themanupstairs

It's so painful how bad we are 

 

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 

Zabaleta having a great game here.

Yup. Outstanding right back.

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

Coloccini man  :smitten:

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

Restore some pride please.

HTL

Spineless b******

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.

We'll be winning this. The world is sliding into otherness. Everything you know is wrong.

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.

If you had the choice of two players who have been linked who would you go for? Douglas and Remy for me.

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.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20700529

 

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.

Really? I liked Hughton but his interviews were just as bad as Pardew's at times.

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.

Who's the Liverpool player on the far right (not politically, Suarez etc)

He might as well just stop doing pressers, getting to the point where anything he says gets over analysed on here. I bet if he ignored all questions on transfers he would still get slated by someone 

 

We all know what he says is largely bullshit

 

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.

The club seriously needs to do a review of how we are preparing players and treating players from injury because this season it's been an utter joke.

 

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.

"Right lads, welcome to training. Running a bit late today so we'll skip the warm up.  First things first, cardio, everyone give me forty sprint shuttle-runs along this cobbled street and then we'll do some strength traning by moving my mam's three piece suite out of her top floor flat."

Didn't he say though he thought we'd be significantly stronger by the end of January.  One signing won't do that imo.

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

Proper loving tollemache's posts man. where the f*** did you come from?

indeed. Bimpy who?

cheers!

 

Don't know if anyone noticed it but the subtext to that post was "Definitely don't sack Pardew over this run of form"

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.

None of them have suddenly become bad players. It's incredible how confidence and focus affect players at that level. There are so many examples of really good players going totally off the boil and suddenly becoming Darko Pancev, and all that happened was they felt a little out of sorts or their confidence faded a bit.

 

I think it's interesting that Pardew publicly complained about players having their heads turned by devious agents, towards the end of pre-season, saying it was making his job difficult and affecting the team's preparations. I read it as a message to his players, as though he felt they weren't getting their heads down, and I think that, along with the effort to accommodate Ba, accounts for a lot of the current malaise. Tiote and Cisse are the two really glaring examples, and Tiote in particular was the subject of loads of transfer speculation.

 

To a certain extent I think what's happening is the price of overachievement. At the first sign of poor form, players like Tiote start wishing they'd played their cards differently, while their agents whisper in their ear about maybe getting that move to Arsenal back on track. At this stage in the rebuilding process, I think we're basically Everton over the last few years. Yo-yoing up and down the league from year to year and losing good players every time we get a good thing going might be our lot for a while. The big difference is that, even spending within our means, we've got more money than they have, won't struggle with debt, and if we keep a good transfer policy going (which might mean the occasional dud transfer window) we're liable to do better than them, sooner.

No idea where you popped up from but that is a brilliant post

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