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Anah, I wish he'd leave the forum, tbh. Do I really have to quote people verbatim or be chastised for paraphrasing every time? It would help. As opposed to amending it to "controlling games for 90 minutes" There's a group of you that do it. 100% of posters use hyperbole. I could make a graph but....

Don't mean to pour cold water about but surely it's hard to say what quality the squad has until it's had a proper run out due to injuries/suspensions. Sometime around Feb/Mar i would think.

fortunate that you have inside knowledge of what took place and when between pardew, llamblias and ashley ian otherwise people might think you were talking out of your arse Are claiming you have insider knowledge? Because without it, if one assumes that he engineered the change, with no evidence either way, that would be talking out of one's anus. Maybe you weren't on this board at the time but we have a very occasional poster here who told the board a couple of weeks before it was announced that Pardew had been approached to take over the job. He had been given a contract to look over. There quite a few sceptics on here at the time but this poster was proved completely correct. A couple of weeks later, Hughton was sacked and Pardew was appointed. No suggestion Pardew actually engineered the change in management. However, he did know it was going to happen despite his protestations that he didn't. Not judging anyone for what happened, just enlightening you as you were probs weren't on this board at the time. I was told the same elsewhere. none of that makes pardew to blame for engineering anything. 'No suggestion Pardew actually engineered the change in management.' it was a long post, you probs glossed over that if not most of it. Minhosa seems to think Pardew acted less than gentlemanly. I wondered what evidence there was of that. Seems odd to respond with ITK that doesn't back that up and agree it doesn't back it up. Glad we cleared it up though You may have missed my point.... Fair enough, you are putting out fires all over the forum so i suppose you may miss your mark occasionally

Didn't think Bony was a very good buy tbh. Was quite glad we didn't sign him. Early days for him at Swansea but certainly wasn't pulling up trees. Funnily enough i thought Cisse would have been perfect for them, suits their style. They could've offered us £8-10M. Money we could have put towards a bully type CF. Everyone would've been a winner.

De Guzman is a good player.

fortunate that you have inside knowledge of what took place and when between pardew, llamblias and ashley ian otherwise people might think you were talking out of your arse Are claiming you have insider knowledge? Because without it, if one assumes that he engineered the change, with no evidence either way, that would be talking out of one's anus. Maybe you weren't on this board at the time but we have a very occasional poster here who told the board a couple of weeks before it was announced that Pardew had been approached to take over the job. He had been given a contract to look over. There quite a few sceptics on here at the time but this poster was proved completely correct. A couple of weeks later, Hughton was sacked and Pardew was appointed. No suggestion Pardew actually engineered the change in management. However, he did know it was going to happen despite his protestations that he didn't. Not judging anyone for what happened, just enlightening you as you were probs weren't on this board at the time. I was told the same elsewhere. none of that makes pardew to blame for engineering anything. 'No suggestion Pardew actually engineered the change in management.' it was a long post, you probs glossed over that if not most of it.

fortunate that you have inside knowledge of what took place and when between pardew, llamblias and ashley ian otherwise people might think you were talking out of your arse Are claiming you have insider knowledge? Because without it, if one assumes that he engineered the change, with no evidence either way, that would be talking out of one's anus. Maybe you weren't on this board at the time but we have a very occasional poster here who told the board a couple of weeks before it was announced that Pardew had been approached to take over the job. He had been given a contract to look over. There quite a few sceptics on here at the time but this poster was proved completely correct. A couple of weeks later, Hughton was sacked and Pardew was appointed. No suggestion Pardew actually engineered the change in management. However, he did know it was going to happen despite his protestations that he didn't. Not judging anyone for what happened, just enlightening you as you were probs weren't on this board at the time.

Thought Pardew's quotes were pretty good there myself.

The coaches. Have you seen the state of our backroom staff? So that makes SBR's judgment on Carver faulty as well, then...?? Regardless of how hagiographic you want to get about Robson... A. It's completely irrelevant B. Our backroom staff is terrible - there's no two ways about it. Don't be a coconut. So, to summarise, in your opinion SBR had bad judgement? Tbh, i don't have an ounce of the stuff you'd need a ton of to evaluate a man like SBR. You think differently about yourself. What qualifies you for that? Robson had excellent judgement but he didn't get the man he wanted. The rest of your post makes no sense. Particularly the last sentence. There's nowt wrong with Carver imo. And there's nothing behind your opinion at all.

Gouffran's scored 3 lately i think. We don't have goals all the way through the team but i think we're a bit more than a one man side (Remy).

The coaches. Have you seen the state of our backroom staff? So that makes SBR's judgment on Carver faulty as well, then...?? Regardless of how hagiographic you want to get about Robson... A. It's completely irrelevant B. Our backroom staff is terrible - there's no two ways about it. Don't be a coconut. So, to summarise, in your opinion SBR had bad judgement? Tbh, i don't have an ounce of the stuff you'd need a ton of to evaluate a man like SBR. You think differently about yourself. What qualifies you for that?

Dude....it's his family, man. If true that's hard for him to take, even if it was his mistakes that led to it. I wouldn't be able to concentrate if my girls were the other side of the world and my marriage was looking really moody. I'd NEED to be there to do what i could to fix things. Nothing comes before your kids, nothing. And a very close second is your wife and mother to your brood. You have to be there for them. Got to. If it's his wayward behaviour that has led to the split i still wouldn't judge him. It's easy to judge people when you haven't faced exactly the same temptations as them.

He's nothing but hackneyed Walter Mitty...

He's not good enough. He'll probably be cheap enough though.

Ryan Babel is still only 26! Kicking around in the Turkish league. Career gone from strength to strength... Reckon he was on about Marcus Babel. WwwwwhhhhhhhoooooooooooppppppppssssSSSSSS ! Soz.

Cheeky skank!

Ryan Babel is still only 26! Kicking around in the Turkish league. Career gone from strength to strength...

Don't think we'd get his registration through before the WBA game tbh....

Yeah, you'll come around maybe, maybe...

Thanks for this HF. I do like looking at these tables and do appreciate the work gone into them. Disagree about some of your other posts but no one's perfect

I reckon Haidara could be a better player than Santon in a couple of years. Dummett, i'm not sure about.

It's a good sentiment, but who?

I doubt him a lot as well, always have. I don't think anyone is saying he's Wenger. But at the same time, I do think we've talked ourselves into this over-exaggerated view of how terrible he is, and because of that people are extremely wary of admitting anything he does right. Why bring up Wenger as a comparison? You're loading the arguement, deliberately. No one's calling him a Barry Fry or Mike Basset either. The observation is he's not particularly tactically astute and he can have problems motivating the players. With numerous examples to illustrate. He also blots his copy book by dedicating a victory to 'Mike'. He's not awful, he's not even bad. He's certainly not great and he isn't even good. He's run of the mill. For some people that's enough and for some that isn't. There you go.

So he should be aware of it, seeing as it happens time and time again. You're right, it does. If it's as simple as Pardew saying something different at half time then it should be easy to remedy. If it's the players losing their bottle or drifting off the gameplan then it's a lot more difficult.