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most depressing thing i've seen for a while given i'm stuck offshore with no booze and our only option for the match is to watch it through skype on someones telly

jesus christ, imagine him with movement and pace around him

It seriously makes no sense, the amount of money they could make off that is immense. I think they leave that stuff up the stations who are airing it in whatever country. Over here Fox has a streaming service, but it's way overpriced and doesn't always work. And obviously Norway has their great service. You'd think Scudamore an co. will realize eventually how much they could make by selling online viewing themselves. guaranteed income vs. taking your chances on the online market though right? no tv company is gonna pay for rights in another country if people can also run independent streaming services alongside, or if they do they're mental if you're a tv station that's already bought it you'd have to wonder whether offering a streaming service was worth it in countries that aren't football mental like say korea or the states Well I would assume it's a process that would be created by the league which comes with the broadcasting rights. Then those stations could distribute it themselves. I guess that's probably too complicated, but it's crazy that they don't even offer that service in the UK. i'd imagine it'd take a company to actually buy and distribute rights solely online in a foreign country before anyone would really take a chance on it as long as it's always being bought up by tv companies first i can't see the streaming thing taking off

It seriously makes no sense, the amount of money they could make off that is immense. I think they leave that stuff up the stations who are airing it in whatever country. Over here Fox has a streaming service, but it's way overpriced and doesn't always work. And obviously Norway has their great service. You'd think Scudamore an co. will realize eventually how much they could make by selling online viewing themselves. guaranteed income vs. taking your chances on the online market though right? no tv company is gonna pay for rights in another country if people can also run independent streaming services alongside, or if they do they're mental if you're a tv station that's already bought it you'd have to wonder whether offering a streaming service was worth it in countries that aren't football mental like say korea or the states

i'll fucking bet he did

Hows that? I ain't see nee figures so i'm curious. he can only mean from sponsorship deals, which seemingly mike has minimal interest in

one thing about tomorrow, regardless of the result; he has marveaux & HBA who are both not fit to play a full game yet are our 2 most creative players by a mile...so if he doesn't start say marveaux then look to change him for HBA in the second half he can fuck off like kruls debs tayls yangas saidios siss tiotes cabs marvs gouffs ciss destroy them...i'd be open to jonas for tiote simply 'cause tiote's a fucking liability, also can see the argument to put him as LB vs. johnson or to have him on the pitch helping sadio vs. johnson

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22063478 class!

wtf, why? aren't about 10 of watford's players on loan from there?

well said, sums up pardew101 pretty well

Are you sharing the same bed as Neesy this week? Stu, care to expand on the bits in bold, such as why you think we can't play attacking, passing football with the players we have in the squad (regardless of injuries)? Clearly i'm in the "pardew doesn't know how to coach it" camp but if it's something you yearn for, yet still retain some hope for pardew, you must think something else is holding us back again genuine question, not looking for a bite or anything Stu fancy throwing an answer at this, as i said honestly interested in your viewpoint Regardless of injuries? I think there's evidence from last season that we do try and do that when the gameplan calls for it (IMO, any team outside the top 6 at home and the bottom 8 or so away from home). The reasons why this season has been so stop-start has been well discussed (in this very thread) but suffice to say, with no Europa league to interfere with the weekly routine and a better squad (depth and quality) then a decent start will allow Pardew the confidence to gameplan like he did from March-May last season. I think this season has set him back, mentally, as he's having to deal with some of the 'negativity' that comes with a disappointing season. There was a point, Reading (h), where he was in danger of losing a lot of his support in the home crowd but he was man enough to come out and admit he made some mistakes and that he'd learnt from them. The 'purple' players (i.e. first XI) are all but here now: Krul, Santon, MYM, STaylor, Debuchy, Tiote, Cabaye, Gouffran, Sissoko, HBA, Cisse. He's then got the like of Jonas, Marveaux, Haidaira and Anita to push for places and ensure there's not the same level of complacency that we seemed to experience from September-December. With only one, maybe two, games a week we shouldn't suffer the same list of injuries and be forced into chopping and changing. That said, I think he's going to be trying to keep it very tight early on in the season (not too dissimilar to how we began this season) and make us hard to beat - once the players have the confidence and the new season beneath their feet, he's more likely to loosen up and 'gameplan' as above (rigid and disciplined at home to the Euro sides and away to all of the top half; opening up more against the non Euro teams at home and away to the struggling teams). I don't know if 'coaching' the players to attack and pass is one of Pardew's strong points, or something he considers too much; with the flair players we potentially have to pick from, there's nothing to say we can't win games by defending as a unit and breaking with 3/4 individuals (Sissoko and Gouffran have definitely helped us with this). After a player reaches 20/21, how much development can he actually do in terms of tactics or is it mostly experience which is gained at the top level? I don't think Pardew needs to necessarily coach the players on how to attack but we'll benefit from having a stronger squad and a more consistent lineup from Aug-Dec which will give Pardew the confidence to allow the flair players more freedom. so look, again this isn't a dig or anything, but it seems that your answer to "why can't we play attractive, passing football anytime soon?" is the same as mine then, pardew? as for the bold it's not about the individual surely, it's about the team...for example if you dropped mourinho into our training ground monday i think you'd see a fairly rapid turnaround in how we approach games tactically as for the bit in italics you get the feeling they'd just benefit from playing 5-a-side for a chunk of the week, they literally look like they don't know how to pass the ball to each other at times...but this is certainly old ground, i agree....it's just aggravating to me that when you look at our side they seem built to be a possession team yet are obviously being coached not to be

pretty sure you could do that with other squadx for example though, never said we had 18 purple players just that our 18 is a match for anyone outside the top 5

Tim Krul Fabricio Coloccini Davide Santon Yohan Cabaye Moussa Sissoko Vurnon Anita Papiss Demba Cissé Hatem Ben Arfa Yoan Gouffran Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa James Perch Jonas Gutierrez Massadio Haidara Gael Bigirimana Rob Elliot Sylvain Marveaux Foluwashola Ameobi Cheick Tiote Mathieu Debuchy Steven Vincent Taylor Adam Campbell 21 players inc. shola just 'cause he's a striker, cut out some of those i'd let go the point being i agree with IP

I've got no desire to feel less or more superior than anyone else, so I'm not sure how you've gleamed that from my guff; I'm surprised that someone like yourself would have an issue with people being different from each other. It'd make for a very grey board if we were all sheep. I'd love for us to play exciting, attacking, vibrant football that wins us trophies and plaudits. However, I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon. If we're going to have a period of cutting our cloth accordingly, I don't see why we need to make a song and dance about it every time we don't play cutting edge football. Stu, care to expand on the bits in bold, such as why you think we can't play attacking, passing football with the players we have in the squad (regardless of injuries)? clearly i'm in the "pardew doesn't know how to coach it" camp but if it's something you yearn for, yet still retain some hope for pardew, you must think something else is holding us back again genuine question, not looking for a bite or anything Stu fancy throwing an answer at this, as i said honestly interested in your viewpoint

ooops

strong chance di canio will have them whipped up into a frenzy for this like

indeed it was, fulham who were throwing bags of cash around...who was that french striker they signed for 10m? that was tigana though, i think

9 goals since Ba left, 4 while Ba was here this season - that sound right? suggests he'll do fine next season, especially considering how shit we've been the majority of this season....UNLESS pardiola decides to do something stupid with his striking options in the summer, which i doubt

who's getting sent off tomorrow then? i reckon gardner

can't see it being many, he hasn't been that good

I realized that he was t***. :lol:

what happened with stu and neesy like, thought they were forum buddies at one point?

I'd say he has that from the majority, already. me too