themanupstairs

If the club were intent on showing ambition, they'd sign Thauvin and keep Cabella. Unless Cabella himself wants to leave, this stinks of balancing the books again. Wonder if the injury to Sissoko had a hand in pushing this through so quickly after the weekend.

Warren Barton at anfield Tiote as well more recently

Who did Bamford hand a Time Out to?

Have they recently changed their name to Pardew's Palace FC? It's all Peter Drury can bang on about. He's desperate for them to score. Cunt. Also, how good is it to see that fat useless spoon Woodman on someone else's bench?

Take a bow Mike Jones. Correct decision to book and send Janmaat off, but otherwise an absolute thundercunt. Three times Swansea players pulled our players back and he only booked one of them on the 3rd incident. Fuck off.

Yeah we did and it was easy to spot. Yup. It wasn't the non-descript away performance we've become used to. It was starting to take shape as well before the dickhead got himself sent off, which is a shame.

This has got to be it.

He was booked for persistent fouling. The ref was a an inconsistent cunt aye, but the shirt pull when on a yellow makes Janmaat completely at fault for throwing the match. Should be made to pay all the expenses of the traveling support tbh.

Cisse has no presence up front whatsoever. We spent more time in Swansea's half in the 10 minutes Mitrovic was on than we did the first 80 minutes. He obviously needs to calm the fuck down, but I reckon that will come with starting matches, and not sitting on the bench itching to play, then coming on charging around like Mike Tyson in a doll house.

This tbh. He's very good. Stupid from him, but he's very good. He is very good, but the decision to pull someone's shirt in their own half when on a yellow is beyond stupid. It's irresponsible and effectively betrayed his own teammates and fans. Very cuntish behavior IMO. He's clearly one of our best players, but you just cannot throw a game away like this for a fucking shirt pull. I'm fucking livid tbh. Ruined my weekend

Simply unacceptable performance or behavior. Gone from one of my favorite players to an absolute cunt. If McClaren has anything about him, Janmaat will be disciplined heavily or sold. Utter wanker.

at those who captained Rooney. He looks way off the pace, and Man Utd still haven't figured out the best way to get him chances. Avoided making a transfer this week so I can get him out of the team next with 2 FT. Made Milner my captain instead. He'll score an OG and get sent off on Monday Edit: Just realized we play them at OT next week. Rooney stays.

Newcomer of the year Get cracking on the thread. You'll enjoy it. Welcome to the board.

I was under the impression that he wanted to peg the full backs back by offering our own threat down the wings (albeit only in the form of pace in Obertan's case). His plan was clearly to try and push Southampton into their own half due to the potential speed we had on the transition. That isn't a Pardewesque mentality at all. Exactly. I'm all for calling out a cowardly bullshitter. McClaren hasn't shown any of Pardew's character as of yet when it comes to the footballing side of things. He's in cahoots with the owner, but that's one relationship we are still yet to see how it plays out.

As if the bumlick of the people's champion al pards and Crystal Palace isn't embarrassing enough. You listen to Howe and you listen to the charlatan, and there's a world of a difference, but aye. Fuck Bournemouth.

Say what?

If we get our counter formula right, we could get a result in this game IMO. Wijnaldum with Anita in the middle, Sissoko and Aarons out wide, Ayoze and Cisse in the number 10 and 9 respectively. That's what I'd like to see.

Can't complain about a home tie against a L2 side. Really hope we have a good cup run this year, just so it can feel like we're a proper football club again.

201/209 Missed out Elliott (on account of the second T), Robert and Parker

Peddling this waste of space would earn SMC a lot of slack from my side. Took him all of 5 minutes to figure out that he's a useless pardball oaf that has no place in the PL let alone a team that should be aiming for the top 7.

Probably someone off here

Wijnaldum's set-pieces were quite poor though in the main. (black - check) (forrin - check) (criticism - check)