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I'm not the quickest, fastest or strongest player at 7 aside but I run rings around some of those I play with in terms of stamina, fitness and endurance. Anita is a good all-round athlete. Read the context though Ron. Anita's significantly slower and weaker than Sissoko, man. Anita may be many things a natural athlete isn't at the forefront of them. I mean, honestly. I f***ing despair with this place at times. I don't think too much of Anita but he clearly is NOT significantly slower than Sissoko.

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I thought Tony Watt would have been in the Scotland squad.

If he's playing regularly for us at CB in a couple years time I'll be astounded. Unless we're down division or 2 by then.

He benefitted from Sammi putting the cross very early. He needs that or he is offside again. That said, it was a perfect ball from Sammi as it happens.

Problem with Tiote is no matter how bad we might look with him playing we just look that wee bit worse when he's not.

Think a few people have this the wrong way around tbh. You get a good manager with the kind of judgement you trust. Then you get the scout to look for players in the mould that the manager wants. Not, have a scout you're fond of, let him choose the kind of players he likes, try and find a manager who likes similar players. Manager >>>>>>> Scout by a ridiculous margin every day of the week! Only a club run by total f**king morons puts this ever-so-obvious hierarchy on it's head.

Extremely average with the ball however, given our complete lack of organisation in defence his pressing and ability to actually put some body weight behind a challenge is needed. I wish we had better options, i really do but Anita, Colback and Sissoko are even more porous than his is. Santon's stats were good though.....

He really made a difference Passed, ran into space, stretch the defenders and put in semi-decent crosses! Was bizarre

I'm going to defend him too much but what i will say is, our complete lack of movement means he has to hold onto the ball a lot longer than you can see is natural to him. Given the way Pardew sets his teams out, he was a poor buy.

There's a few posters on here who can't evaluate him without prejudice because of his name. He's very tall and gangly. I've always said i reckon he'll be a late developer. I do think he needs to move away and find his feet and a different club. A smaller one with no Shola links. If he drops a division i reckon he'll be a prem player within a few years.

Fair play I was thinking at least he isn't totally naive. And then: I think, in a round about way and probably the only way he can, he's trying to highlight a very real problem at the club. Ashley doesn't like spending money on players. He's trying to point out that the club won't spend enough to aim for top ten. Despite his own lack of competence this an extremely salient point. http://sackpardew.com/myths/his-hands-are-tied-by-ashley/ Pardew IS a two faced lick spittle. That being said, Ashley doesn't let the club spends the money it makes.

Fair play I was thinking at least he isn't totally naive. And then: I think, in a round about way and probably the only way he can, he's trying to highlight a very real problem at the club. Ashley doesn't like spending money on players. He's trying to point out that the club won't spend enough to aim for top ten. Despite his own lack of competence this an extremely salient point.

He's always had the ability to have words with players but in terms of rallying or organising the side on the pitch as a captain should do, he's fallen way short in times of trouble. As a captain and main centre back of the side, i still can't believe he allowed Anita to mark the Palace player at the back post isolated in the dying minutes. It was clear for all to see what was going to happen. He was majorly at fault for that goal imo due to his lack of leadership and organisation, just switched off. The thing that's confused me about you is that Pardew is exactly the same bloke he was a year ago.

Not this s*** again. Ashley is a crap owner but he doesn't pick the team, dictate tactics or run training sessions. Ashley hasn't consistently picked inferior players (Smith, Perch, Gosling, Ameobi) when other options have been available to the detriment of the team and club as a whole. Ashley isn't the one who has shoehorned players into the team out of their natural positions, destroying their confidence and nullifying any threat they might have once offered. Ashley and Pardew are a good match for each other, they each cover the other's inadequacies but it has gone beyond the point now where Pardew is only holding back the club with his own shitness. Pardew is now the root cause of most of the team's issues and has to go. You ask why he should simply walk away since he has a contract? Because it's got the point where the crowd detest him, the players no longer give a f*** and even the media have started to wake up to his inabilities. If he walks away now he might still get another job in the Premiership or top end of the Championship, the longer he allows it to continue the more questions will be raised about his skills and fewer clubs will think him a potential asset. Walk away now and let the media run with the stories that it was Ashley's way of running the club that harmed the team, or carry on and let everyone know it was Pardew himself who couldn't organise a gangbang in a brothel. Mark Hughes or David O'Leary, pick a career path. I'm not saying that Pardew is innocent either, I just feel that Ashley is more to blame. Yes Pardew picks the team, but how much of a say does he have in the players at his disposal? He has shown in the past that he can get results when he has the right players. He is no scout, I doubt he even knows who half of the players we signed this summer actually are but we finished 5th with Pardew as a manager and a very average side tbh. But when Ashley decides he wants to sell our best player (by far) because he is far more interested in lining his own pockets than the fortunes of the football club. That is why, imo, Ashley is more to blame. So sick of this 'we finished 5th once so he must be good' sh*te. I really am. Ipswich have finished 5th with George Burley. Allardyce finished 6th with Bolton. Do you want either of them as manager (again in Fat Sam's case)? Is it qualification enough? Numpty fluked it, it can happen. He'll never manage it again and don't kid yourself or any one else gullible enough to listen that he can. I remember coming away from a lot of games that season thinking either it was a very evenly balanced game we were lucky to win, or that we have downright robbed the other team! The following season I don't think we were significantly worse, I don't think European football really affected us (we played the kids and reserves after all), we just didn't have fortune on our side the way we did in 11/12. That season was a pure fluke. I made plenty of noises after the 5th place finish that the way we were playing was going to make those results totally unsustainable. We had a quite a share of good fortune. We also very 'direct' in our play and relied a lot on the opposition making mistakes. Which they did. There was clearly no plan for evolving a system and style out of that fortunate finish. If there had been one we could used the fact that we looked like an attractive proposition given our league finish to sign the kind of players we would have needed to kick on. Newcastle Utd is nothing but a Sports Direct first Eleven. Just an advertising board for his tat. Ashley has absolutely zero sporting ambition. Not one iota.

Not this s*** again. Ashley is a crap owner but he doesn't pick the team, dictate tactics or run training sessions. Ashley hasn't consistently picked inferior players (Smith, Perch, Gosling, Ameobi) when other options have been available to the detriment of the team and club as a whole. Ashley isn't the one who has shoehorned players into the team out of their natural positions, destroying their confidence and nullifying any threat they might have once offered. Ashley and Pardew are a good match for each other, they each cover the other's inadequacies but it has gone beyond the point now where Pardew is only holding back the club with his own shitness. Pardew is now the root cause of most of the team's issues and has to go. You ask why he should simply walk away since he has a contract? Because it's got the point where the crowd detest him, the players no longer give a f*** and even the media have started to wake up to his inabilities. If he walks away now he might still get another job in the Premiership or top end of the Championship, the longer he allows it to continue the more questions will be raised about his skills and fewer clubs will think him a potential asset. Walk away now and let the media run with the stories that it was Ashley's way of running the club that harmed the team, or carry on and let everyone know it was Pardew himself who couldn't organise a gangbang in a brothel. Mark Hughes or David O'Leary, pick a career path. I'm not saying that Pardew is innocent either, I just feel that Ashley is more to blame. Yes Pardew picks the team, but how much of a say does he have in the players at his disposal? He has shown in the past that he can get results when he has the right players. He is no scout, I doubt he even knows who half of the players we signed this summer actually are but we finished 5th with Pardew as a manager and a very average side tbh. But when Ashley decides he wants to sell our best player (by far) because he is far more interested in lining his own pockets than the fortunes of the football club. That is why, imo, Ashley is more to blame. So sick of this 'we finished 5th once so he must be good' sh*te. I really am. Ipswich have finished 5th with George Burley. Allardyce finished 6th with Bolton. Do you want either of them as manager (again in Fat Sam's case)? Is it qualification enough? Numpty fluked it, it can happen. He'll never manage it again and don't kid yourself or any one else gullible enough to listen that he can.

Hoddle with Steve Clarke as his No. 2 is my random suggestion this morning.

Could do with someone good (which he might be) who was taller.

Respect Slim's opinion then NPW

Shouldn't be surprised. Most of the sheep that keep bleating now were full of understanding of why SBR was tin tacked and thought Souness was doing the right thing ostracising the likes of Robert and Bellamy. They'll deny it now of course but i know them and know the sh*t they're full of.

Me too, SE20 resident! lol mugs Haven't been to Selhurst yet, good opportunity. Fully expect the game to be a massive abortion (not a reference to your daughter). If i can get free for it i'll meet up with you if like. I'm not too far away.

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No he isn't.