Dr Venkman

it's shit like that which is gonna stop me warming too him as a bloke tbh, why say that? everything's going well. it's so obvious that part of his remit is specifically to try and cover for them doing whatever the fuck they want through PR. we're doing great but trying to capitalise on it by lying to us, again, stinks of everything wrong about ashley's team.

i've never rated Taylor but there's no way whatsoever Titus is better

this. and please stop the rooney/top 4 stuff

all these mackems stressing over how the media supposedly love us,I'd really hate to be them if we started doing well and actually got a bit of praise. I think the bitterness comes from seeing us being run by a guy who is dis-liked by most of the fans and ridiculed by pretty much everyone in football,has presided over our relegation...and yet....a great start and some positive football,plus a victory at SOL. Bet they're fucking hating it,only makes it worse that their manager looks clueless,they've signed loads of average and their star strikers nicked off Just cheered myself up writing this actually

I thought you were about 18! no offence intended

the excuses are getting better and better. they're a mediocre team at best and they have to accept it

They did that yesterday and we bossed them all day,with a couple of scares. IMO we should be playing a near full strength team anyway,do that and we'll win. I reckon Kean will rest players anyway,they're already looking vulnerable

The wheels are bound to come off at some point but I think we'll carry two good performances forward into this,most of them know their place could be under threat which should stop us being complacent 1-1

i agree, thought he was a bit un-selfish a couple of times, particularly when he cut across for Best. with our two up top playing well i wonder what he's gonna have to do to get in the team though. in reality Best or Ba will get injured and that'll be the decision made for us.

jesus, in what fucking world should peter lovenkrands have come on instead of hatem ben arfa?

Very true. One time, he made some space and should have played it to Simpson to whip it in, but he turned back and tried to take on two blokes. Think he really wanted to impress today, sure he wont be as eager as time goes on. Noticed he was down the tunnel pretty sharp after the final whistle?? ? Yep, him and Marveaux. I notice Pardew says he was going to bring Lovenkrands on instead btw. he said what?

i was actually thinking of your sig when he put his second in, good on ya

who's gonna get injured on the paintballing trip then?

convincing performance and good result, happy days. was occasionally a bit scary on the break but we defended well (colo and saylor) and averagely (raylor and simpson) when we had to. simpsons back heel into a blackburn player in the second half was particularly rubbish. Ba's first goal was brilliant, great strength, turn and finish. I am still slightly worried by Obertan's decision making like but he scared the shit out of them with his direct style and pace. The three best things about today imo were Ba scores a hat-trick, Pardew can't justify playing Shola again Tiote looked back to his old self, with a few mistakes mixed in for good measure Krul was passing out from the back, exactly what we should be doing against shit houses like Blackburn

could've been worse, i expect they'll play a weakened team, put out the first 11 and muller them

Did someone just say Cabaye's had one good game? Judging pretty harshly imo

The difference between Barton/nolan will be the quality of other teams that'll take him I think. He could play in Italy til he's 35. Still staggered Arsenal didn't try for him,he'd be pretty hard to replace like,given his qualities and his fitness record

Really hope we get to see him today,such a lovely player to watch

Hope we setup to attack their weaknesses,the tricky bit is we have our own glaring weakness in raylor,especially if he's up against hoilett. Ask Jonas/Tiote help out depending on who's nearest and attack them everywhere else

I'm not sure I agree Nut, Colo's been here a lot longer and is also captain. That sort of thinking puts a pretty big obstacle in the way of progress as you can never push the boat out on a big contract when you think it will really benefit the team,as it would in this case imo. Players who have a problem with others being paid better are gonna have that problem at almost every club they play for,until they become the highest paid themselves. It's just a bit if an easy excuse for not shelling out imo.

do we need to turn every thread into a board argument?

Until he's 29,obviously

gonna be interesting to see the company line as to why we wont renew, i imagine they'll stay true to form and a club source will tell the journo's he's asking for a 120,000 a week 5 year deal

as long as he gets 30 mins at least i dont mind. 10 mins at the end would be pointless

Derek Wright paintballing