Chris_R

Form is temporary, class is permanent. He's having a bit of a shitter at the moment, but he's been magnificent since he signed. He'll come good again.

We're not going to be able to just stick 10 behind the ball for 30 minutes.

Languished? He got stuck on the fucking wing so that Ba could play centrally after his strop.

They're not going down and they're almost certainly not getting Europe. Surely a cup win is worth more than finishing 9th instead of 10th? I know what I'd prefer as a fan.

That's black rights, not human rights. It's almost as if they don't see black people as human. But of course that can't be it, can it....? Surely not.

All our long shots were rubbish yesterday and have been for a while. Everything flew over the bar, we really need to work on keeping things down. It was so frustrating seeing shot after shot just fly into the stands from great positions.

What, rested from the bench? So that we can include another goalkeeper?

Pav. Yes I'm biased, but watching him field a backpass and look like he has miscontrolled it, then when the attacker closed in he'd just junk inside and leave him on his arse. Did it every match and attackers always fell for it. Never even got close to getting caught out, and it was always followed by a long chant of "Pavel is a Geordie!" from the stands.

This for me. Pissed off, but it'll pass in an hour or so. Ultimately I'm proud of what we've done and the future is very bright.

What a fucking hit

Fucking hell, wonderful tackle but just use your right for once in your fucking life Miggy.

https://twitter.com/oilysailor/status/1734688605380268480?s=20

Great day for them, getting to play us.

Pardew may not have been the worst manager ever, but he was the worst human. Just a terrible person with no redeeming features. Although I hated Bruce more for his managerial tenure, I'd have to accept that at least the press all seemed to think he was decent company on a personal level and that there must be something in that. Obviously as soon as he started talking as our manager it was pure diarrhoea and I wanted to punch him, but I could accept he was probably good company in isolation over a beer. Pardew, even in those circumstances, I'd just want to feed into a wood chipper. Just an unpleasant, slimy little egotist, dunno how anyone can say anything positive about him.

Not at all. I'm a massive fan of Howe's, but I don't think he rotates enough. I thought this when we were winning too, for example his refusal to rest or change a tired Dan Burn often felt like it might cost us. I can criticise without it being an over reaction to a defeat. He's fabulous, but we don't have to pretend he's perfect. None of us are.

Howe is poor at rotating his squad, I think it's his weak point. But his refusal to use Hall at all seems odd in the current injury crisis. Time will tell I guess.

Congratulations on moving out of the bottom 3, and stopping us moving within a point of the top 4.

Sean AllarDyche's teams really are grim to watch and play against. Proper anti-football stuff. Can't deny it's effective though.

Dyche dragging the match down to his level.

Nothing to stop them sacking the new guy on Boxing day.

Could have quoted about 20 posts here, but just a reminder to all that you have an incredibly important job as a consumer, and that's whenever any corporate entity asks you about pricing you must always tell them their prices are too high. Even if they're not. They're asking permission to increase. Don't give it.

We did of course lose that one, but it brought about our eventual takeover by Hall, and then Keegan coming in. If we'd have beaten them and gone up, those things may well have not happened. It's odd how things play out sometimes.

Said it before but I hope that when he eventually leaves us, it's because he's retiring due to extreme old age.

With their cloggers, I hope we have some players fit after then.

By nine. Need to better their 9-1 they harp on about as if it was the greatest day of their lives, despite it occurring when powered flight was still a novelty.