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I will hold you responsible if that turns out to be s**** and I will not only kill you, I will also kill every living member of your family. Tbh Mick I'm personally quite fearful he'll remain here but people keep approaching me with good news so we will see. It's probably not even decided yet, daft c***s. Hopefully they are letting him make an even bigger arse of himself than he already is before Bunning him. We can only hope! Like I said I'm holding on to that last shred of hope until Monday, if he's not gone then, he definitely ain't going!

Would depend on the age but once they were over 15 or so I'd guess not Paul Dogleash anyone?

It's no doubt that our "purple" players such as Ben Arfa, Cabaye and Colo make a massive difference to our results, and in that respect Pardew has a point in that we've missed them and I don't think we'd have been in our current plight if we could have kept them fit. However a decent manager would be able to get results with key injuries, all teams suffer losses during a season and the cut of a good manager is to cope with those losses. It just proves we can win matches despite, not because of Pardew. He just relies on the "magic" those players bring to the team and he's lost without it.

Expecting 2 but won't be surprised to see 1, will eat my own dick if its 3!

I am completely flummoxed about next season. Logic dictates that what you just said is how it will pan out, but the eternal optimist inside says, "hey, maybe he will learn some lessons from last season and actually get the players together again!" I guess denial is a huge part of football. You just need to read the link I posted a few pages back, the guys so 1 dimensional he makes paper jealous. He has always been true to type and still plays the same game he played 7 years ago. If we're stuck with him, we're stuck with him, I won't back him but the players, as always get my full support. MA is just delaying the inevitable, he'll be gone by 2014.

I think my last strands of hope will die on Monday if/when he's still here

Every cloud..

Agree. In fact he cannot say that any player is staying. No manager can. I watched Laudrup say exactly that in a tv interview tonight. What would people expect David Moyes to say if asked whether all the star players will still be at at ManU next season? Something more diplomatic or deflecting maybe? No one can be sure but in the image of improvement you can insist you have no intention of losing your best players when you've preachy claimed the squad was too small to deal with the season just past and if anything you are hoping to strengthen it to improve on a disappointing season maybe? Something like he did days before Ashley sold Carroll? There's a difference between saying you haven't got any intentions on letting players go and telling people that they definitely aren't going. I know what he's saying and how he means it but it's the way he blurts these things out that is astoundingly amateur. His last few interviews have been ridiculous.

Agree. In fact he cannot say that any player is staying. No manager can. I watched Laudrup say exactly that in a tv interview tonight. What would people expect David Moyes to say if asked whether all the star players will still be at at ManU next season? Something more diplomatic or deflecting maybe? No one can be sure but in the image of improvement you can insist you have no intention of losing your best players when you've recently claimed the squad was too small to deal with the season just past and if anything you are hoping to strengthen it to improve on a disappointing season maybe?

Nah man, sounds perfectly plausible.. Thanks for pissing on my bonfire

You're such a tease HF

Is it too much to hope that we go out and buy some quality technical continental players instead of "experienced" cloggers and he quits in protest before a ball's kicked next season?

Confident or not, just keep your trap shut Pardew, it's the usual market stall patter we hear every window.

Don't even know what to say about that, shocking display of ambition there, makes the club so attractive. Maybe Ashley will sell up and we can get rid of the lot of em?

Shame if we can't convince him to stay as a squad member, he has been solid this season when called upon, just isn't up to being a regular starter. He'd make a good acquisition to most sides in the premiership.

Amazingly accurate and informative

So true, it's like that 5th place has become a curse for us. Who would have given that 5th place up in hindsight to remove any credibility of keeping him? Most I bet!

Worth noting that percentage has dropped from 71% for 11/12 season, quite a loss in just one season??

Anyone thinking he may learn from his mistakes... Not a chance, he was making the same ones 7 years ago.

Worth a read http://www.nufcblog.org/2013/05/does-this-sound-familiar-west-ham-charlton-and-southampton-fans-on-pardew/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=does-this-sound-familiar-west-ham-charlton-and-southampton-fans-on-pardew#.UZY2Kr-9Kc0

We're shit and he's shit, people are bound to gravitate towards that which proves what we all know. All stats have their limitations and flaws, but I'll hold my hand up, I'm more receptive to your bs when it's proving what I know, we're shit!

Wow, this thread has been a hive of activity, discussing the ins and outs of performances, statistics, reasons for our demise, terrible tactics, etc... Ian says we're shit, we all agree and silence ensues!

We've been shit

We're 12-8 down on goals in the last 10 minutes this season. But how many in average per game, our last minute goals are 1 a game I would expect, a la Cisse whereas I would expect a few of ours might be attributed to 2 or 3 as we trail off and get mauled. A lot of them took points off us. 86th minute at the mackems. 81st and 85th minutes at Stoke. 90th minute at Man U 85th minute at Swansea 90th minute at Wigan 8th place if the table didn't "gloss over" those HF = slayer of urban myths He doesn't take any nonsense. To be fair, we're losing in almost EVERY 10 minute period of the game. The only time we come out on top is just before half time.... http://www.soccerstats.com/timing.asp?league=england We've been s****, that's something everyone can agree on!