Pilko

Aye I was wondering that. We're f***ing desperate for a striker of some sort of quality and this bloke must be a bit good if we've continued the pursuit. Its because his story dragged on for fucking ages. So why was everyone so delighted when we got linked with Debuchy again in late December?, because that was a cunt of a saga too. I know we've signed him now but as soon as links towards him resurfaced everyone pissed their pants in expectation.

Aye I was wondering that. We're fucking desperate for a striker of some sort of quality and this bloke must be a bit good if we've continued the pursuit.

Gareth Southgate is our new striker coach by the look of it.

Gonna make a prediction - Cabaye will make the bench, we'll bring him on at 2-0 down, still lose and he'll get injured again.

Dummett must have really improved during that stint at St. Mirren, he was nowhere near the first-team pool prior to that really.

Shola is panic-inducing tbh. Unfortunately, not for the opposition. A fair point. I do think there's a strong element of panic in most of the cynical posts, though. It's sometimes hard to separate the two, especially on here. It's far too early to panic though, the time to panic is deadline day when we start to hear David Craig telling SSN about eight hours before the deadline that 'NUFC are done for the window' and we've not got the bodies.

At least it's not the monthly "Sho time" / "Let's get this Sho on the road" / "Best Sho in town" etc back-page filler they print

WILLY OUT

That was the best one. Really, really tight game that one. Good memory. Aye, that was the one where I actually played a bit well. I agree though, the 3-1 game was probably the best standard and most well contested one of the lot. Wasn't that when cp40 and gimp started wrestling with each other in the middle of the pitch?

First one was 7-4 blues, then it was a 2-1 blues game that was abandoned after an hour due to pitch booking mixup, then 3-1 reds in the sunshine... then I dunno after that.

I normally loaf about up front but my most effective performance in one of these games came sitting at the back of a midfield three.

Gerrin Fergie!

that would be hilarious

balls

I can remember hitting Gorilla in the pods during a pre-match warmup (aka let's all blast all the balls at the goalie)

Same here. I'm red to the core.

That's a strong team, glad Fergie's getting a game somewhere too. Must have splinters in his arse.

By March I'll hopefully have some fitness from the approaching 6-a-side season restarting and I'll probably come back up for the weekend. Been ages since one of these.

I don't see how only having 2 or 3 days to prepare for a game after the Europa League suddenly means 'ah fuck it let's just batter the ball at Ba and Cisse in a flat 4-4-2', if we'd been consistently working on one fluid formation all season (i.e. from the start of pre-season) then this lack of prep time wouldn't matter. Pardew probably just spends all of it telling our players to shit themselves because we're up against Cameron Jerome, Shaun Derry, Craig Mackail-Smith etc this week and they are fucking BRILLIANT players.

Baba's back! Hope Ivory Coast get to the final, fucking sick of Tiote being shit in our side atm and maybe he'll find some form if they go all the way.

I agree with Dave to an extent, partially because all of Pardew's bluster about loving the FA Cup for three years in a row has lead to a pathetic limp performance away to a lower league side and an early exit and I think it's just a front to deflect criticism onto the players when we do go out.

Cronky fucking loves the Ameobi family, like.

I do love it on here when someone dredges up a post from years ago and said poster tries to gain the moral high ground by claiming such a thing is sad and pathetic even though they did contradict themself. I now fully expect someone to dredge up a post where I try to gain the moral high ground after someone dredges up one of my posts where I've contradicted myself over a period of time, well can I just say in advance how fucking pathetic and sad you are, fuck off and get a life and that.