Mattoon

Amazing how 5 days of insanity can make you go from an 8 to a 2!

Bit of a double edged sword for me this, back at work Tuesday after 9 days off so hoping for time to slow but excited to see the new players and the possibility of giving Villa a cold dish of revenge making me want it to be Tuesday now dammit! If there was any justice in the world though this would be our last game of the season and they needed to win to stay up.

Wasn't aware of that either, get him to sign a precontract!

Living in Blackpool I've had the opportunity to see Ince play a couple of times first hand, he is real quality and will be worth a lot more than 10mil if he keeps improving as he is. Would be a great acquisition to any aspiring team. Would be more than happy to have him on our books.

Think someone needs some Valium there.

I don't think he has been helped by Ba's selfishness (quite a few times he's found himself offside due to Ba holding on to the ball too long) and lack of service from the rest of the team. Like Pardew, he has no excuses now.

The one thing that worries me is that with the extra support if Cisse doesn't find his scoring boots we have no alternative.

Choosing to watch the acon rather than effing man yoo again.

TBF I think it was the personnel that dictated that way of play, something we'll find out in due course I suppose, maybe I'm giving him too much credit but I think he'll play to our strengths when we get these guys on the pitch.

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.