even managed to offend a couple of lads I wasn't talking to there!

Quite a few papers ran with it at the same time which suggests it was leaked from within.

So do I, whether he'd agree or not is a different matter.

I'd take competent. Not for long. What? Sorry. I meant that you'd not 'take' us being merely 'competent' for very long. I don't know, I'm just not comfortable with statements, in nearly every thread, about how a new manager will automatically flick some switch to help us realise our potential. I've lost count of the amount of players who'd be world beaters under a competent manager. It's not, and obviously never has been, that simple. How do you know how long I would or wouldn't accept competency? I didn't make one of those statements, I said HBA would be great under good management, and I stand by that. Just a guess, mate. It was just a bit of craic really, nothing definitive. But, you're obviously harder to please than the majority, after not enjoying a season when we finished fifth. It didn't seem like too much of a leap to come to that conclusion. I wasn't trying to place the 'player x will be the best under a better manager' entirely on you, though. So apologies if it appeared that way. I immensely enjoyed that season, trust me I was just worried about the football we played because I didn't think it was taking us anywhere long term. That said I completely embraced Pardew by the end of the season and said so, only to end up back where I started a few months in to this season due to various reasons. I just didn't like the insinuation that I wouldn't be happy with a reasonable level of performance because I was worried about where the style of play would take us (and rightly so, as it turns out). If we'd performed reasonably this season I'd still be pissing and moaning about the football (as I was last season) but I don't think I'd be as balls out livid with him as I am now edit - I'm also prone to making hyperbolic statements about HBA, because i love him and I'll be gutted if he leaves.

I'd take competent. Not for long. What? Sorry. I meant that you'd not 'take' us being merely 'competent' for very long. I don't know, I'm just not comfortable with statements, in nearly every thread, about how a new manager will automatically flick some switch to help us realise our potential. I've lost count of the amount of players who'd be world beaters under a competent manager. It's not, and obviously never has been, that simple. How do you know how long I would or wouldn't accept competency? I didn't make one of those statements, I said HBA would be great under good management, and I stand by that.

I'd take competent. Not for long. What?

I'd take competent.