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It's not that low for me at all. I think anyone who says it's very low for them is simply extrapolating to a level that I am not willing to go to. We've sacked a decent manager after a few poor results and replaced him another rather nondescript, average British manager. We still have the same players and a potential to do well. If we can continue consolidating our position this season and incrementally improving the squad, I will be able to live with this. As always with Ashley, it's unfortunate how he's chosen to go about it, but I am alright with the actual events that occurred.

He can't have been helped by his best player sinking his teeth into another man's neck/shoulder. edit: I would absolutely love this, btw.

Midtable is deceiving. We're four point above relegation zone and just had our worst defeat of the season to a fellow promoted team. We're hardly in a good place. If 4 points above the relegation places after 16 games isn't good for a newly promoted team, then what is? I would have taken it, Everton, but to infer that we are somehow comfortably in midtable is a preposterous statement. Would Chelsea be happy with second if they finished 36 points behind first? My level of contentment is decided by many other factors other than the number next to our name on the table. At Disco, I need to go to the halls for food, but mu mouth is still hanging open at the screen.

Somewhat of a Keegan situation, there. Obviously weren't his player. Also, Mascherano was atrocious at first. Remember the West Ham match where Oba got his first for NUFC. It was Masch who did the Guthrie for it.

Hughton spat cliched nonsense too. Their performance has very little correlation with how they speak to the media. I would definitely prefer Curbishley to Pardew, though.

Midtable is deceiving. We're four point above relegation zone and just had our worst defeat of the season to a fellow promoted team. We're hardly in a good place.

It's all about money. Currency. Accounts. That's what it is always about, when you have to wonder why. Unless he's been caught with Ashely's daughter.

No expert on this subject, but that is just an unnecessarily difficult and convoluted plan when you consider that we are already in the top league while cutting costs.

Ambivalence. Very much sit and look time for me. I'm willing to see what the board has planned and the real details of Christopher leaving the club. He's been a good servant, but NUFC will go on far into the future without his guidance. If there are problems caused at the club, they will not be because of this decision. Rather, they will occur because of the ones taken as a result. We need to get these right. Sacking a manager isn't always bad, it's often progress.

I would put a bullet in my head. I'd be fine with any decent, unKinnear-like appointments. Just any competent manager that will not try to destroy the club.

What? What?!! I am genuinely in shock. He wasn't the best manager in the league, but he was a very likable character who had united the team. I will miss him. I hipe we have some idea of a replacement. I cannot believe this.

Typically, he's played well for us, but ruined all of that with one moment of stupidity. Now he is injured...again. It never stops with him. I really love the player in him, but the patience wears thin after years of aggravation.

Yeah, Jonas is more about dribbling and strength on the ball than pure acceleration and pace. He's been good for us, imo, but given his style of play it is noticeable when he's not really up for the game. Today seemed like one of those cases. If him and Jose aren't working together on the left, we don't have many other real attacking options.

Lille beat Lorient 6-3 over in France to go top. Marseille managed to lose 1-0 to Nice by an 90 min+ goal. Horrific.

Prison.

The hell has Hughton done to deserve some vitriol?

How much did you pay for Tchoyi, Osaze, and Mulumbu? All very good signings at what I would surmise were very good prices.

It's a bit scary if West Ham win this morning (as I expect them to). West Brom have shown no signs of collapse and seem a rather solid Premiership team. West Ham seem to have found a formula that works and I personally expect them to improve and get results as long as the forward line and Parker stay healthy. Wigan are gone, imo, but who will go with them?

It's a shame as I thought he had his moments while the club was in chaotic freefall in 08-09. He just really hasn't shown anything this season, though.Probably sell him to Cardiff or QPR during January.

You mean like the changes West Brom made over the summer? Bringing in cheap, class foreign players (especially their new pacey striker)? Yes I would enjoy these changes.

This is an embarrassment. They fully deserve the win and we fully deserve this shame. A loos like this had been coming, but this is worse than I would have thought.

well that's the exact problem - you should absolutely have to prove that your bid is better. the award of a world cup host shouldn't be based on an arbitrary, subjective preference on the part of a handful of voters whose reasons and justifications and eventual vote are all secret. it's a recipe not only for corruption but, as we have seen, for not delivering the best actual results. england (and spain/portugal or netherlands/belgium) missing out against russia i can live with, though the way the vote panned out, with tactical voting, is a clear sign that some reform is needed. but Qatar winning out against bids that were in every conceivable way far better exposes the entire process to be a shambles. in order to award the tournament to qatar goes against the guidelines and best practices fifa have establshed over the years - which simply underlines the fact that those guidelines and best practices were from the off nothing more than a smokescreen to legitimise an arbitrary, capricious process. why go through the rigmorale of an exhausting review of the fine details of every single bid if you're going to disregard those findings and choose what, in review, was seen to be the weakest and riskiest bid by far? See, I completely disagree with what you are saying here. In my opinion, the entire goal of that process is to present the voters with as much information as possible, and to quickly destroy any bids which are deemed unacceptable upon review. The idea of the "best results" is subjective as you're talking from a white European perspective. Can you see into the future? How do you know Qatar will not be a success? you are projecting your personal opinions onto what will happen in the future. You can ridicule this statement when I am 32 years old, but for now you cannot prove anything. You make sure every bid fits the parameters, you attempt to give the delegates perfect information, you distribute the votes in a fair way, and go from there. FIFA do need to work to limit corruption, but this is an impossibility in my opinion.

You don't have to prove your bid is "better than the rest". As long as you can convince all involved that you can successfully host the tournament, it is a matter of preference between the voters. If the "best bid" won, they would just award the Cup to the nation that scored the highest on the inspections. This is not how the process works. If you want to say that this preference was aided by corruption (as every single political decision in every single country in the world is), then that is a different matter and different to what I was saying. England don't "deserve" the tournament more than anyone else. I was referring to Russia, btw. As people were talking about England's bid.

Feel like we will lose this game. They troubled us last season. Obviously, both sides have improved a lot, but they have remained impressive when I've seen them this season at the higher level. Very decent team. I feel like we are due a close defeat anyway.

Not hosting since 1966 should bear some importance if the two countries have similar backgrounds, strengths and weaknesses. I only mentioned that date as its 44 years since we’ve hosted so we should have more of a claim to hosting than Spain who hosted 16 years later. Obviously, Russia have never hosted so 1966 isn’t relevant in that case. How can Russia guarantee a safe World Cup? How can Qatar for that matter considering where it is in the world? No nation can guarantee an entertaining World Cup, the last one is proof of that if proof is needed. I found the last one to be a rather entertaining affair, tbh. Much better than 2006. I certainly had a nice time watching on the tele in the broom closet at work or at home friends. Also, my people who attended have told me that the atmosphere around the event was fantastic, which is all that the host country can control. Can Britain guarantee a safe World Cup? Has Qatar experienced any attack on the scale of 7/7 in the last 20 years? Nowhere is safe in the world, man. However, if Qatar prove that they will use all means necessary to prevent violence, FIFA should find this acceptable. Obviously, Russia have a history of violence, but if they can convince those in power that they will keep everyone safe in the areas in and around the stadia for one month, I don't see why they should be prevented. SA is probably more violent than any of the nations being discussed and they kept everyone involved with the tourney safe for a month. This is all that matters in FIFA's eyes.