Novocastrian

Restless but docile.

He won't man, get real

We need a full on protest with 2000-3000 for fat Mike to notice, it's not going to happen, apathy has set in.

No chance of this happening.

Alan Pardew is big shite.

.....or Shola.

I know I shouldn't laugh but if I'm worrying about other teams results with 16 matches to go I might as well fucking top myself now. Fuck Chelsea.

These days? We've been obsessed with them for years. One of the sticks we used to beat Shepherd with was the state of the f***ing finances and how unsustainable it all was. The issue here isn't the finances. It's never the finances. If we're not playing well then our supporters will look for a reason and for some reason it always seems to come down to the money. Nowadays we're not spending enough of it and can't attract quality. A few years ago we were spending too much and had a team full of mercenaries as a result. We win and no one gives a f*** about the cash. We play so s*** these days, people are going nuts. Me included. I wish we had a manager with a clear/nice-to-watch football philosophy. I have no clue what Pardew really wants, seems to have no clue. Thats my big issue these days, more than any signings we are not making True, whilst we are desperately short of reinforcements it costs nothing to set your team up competently and get some movement.

Hawking's battery lasts more than 20 minutes to be fair to him. He's also comfortably faster than Ameobi.

One look at SJP proves this. I don't think he has any ambition for the club beyond plugging SD and clawing back the money he lost by not undertaking due diligence. I think that was his original intention but the success of the 'model': buy younger, or damaged/maverick, players with a sell on fee and put them on relatively low wages has, I think, changed his outlook. As long as he can keep them coming in and has a compliant,semi-competent, manager who can keep us in the top flight the cunt is literally printing money. Once the TV moolah starts rolling in and we continue making a profit he has no need to jeopardise the status quo by doing anything risky like attempting to win a trophy or crazy shit like that.

Just don't change at LHR.

He bought us as a platform for his gash sportswear empire, he (or one of his cronies) admitted that ages ago.

We nearly did but the fat bucket of shit won't be going anywhere until he's had his money back, then some.

I know I should be pleased that Soton are getting beat (embarassing isn't it) but after the week we've had? Demba Ba

There's a great belief in the group.

They will never be met by the board, the 'system' does not allow it. He'll be off before too long, not to one of the real big boys though, just a more ambitious club than us. The players can always move on but we are stuck here

Considering the cunt can't read or write, or use a computer he's a fucking menace.

Are we still scouting Kuyt?

Cheers, I wasn't going to put that s*** on and now I'm not going to put that s*** on.

Ryder on Talksport now.

In a normal world (without Pardew) we would be zipping the ball around between HBA, Cabaye, Debuchy, Marveaux etc and flying up the league table. In that setup I think Remy would fit in and be a success. I don't think he's the type of player that anyone in a hard core relegation scrap needs though, maybe I'm wrong but I think he's a huge gamble in that scenario.

They are spending next years TV money trying to stay up. Exactly, as far as they are concerned it's low risk as they'll ship him out if they are relegated and probably get a decent fee for him.

Me too, I stopped investing too much emotional capital in players a long time ago, f*** him if he doesn't want to come here and f*** any of our players who want to leave. There'll always be 11 lads in black and white shirts............they'll probably just be a bit crapper then we've been used to Are you sure? You'd think most of us would be used to some pretty bad crap I was around in the 80s so I've seen some proper shit, Frank Pingel anyone?

Me too, I stopped investing too much emotional capital in players a long time ago, fuck him if he doesn't want to come here and fuck any of our players who want to leave. There'll always be 11 lads in black and white shirts............they'll probably just be a bit crapper then we've been used to

The problem is that the 'model' has not been sufficiently developed further. Beyond bringing young and cheap, by PL standards, players in from France and having moderate success there doesn't seem to be a plan, or even a will, to progress. We had a chance to strengthen the team and cement ourselves as a top 6 side pushing for the Champs League places. This was not taken and it would be no surprise if some of our better players were asking the question 'is this as good as it gets'?