Happy Face

The board isn't a representative sample of the fans, but you know that. True. How do you think it differs? Cleverer? Younger? More tactically astute?

He hasn't lowered expectations if 90% of this forum refuse to accept 9th as good enough.

Newcastle

Di Matteo lined up I'm told. Source says it comes from within the club, but first bit of ITK I've ever heard from them...they don't even follow football so I took it with a pinch of salt. Just pegging out my land for "I told you so" later on if it does happen though .

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raped a lawn

Alan Pardew A wan pedlar

Says more about how shite Taylor is than how good Williamson is like.

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He's not like. He's saying Anita is Mourhino's Mata in terms of a player he's not happy to give starts to. He's then saying that Anita has little influence. It's funnier to read it the other way, but he has clarified.

FYP, it's a little worse than we should have expected.

64 games 20 goals 35 assists Wish we has somebody who had that little influence on games over the course of a season. My lazy face palm to pulling out the stats, HP with a pie chart for the hatrick 1. Mince 2. Chicken 3. Balti 4. Banoffee 5. Apple 6. Pork 7. Lemon Meringue 8. Key Lime 9. Steak & Kidney 10. Scotch

...and that Cisse has been shite since Wonga sponsored us. Dafty, he's scored 5 league goals in all of 2013

Yeah, when I go to buy some cans I take a picture of an empty fridge with me, just in case the lad serving me doubts that I need any. Incognito didn't seem to understand why Pardew would choose him. Eh what? *wakesfromslumbertoseemyname I say "didn't seem to" because your post said "it seems he'll always find a spot for Jonas." In truth, you did totally know why. Because after I posted what was quoted above you said "This is exactly what I was getting at. In the same way Taggart selects Welbeck in the "harder" games. It is because he is the best defensive forward they have."

"called Shola I'm a robey"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03g8jmm 14:50 "Chelsea weren't poor" Someone tell Jose.

On Saturday's 606?

Norwich attempted and completed more passes than us in their game on Saturday

http://i43.tinypic.com/29e3a8l.jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/14m9x6c.jpg You can see the difference between our long balls and Chelsea's. We hit half as many, but it's an almost uniform set of forward punts, wheras Chelsea's is a chaotic range of picked passes to and from all areas of the pitch. At least we have learned that our punts are a waste of time though, so we do it much less than we used to.

Pardew comes out before the game, tells Mourinho what our game plan is, dares him to do something about it and still wins the tactical battle.

Think we've seen enough to banish any fears people had of a relegation dogfight. We can and do bite ourselves on the arse too frequently, but we've got the players and the spirit to bounce back from those blips and pull out a performance/result like Liverpool/Chelsea. I don't think anyone is deluded enough to think we'll be having any more European flirtations under Ashley either, whoever the manager is. Liverpool and Spurs have their shit together now and are firmly positioned with the top 4 of recent seasons. The only question is where we finish in the middle group. And looking at the upcoming fixtures I'm inclined to look up rather than down. Whatever we can get off Spurs and Man U would be bonus points but we should take a very good haul from Norwich, West Brom, Swansea, Southampton, Palace and Stoke. I think we should be above Southampton by the time we've played them. they have Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City and Spurs in addition to us in that period. The only other team above us we can conceivable catch is Everton. Their coming fixtures are tougher than ours but not ridiculous. Either way though, 7th or 8th come bed time on boxing day will be a good position to be looking into 2014 with optimism.

Yeah, when I go to buy some cans I take a picture of an empty fridge with me, just in case the lad serving me doubts that I need any. Incognito didn't seem to understand why Pardew would choose him.

"I do like to back up what I say"

Remember the time HappyFace's homemade statistics/source had a non-integer for goals scored or sommat That's nowt, he posted a set of stats that 'explained' why Pardew kept playing Jonas on the wing I never like. I posted a set of stats that showed which players were playing when we conceded most or least. Whatever inferences were taken from that were opinion. Stats prove nothing, they only support an argument.