themanupstairs

Knockaert is a good player tbh. But he would cost far more than he is good as a player if you know what I mean. Anyways, on my flight to to the Philippines now as we speak, zippin red wine. Just wanted to check and see if we had got any c*** over the line yet

safe travels mate. don't do drugs and Philippine

Hope James comes to the PL or joins any side he'all play regularly.  Way too good to be warming the bench for any club.

 

Think he'll be busy with the bairn.

Hope James comes to the PL or joins any side he'all play regularly.  Way too good to be warming the bench for any club.

And unfortunately also way too thick for joining Real at that stage of his career.

Brighton are buying the league.

Not sure that's what he said tbf. He just means that Brighton come from a position of relative stability in their quest to gain promotion, whereas NUFC has just been relegated, and is attempting to go back straight back up having overhauled an entire playing squad and coaching staff, add to that the rotten mediocrity that had set in....

Went straight to Google after that post. Can confirm that Mikel's wife is not only attractive, but sexually attractive

Know her very well personally as she went to my school. Dated one of my best mates through lower and upper sixth form. Lovely girl 

I'm not going to complain about the performance at all really, we created enough to win comfortably. I will however say Rafa is f***ing mental in the head for picking Colback, despite watching what we all see week in week out. Something he should surely have seen himself by now ffs.

 

It's ridiculous to pick him and he's an awful footballer, and i don't think i've seen a player give away so many thick as f*** fouls in my entire life. Rafa deserves all the stick he'll get for picking him. Still not that worried but i wish Rafa would stop over worrying about changing his preferred system every now and again, especially when we need to chase a game or spot when we need a change earlier in a game.

Agreed, once again.

First time I've felt a tinge of disappointment with Benitez. I know he doesn't like to make reactionary decisions, but it must be absolutely clear to him now that we need at least 2 signings if not 3 in strategic positions, if we are going to not fuck this up. Colback simply must be binned. We need a left back if Lazaar isn't up to it. We need a winger, and we need someone to link up the play in the final third. I know he sees it, but it simply HAS to be done.

Another loss he could have and should have prevented. He's struggling, no point trying to turn a blind eye.

Agreed. Also, happy new year mate. How's the woodwork?

Love you Rafa but stop playing Colback you daft tit.

This.

Was it the Liverpool owners or Rafa that was doing the whole Moneyball thing in football? Just wondering if he'd entertain the idea of Lucas Leiva.

100% categorically not Rafa.

Its the hysterical emotive s*** that is absolutley appalling. It's childish as f***.

But but, aren't we allowed to rip right into him? How long before we're allowed to call him fat, and Spanish? How long before we can comment on a minimum wage job which he may or not have had in the past?

This was as random and ridiculous an appointment as bringing in Avram f***ing Grant

Utter madness by the Swansea board.

Rafa is totally over analysing things in this division at home. He needs to remember that all sides in this division regard us as the dogs bollocks and so their regular week to week game which Rafa meticulously prepares the players about and for changes massively when they play us, in many ways to the opposite of how they would normally play. And we struggle with that, especially at home. We need to ditch the cautious over analysed, over drilled mechanical way we play at home because it's f***ing boring and costing us dearly. Rafa's ways will be essential in the PL, but in this division it's like putting a diesel in a f***ing Ferrari. You might get better MPG, but it's a f***ing Ferrari man, f*** the MPG!

Pretty sure Rafa hasn't clocked on to this. Best be sending out on a postcard to the Wirral HTT!

Dat "header"

A big part of the problem is playing Ritchie and Gouffran together in what is effectively a front 3 when we go forward. They are intended to be Gayle's supply line from wide positions when we have the ball in the final third. Neither of them is quick enough or incisive enough. Ritchie's body language has turned into some sort of Scott Parker/Jack Colback hybrid whereby he no longer looks up, and seems totally bereft of ideas. Gouffran has no turn of pace and no sharpness from out on the left side, and he clearly would still rather play more central.

In order to play the way we do, and especially without Shelvey's precision passing in midfield, we need searing pace down the flanks, both from midfield and fullback positions. I know it's unlikely but I wouldn't mind seeing something like Yedlin and Haidara (if and when fit) at fullback, with Atsu and Lazaar in the wide positions, and then one of Ritchie, Diame or even Gouffran (a more natural finisher) behind Gayle.

Lost more games than Villa ffs

 

We haven't lost a single game at home this season. I'm genuinely utterly f***ing perplexed as to how that is the case.

 

It was like when I recently found out Doris Day is still alive.

High quality turd. He'll be fine at this level.

Bored of predictable line up. And formation.

 

Rafa's class. But not one bit adventurous with teams and formations.

 

Not being a cock, i get 3 points or any points are vital but im hoping at some point we might see something different.

We haven't had a manager who knows what he's doing for absolute ages. We finally do, and he has us sitting top of the table, smashing this league, and people are bored. Don't quite get it sometimes.

The BBC Sport website seems to love Allardyce for some reason.

 

There are 3 stories alone about him on the main page. Also this piece from their chief sports writer saying how wonderful Allardyce is: -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38408288

 

This is my least favourite part: -

 

His reputation as a troubleshooter is actually enhanced by the fate of two clubs who sacked him. Newcastle United and Blackburn Rovers both dispensed with his services - in January 2008 and December 2010 respectively - and down the line both eventually dropped into the Championship.

 

Well I remember the song during his reign was "we're s*** and we're sick of it". You'd be hard pushed to find any Newcastle fan who wasn't happy to this day that Allardyce was sacked by NUFC.

 

Looks like it will be another miracle job when he keeps Crystal Palace up even though nobody thinks they should be down where they are with their current squad anyway.

I note that the awful BBC fail to mention that when KK took over from Allardyce, he not only improved the football but saved the club from the relegation fate it would have endured that season, had Allardyce remained as manager...only the engineered departure of KK the following September, was the reason for the club being relegated.

Still, the BBC acting true to form and only putting their own slant on events...as usual.

It is quite shocking to me how fast the BBC has gone from being probably the best news source in the world, to being a vile and petty spin-doctoring pile of s***.

I wonder how much notice Rafa took of SP at the time? Obviously he's a footballing encyclopaedia and will have heard of the campaign. I wonder what he thought about it privately. I wonder if the campaign added to his realisation that this isn't a docile fanbase, and that if you could get the fans on-side, then miracles can happen. I wouldn't be surprised if the first thing Rafa told Charnley when being interviewed is that they absolutely must treat the fans better than that they had done previously.

Re: Figures 1-0 argument: The SP campaign was not just a bunch of people screaming abuse at Pardew. The campaign aimed to show that fans will no longer sit on their hands, ignoring facts and evidence that the club was an empty shell and heading nowhere. It was a message to Ashley and the media, more than it was anti-Pardew per se. It was a campaign to protest the campaign by ex-players and pundits to continuously belittle this club and pull the wool over the consumer's eyes when it came to one of their darling own: a British ex-player doing an awful job managing in the top division. SackPardew.com was a middle finger to all of that, and not just some shouty gig to make a manager slightly uncomfortable.

Merry Christmas you bad motherfuckers.

Peace on Earth and Up the Villa hoop.

Yes like Ben arfa was overweight. Ben arfa was also far more talented than Barkley and his lax attitude to training was what annoyed his team mates which led to him leaving here. Barkley is a half decent player in the scheme of things but he is certainly overweight and for people's "dream" to be for us to sign him is silly

It was one guy's dream, not "people". Also, we have the Rafa factor here to take into consideration. The prospect of a player of Barkley's undoubted talent under Rafa is not the same as Barkley coming to play SMC for example.

Palace chairman and co-owner Steve Parish has told BBC Sport: “I’m not going to blame other people [American co-owners]. Relegation is so costly and I feel with no blame attached we got ourselves in a rut and need a change. We hope a change will change things.

 

"Even the most one-eyed opposition supporter would accept we've been on the end of some appalling [referee] errors over the last few games.

 

"We all bought into the decision to play a more expansive style of football. We all believed in it. That hasn't worked. It's no-one's fault. The players have been running their socks off for Alan, the spirit is good.

 

"But now we’re going to wind the dial back the other way. We’re talking to a number of people to make sure we get this right, nothing has been agreed.”

 

What the fuck is that? What the fuck is this thick cunt smoking?