themanupstairs

More ironic or depressing that this is our best attacking performance this season. At home, I'd say it is.

It's so painful how bad we are

Yup. Outstanding right back.

WHAT IN FUCKING FUCK'S NAME WAS THAT CORNER ROUTINE?

Coloccini man :smitten:

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

Restore some pride please. HTL

Practically telling us what he thinks of our actual ability to give the champions a game on our own patch.

team news?

It's called ambition mate To be fair the headline is a bit misleading. As much as I can't stand them, fair play to them if they continue to get the results. Having said that, they're still an injury or two away from being below average imo.

Fucking tragic news. Was really optimistic before this. Won't win this now.

Your off the cuff posts would be even better if your current avatar was actually a real portrait of you. That's how I'll be seeing it from now on.

RB or LB and CB for me. If we can go back to being solid at the back, our front 3 or 4 should give us enough chance to win or at least draw games we are losing at the moment.

Football

And for the record, I don't believe that Pardew sees it as "lying" to the fans as much as it is part of a deliberate strategic plan to mislead the media to protect transfer dealings. We need to keep remembering how Cisse just came out of the blue, cost a fair wedge, and was exactly the type of player we needed last January.

Maybe it's revisionism, but I don't seem to remember mistrusting what he said in interviews. He didn't let on to much when it came to the sensitive issues, and always knew how to get out of sticky questions with perfect diction and excellent English. Unlike this chav.

Yep, as with almost every manager in the game. Pardew is the worst manager for this I can remember though. Souness, Allardyce, Kinnear and Roeder were never as bad as Pardew imo. Doesn't help we have an incompetent local paper that doesn't question him properly on transfer issues. Really enjoyed listening to Hughton's interviews. The man always oozed class and dignity, and spoke like a proper football manager. Never allowed what he said in the press to be used as political spin by the tabloids/boardroom/fans/national media.

If we did it would be over a decade too late tbh I totally agree with that. IMO, it's Derek Wright that is the problem, he's been at the club a long time now and nothing has changed. What about the physical conditioning personnel? We had a severe problem with fitness during Souness/Roeder's time, and it seemed to slightly improve under Allardyce. Our overall fitness levels last season were really good. An absolute shambles again this year. Derek Wright has been through it all, and by all accounts he is a good rehab physio. We should be looking at prevention.

Think he was on about new transfers plus the return of Cabaye and Taylor.

indeed. Bimpy who?

Fuck that! tollemache out! When the chips are down and the team isn't doing well, it's easy to forget, or rather, difficult to remember the context of it all. We are a work in progress and have been since our relegation. It's a bitter pill to swallow when you see your perennial "rivals" regressing, and your team not taking advantage of that opportunity. Moreover, when you witness "smaller" clubs' teams playing better football than we do, it digs at your doubts even more. Relegation hit us hard at the time, and I don't think it would be as relatively pretty for us this time round should the unthinkable happen again. This is why it's panic stations all over the shop when we sense not only that nothing is going to plan, but that there is no fucking plan to begin with.

Just watched last season's fan review on a rinky dink obscure website, and what a season it was. I want to believe again. I really want to believe we can beat anyone on our day. Fuck it. I'm opting for optimism. 3-1 win, goals from Ba, Cisse and Santon.

No idea where you popped up from but that is a brilliant post Welcome to the forum.