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I literally just feel nothing, he should have gone ages ago and it's just plain bizarre he's still here.

Rename it to Pards please. Bit more jovial.

Didn't you say the same about Cleverley? Probably. I do like Cleverley. His problem is he hasn't developed physically and therefore still doesn't grab games by the scruff of the neck. He seems a lot more conservative with his risk taking and passing when I see him for Man Utd too. He was really creative and scored quite a few for Watford. Chalobah looks a lot better physically and probably will find it easier to step up.

Hesitant to say it, but Chalobah is exactly the type of player England need. Give him a couple of years and he could be immense.

That KUMB article is tragic.

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I like it.

Ben Arfa's got to start on the left, Gouff in the middle. Campbell should get significant minutes, too.

You'd get teams letting others beat them and shit because they'd rather face this team in the play offs, if they'd already qualified for the play offs. brings in all that unnecessary politics.

Where is the total fairness, though? Where were City or Chelsea before their billionaires? I agree with that point, but it just isn't enough to justify completely revolutionising the league format because a few clubs have had investment pumped in to them. It also takes the magic of winning away slightly. The prestige between 3rd and 6th is massive now, that would get taken away totally and it wouldn't be an achievement to finish ahead of anyone else in the play offs any longer. Our 5th place last season will go down as a good season in our history, if we'd only qualified for the play offs and lost it loses something for me.

I like the idea in isolation, but I just wouldn't swap total fairness for entertainment.

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He's asked to do far too much in this system, he's got to be the one getting up for headers from punted balls, running the channels, linking up when it's played into feet, and get on the end of things in the box. Unless you're Didier Drogba circa 2004-2010 then you're not going to achieve that. Needs players in, around and past him. How often does Sissoko run past him anymore, compared to when he first joined?

I cannot wait until this time next month. Season over, exams over, summer on the horizon. Everything is totally atm.

We can't seem to do the basics which is the most worrying thing, the amount of times we lose the ball as the first touch is shit, or the pass it slightly astray is unbelievable.

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Shit just got real.

That white one is going to be the antagonist in my nightmares for the coming weeks.

With no Europe next year, with the squad we have, top 7 minimum for me. Without having to constantly grind out 1-0 victories at home to the likes of Norwich and Cardiff.

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I only really get to away games, so the crowd is generally quite knowledgeable and understanding when things don't happen immediately. Had the 'pleasure' of going to Vicarage Road for a few games recently to watch Watford, and fuck me, there's some clueless bastards amongst their home support. Literally just shouting abuse at the officials for the full 90 minutes and calling their own players cunts. I swear the football is of secondary importance to a lot of them. I don't know if it's the same at St James' regularly, but it was an eye opener.

cheers, just wondered about zola like as noone seems to have mentioned him Just came to think of Zola as well, realistic option and by the looks of it Watford has been scoring a shitload. Best part is, he's an extremely likeable guy and I have no doubt he'd help Cisse out a lot to develop more. Maybe not the best choice around, but certainly one I think we should be looking at. Wouldn't take Zola, for starters his preferred formation is 352. He's got some real quality players to help him at Watford, too. The likes of Vydra, Abdi, Chalobah, Forrestieri and obviously Almunia are easily Premiership class from what I've seen. I'd really like us to go for Vydra as it happens, only 20, won Championship player of the season, plays for the Czech Republic, looks top quality when I've seen him live and my Watford mates rave about him, and they generally know their stuff.

There's no point going to the trouble of sacking Pardew only then to appoint Steve Clark ffs.