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That'll happen when you've got a player who's undeniably brilliant at attacking balls at head height and a squad that needs such a player so much it's beyond anything resembling a laughing matter.

We may have lost them all but the results and performances weren't that bad. I hope your referring to the first three games mentioned there and not the last three... It was a sarcastic reference to the latter. Apologies.

Far better version of Shola in a lot of ways.

We may have lost them all but the results and performances weren't that bad.

We're only the 19th richest club in the world with a multi-billionaire owner.

Would a better, more proven (in the PL) striker than Andy Carroll want to come here? Doubtful.

Now that I would be up for.

Yep. Scandalous price for someone who has had about 8 good games in 2 and a half years. More like 30 good games, tbh.

I don't think Pardew really factors into Carroll's effectivness. Pardew will be gone by Christmas at the absolute latest.

Wrong about Marveaux, of course, but at least he's prepared to call a spade a spade when it comes to Shola and Jonas. Every other cunt seems happy to pretend they're decent footballers.

No. Stick to singing songs about Jonas and asking Pards for a wave.

Legend. First thread I've started in years and I barely had a sodding thing to do with it.

I want to know who is saying different and I want to know right now.

Sissoko's just a far better footballer, athlete, mentally, whatever. I've always though that a midfielder than can't contribute in the final 3rd is either a defender or nothing at all, so the likes of Jonas and Tiote probably can't ever win with me, but by Christ they've taken the absolute piss in the last 18 months.

As for building him up to being Essien. I remember Tiote saying in his first season that Essien was the player he most tried to emulate. Playing him slightly more advanced, however brainless it is, is no excuse for how utterly shit he is with and without the ball.

Two very good posts there. I honestly think Cabaye, Marveaux and Sissoko is the best midfield 3 we can put out there. With Cabaye the deepest of the 3.

Yeah, I remember saying that if we didn't beat Reading I'd accept that Pardew would have to go in the summer. Then we got the most incompetent 90 minutes I've ever witnessed from an NUFC manager.

I agree with the last bit, completely. What I wasn't having was the notion that for Carroll to be effective you have to play long ball stuff.

Aye, Simpson needed punishing alright.

Yeah you'd need Kevin Nolan to hoof it when you have a host of fantastic attacking players waiting for knockdowns. Selective memory as per.

We hoofed it just as much when we were in the top 5 for 3 seasons running with SBR.

Were we hoofing it too much in 2010 when he was killing it?

There badly needs to be a talk-in thread on here. I never hear about this shit till it's too late.

That and random pricks in the papers tasked with reviewing our season.

I'm not talking about media professionals, dude.