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I thin it was fair to have a "wait and see" attitude with Pardew until at least the Reading game and maybe a few months after that. He did lead us to our best season ever since we became a shit nothing club. Given the magnitude of that 5th-place finish, it's perfectly natural that a lot of people needed a bit of convincing before deciding it was an aberration.

We've had so many of these "phew, turned a corner" moments this season that I'm pretty sure they're going to get destroyed at Watford just to put everyone on suicide watch again.

I think league parity is much more of an issue than drama. There's plenty of drama to be had in the league even when the title is sown up what with Champions League spots and relegation. While wage caps will be forever impossible due to the existence of big-money leagues outside of UEFA, I'd like to see some sort of draft implemented for English clubs at least. That said, parity in the league is admittedly a lot better than it has ever been in recent memory. It looks like the PL TV money becoming so obscenely large has mitigated a good chunk of the advantage from CL money/being a "big club." It's just a shame that NUFC is so shit going into an era where any ambitious/well run club has a chance to be reasonably successful.

What happened What team are we watching?

We can't score a penalty without getting two stonewall ones turned down.

Good play, no points. Seems about right.

"What goes through a players head to think you can get away with that?" -> "I play for Man United." "They're Newcastle." "Mike Dean."

Smalling was extra careful to make sure the ref saw him and awarded a penalty there.

Time for me to die now I guess

Colback shit scared of having to play football

I'll be dead before the next time we're given a penalty.

Video reviews of penalties and red cards. It's not difficult. It will never happen because this sport is retarded.

Football is a joke of a sport. Ref effectively decided the game 10 minutes in

That's amazing League wants us relegated

Marveaux is blatantly just on the bench to make up numbers. The odds of him playing are negligible.

Like Colback will be dropped man, no way. he's an upgrade on our cm options full stop You and i would have been a upgrade on that pathetic excuse of a CM man. Not sold on Shelvey at all, never rated him that much. Also, not fancy enough name, if he was named Pedro Gonzales mind... I guess i have to wait and see. "Jonjo Shelvy" seems like a much fancier name to me than "Pedro Gonzalez." Don't think I've actually ever met someone named Jonjo

I had mistakenly assumed that I didn't find Stifler's joke funny due to lack of cultural context. It is somewhat comforting to know that it was actually just shit to begin with.

He won't sign. If he does sign he'll be shit.

The club is dead. The faster it gets relegated into oblivion and folds or changes its name so that we can all fully accept that reality, the better.

I look forward to seeing him have an utter blinder against us in the Championship next season, en route to being named player of the year.

Awful news. RIP. For the most part he was before my time and I only really saw him during his brief stint with us in 2006-2007, but it was easy to see why he was so loved.

We did manage to replace Pardew with this guy, who's just as bad but at least quiet.

Yeah, essentially exactly what you said there. But I'm starting to come around. If Villa aren't going to compete like the other clubs do then they deserve to go down. Also, many of the teams that have been promoted in the last few years have brought a different style to the Premier League and you regularly see them beating some of the bigger teams. Glass houses, stones

I can remember worse performances within the last couple of months, never mind fifty years.

Really, man? I´ve watched worse this season Cracks me up whenever people say "this is the worst I've ever seen us play" when every single person here knows for a fact that isn't true