Mattoon

Puts the homegrown vs foreign argument into perspective, Milner thought to have cost around £25mil, Ben Arfa £5.75mil, enough said!

Milner has been dogshite like, his crossing is erratic.

Definitely a group of talented players rather than a team.

Think I might go and clean the sleep out of my eyes with a rusty fish hook, got to be less painful than watching this, job done for Stoke, bringing Man C down to their level.

Retrospective red is a must from that, detestable Cnut!

Fyp

....and we've played more hoofball than these lot, embarrassing!!

Don't get me wrong, I still think Pardew deserves his last chance, he has no excuses now so needs to show he can do it with all the tools at his disposal. If he doesn't get us moving then he needs to go in the summer. But looking forward I think a French manager, providing his pedigree, would do well. Don't believe in the isolation comments, Wenger's done a sterling job in the past in similar circumstances.

I'd think if we were to get rid our next manager would be French, it would make more sense and they'd be less inclined to know much about MA!

It's crazy. This, surely there must be a concern about a centre partnership of Taylor coming back from a lengthy injury lay off and Colo and question marks surrounding his mindset? MYM needs to start, if he's struggling we can bring Taylor from the bench, equally if Colo's head's not in the game he can be subbed too. Just my opinion fwiw.

Mug. I'm a mug for seeing the potential in the players we've signed? At least I'm a half full mug kind of guy. I know MA has screwed us over and made some mistakes in the past but I also think he's learnt from them and I'd like to believe this is just another learning curve for him. Only time will tell but I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and I'm happy with the proactive way we have dealt with our situation.

I know what an arse the club is for buying so many quality improvements to the team for such a knock down price, how dare we be happy that we got what was so desperately needed!? Cheer up blossom we may still get relegated yet.

Jonas' can still be useful off the bench but he's past his best and 90 minutes is beyond him. Tiote has his price, same as all our players but I think he has been the most sought after, though this season he may have lost the interest of suitors.

If/when he comes I think Jonas' days are numbered, either that or we're expecting to lose Tiote sometime in the near future.

Mym should change our game alone, his ability on the ball and confidence bringing it out of defence on the deck should breed a better confidence in our defence as a unit, we can play it out instead of route 1 panic hoofball! Should being the operative word, I only have reservations about colo's mentality now. There should be no reason for Williamson getting near the first team now!!

Can we change the thread title to Alain Pardeau? He's got what he wanted, now he has to prove himself and turn it round, no more excuses!

A sir Bobby vs Wednesday 8-0 like performance is all I'm willing to accept!

I honestly don't think players really give a s*** about who the manager is. Some of them have better relationships with certain managers, but in general if they're coming they're coming for the money and to play for NUFC, not because our manager is Alan Pardew or anyone else we could attract. The point I was making is who wants to come to a team not knowing who the manager is going to be? Think it would be wise to hold onto him until the end of the window and then release the hounds!

More's the pity I think he'll get until at least the transfer window closes, we won't get anyone in without a manager. If we don' win the next two games I can see him gone, but it's pointless sacking him now when we are in desperate need of at least 2 players.

I can't believe that saggy twitchy faced twat has pulled one over on us again, detest the wrinkley old bastard! Can't really blame fatso for this one, he isn't worth 70k a year right now and is a gamble. Besides if this is true then he's shown his true colours, we don't need players like that at our club, much rather have a striker who would play for the shirt and not the money.

It's not just the one or two injuries that have hit us, it's the spine of the team, our most creative player, arguably our best defender and a game changer. It would be impossible to target which one is missed the most, because we are sorely missing what each of them bring to the table. Colo is overrun with Williamson's atrocious displays, the back line are hoofing over the midfield without Cabaye to link up play and losing possession and when the chips are down we have no one to come out flying, someone to create that little piece of magic it sometimes takes to crack open a defence. IMO they are all missed at equal measure and we'll see the results come rolling back in once we have them on the pitch together with a few new signings. Just a pity it'll be too little too late to rescue our season from a drab mid-table finish

Why should we take it easy on them??

Absolutely confidant he's only our top scorer because we have adapted our style of play to suit him alone, look at what it's doing to the team! Get a decent forward in, in his place and I think we won't miss him, I also think the dressing room will be a better place to be for the players.

Personally, imho, I think we'd be best shot of him.