Mattoon

....and the slide doth begin

So who plays on the wing out of Perez, Cisse and Rivière?

Trouble is half our lot get Crayola sets for Xmas and think it's a selection box! They only look up from munching those delicious waxy treats to take a glance at the table or read the latest propaganda about how Pardews hands are tied and they're sucked in. Even if we lost the next 5 or 6 if we were still lower-mid-table we'd be exactly where we've been told we should be/belong. Staunch supporters and those who are old enough to remember Keegan and Robson eras vividly have either long given up on Pardew and Ashley or are too few in number now to be heard. We're the loony toons, the barers of great expectations, we demand challenging for the top 4 every year and regular champions league football. We're the ones that are what is wrong with this club and brave Sir Pardew and his battling troops are doing a hell of a job in such adverse conditions. I've enjoyed the wins, I've celebrated the performances of some top young players, but I've never been under any illusion that this was anything but a blip, even if he wins the next 5 it won't last, it's not sustainable and although gratifying to see us win, the long and short is that it's still joyless and ultimately futile. Even if we put in a great run to put us in the top 3 or 4 we have no aspirations to stay there, what's the point?

If? Surely you meant after? He didn't have a lot of choices for team selection but he chose the wrong ones at every opportunity. Innevitable yet still infuriating. Not following you. I mean starting yesterday if we lose 6 on the bounce what will the reaction be? As you say yesterday looked very much like back to business Pardew so it's very possible we might hit s*** street. Sorry I was being facetious, I meant not if we lose the next 6 but rather AFTER we lose the next 6 which seems more realistic. Even if some of our young players come back I can't see them displacing the old guard easily.

If? Surely you meant after? He didn't have a lot of choices for team selection but he chose the wrong ones at every opportunity. Innevitable yet still infuriating.

Have we not done enough in the last 6 games to dispel the myths now? Players aren't good enough, well they've won 6 in a row against some decent opposition now. We miss Cabaye? We have some young players proving a lot of worth now and Sissoko is proving the player he should be when playing in his rightful position (whoda thunk it?). When we hit our next slump, which is inevitable, surely he's losing places to hide?

Hope.... It's all that's left!

He's not quite on Pardew levels of guff, but 8/10 for pure profound waffle. Interesting to see how the media handle this after how much they stuck up for Pardew. Different kettle of fish when it's a media darling team struggling. Nice work on the SanToon quote

It's this kind of thing that makes you even more angry to watch Ashley wiping his feet on such pride and passion. But I guess it's just a dirty mark on an illustrious history which will one day be confined to the history books.

A friend of mine suggested they'd happily swap Rodgers for Pardew today?!

As if it's all about the results and the string of wins obviously negates the 18 months of continuous dry arse humpings we had to endure?

I'm greatful for the performances that Barton put in when we came back up, he had some patches of good play but it doesn't undo the shit that preceded it. Cult hero? Nah. But he was a useful player. As for Abeid it smacks of Pardews incompitence to sustain a winning formula whilst having to make enforced changes, so he'll keep it as close as possible to the detriment of anyone and anything. Desperate measures by a shit manager, but we knew that.

We are a fincial business first, then football. I think a financial decision was made, asset that cant play, costs ££££ - needs to be moved on asap. The financial reasons are understandable taken out of context but a modicum of empathy should have been forefront to any decision made. A persons life and indeed state of mind should take presidence in any life threatening situation. Heartless decision to wipe their hands of him.

He genuinely lives on another planet, literally everything he comes out with either didn't happen or he's completely revised it in his own mind to be something different to actual happenings. It's insane the amount of revisionism he comes out with weekly.

QPR have been playing well recently and been unlucky with a few results, with our growing list of casualties I'm genuinely worried Pardew will bring his favourites back in to put in a defensive shift. If he tinkers again we're gonna hit another one of our hot losing streaks.

I think it's always been obvious that Ben Arfa was the one who stood up to Pardew and questioned his shit football when the cloggers kept their heads down. How anyone could question the Kings authority is a mystery to him, so he was frozen out and lied about (we know they do this, they've admitted as much). To say he was given a decent crack? Joke! In different positions? Hoiked out on the left and vilified for not being able to play in the wrong position. He'd never flourish in a Pardew team, too much of a "luxury" player for a defensive outfit. Bruce will never get the best out of him either. If he'd have had the chance to work for someone like Keegan or Sir Bobby all you doubters would be drooling over him.

Still the uttering a of a madman. What's changed this season? Other than the kids showing him up?

Great instinctive goal by Rooney.

I'd sell my house. Burn it to the ground, declare bankruptcy and start again, it's the only way.

Every time people buy into this propaganda they are told and ignore what they have seen with their own eyes. HBA is a prime example of this, I have NO doubt he's a great player because I've seen him... Play great! I have no doubt Pardew is a shit manager, because I've seen him manage us... Like shit. Use your eyes ffs.

Not enough 50% of voters are Mackems "shocker" (and Cronky)

Vote in its now a 50/50 split.

Couldn't agree more. Hope he massivley rekindles his career. Seems an honest and likeable lad. Far too few of our players, coaches and managers get experience abroad and I'm convinced that is a major factor in why we haven't seen as much success at a national level. Aye - hope he does well. This. I think it will be the making of him if he's given time to adapt and learn a new league. If/when he comes back he'll be a better manager for it.

I'd like to frust a red hot poker in this tools eye with a bit of fret.

The supporters have been well and truly Pardewed if they genuinely believe we should take a player out of the team based purely on the fact he's hit some kind of form?!? How must you feel about the manager to presume the only way a player would start to perform is because they wanted away. There's something incessantly wrong with that.