Darth Crooks

Obertan - 5 brains and two left feet. A plant Pokemon in a vegetative state.

Pardadew - Can fire lies from his arse, its super effective!

Had the idea whilst light headed from cutting myself. Id read the Pardew thread.

Witchhunting the gadgies here like:lol:

Elmander Elmeleon Elrizard

Winner

I'm depressed continually by the football forum these days and its time to lighten the pathos a bit. Always thought Puncheon sounded a bit Pokemonish. Who else? What are their powers? What the fuck HC? Are you feeling alright ? Few more... Vydra Hulk Snodgrass Shola - Fall Over- It's super ineffective Lets have a laugh ffs. If not FO and try askFM you miserable bastards.

Would not rule anything out given their conduct. Anything. Their tenure is sickening and repugnant.

Clarence Akuma

Can write their league place off then.

Fuck off and leave you vermin (not biggs btw)

Mickey Quinn ffs.

Good point but i'd rather a manager stood up to owners than let himself get bummed. Ashley wouldn't appoint Poyet if he stands up for himself. Yeah, but we have Ashley, that's the thing. So if the manager makes too much of a fuss he'll just be sacked. And chaos. Hence why i'm sticking with Pards, at least he's half coping with it off the pitch at the moment even though he knows things are f***ed up, just now his job to get things right on the pitch starting with tomorrow. hold on, hold on, you should probably flesh this out a bit with some facts Keegan walked out on him, took him to court and won. Fairly factual, Ashley's way or the highway. so totally the opposite of what was said and what i bolded then? Ashley would have sacked him regardless if Keegan walked or not. Keegan kicked up a fuss and chaos was caused from high up. That's what Ian was implying, Ashley wouldn't allow a manager to come in and do things his way, if he tried, like Keegan wanted to, he's gone, that simple. ian can imply whatever the f*** he likes, but ashley sacked allardyce for being s*** and signing people on mental contracts, keegan walked, and he sacked hughton because they wanted their own man in...and that's the sum of that really Own man? He appointed Hughton! suppose i meant a man he owns then...still, you're wrong... He owned Hughton, he was just a yes man exactly the same, i'm not really sure where you are going with your point here? If he wanted Hughton sacked, he should of upgraded, instead he just side stepped, some would argue downgraded. Clearly Hughton had developed an aspect of his character that Mike didn't like. A spine probably.

Going down man based on this discussion. Just highlights the utterly FUBAR nature of it all. No club is stable or successful whilst like this.

this, is there honestly still anyone on here who doesn't believe he deserves the sack based purely on his performance over the last year? i know brett is one but is there anyone else? would love to see a poll like I can think of 3 who? inochi, ian w, brett? i don't think ian w and inochi would keep the fella like they just seem to revel in being contrary (might be wrong)....someone else is a bit pro-pards, happy face? By the way his performances from last season do deserve the sack just for the record, but i've just always maintained i wouldn't trust Ashley to hire someone to make me happy if he was ditched. Onnce decision was made to keep him, i decided to give him another season and another chance. So actually i do think in general Pardew's performances from last season should have earned him the sack under normal circumstances, but this club hasn’t got normal circumstances Talk about a contradiction of a post. If you are happy with a bloke you think should have been sacked , what difference does it make who is appointed? Because there's a difference, if i was a Spurs fan i'd have wanted Harry Redknapp sacked and AVB brought in, however i wouldn't have wanted Redknapp sacked if they weren't looking to upgrade. In our case we wouldn't be looking to upgrade, it would be someone like/deffo JFK, so i'd rather stick? I think you would be hard pressed to find a manager worse than Pardew tbh . I've actually named our next manager in my post if Pardew gets fired so i wouldn't say i'm hard pressed. He certainly isn't worse. I would guarantee you wouldn't see the cowardly tactics and performances that Pardew has been manufacturing. Incredible that you can be so sure Joe would be better. Not sure what the basis is for that conclusion. The point is, he's not likely to be worse. Replacing one dinosaur manager with another isn't really what's required, but at least we're a step further along the road. How will being a 'step further along the road', with all of the unrest that goes with it, help us to win football matches? If Kinnear is no worse, or better, than Pardew - what's the benefit? Because one more detestable cunt is out of the club? This. I don't care if we finish 17th if it meant getting rid of this court of cretins. The less of them the better.

Got him the gig as the painting in Ghostbusters.

Joe has been strongly linked with Helmut Cheiss. Must be 1 of the 3? Bundesligue?

Yes Alan. Football and finance. How silly of us.

Apparently managed to get Peski Bolokic yesterday. Anyone know anything about him? Croatian?

Followed by HT excitement... http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lf5a9hsgPF1qdaaw6o1_500.gif

Put Laudrup in front of the Stoke squad and you are sure you wouldn't once think "hang in, this manager would do better if he was allowed to identify his own transfer targets"..? 100% agree with the rest of hour post. Once again, I am not defending Pardew, just arguing that he is being hung out to dry, which doesn't help an already limited manager, and merely replacing him (with one of the likely candidates) is unlikely to see us reach our potential. Our problems run much deeper. Think we're pretty close on the last bit together. Though I would find it weird for anyone not to be. I find the Laudrup thing hard to consider because it's purely hypothesis and well, frankly he is a much better manager imo. It's further clouded by the belief that Laudrup picks players based on a philosophy that creates effective football, whereas Pardew seems to aim for more journeyman types that fit a less effective ethos. I know your saying that if he could pick his players we might do better, but there a re too many other variables that make that comparison an odd one. He signed Michu (best signing in recent years) and Hernandez whereas Pardew has frequently aimed for the likes of Carroll and Darren Bent; and signed cast-offs like Obertan. I don't know. He's a better manger who knows what a better player is?

Then I would argue Laudrup is an astute enough manager tactically and intelligent enough to make the appropriate adaptations and decisions in order to make it effective. Pardew is decidedly less so; thus a massive hinderance to his success in this situation. I don't think anyone will disagree that he is being shafted. However we are emotionally invested and stuck with Ashley, whereas he knew what he was climbing into bed with when he joined. Why? because he's a very limited manager who was given the opportunity to play for a club bigger than he has ever managed. The problem is he is rubbish and that is compounded by the fact that he has an owner who doesn't care/won't invest sufficiently on business grounds/makes mind-boggling decisions. The fact he is still in a job and a 'professional' such as this tolerated is just one facet of why this club is the endemic clusterfuck that it is. Until everyone who is now part of the club hierarchy and players who don't want to be here are gone and replaced by people who have hunger and ambition then we'll be finger pointing until the cows come home. Ashley ultimately is responsible for the lot of course; beyond that it's tricky but Pardew is high up imo.

Confidence is a problem depending how widely you cast the net. In a whole club sense then yes. As a team; a coherent gameplan comes before gaining the confidence to implement and sustain it. Well low confidence is a knock on effect (from things like poor tsctics, player sales, poor results, poor manageent) it just compounds the misery and pulls us faster on the downwards spiral we are on. Only a sacking will rescue it IMO. Until then it will get worse. The crowd won't have too much patience this season, Pardew has had his time, he's wasted it moaning at everyone else rather than looking at himself. Confidence didnt come first, I guess that's what you are saying, if so I agree. Aye. Confidence is the place from which you work back to what the root problem is. (Parklife).

I'm starting to think he doesn't exist and is like Keyser Soze or the Mandarin in Iron Man 3

Confidence is a problem depending how widely you cast the net. In a whole club sense then yes. As a team; a coherent gameplan comes before gaining the confidence to implement and sustain it.