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HBA will come off, Shola will stay on. Nailed on.

On a positive note we can't be as shit in the second half surely?

Playing for 8th man...exciting stuff, buckle up.

As is their leader. A man you've defended quite vehemently. Stop trying to deflect blame. They're all f***ing culpable. Comes from the top, Pardew doesn't instill confidence he wrecks it with his negativity.

Ref's given them an easy ride like.

So we've heard once or twice.

Has Shola touched the ball?

Sums Pardew up, we are still playing long into Williamson.

Ball is just coming straight back at us, nowt up front.

Get Santon off, hes having a shocker.

Santons shooting...

Sammy been our best player, says it all.

Feel sorry for them to be honest, club is rotten.

Back to the hoof looking for a lucky deflection. Genius.

:gm's patter:

Waste of a clean shirt, his shirt probably was clean at one point.

GW24 Newcastle 1-1 Sunderland West Ham 1-2 Swansea Cardiff 1-0 Norwich Everton 2-0 Aston Villa Fulham 0-2 Southampton Hull 1-2 Tottenham Stoke 1-2 Man Utd West Brom 0-2 Liverpool Arsenal 1-0 Crystal Palace Man City 2-0 Chelsea

Some will still defend it as genuinely trying though. Not me, trying is not the issue. Either we make signings or we don't. The very fact that so few fans care about 'trying' makes the made-up bids thing so ridiculous in the first place. It's not that the bid is made up. The bid is purposely low, they know Lyon wont accept it but they throw it in anyway. How many times do you need to see this s*** to finally accept it for what it is. All I know is that sometimes we meet a selling club's valuation and sometimes we don't. That's all you know as well. The rest is speculation. In my mind the fact that we enter into transfer negotiations with the aim of seeing them fail is just ludicrous. For all sorts of reasons. I just can't believe it happens. We've all become so cynical, with good reason in most cases.

Clinging on here like, poor poor show.

King KI dropping a load of clangers.

Mackems look absolutely paggered.

fucking hell they are bad.

He's in Lyon, at an awards ceremony. There could be a fueled chopper waiting outside? Kinnear on his way to Lyon earlier. Love the way he tried to bail when things got saucy.

Struggling against Stoke with 10 men.