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I don't think this would have been all over the national news without the David Milliband thing FWIW.

Haven't kept up with this, is he still not getting surgery like? I thought we'd tried to chance it twice already without surgery, and he'd pulled up each time? Dr Pardz from about 2 weeks ago Jesus, consider me completely comfortable that we know what we're doing then.

Fucking easiest Easter egg hunt of all time, they're all over the shop.

Haven't kept up with this, is he still not getting surgery like? I thought we'd tried to chance it twice already without surgery, and he'd pulled up each time?

Canny game like, QPR actually showing a bit of fight for once.

Eh, why are people suddenly shitting themselves? Cos we're s***? At least playing s*** anyway. Not at home we're not and Fulham are not as good away either.... plus its f*cking QPR We were pretty s*** against Stoke, like. If we play shit against Fulham and win i won't give a flying f*ck. Playing well might give us a better chance of winning, it's an alien concept at this point I realise.

Eh, why are people suddenly shitting themselves? 1st goal: A penalty. 2nd goal: Shit defending at the back and not paying attention. 3rd goal: An own goal. Maybe because they scored 3 goals in 30 minutes, which is how many we've scored in our last 360 minutes.

At least he stopped Berbatov scoring I suppose.

Berbatov just merking people all over the shop here.

Use your left foot man you useless prick.

Most transparent ban request ever from wor Ish.

Once v Reading. Well they did Swap around that game. What's Paul Once got to do with it?

Did you threaten to overrule him?

Pardew had a lot of choice about shoehorning Ba and Cisse into a 442 for half of the season, if he'd stuck with the same front 3 as the back end of last year then there wouldn't have been much need to play Jonas most of the time. And even if you did he'd be playing central, where he's clearly better. Jonas is just as hopeless on the wing as Marveaux's been, he's just played 10 times as many times there and their strenths/weaknesses are in stark contrast, i.e. one is perveived to put a shift in when the other isn't. Still don't see the sense of having him sat on the bench in favour of a far poorer player.

Not sure I buy into this like, we've had a few bad spells for injuries but he started moaning about it before he'd even had more than 2 or 3 players out. Could quite easily dig up 10+ teamsheets where we've had a very good side out and still managed to lose/draw the game. Aye not what i'm saying though, saying that i can't recall a game where we had our strongest side to pick from and when we get close to it someone else gets injured So i wouldn't really say the premise is he's crap because he can't get the best of what we have, he's crap because he absolutely needs the best at all times and when he doesn't we don't get results. As you rightly point out there has been many occasions where we had a good enough team to win a game an we didn't. Its simply not good enough, i will be hoping the board back him in the summer though and he uses what he has to an acceptable standard as i can't see a scenario where he's sacked if i'm honest. If he needs his entire squad to be fit and available for every game, in this day and age, then you're right that we really are fucked mate.

Our squad, sorted by appearances, just for the sake of the debate: Player Apps Goals Papiss Cissé 38 10 Davide Santon 36 1 James Perch 34 1 Vurnon Anita 32 1 Jonás Gutiérrez 31 1 Sylvain Marveaux 31 2 Shola Ameobi 29 4 Tim Krul 27 0 Fabricio Coloccini 27 0 Yohan Cabaye 26 6 Mike Williamson 26 0 Cheick Tioté 26 0 Steven Taylor 26 0 Gaël Bigirimana 24 1 Gabriel Obertan 23 1 Danny Simpson 22 0 Demba Ba 22 13 Hatem Ben Arfa 15 3 Sammy Ameobi 14 0 Shane Ferguson 14 0 Moussa Sissoko 12 3 Rob Elliot 12 0 Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa 11 0 Mathieu Debuchy 9 0 Yoan Gouffran 8 1 James Tavernier 8 0 Steve Harper 7 0 Dan Gosling 6 0 Romain Amalfitano 5 0 Massadio Haïdara 5 0 Nile Ranger 4 0 Ryan Taylor 3 1 Haris Vučkić 3 1 Mehdi Abeid 3 0 Adam Campbell 3 0 Paul Dummett 1 0 Xisco 0 0 Curtis Good 0 0 Bradden Inman 0 0 Conor Newton 0 0 Jak Alnwick 0 0 Remie Streete 0 0 Steven Logan 0 0 Yven Moyo 0 0 Dennis Knight 0 0

Are you the guy who said we should appoint gazza? Didn't say we should appoint Gazza. I said I would take Gazza ahead of Pardew and believe me I'd take anyone ahead of Pardew. You'd have to be a complete baffoon not to be able to do better than Pardew with this squad of players. Do you work for the press by any chance? You seem quite good at twisting quotes to suit yourself. You said you would 'quite happily appoint gazza'. Which makes it difficult to take anything you ever say again seriously. Twisting quotes again. You've missed out the word 'if'. Must be The Sun or Mirror you're with. How does the word 'if' make what you are saying ant less mental? ant less mental???????????????????? Typo. So, gazza. You would happily appoint him 'if' pards was sacked. Is this what you're saying? I think he's generalising anyone decent would be better, using Gazza to make his point was rather erm......daft. I just wanted him to confirm it for the whole board to see. Him? Why do you assume me to be a male Mr. ElliottMAN. Shut the fuck up That's SEMTEX for you, hates women.

Hey hobshobs, Elliottman can stay up until any time he wants.

Not sure I buy into this like, we've had a few bad spells for injuries but he started moaning about it before he'd even had more than 2 or 3 players out. Could quite easily dig up 10+ teamsheets where we've had a very good side out and still managed to lose/draw the game.

Measure it?

NUFC.com says "He also added that Cheick Tiote, Davide Santon, Sylvain Marveaux would all be OK for Benfica on Thursday". Team was: Elliot, Simpson, Yanga-Mbiwa, S.Taylor, Gutierrez, Anita, Cabaye (Bigirimana 74), Gouffran (Gosling 63), Sissoko, Obertan (Perch 46), Cisse. Subs n/u: Harper, Good, Marveaux, Campbell. So I guess the best we could hope for would be something like Krul/Simpson-Taylor-MYM-Santon/Cabaye-Tiote/Sissoko-Anita-Marveaux/Cisse, although you'd suspect to see Jonas or Shola in there somewhere. We really need some good wingers man, it's getting more painfully clear every game.

What's the likely pool of players we'll be choosing from for this one?

May as well get Pete Doherty in.

He's been areet for ages now though, I'm genuinely interested at what's so objectionable. Are you the guy who said we should appoint gazza? Going to be difficult to shake that one off.