oldtype

I'm just going to enjoy players while we have them. It's just the nature of the beast. If I had to choose between having shit players and keeping them forever and having good players and watching them leave all the time, I'd choose the latter. Hell, we've had the former already fairly recently.

So, to summarize the situation and make us all suicidally miserable... He's played his last game for us

Look on the bright side, he's been out of the team for so long it's almost like he's gone already! Softens the blow.

I've said this multiple times tonight, but surely the world does not end if he's played on the wing? Surely he'd be better there than Obertan or Sammy? He was on the wing when he scored that goal against Everton...

x 1000000. This should be the only post on the forum. Okay, maybe not, but clearly a cut above Mr Nice-but-dim Raylor. [He's probably not dim, tbf]. Hope Pardew drafts in Kadar. No reason to be playing Perch if Kadar is available. If Ryan Taylor is actually picked at left back over him at any point this season again then sack Pardew, I don't care how well we're doing

Or Colo. Or fucking anybody. Seriously, when was the last time a player actually came back from injury for us? I'm starting to forget what it feels like. Oh, right... Obertan

I think he's the kind of person who takes a bit of thrill in pulling off results through counter-intuitive thinking. You know the type, the guy who always wants to show off and say "hah, I bet you wouldn't have thought of that." We got some amazing results with Ryan Taylor at left back so that became a "thing" for him. He doesn't like to back down and admit that it doesn't work anymore. It's the same thing with Obertan (who I'd guess was a player whom he played a decisive role in signing) and refusing to play Ben Arfa on the wing. That's not entirely a slight on him, a lot of people are driven to success precisely because of that trait. Still man, fucking just play Ben Arfa on right wing already

No need. The Senegalese FA will take care of this for us.

It was a hassle trying to go pick up my ipad from across the room where I threw it. Going to say it now. If there's a World War III, and you're on our side, I'd hate to be stuck in the trenches with you! WE'RE DOOMED! http://www.pintofeuro.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/doomed-pic.jpg This is mildly ironic considering what I actually do for a living Oh, I'm aware of what you do for a living, this is not a slight..! No, I mean, I'm Air Force. I won't get put in the trenches with you rabble

It was a hassle trying to go pick up my ipad from across the room where I threw it. Going to say it now. If there's a World War III, and you're on our side, I'd hate to be stuck in the trenches with you! WE'RE DOOMED! http://www.pintofeuro.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/doomed-pic.jpg This is mildly ironic considering what I actually do for a living

Unfortunately it's fairly clear that Smith is next in line in the pecking order. It's even more horrifying when you know it's coming a week before as opposed to it just being sprung on you when the lineups come out. Reminds me of the month before I got shipped out to basic training.

It was a hassle trying to go pick up my ipad from across the room where I threw it.

Unfair, tbh. Oldtype is off his tits in every match thread. Fuck off. Only the ones where we lose.

Hamstring injuries at nufc generally mean that you're out for all eternity, so wonderful.

WHY U NO PLAY BEN ARFA ON WING

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Football/Clubs/Club_Home/2009/8/9/1249815912241/Mike-Ashley-001.jpg CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

Maybe we shouldn't have let Campbell go

"Our true level" Fuck off man. Embarrassing.

Can I get just one tiny Christmas miracle out of this? Straight red for Smith? Please?

Would've been all over this shower of shit.

So he can get a straight red so we don't have to play him next weekend.

It was a forgone conclusion. They're good in the air to begin with and we had two right backs in central defense. Literally every fucking cross was a goalscoring opportunity.

Fuck, the relegationometer thread must be so deep down now, it's going to be impossible to dig up.

I'm going to hear it in my fucking dreams today. Fucking cunts.

Hopefully we'll get Colo and Willo fit for next week and we can forget all about this holocaust. Oh wait, Smith will be playing