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Well they do say time flies when you are having fun.....

What the hell is going on here ?

Who would you sell ?

And his optimistic outlook should be applauded, especially considering the team he follows which conditions it's fans into extreme pessimism. Having said that head in the sand attitudes don't help in the same way as ultra negative attitudes don't. For a forum to be healthy though it needs differences in opinions and Ian offers that for sure, you got to admire his one man army approach to keeping things in balance.

What will your reaction be if nothing happens Ian ? Or we bring in players that won't help with our problems at CB and CF ? Again not seeing any answers from you, just happy to criticise others that criticise the club. Is your solution to everything just to sit on our hands don't say a word, let them get on with it and then ho-hum not much we could do given the circumstances, when the envitable lack of investment happens ?

Could you imagine if the "1 or 2 players" and lets face it tit's always the lower number when we here these quotes, that pardew was referring to is a back up goalkeeper in Butland. This place would rightly explode

So Ian and the other new Neville Chamberlain poster, what should we the fans be demanding of our ownership right now, in this time of, dare I say crisis ? I don't see a lot of solutions coming from you "sensible supporters", just criticisms of others who criticise the policies of this club.

The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. The 5th placed finish was a little fortunate and the wage budget (which is a far better guide than one league placing) should see us in midtable. when we went down we held our hands up and said you finish where you deserve, the league table dosen't lie at the end of may, why the change when we do well ? Who's we? I didn't say that, did you? Someone at the club? Of course it's possible to play above yourself and get a bit lucky and finish higher than you'd normally expect to, and of course it's possible to have a rubbish run and finish lower than you'd expect. Teams have surprisingly good seasons and surprisingly bad seasons all the time. What I'm saying is it is a stone cold fact that leagues normally finish roughly in order of wage bill, and that where you come in the wage bill league is generally a very good guide as to where you should expect to end up. Check the stats for any league going and you will tend to find that that principle applies. Afford more good players = probably do better. We deserved to go down because we'd spent a few years putting together an absolute joke of a club and had managed to compile a team of overpaid duds. That doesn't change the fact that, on the whole, expensive squads do better than cheaper ones because, on the whole, the other factors tend to balance out. I'm talking about averages, rough guides, and as far as working out likely league positions goes, total wages are the most accurate predictor going. LOL the team that went down had one of our highest wage bills. And I could probably pick out a few more exceptional examples to add to that one if you like? It doesn't change the fact that, by and large, league tables finish pretty much in order of wage bill. You know how statistics work, yeah? We're talking about averages, trends etc... Do a graph of final positions vs wage bills in every Premier League season ever and every Serie A season ever and every Liga season ever and every Bundesliga season ever all rolled into one and you'd get a smooth diagonal line showing a direct relationship between wage bill and league position. I don't give a flying f*** if an overpaid team went down once or Muggins Utd won the league. There's some homework for you. Fuck it's been almost 30 years since I've had to do this much homework, can I use a calculator and is this going to affect my final grade ?

The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. The 5th placed finish was a little fortunate and the wage budget (which is a far better guide than one league placing) should see us in midtable. when we went down we held our hands up and said you finish where you deserve, the league table dosen't lie at the end of may, why the change when we do well ? Who's we? I didn't say that, did you? Someone at the club? Of course it's possible to play above yourself and get a bit lucky and finish higher than you'd normally expect to, and of course it's possible to have a rubbish run and finish lower than you'd expect. Teams have surprisingly good seasons and surprisingly bad seasons all the time. What I'm saying is it is a stone cold fact that leagues normally finish roughly in order of wage bill, and that where you come in the wage bill league is generally a very good guide as to where you should expect to end up. Check the stats for any league going and you will tend to find that that principle applies. Afford more good players = probably do better. We deserved to go down because we'd spent a few years putting together an absolute joke of a club and had managed to compile a team of overpaid duds. That doesn't change the fact that, on the whole, expensive squads do better than cheaper ones because, on the whole, the other factors tend to balance out. I'm talking about averages, rough guides, and as far as working out likely league positions goes, total wages are the most accurate predictor going. LOL the team that went down had one of our highest wage bills.

Thursday's they do the pre match press conferences for the weekend game I think, so I'm sure we'll get some interesting stuff out of him tomorrow.

Exactly what QPR need then. More talented, brooding, inconsistent players. To be fair, Redknapp isn't bad at getting the good stuff out of them. Redknapp is a good short term manager as he's proved everywhere he's gone. This is a good short term signing as we all know that's all it will be. QPR have given themselves a fighting chance of avoiding the drop so it might be money well spent even if it is desperate last throw of the dice. It's left us up s*** creek though. "cough" Southampton "cough"

Well I heard they have been doing all they can, left no stone unturned but just couldn't get their targets over the line. Fortunately the squad has enough quality to see us through

Yeah to stay out of administration is the greater objective.

The worst of luck to the lad, don't wish injury on him but continue your miserable form this season in a team at the bottom of the league in front of 18,000 passionate fans, lol.

To the game if it goes ahead, sneaky bet that Shola starts

Lol makes me laugh, it was bloody -25 here this weekend, snow up to my waist in my back garden , minus single digits he is considered warm, I've seen plenty of crazy Canadians wearing shorts at those temps.

I had a feeling yesterday that when I woke up this morning and got into work (it's currently 6.40am my time) something exciting would be happening, but by the looks of things I was way off then

Your bird must be rougher than Mrs Bimpy. LOL, she's pregnant so always fast asleep by the time I get into bed. A few months ago you were shagging her and thinking of a champs league challenge (you know in that bit when you've finished, she hasn't and it all gets a bit perfunctory). How things change. You're now having a crafty tug and contemplating a trip to Tranmere LOL so true

Southampton in it too of course, Sunderland could get sucked in, think one team will drop from mid table too, like West Ham, West Brom or Norwich. There's a lot of crap down there no excuse for us really being in amongst it.

The what? I didn't know there was such a thing. Edit: well what did you know: http://www.sportsdirectnews.com/

Confidence is building. #momentum [/Pardew] Think they will escape, just seems to be falling into place now for them, that win at Chelsea was huge for them. I wasn't so sure when people wrote them and Reading off for relegation, both has shown fight over the last few weeks and that does not bode well for ourselves.

Ok how good is this kid, heard a lot of hype a few years back but thought he was one like K Lua Lua that would never reach his potential. Sounds like he's been on fire in this loan spell, got to be close to a place on our bench surely ?

Everything? Yeah it's completely in his power to just retire. Forgoing his football career, as he wouldn't be able to play for anyone else, if his circumstances are bad enough he should consider that, I doubt he will though.

His Caterham F1 team probably costs a minimum of £30m a year to run. Money gets divided in F1 based on how many points a team scores. The Caterham team are yet to score a single point so he's received no money there. They are also sponsored by his own Air Asia airline so there's no money there either. That's before the cost of buying the F1 team and QPR is taken into account. Add in all the players and their contracts at QPR, I don't know how he does it. Yep that's a strange one isn't it. He's not that rich, Ashley is way richer, he's throwing money around that he really shouldn't be, even funding the transfer fees let alone the salaries. Could come crashing down around him, and Redknapp's hardly the manager you want in that situation. They really can't afford to go down now.

Only place i've seen it is on sky sports website, they have us in the betting to sign him this window. I think that is it Chronicle lead story: http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/newcastle-united/nufc-news//tm_headline=newcastle-eye-birmingham-keeper-jack-butland%26method=full%26objectid=32600209%26siteid=72703-name_page.html