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This pre-season went smoother than last years tbh.

It's only played a big part because of the manager. So that percentage should be assimilated into Pardew's.

dunno

Didn't see it, did he play badly?

Real lack of top quality CBs at the moment. Kompany is many people's pick and he's had some really uncertain games all season.

First goal of 2013 for Jermaine.

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Yes please! Pretty average player. Would look even worse when he has his best attribute (movement and runs) completely drilled out of him. Not average at all and he's very young. He has lots of good attributes and in a better team will do well. He's got some energy, makes nice runs and movement but pretty profligate in front of goal. Not the most talented of players tbh, just another overrated Villa youngster.

Fuck Poyet

Don't think it was a journalist, just somebody texting/tweeting/commenting?

Wish our attacking under Pards was as accurate as this post.

I think there is plenty reason to believe that Martinez is more transferable to a top club due to his age and his philosophy of football. The others are at best mid-table managers who would fail disasterously if they were even given a sniff of a bigger club, prime example being Allardyce's chronic attempt to turn us into Bolton with a bigger ground. I'm not saying Martinez is a guarenteed success, but he's by far a better bet. No point even discussing what 'success' they've had in their respective clubs, its irrelevant if that success if based on expensive hoofball that isn't transferable.

Pards 99% Notting Hill Carnival 1%

Aye, we should be trying to knock Man Utd off there perch. That should be the aim for every team.

Yes it does. Nobody wins leagues playing Allardyce/Pulisball. You're always better going with a manager that has an actual footballing philosophy if you want to achieve something - whether that is all out attacking football, possession based, counter-attacking, or more cautious. Something that is actually transferable to a top side, not this Rugby style/long ball/numbers game bollocks where you buy players to fit into the tactic and bully your way to 13th in the league. The latter shouldn't exist, it goes against the entire notion of competition in the league. These guys are happy to pick up away draws where they can, spunk money on aging dross, buy handydowns from Man Utd and simply be happy with expensive mediocrity because it keeps them in a job until people just get bored with apathy. A disease on the league.

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Amazingly simplistic, tunnel vision judgement to think Pulis is superior than Martinez because he's had a few 13th/14th placed finishes instead of a few 15th/16th placed finishes. Only one of the two managers would be able to make a natural, sliding improvement when given better players to work with and its certainly not Pulis. Pulis is from the Pardew school of the better players he's given the worse he'll get, such is his backwards management style that belongs nowhere near the top flight.

Yes please! Pretty average player. Would look even worse when he has his best attribute (movement and runs) completely drilled out of him.

Wish they'd left him on for longer so he could keep going. Stopped because he was criticising his mate.

Good post Sif.

Would be playing as a second left back under Pards.

SOOOOOOOOPAAAAA HOOOOOOOPSAAHHH!! Is also what they chant. Utter shite.

'ol Graham has a better win percentage anarl.

Very little between this season and the Souness era. In fact, I'd argue that this has been worse than any of Souness' and is pushing 08/09 pretty close in the shitness stakes.