John P

I played blackjack (didn't have much clue what I was doing so used this to guide me completely - http://www.wikihow.com/Sample/Blackjack-Cheat-Sheet). Started off by doing £1 bets for the first 20 rounds (ie to complete the offer) then £5 bets. Got up to £90 and then withdrew everything.

Will it just have no badge at all then?

Looks like that could be great. Will they not have bother with the club and puma if they use the club crest and stuff though?

Players hopefully told him not to bother coming in today, they'll sort it out.

The number of times he dallied on the ball and was caught in possession on Saturday was unreal, it happened at least 3 times in the first 10 minutes. As everyone has said, absolutely criminal that he's starting ahead of Anita and Abeid. I just don't understand it, it's not like he offers something that they don't in terms of physical attributes, and if anyone at the club sat down and analysed all the set pieces he's taken this season they'd realise he actually contributes nothing at all. Don't we have staff whose job it is to perform video and statistical analysis? Surely they are pointing out that he's absolute gash?

Tony Gale. He's an utter cockwomble. Cannot f***ing stand that prick. One of the 'proper football man' types who is clearly thick as pig s*** and waffles on and on about getting men in the box etc etc Isn't he the resident Pardhoop licker extraordinare? Yeah he loves a bit of Pards. Says it all about him really.

Tony Gale. He's an utter cockwomble. Cannot fucking stand that prick. One of the 'proper football man' types who is clearly thick as pig shit and waffles on and on about getting men in the box etc etc

So has he worked wonders with Rayo? Are they punching above their weight in mid-table?

Is everyone just loving the idea of Jemez because he seems like a mad bastard, or is it based on them rating him as a manager?

Yeah? Managed to hype yourself up for the CL final? Good man. Seventh in my lifetime, gotta look for fresh angles. Seven Champions League finals Did you care more about the 1st than the 6th?

Hope you're right, I'm still scarred from the last time we played an European final against an Italian team. It's been a tough life full of disappointment for you man, my heart goes out to you. VI keeps getting stick for this Think we have to remember that it's all relative. Like Arsenal fans complaining about Wenger, despite qualifying for the Champions League for the umpteenth time in a row and probably winning consecutive FA Cups

Let's entertain the fact that this story may have an ounce of truth in it for a moment. What sort of player is he VI? Strengths / weaknesses? Its above you Sorry, missed that

Let's entertain the fact that this story may have an ounce of truth in it for a moment. What sort of player is he VI? Strengths / weaknesses?

There haven't been any pens at all at sjp. Indicative of both our lack of ability to get the ball in the opposition box and lack of determination to prevent the opposition walking it in at the other end. Must be pretty rare to go a whole season without a single penalty awarded at a ground? Well, now we can guarantee we'll concede one which will be scored to send us down. Absolutely, thank me later.

There haven't been any pens at all at sjp. Indicative of both our lack of ability to get the ball in the opposition box and lack of determination to prevent the opposition walking it in at the other end. Must be pretty rare to go a whole season without a single penalty awarded at a ground?

Yep, it was a load of bollocks and there's absolutely no chance he'll be coming here.

Has there been a penalty awarded at St James' this season, either for us or the opposition? Can't remember a single one.

Thought he was really poor on Saturday and has been for a while. Often when we had the ball moving forward he was just stood on the halfway line / hiding behind a West Brom player. He also couldn't be arsed to track back a lot of the time either. Looks like he can't wait to get away to be honest, which is fair enough, but the lack of effort he showed on Saturday was unacceptable.

I'm guessing this is a Pardew quote?

Excellent post mate.

He was raging that De Jong came on first instead of Armstrong too. He had a few touches of the ball but 5 minutes later Mills was saying 'what has De Jong done since he came on, has he even touched the ball? I don't think he's the right person to bring on in this situation at all, he's not going to graft and work.' Armstrong then came on, predictably touched the ball about twice and did nothing and only then did Mills shut the fuck up about it, which was after about 85 minutes. It was fucking torture man.

Danny Mills was co-commentating on the Leicester feed I watched and he wouldn't shut up about Jamie Vardy being the difference between the two sides and how we should get Armstrong on (after about 30mins) instead of Ayoze or Riviere because he cares about the club, would work his arse off and run about loads and apparently 'is in good form'. It epitomised a lot of what people are saying on here about the British mentality to football, ie work hard and you'll win. Nothing was mentioned of the fact that we had Ryan Taylor and Jonas playing centre midfield and no shape or system to speak of, just that we didn't have anyone that worked as hard as Jamie bloody Vardy. It's infuriating and almost unbelievable that someone who played at international level would think that.

And in the rare occasions they make themselves available they are static or moving towards our goal when receiving the ball. Never in a positive movement towards the opposition. Yup there are certain situations that happen during a game over and over again and a good coach normally models or formats positional awareness to deal with these. From the practice ground players should know where their team mates will be in different areas or phases of the game and also have alternatives this smooths the possession play and rids the need for panic or bad passes. This kind of thinking is light years away for us. Look how solid Chelsea are, how drilled and the huge amount of discipline...Man Utd have some of that but are often negative on the ball and don't transition dangerously as say Arsenal do. Spurs are normally all over the place but somehow magic goalscoring chances just by players over and over again making the same runs. The key is continuity - the teams struggling at the bottom don't have it. Exactly. In my eyes we're and have been completely dependant on the individual skill of the players to transform a negative position into a positive when receiving the ball. It's been like this for ages but now the skill level of the players on the pitch makes the lack of system jump out even more. They are unable to make that flashy turn or dribble to advance the play. Under Pardew when we were doing well and finishing 5th there was no system either. We just had skillful players high on confidence. Now that we have neither the team has nothing to fall back to. No basic way to play the game. It's an utter mess. I would argue that Ayoze is positive when receiving the ball, his first touch when he has his back to goal is quite often a turn that gets him moving towards the opposition goal. However, he then has absolutely no-one supporting him so has to either pass sideways or take someone on and loses it. Obviously, any coach worth his salt would encourage him to keep doing this and work out a way of getting players in positions to support him, but I imagine Carver frowns on these positive first-touch turns and would prefer him to just play the ball back into midfield.

Seriously this forum is the only place on the internet, or in real life for that matter where you would find people suggesting Vernon Anita (a failed in the PL right footed midfielder) playing as a left back. Mental. Frank de Boer: Yeah he played at left-back quite a few times for Ajax I think.