ChrisMcQuillan

Last time was incredible. I'd be in again.

Pards: Hoof it! Ndoumin: Switch to a 4-2-3-1 with defensive positions guarding the flanks from counter-attack and wary of Lampard's presence in the middle. Play it short, play it fast, and keep hold of it. Pards: Cheers, Jean.

No problem with Mata being there, but his reason is literally "Juan Mata.. did his best." The rest is a rant about how we should all have been sent off.

Maybe Giggs, but Garth Crooks explanation for why Juan Mata is in his team of the week... "Chelsea's defeat at Newcastle had more twists and turns than an Agatha Christie novel, with Howard Webb playing the role of the villain. How he did not give a penalty for dangerous play for Fabricio Coloccini's reckless challenge on Demba Ba, I'll never know. And while Ashley Cole isn't every neutral's cup of tea, Papiss Cisse should have been sent off for violent conduct for trying to throttle him. Regardless of these turning points, Juan Mata, assisted by Frank Lampard, did his best to turn the game in Chelsea's favour."

If you quote a story from the Sun on RAWK you get immediately banned...

williamson won't start. shola starting is my worry. Big occasion, and Shola's a big occasion player. http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/gallery/funniest-home-failures/slide_fun.gif

TEAM NEWS BREAKS. http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/h8eUL.gif When Williamson starts.

You're fucking insane.

Fair enough. He'll have to drop half his national team then. Idiot.

I don't understand why, if it's that serious, we can't give him compassionate leave.

If he wants to leave, fine. But this completely negates the MYM signing.

Saw him score a great goal at the Milk Cup a few years ago, although he played right-wing in that match. It's really uncanny how much he looks like Bale.

reggae reggae source? Source inside the business arm of the club. Says the media suite has been booked, which is apparently unusual as pressers usually aren't booked for there or through them.

Club have booked a press conference for tomorrow. Could be for new signings, or could be to address this.

No.

Possibly the most random post I've ever read. He's a massive San Lorenzo fan. Aye it wouldn't surprise me at all if he is funding them in some way. http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/interesting.gif

"@Indykaila Newcastle officials held two hour meeting with Alan Pardew tonight, more meetings are planned tomorrow. That all information I have right now." This guy tends to get things right.

This.

Pardew stays, we're relegated. Simple as.

It depends what you support at the end of the day. A football team or a business. It boils my piss every day when I receive "top offers" from the club for the world's shittest hoodies. Everything about the club at the moment seems to be about profit, and that's not what football's ever been about at its core.

So the club saved how much on Debuchy in the six months? £1m? How many league places will that cost us over the course of a season? Impossible to predict. But let's say 1. Isn't that at least £3m in reward money? The club have made an enormous mistake in failing to invest. In this case, it simply is penny-pinching and gambling, when in actuality the costs of signing the players would probably have been completely negated by improved league position.

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I think what worries me are Keegan's words a few years back after Pardew became manager. He talked about deliberate bidding that would come up short, so that it appeared to everyone as though a serious attempt had been made to sign players. I think we've learned by now that Ashley is about profits and margins. I'm not sure how they got him to agree to Cisse, but we've barely spent that again in the 12 months since. Ashley's had numerous opportunities to really push on since last January, and yet continues to fall short, failing to get players over the line. How much of it is this "rigid wage and transfer structure", and how much is just propaganda from the club to ensure we keep buying tickets?

Our transfer policy has been leaked in its entirety. http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/a-little-short.gif

We have usually had to sell to buy under Ashley, that won't change. I've seen no evidence to suggest that we won't just keep pursuing our targets and buying them if we can, while selling if we think it's worth it http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/oh-please.gif