Doctor Zaius

Football focus is live from wallsend today. Starting now on BBC1 Sorry if giggs.

That hipster article is wank like.

Borini, Vergini, O'Shea and Bridcutt all getting pelters on RTG. Thats not even mentioning Poyet :lol: Must admit though, it's not quite fairytale. As much as I want them to go down, it will be bittersweet in the sense that they've dicked us twice this season and we'll not get a chance to right it. Not that we would with pards at the helm mind.

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Preston, Newport, Wigan, QPR, Derby

Having a quick browse of their forum and it's hilarious how much they hate Altidore. He really is ridiculously shit. There's a thread on the 1st page asking whether they'd prefer Dozy or Kevin Kyle, the majority going with Kyle Probably going to go down as one of their worst signings ever.

Unless we see a drastic change in form, no thanks.

Thats because he's not a cunting right back, nor is he a fucking left back for that matter.

Lose this weekend and they're in trouble like. Cant see it either way.

He thought he was joining Chelsea. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_city/7597822.stm

I've been saying this for a long time. How amazing would it be if we could have banter about our successes, rather than taking the p*ss out of each other because of our failures ? We can always hope. Anyway, I had an amazing day yesterday with my 10 year old son. I'll not lie, I was gutted by the result, but very pleased with the way the team played. Two wonder goals finished us off, and sometimes you have to hold your hands up in defeat and admit the better team won. As a Sunderland fan, days like yesterday don't come very often, and I lapped it up. I want more, and if we beat Hull at the weekend we could be doing it all again ! Special mention for the referee yesterday, he was excellent. Back to the real world today though, and most of the league results went our way over the weekend, so it's not all doom and gloom. Glad you had a good day out with your son. Aye it was brilliant, he takes defeat better than me, which is a useful attribute when you're a Sunderland fan I hope you stay up. Moving away has made me see things from a different perspective. I too would much rather see the rivalry based on success rather than failure. People still pushing this horseshit? I too would like you too stay up, for I love getting bummed 3-0 every season and becoming the ource of local and national ridicule.

This is fucking minging like. Easy City win please and we can forget about this shit.

£30 lumped on Rubin Kazan to win tonight. Little did I know they lost Rondon in January and Russian football is wank these days. Tremendous waste of coin.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11678/9184452 Cheers. So has Ashley took any money out of the club to repay himself? Furthermore does this incorporate any TV money from the new bumper TV deal? So out of the loop with this?

Bit cheeky but can anyone summarise the findings? Havent really got time to sift through pages of mini accountant posts.

Not sure most fans are unhappy with our scouting at present or our transfer philosophy, we were 3-4 signings away from fighting for the top 4 in my opinion without the big money signings. The issue is there is now no transfer plan other then to sell for profit and the club in generally has no direction or actual ambition - this is shown clearly by the appointment and sticking with a sub standard manager and back room team. In the most part we have a team of internationals yet a coaching setup sub League 1, we have no identity on the pitch and we are slowly loosing out identity off also. Personally don't agree that its about returning to the boom and bust era of Shepard but atleast showing some controlled ambition on all fronts, starting with a new manager who can mould a team that actually knows what they are doing once they cross that line. I don’t think the club lacks ambition , but they are cautious and pragmatic in their approach. In contrast, the fans of every football club are energised by dreams of glory, and what the club have said does cut against that. No-one dreams of finishing 10th. The trouble with putting a dreamer like Fernandez or Ridsdale in charge is that it will eventually go belly-up, unless you’re something of a bottomless pit of money , like Abramovich. So every club, bar the exceptional, has to have some kind of financial discipline. The problem with Shepherd was that he spent all the club could possibly afford in terms of debt, we got a break and made the CL, but then there was nothing left to push on with. The second season we made the CL places, all we could buy was Bowyer on a free. Then there was the inevitable slip backwards. The aim has to be that if we get that bit of luck and make the top four in the future, we’re in a sufficiently healthy position financially that we can take advantage, and not come to a full stop. Youth development, hitherto neglected, is another part of being in a good financial state when opportunity arises. So in the absence of a Mansour, I’m not yet convinced that Ashley’s general strategy is wrong. He’s made some poor decisions, the latest being Kinnear, but overall I’m prepared to give things a bit longer. I wouldn’t say Pardew is sub-standard incidentally, but that’s another debate. First time ive came in this thread for a while and this is the first thing I see. When will people learn man. :lol: Give things a bit longer, fucking hell. Can't you see he's slowly but surely killing this club? No permanent signings in a year, jobs for his mates, continually selling our prized assets without replacement, people turning away in their absolute droes, no ambition to qualify for Europe, no ambition to finish anywhere of note in the league, no ambition to progress in cups, no fucking ambition to do anything than return his investment and use the club as an advertising vehicle for his shit products. But yeah, lets give things a bit longer eh? As if he hasnt had time to make a go of things in the last 7 year or whatever. It's absolutely ludicrous that people actually think that Ashley still actually has good intentions for the club man, they must have the mindset of a continually battered housewife. You're right about one thing, Pardew is for another debate, but that debate doesnt matter at all, because even if he was to go, he'll only be replaced with another mouthpiece yes man, from the football wilderness, to be used as a tool by the board, who's intention is merely there to stifle expectations and not upset his boss.

Does that necessarily mean he's a good manager? And where has this belief that he's some kind of maverick that plays good attacking football? Im not sure that is the case.

I agree with the sentiment but give me Hoddle over pardew any day. As we aren't going anywhere as a club might as well make a fist of playing Decent football It's ridiculously short sighted though. Back to square 1 when we realise that Hoddle isnt actually a good manager. Aye, Pardew will have gone but it's hardly the progression we should want to see. The bloke hasnt finished above 9th in the PL in his entire career man, what makes anyone think he's going to do any better a decade on!? The 'anyone but Pardew' mentality is stupid, because it'll just be 'anyone but the man that replaced Pardew' within a short space of time. It's needs to be the right man.

An indictment of how expectations have been lowered. People championing Glen Hoddle as our next manager The man who replaces Pardew is almost as important as the decision to replace him in the first place. If it's not the right man, then we'll be in the exact same position in however many months time, and that man is not Glen Hoddle.

People really getting all excited over the prospect of Glen fucking Hoddle? His last stint as a manager was a failure with a championship side in 2006 and prior to that he mustered two mid table finishes with Spurs before being sacked for taking 4 points from his opening 6 games. He's done nothing of note since the 1990's yet he'd be class? Now I'm all for replacing Pardew, but why do we have to get a has been? Why not a forward thinking, new manager?

I hate Pardew as much ad the next man and I have got a feeling that he'll be gone before the season is out, but does anyone have any sort of faith in the board to appoint a decent manager? It's all good and well saying 'anyone but Pardew' but that'll soon run thin when we've got some other dunce in charge.

150th game in charge tonight. How far have we came?

Disgrace again tonight. Laughing and joking at the end. Utter wanker.

People putting Sunderland in Aye, loved them being in the league the past two seasons.

Why no Mitroglou for Fulham?