Interpolic

Please be real.

Everyone needs to stop worrying as Pardew will no doubt play the situation expertly.

It's not really about being greedy and thinking we should have picked up more points before Christmas, it's about remembering how incredulous I was when watching games where we were clearly struggling and that cretin in the dugout refusing to bring him on whatsoever. Or when he did first give him a chance from the start (Man City and Man Utd away in November) he was our best player. One dodgy first half against Chelsea and he was dragged off at half time and back on 20 minute cameo duty (if he got on at all) for the next month and a half. I remember the period vividly and I thought he was wrong then and I think he was wrong now.

It wasn't supposed to, I didn't quote you as it was a comment in general and not at anybody. Fair enough.

I'm not sure how this is contradicting that tbh.

Double denim, boi!

In 10 years he will. What an utterly meaningless comment.

If Pardew plays a shit team against rubbish opposition and we win the game 1-0 when we could have won 4-0, did he play it perfectly? It's a similar argument in that we'll never know, I just know what my opinion is. I think we could have picked up even more points before Christmas last season if we'd used him now and then when we needed him. His quotes in the article Jack Flash linked to are a perfect example, he bottled playing Ben Arfa away to Norwich because we were weak at the back (Pardew's words, not mine) when he could have lifted the pressure with some attacking impetus. I was at that game and we were crying out for it. People claiming Pardew's a football Einstein aren't talking about the fact he played him central for so long either, which in my opinion was part of the reason he was ineffective as he looked lost.

Aye, he's just a fairly clever player in that respect - the player's quite often all over him but he's drawn the foul with the way he shapes his body and buys the free kick. Going back to Solano, he was one of the most intelligent players we've ever had playing for us. Apologies for slagging off Obertan but he was the opposite to Obertan in that his football intelligence was off the scale, his reading of the game was fantastic. Loved that spell when he was sort of on his way out and played right-back for us for about half a season, he had a brilliant tendency of committing a cynical foul when the opposition was on the break, making it look like an accident then backing off making that gesture of a ball shape with his hands. Totally knew what he was doing every time and alleviated the pressure expertly without picking up many bookings.

His tweet's out of fucking out of order tbf.

Aye, he's a nice bloke who plays the game with a smile on his face but he's on his arse constantly. Solano was similar mind, both excellent at buying fouls.

Jonas loves a bit of that like.

Think that was tactical/conservative myself, given the other wide players that were getting a game at the time.

He played 608 minutes in the League over the course of us having 21 games from his first match back (Blackburn at home) to the mackems game. Seemed excessively under-used at the time, and I still believe he was excessively under-used. Pardew also flat-out refused to play him on the wing until he swallowed his pride and realised he was being a tit about the whole thing.

What do you mean?

OK, just ignore my whole post. My comments in a similar situation at work would be similar, I'd imagine it would be easier to curry favour by acting like it was no big deal and I was just happy to muck in at the time. It's easy to do that after the event.

It suggests that Ben Arfa was not being selected whilst he was fit and ready to play, I cannot possibly see how it could support what I'm saying more Of course he's going to say that at the time though, Hans. He was a frustrated man, itching to get back, show what he can do. I'm glad he made those comments at the time, but it's what he's said in hindsight, what he feels after the time, is what is important I reckon. I disagree, it's like when my boss knows I've had a pig of a time recently and has been too busy to offer any support whatsoever. They ask me while it's going on and I'll go off on a massive rant about it, they ask me when things have calmed down a bit and things are going better for me and I'll say it's no bother and I can barely remember what the fuss was. Couple that with the fact that it does him/me more harm than good to whinge once matters have improved, well there's not much chance of there being a great deal of moaning going on by that point. Doesn't mean he seriously agreed with it.

I'd keep him for 100 years if it meant I could see him one game a season. :lol: Verging on the ridiculous now like. Jack Flash has got a point tbh, I'd sign him up regardless but he hasn't played much football for us at all.

Hundreds of billions.

Mine came last July. http://images.wikia.com/smuff/images/e/ec/Deal_with_it_sloth.gif We've been shit in nearly every home game this season. http://cache.bordom.net/server/?type=image&size=full&id=aHR0cDovL3MzLWVjLmJ1enpmZWQuY29tL3N0YXRpYy9lbmhhbmNlZC93ZWIwNC8yMDExLzEyLzE5LzIyL2FuaWdpZl9lbmhhbmNlZC1idXp6LTI4NzgyLTEzMjQzNTEyMzUtNy5naWY%3D I've had to give up my season ticket since now I live in London and I'm missing our mini revivaL. http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md0ob9RVqO1rdtgc0o1_400.gif Exactly the same as my mate (ajewels on here), first match he missed was Chelsea FFS.

Mine came last July. http://images.wikia.com/smuff/images/e/ec/Deal_with_it_sloth.gif We've been shit in nearly every home game this season. http://cache.bordom.net/server/?type=image&size=full&id=aHR0cDovL3MzLWVjLmJ1enpmZWQuY29tL3N0YXRpYy9lbmhhbmNlZC93ZWIwNC8yMDExLzEyLzE5LzIyL2FuaWdpZl9lbmhhbmNlZC1idXp6LTI4NzgyLTEzMjQzNTEyMzUtNy5naWY%3D

They do nearly get relegated every season mind. They also get crowds of about 20k and have a wage bill that's probably a fraction of ours.

Well fucking hell, I'll watch my fucking letterbox. I'm not sure you can say calling someone mental is akin to saying they have a mental defect either, it's become a bit of a colloquialism. I'd imagine that you know that, so all of this outrage at the end of the conversation's just an attempt to make me look bad. Whatever, I'm not really bothered but you're well aware that I've never been on your case on here in the way a lot of others have been. Considering how mental you are, anyway. The reason I was asking you for sources is that you were barking figures and facts at me as if they were the Gospel. The reason I wasn't providing sources is that my points were unfortunately a bit airy-fairy and not really based on economics, e.g. it was a fantastic spectacle (my opinion, one which is widely held), it will leave a great legacy in terms of sparking peoples' interest for sport (not that easily measurable, and certainly not at this point in time) and that it gave people a great chance to see top class sport basically on their doorstep at an affordable price, which I've been through with you and won't budge on.

No, some tickets were reasonably priced, others weren't. What I did say though that over all including transport the cost of going to the Olympics and Paralympics was unaffordable for most people outside of London. Well it wasn't. Next. Yeah nice that isn't it?, someone who lives right next door to the Olympic park says "Coming to London to see the Olympics is affordable for those who live outside of the London area". It was affordable, it's got nothing to do with where I live. It wasn't affordable, and yes it does when you claim it is affordable for other people to travel down and attend the games when you yourself literally just have to walk out of your front door to get to the games. That's irrelevant because I can see past the end of my own nose. Tickets were affordable and train travel is affordable if you book in plenty advance, otherwise I had mates who booked event tickets short notice and jumped on the Megabus because they were desperate to get down and see some sport. Plus there's that example of my brother bringing a load of kids from his class, an example that will have been replicated up and down the country. Your brother would have been given funds to have done that and you have already admitted he had to make it a day trip because he could not get accommodation, something which isn't exactly ideal or viable in most cases. :lol: That's my cue to leave, you've just made that up. They didn't need accomodation, it was a day trip. What's the matter with that? It wasn't expensive. There was a sliding scale of ticket prices but for the Paralympics at least you never had to pay more than 20 quid a ticket. Tell me about people you've spoken to about it being expensive all you like, I'll trust my own experience and the experience of my mates (who aren't mental) who went. Basically your point is that the £11bn could have been better spent, I'm saying that it was a fantastic experience for a lot of people which will leave a good legacy in years to come. It wasn't "just so London could show off again" and I think your weird bitterness towards London shines through with everything you say. We'll never agree - you're entitled to your opinion and I'm entitled to mine. And on that note I'm off. It has not been fun.

No, some tickets were reasonably priced, others weren't. What I did say though that over all including transport the cost of going to the Olympics and Paralympics was unaffordable for most people outside of London. Well it wasn't. Next. Yeah nice that isn't it?, someone who lives right next door to the Olympic park says "Coming to London to see the Olympics is affordable for those who live outside of the London area". It was affordable, it's got nothing to do with where I live. It wasn't affordable, and yes it does when you claim it is affordable for other people to travel down and attend the games when you yourself literally just have to walk out of your front door to get to the games. That's irrelevant because I can see past the end of my own nose. Tickets were affordable and train travel is affordable if you book in plenty advance, otherwise I had mates who booked event tickets short notice and jumped on the Megabus because they were desperate to get down and see some sport. Plus there's that example of my brother bringing a load of kids from his class, an example that will have been replicated up and down the country.