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Yep and if nothing else we'd be putting the naughty bastard in the shop window.

I can't see the style of play changing anytime soon so, on the basis we need a complete change in playing style throughout the club, I'd bring in Roberto Martinez who seems to have the ability to set a side up with a real game plan and his teams always try to play decent football. I'd then bring in a long term Colo replacement, as I said in the summer and got laughed at. I'd also plump for a new right back and new winger/wide forward. To balance the books somewhat I'd sell one of Ba/Cisse as I just can't see how both can comfortably fit in to any system as a pairing.

Taking emotion out of it, Southampton are good value this weekend to throw in an accumulator. Post-European game NUFC, on poor form, missing key players and low of confidence against a (relatively) free scoring Saints coming off the back of a good win and some decent performances. All points to a home win.

Strap yourselves in.............things are about to get a lot worse before they get better. Utimately our views are completely irrelevant to Ashley and you've got to think him and AP must have a very strong relationship for MA to provide 8 years worth of security to AP and his coaching team. Whether we like it or not, we've got to hope that the penny drops with Pardew/his coaches in respect of setting the team up and we see a gradual improvement in performances which buy the guy time. I'm no fan but his performance last year has to buy him some time and, if we're talking 8 long years, then we have to accept that MA/DL are prepared for the up and down seasons.

Tempted with less than 2.5 in our game and over 2.5 in the Spurs game @ 4/1 double.

Aye, it's not like there's any manager in the world who wouldn't want the likes of Hazard and Oscar in their squad. I'd prefer Obertan and Xisco than those two. Any day of the week.

Nervous? Probably more like excited what with him being on an eight year deal *wink* an 8 year deal off Ashley is like rubbing a magic lamp and finding the genie is Jimmy Savile. All seems good at first but when it goes wrong you're fucked.

He's having a proper strop there. Ha ha.

Which WHU Centre Back were we heavily linked with last year? Tompkins?

Nolans such a niggly cunt.

Doing the booking points bet again tonight in WHU/Stoke match. Over 45 booking points (10 pts for a yellow, 25 for a red). Odds tonight are 21/10 on Skybet.

Are they his genuine quotes? Yes. Stolen from Starforth/Ryder. Fucking hell. Words fail me.

I'm very surprised the toys haven't come out of the pram as yet. It's not like he doesn't have a history of that sort of thing.

Are they his genuine quotes?

Usually the case tbh Disappointing to see him increasingly feel the need to go it alone because no one else was moving around him. Absolutely. The lack of movement from our front 6 is always fucking dire, HBA excluded. There just seems no intelligence to their movement. Cisse, Ameobi(s), Ba (to a lesser extent) and Cabaye just seem so fucking static. I keep coming back to it but the word that jumps out to me every game is 'fluidity'.

I think there's probably more to the relationship than that. What I would say though is that Ashley has a real history of firing senior exec's in all of his firms/interests. He's fired a million and one senior bods in industry over the years but I don't feel Pardew is in any danger at all and nor should he be when they've not supported him with investment.

We'd have to look like getting relegated, or worse. The only way he'll get the boot is if he falls out of line with the Ashley regime i.e: doesn't tow the party line.

December is actually looking horrific. A bogey team and then 3 of the 'big 4' as well as on an form Fulham and QPR who will have a new manager. Pardew could be on the recieving end of some serious stick before the fat fella with a hefty sack comes bearing gifts.................and I'm not talking about his mate Ashley ahead of the Jan window. BTW, there's absolutely no way that the club were aiming to replicate what they achieved last season when they didn't back him in the market. I think there's an acknowledgement throughout the hierarchy that they will build the club very gradually with a view to being a sustainable club in financial terms who challenge for the odd cup and/or challenge for 6th. I don't even think there's a belief that top 4 can be breached by NUFC.

December is actually looking horrific. A bogey team and then 3 of the 'big 4' as well as on an home Fulham and QPR who will have a new manager.

Best player on the park today.

Don't agree at all, like. Look around at sides like West Brom and even Swansea. Even with our suspensions and injuries our first 11 on match days is no inferior to theirs. It's Pardew's obstinacy and lack of tactical nous that's cost us. f***ing 442 every f***ing game with no real attacking threat. The difference between us and sides like West Brom is that their manager knows how to get the very best out the players at his disposal. Our joker relies on individual brilliance to pull us out of the s***. We've not looked like a 'team' this year at all. No game plan whatsoever. I don't think its even tactics. I think there is a systematic failure to get the team playing football as a cohesive unit. This is absolutely, 100% spot on. Those words should be fucking cut, pasted and printed out before being stuck on to some fuckers clipboard at the training ground. There's been zero fluidity in our play since March/April.

Had Swansea/QPR DNB double on at 8/1. Fancied Swansea to fuck us over all week, should have put it on as a single.

Of course you can. Retire from international by making yourself unavailable for selection.

Especially when their own fans rioted last month. I reckon he'll quit tbh. I should fucking hope so.

That's a fucking joke. We should have just played him. Fuck it.