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Just hope it doesn't go tits up with Pardew in his second season like it did for him at West Ham.

I still don't get Ronaldo's joke. What does Nigeria have to do with Mediocrity?

We had a core of actual decent players that could take us back up after we shifted the dead wood though. West Ham have got nothing.

Think Chelsea just need to get Hiddink and get it over with. He's blatantly the only manager who Roman respects/can get along with.

This "lots of people on here think/thought (insert stupid idea here), but I don't because I'm brilliant" line of argument is getting old, especially considering that the "lots of people on here" generally don't exist.

Because it's like playing with 10 men. We'd lost our momentum before Smith came on though... Pardew's first substitute came too late, in my opinion, because like you say the momentum had begun to shift and the game was completely disjointed (due to a few injuries in a short period of time that held things up). They then made it 3-1 around 5 minutes after this, which led to my first complaint (to myself, admittedly). In fairness, he then reacts with a decent enough sub, given that Fergie had progressively got quieter as the game played out and Lua Lua would provide a good outlet with his pace and dribbling ability (which he did on a few occasions), but soon lost the plot by bringing Smith on for Lovenkrands. Ameobi was a spent force by then, as usual, so I don't see why Ranger or Best couldn't have come on for him then and there. Lovenkrands was still looking lively to me. Pardew said himself this week that Smith would only be used "in an emergency", if I remember right, and this was far from it at the time. Then I think it went 3-2 before Best came on for Guthrie, who probably was struggling by that point due to the fact it was his first game for a while after an injury, but which again proved to be a poor decision at the end of the day because it left Ameobi still toiling. Basically, with the benefit of hindsight added to what I was thinking while watching live, Lua Lua for Ferguson was fair enough but came too late, I then would have brought Ranger on for Ameobi and later Best/Kuqi on for Lovenkrands, depending on what the score was by then, and hoped that Guthrie could soldier through. We might still have drawn 3-3 or even lost 4-3, but I'm more confident we would have held on with those changes. Just bizarre from Pardew, really, although the players do have to shoulder the majority of the blame - they are the ones out there struggling, at the end of the day. Sympathy subs, basically. Give two nice lads coming back from injury some game time in what looks like a banker before the end of the season. I can understand the sentiment but I'm certainly not happy with them.

Well, that was a shit match. Now back to the good part: speculating about hypothetical transfers that may or may not happen. For three whole months.

Two more exciting 1-0 losses to look forward to!

Somebody's just got to take him aside and say "lad, you're done as a professional footballer. Now you can do the honorable thing and retire and we'll get you started on your coaching badges, or you can stick around and suck up your wages like a leech for another year before we cut you loose. Your call."

Crashed and burned in spectacular fashion when you considered that they were looking pretty comfortable in 6th for a very long portion of the season

The most great memories of any season since we became a shit team. A lot of forgettable, boring matches where we played shit and dropped points to balance those out.

Come on body language experts who are at the stadium watching the lap of honour, get on your iphones and give us some analysis.

Should offer to cancel his contract and retire. He can replace the tea lady if he wants to stay with the club.

It's emblematic of the Ashley era. A few years ago we didn't even know what sort of difference a place higher in the league would make. Now we're all "OMFG WE JUST LOST 1.5 MIL WE'RE RUINED"

Wasn't comfortable with any of our substitutions. Liked seeing Kazenga but should have left Fergie on. And then he puts f***ing Smith and Best on? We've got 3 players subbed on who are all coming back from injury, how were we going to keep on the front foot? "No way they're coming back from 3 down, let's give the lads some pitch time" oops

Ah whatever let's just forget this ever happened.

Alan Smith = auto-loss

Fuck this.

Rooney on to twist the knife. Heartless bastards

I don't know what proper protocol is in that situation but since it's Michael Owen I'm going to be judgmental and say that it's pretty cuntish to be celebrating that goal.

Michael Owen you asshole!

Kazenga's been doing pretty well imo.

Jesus Christ that's harsh.

Tchoy is joining the DJ Campbell/Marlon King/Ryan Taylor "Hi, I'm a shit player who always has a blinder against Newcastle" club

Smith playing up front?