mrmojorisin75

Agreed, was a decent performance verus a very good team. didn't see it, don't care, but after germany stroll to victory on our home turf you'd think it might be wise for people to muster up a bit of a fire to try and trigger some change within the game...the whole thing stinks foul from top to bottom wasn't that 2 games on the bounce lost for XX years at home, booed off 2 games on the bounce and so on things need to change man, game needs ripping up from top to bottom, possibly starting with not paying these little shitbags millions of pounds after 1 first team appearance for their club...was reading about the wisdom character the other day writing off his 100,000 quid car massive part of what's wrong with the english game right there

someone like red bull would surely have to know that taking over a team like villa or us then coming in and trampling roughshod over +100 years history just wouldn't fly like...it's not like they're fresh out the box, they'll have done their research if they're buying, football teams are not shite american franchises with no soul if they come in i'd fully expect stadium changes, advertising all over the place including on the kit, they could be smart and permanently change the away strip to their colours or something without having to fuck with home strip which everyone is attached to...it wouldn't be that hard if they stopped there i'd be begrudgingly ok with it if it got rid of ashley but changing team names and strip colours i'd stop paying attention and making an effort completely i reckon

just came on to post something about the red bull rumours, didn't realise it was targetted at villa mind changing kits and names though

class lines in the match report from last night, something like "on the same day it was announced that ronaldo was to open a museum in homage to himself in his home town...." he'll never be loved outside of the clubs he plays for and portugal like

nice shirt that mind, tempted

i'll be honest, i'd arguably only give pardew a CF in the window, maybe a CB too if we could line up a couple of early pre-contract steals i wouldn't be giving him anything else right now, it'll just confuse him and he'll fuck it all up lock the deals down for the summer for upgrades on obertan, taylor/willo etc.

how the fuck are sunderland anywhere near us in terms of revenue ffs?

it's a joke firmly rooted in racism mind, but just how much awareness of that taylor has is another question

heard a few versions, most that made sense was the most saves without conceding since XXXX

it is, it's mackem fuel, they'll be setting themselves on fire with it taylor's a twat, but he's not a hateful racist twat, don't think it needs to go any further than that

what a load of fucking shit this whole thing is, it's nowt but mackem fuel

I didn't say permanent change to be fair, merely commenting on recent games

combined with more options and movement around him than he's arguably ever had, before he'd turn and there was nothing, now he's got cabaye/sissoko/santon/debuchy/mym as a minimum all looking to provide an option for him, all confident and all comfortable on the ball like i was saying in the other thread on HBA, it's not just suddenly that tiote stopped being shit, things around him have changed as well

i didn't say any of it was exclusively the fault of pardew man, i don't think it works like that, just like HBA looking shit in certain games isn't always 100% down to HBA apart from a select few players in the world they all have deficiencies to their game, the managers job is to mitigate these deficiencies through coaching, training and tactics so i do credit pardew with an influence on the improved form of debuchy & tiote in exactly the same way i felt he was largely at fault for not protecting them when they needed it as i've stated i agree that in the hull game, for example, HBA looked off the pace but he wasn't helped by the lack of movement around him and pardew's failure to adapt to bruce's tactical changes - pardew followed this up by shunting him around the pitch to the point where he was played as a fucking forward...what's that going to do to the lads confidence like?

i'll agree with you to a point but again with respect to the highlighted part - in the vast majority of games i've seen him play "mixing it up" could only entail passing it backwards then waiting for it to come back...he's still faced with the same problem when it comes back to him 'cause no-one makes runs off the ball when he's got it it's same issue we have with the following, do you believe it's only the individual, the tactics/coaching, or a combination: debuchy being terrible since he signed, not being able to mark players and committing crazy fouls cisse being neither able to stay onside nor score goals, nor even get in opportunities to score anymore tiote's outright woefulness until recently a few examples, there are more i just don't have time all of them, including HBA's issues in an attacking sense have roots in both the players deficiencies but also in the tactics and coaching imo...personally i believe all of it, especially what you mention above with HBA, could and should be coached out on the training ground and probably would be if we had better staff in key positions

wonder what the crack was with him just trampling on people and wiping them out was all about instead of actually trying to get the football and that? maybe born of frustration at how awful he was

join the rest of us then

i suppose ian, the point might be that they went bankrupt and had all of their debts wiped clean by the newco and yet are still currently losing 1m a month but yeah our case is clearly relevant

We've lost over £1m a month for 5 out of the last 10 years.

good contribution ian

thank fuck someone else sees it i also agree with madras that he doesn't get his head up enough but i think on both sides (his and the other players) they've sort of both got into the rut of him having to do it all on his own or something - there could also be the element of pardew's risk analysis, i.e. he might be telling players to stand their ground was HBA has the ball because he's brilliant but more of a risk and turns over possession more often, not sure go back and watch the compilations of him playing in france and look how many times he's on the ball picking lush passes for players making runs in behind the defence, it's been conditioned out of him after 2 years of playing in a real life fussball team...needs conditioning back into them all through proper training

rangers are apparently losing 1m a month at the moment, fucking wankers

buying rangers for a pittance makes sense, selling us doesn't on some levels

no fucking way we're that lucky - rangers thing makes sense mind

not something i bother with but if ronaldo is going to stalk the forum being judge, jury and executioner on all of ours players he should at least be consistent imo