Dr Venkman

He needs to keep trotting out excuses for leaving one of his best players on the bench, unfortunately some of the fans have bought into the propaganda.

As if it's got to this stage of the season and he still hasn't had a proper run in the team man, for fucks sake.

Nah fuck that, we'll bring in players and we've got youth players who will benefit from games. The Europa League is the next step in our rehabilitation, let's do it now, it'll encourage players to stay and new signings. I think the fact that both the Manchester clubs are playing in it now will make it seem a bit more worthy tbh.

Haha. It seems like there could be a point in the league where we'll actually want Liverpool to be winning games even though they're behind us in the league? I dunno. If we go and attack teams I think we'll do it of our own back anyway.

Considering we've got a couple of lads who are accurate from dead balls it should just be put into a dangerous area in front of the keeper every time.

HBA>Raylor>Obertan

Holy shit What the fuck is he even trying to say?

They can fuck right off.

He's certainly not going to be cover the next three seasons though is he, and might be first choice for all five? He's also our captain and arguably the most consistent player at the club in terms of form and fitness. Colo's the sort of player that others want to come and play alongside, he's worth it. http://img857.imageshack.us/img857/8919/loreal.png I knew someone would

quite right, we'll hoof for the win

Best winger at the club after Ben Arfa imo.

Let them bring their bags, they'll be throwing up in them at half time when we're 2-0 up. 2-0 up at half time? Ba with both and one more in the second half.

Bruce was shit at derbies but their problems go back longer than him.

He's certainly not going to be cover the next three seasons though is he, and might be first choice for all five? He's also our captain and arguably the most consistent player at the club in terms of form and fitness. Colo's the sort of player that others want to come and play alongside, he's worth it.

Indeed, even at 35 he's gonna be superb cover at the least.

Me too, I'm normally really nervous but I'm relaxed this time, being ten points ahead of them helps like.

If Pardew carries this mindset into the rest of the games this season we won't finish lower than 6th.

I can't wait for the game, if we get this right we'll win it and we'll win it by a good margin. We should go into this game with no negative thought because we'll win. I don't see the point in worrying about something that will not happen 9 times out of 10. They have a good manager but that's where any positives for them will end because once he sends his players out they'll still more than likely bottle it and the few thousand they bring with them will do the same. It's up to us as fans to set about this in the way that we did last season, do that and I can only see one winner. The players will love playing in this game because of us, just like when we played Man U but probably twice as loud. We'll lift the players and they will lift us, I have little or no doubt about that. Whatever you say about our players, they aren't bottlers. You're right Mick, and I've been saying the same for weeks.

I'm somewhere near this but importantly I think as nufc fans there's an important alteration to this to be made. The point isnt whether he's brilliant or not, it's whether he offers more to the team than Raylor or Obertan (or Best earlier in the season) and for me it's obvious that he does. I think he's being left out for his lack of defensive attributes (not work rate!) and in my opinion that's a sad state of affairs, I hope that Pardew is planning on making him a regular next season with a better functioning defence behind him. As i've said, we don't need 11 defenders.

completely disagree with this, given the circumstances surrounding his appointment he's done a great job of getting people on his side overall but he very clearly needs to adapt (or die) to what's happening around him teams like us need to beat teams like wolves at home and get results away where we can, that's the long and the short of it...since pardew came in he was very good at both, noticeably an improvement on hughton especially at home, but he's starting not to be and more worryingly he's not showing signs he knows how to change it (similar to what happened at west ham for him tbh) i think most want him to succeed, he's a likeable enough fella I really cannot see "most want him to succeed". i can only see comments thathe is tactically inept and is a bastard for his disgraceful treatment towarda HBA. A normal manager should get a better result now and result like Wolves should never happen at the first place. May be you didnt mean that, but take a look at the posts here and other threads, i cannot see "a majority of ppl want him to succeed" You're posting on an nufc fans forum, doesn't it go without saying that the majority of people want him to succeed?

did you see the last two games? . also, just think their exactly the sort of team we'll struggle against. organised, hard to break down, quick and good on the break. I did, and I'm far from happy with the way we're playing. However, I seriously doubt the ability of any Sunderland team to soak up pressure at St James' Park, which is exactly what they'll come to try and do.

Let them bring their bags, they'll be throwing up in them at half time when we're 2-0 up.

And ain't that the truth. If he was as good as he is made out to be he wouldn't be at NUFC in the 1st place he'd be at Barcelona or AC Milan or Man Utd. gobshite

why is anyone bricking anything? we're better than them, we're at home and we have a brilliant record against them. our new striker has scored 2 in his first 3 games, our other striker has scored 16.

we're only ever going to bid for him if Colo leaves, i'd rather have Colo