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I wonder if he ever listens back to his sound bites and thinks to himself "Fuck me, I'm a bullshitting bastard! How do I get away with it?" Or if he's that self-ignorant that he believes his own lies? Strikes me as being a full on narcissistic prick.

Aren't away goals triple on a Tuesday?

I actually feel thicker having read that!

What is the point in finishing 8th? What are we aiming for? I want a goal for the club that doesn't revolve around just existing in the Premier League. Are we trying to get European competition and push on from there? If there was a goal beyond this season, I'd be more than happy finishing 8th, but there isn't. Finishing 8th is what we're striving to do. Do well without daring to get ourselves involved in European competition. Yay. So exciting. Not sure why this is happening in this thread like. It's quite ironic because 8th is actually a pretty good finish by the standards of our past decade. Like you said it's just that there isn't any obvious aspiration beyond that. Sports clubs survive by getting their supporters hooked on hope and there's not a whole lot of hope being sold to us at the moment. Nail on the head, what is a team without aspirations or direction? A soulless shell of meaninglessness! We watch football to find excitement in the monotony of life, for inspiration and entertainment. Once you start taking that hope, aspiration and direction away and settle for existence, you take all that away and that escapism is lost with it.

8-0 is there any point in playing on

I can't even bring myself to click the shortcut for Newsnow these days, seems like a fruitless waste of energy. To hope for anything this transfer window is just self flagellation.

Nvm just heard it on the radio, hadn't read the other posts

Not EPL but Ince has just been sacked here in Blackpool after 9 losses in 10!

Well it seems Sunday is letting out time at the crayon eating factory. How anyone can defend this fraud is a mystery to me. I've given him his plaudits when he's done well and his criticism when it's due, but games like yesterday really fuck me off. He's the only guy that can take the shine off winning a game. We were dominating in the first half and for that he deserves credit, but fuck me that second half was an abortion, the antithesis of football. WHam were there for the taking and what did we do? Conceed a scruffy goal and shit our knickers. If he'd have come out in the second half and shown some intent, known that we just needed to turn the screw and they'd collapse like a pack of cards no one would have had a bad word to say. But no his arse went 5p - binlid in seconds an we were cowering behind a parked bus. Our best asset on the pitch, Anita gets subbed for Shola "make it stick" fkin Ameobi and HBA gets to keep the bench warm for another 80 minutes. I'm just sick to death of the negativity he's distilled in the team and his twitchy arse when we nick a lead, it's not getting better it's just the same old tactic is working a little better. When it stops working, we'll keep doing it. I just want to see what a confidence manager could do with this lot, that was always Keegans strong point, he knew how to get players playing with their tails up, that's the argument here and one I totally agree with.

Disgusting tackle, fucking dirty that!

Sorry if Giggs, we can but dream... http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/next-west-ham-manager-alan-3036835

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No wonder we keep losing if our cm is always pished up ffs!

The reason we was beat was cuz we've not got enough 6'3ers

Brett's got an ip changing app obviously

I'm no accountant but isn't amortization basically a way to put the cost of buying a player over a period of time on the accounts, ie have £4m loss per season on a player over 5 years compared to £20m all at once? So basically it is based on market value but the market value you bought him for I think so, yep. Obviously it's slightly less accurate in the case of players as they don't always depreciate and can actually be 'worth' more than their book value. The opposite is also true of course, which is why a purchase price based system is probably the best option available. See Albert Luque

Depends on how Pardew goes after this one, could go either way but the recent slump we're in could have set the rot in again. We could kick on from a valiant display from the Manc game also. I've edged my bets and gone for the score draw.

I think 82% of fans are like battered wives who are too scared of life without emotional scaring!

Tmonkey (not quoting your essay) I completely agree with you, I don't trust Pardew to utilise the players at his disposal, there's fans without any coachin badges that can see the flaws in his tactics and team selection! I also agree that our transfer policy, on paper, is ideal, however the major flaw is that more often than not once we've lost grip on that number 1 target and after all the transfer tennis we more often than not come away with nothing but a bloody nose. I'd rather us not be held to random, but I'd rather us also fill the gaping voids in our team required to make progress.

Not seen the guy to form an opinion, however as long as Carr is choosing the players I have absolute faith in them being able to cut it. What I don't have is the faith that form can be maintained by our current coaching setup!

Feel sorry for this guy, obviously lost all confidence and doesn't get the service he needs to build it back up. Pretty much nailed on we won't see him back at his best now. I still think there's a quality player behind that beaten man and wherever he goes he'll be banging them in again, I guaranty it. Unless Pardew leaves there's no future for him here now.

On the question of real excitement, Ben Arfa was my last one. Remy was underwhelming after a pitiful transfer window and tbh I didn't think he'd make much of an impact given how badly the team had been playing and him being the only acquisition.

Rediculous that the ptb think that one loan signing over two transfer windows is an acceptable amount to even challenge staying in the top ten?!? Baffling.

An honest question as I didn't see the game, was working, but do you think we'd have played with the same intensity and passion had that goal not been disallowed? I.e. we're we just going through the usual motions and that sparked us into life? I only ask because its a criticism of Pardew that he can't motivate a team and that's why we only seem motivated against better opposition (the players self motivating) and so our motivation for this game was the objectionable refereeing. Or did Pardew just get it right and we play it right from the off?

So glad I'm at work! Thought I'd pop on to see how we're doing and now I'm out! Not interested in this drivel I'll only end up being a miserable bastard for the next few days. One last thing.... Fuck off Pardew