Darth Crooks

Wow. That's put me on a downer. If we win it won't be a great win, it probably won't even be deserved, it will be tight and down to poor play or mistakes by wham. We aren't going to turn on some style or be organised not when we haven't done that now for over a year. Any kind of win might be enough to start the ball rolling and lift a few heads but even if it does its papering over the cracks and it'll only take a better organised team playing with confidence to see through it and put us right back where the team belongs under the current manager. I think at this point we just need a win to get the ball rolling in the right direction. One of our biggest problems is confidence. Wew. Confidence is one of our biggest problems, really?

Wow. That's put me on a downer. If we win it won't be a great win, it probably won't even be deserved, it will be tight and down to poor play or mistakes by wham. We aren't going to turn on some style or be organised not when we haven't done that now for over a year. Any kind of win might be enough to start the ball rolling and lift a few heads but even if it does its papering over the cracks and it'll only take a better organised team playing with confidence to see through it and put us right back where the team belongs under the current manager. I think at this point we just need a win to get the ball rolling in the right direction. One of our biggest problems is confidence. Wew.

f***ing hell man. Saying judge us against West Ham Saturday evening, not Man City away? What's the f***ing hell man for? I would say that's a sensible thing to do? No? just me? The f***ing hell man is for you saying 'more appropriate opposition levels'. The bit I bolded. It speaks for itself, it's just more pathetic snivelling s****. Lie all you want about judging us on 1 game this weekend, we both know that won't be the case if we don't get a result. I can well understand why you bolded the bit about 'more appropriate opposition levels'. To be honest, the amount of apathy and cringing to both the clubs policies and Pardew is beginning to do my head in. As a fan for more than 50 years and who has taken an active part in changing the club by being part of the movement to oust McKeag in the late 80s, I am beginning to feel it just wasn't worth the time and effort many of us put in because it seems that many fans today are quite prepared - and happy with - being cannon fodder for at least a quarter of the PL as well as believing that we are permanently a second rate club and lack any more potential than clubs like Leeds and Sheffield United. If we had all believed that, we would never have had the SJH and KK years, never had the signing of Alan Shearer or the CL years under SBR, but if people want to support a club that takes their money and tells them to be grateful for being in the PL as well as deliberately fielding weakened sides in the FA Cup so they can be kicked out by the likes of Brighton 2 seasons' running, good luck to them...they'll need it. I often wonder if some people ever look at the gate figures we had during the 70s, when we didn't win anything but had some great players and played some great football too - we always have been one of the best supported clubs in Britain and had SJH got his wish about Leazes Park, would have had the second largest ground after Man U...you can blame that idiot Prescott for that, but I reckon many on here won't want to admit THAT. Small-time thinking leads to small-time status in football - I just wonder what those who are content with the status quo will say if and when the club is bought out, hopefully by someone with more ambition as well as more money. Not sure where I stand on some of the rest of the post but that bit rings true. Far too many pragmatists letting acts of blatant disrespect and sheer folly go unanswered for. You can argue, modern football, what can we do? but christ, some of the shit this pack of vultures have gotten away with is disgusting. How the vast majority can be defended is beyond me.

It's long past time people starting picking apart in detail everything those associated with Ashley and co. say and do tbh. Pragmatism has gained us fuck all and your average toon fan is probably far too patient given what has gone on.

I just mean the general way in which people choose to draw whatever is the most negative possible conclusion from every quote. They must know that what he's saying is absolutely bog standard for a manager. As to your conclusion, yes it's a matter of opinion. Personally I think he has to big up the players he has because he might have to rely on them. He has to get the balance right with admitting we need signings without undermining his current players or lowering morale too much. Again, bog standard for a manager. I would contest that what is bog-standard for a manager at any other club is different to the situation at this one. Alistair Campbell would struggle to find a positive way of presenting the conduct of this club in recent years. Any one working under this regime; needs to tread pretty fucking carefully as far as I'm concerned. Liverpool fans have kicked off for much less and because their fans are respected (albeit too much on occasion) they are the better for it; certainly heading in a better direction than us.

I'm in agreesies with neesies; speak all the manager-cliche bingo-shite you like. To mention 'patience'; following ridiculous carry on like we had last season over 'thank god we haven't got the Europa League, I'd much sooner he say something like 'The next few days could be big for us.' He doesn't have to say anything else. As it stands he comes across as an arrogant sack of shit and If it walks like a duck, acts like a duck and talks like a duck then I'm not going give anyone a hard time with anyone who says that he's an arrogant sack of shit duck. In fact I'd rather he not mention us as fans ever, because to have the gall to pretend that what Ashley and as his minions have our interests at heart in any way given the farcical and sickening carry on that has been since they took over, is an insult and staggering. Just get some fucking humility and if you can; focus on getting the team playing.

*mr chips shitting his pants and chucking up on the 7th green* Is it Arshole in one Roy?

Finance detail and location aside. This guy is fucking us over royally; in a football sense, the enjoyment of being a football fan and in respecting us as intelligent (on the whole) human beings. This is regardless of whether it is intended or not. Anyone not on concerned with any of the above can pack up their troubles and fuck off. I'd take 17th in a heartbeat if is meant this maniacal turd fucked off at the end of the season.

JFK: I'm gonna play a very bad football manager who just doesn't care, and... Pardew: Sorry, if it's a Basil Fawlty type character, well, er, maybe I should do it, just for the comedy. JFK: Let me play it, just to kick things off. Pardew: Yeah, well I'll probably bring something to this role anyway.

It's just a job to these guys, simples Well I've got a face like a smacked arse when I've had a shocker at work, so it's even worse. That's one of the reasons Hatem's happy here, tbh. Worshipped across the board no matter how he or the rest of the team plays. I've said this before, one of the main positives, apparently, of Pardew is that HBA really likes him. Yeah, cos he gets to go to France for a month every time he has a knock and can apparently eat what he wants to. f*** all to do with performance. My favourite managers at work are the ones that let me have leave and don't moan when I'm on my phone when I'm meant to be working. Not sure if you are criticizing HBA or Pardew? You will never play for another manager like me. This is brilliant. Fact.

Chilled out entertainer

3 in by saturday? 3 what? Skinfuls? Cus it sure as hell wont be players.

Bet that black bags a catheter

I'd sell to anyone to get this poisonous rat away from the running of this club; Al-Queida, anyone.

Forsaken.

Be from 3-4 cunts down to two if Pardew went and followed Llambezee oot the door...we're facing a war of attrition with these arseholes until Ashley runs out of malice/patience/mates down the pub. Nobody wants Joe Kinnear as manager; it' just at the minute it feels as if were being offered a bear trap to the bollocks or a papercut to the bell. It's just that the paper cut to the bell is just as desirable as the other but goes about its unpopular work more subtly; with a notebook and nice suits and not a swivel-eyed drunken radgepacket like the beartrap.

This'll be a better yardstick of how we'll fare this season. We're going to do badly if we can't compete against a less stellar side than last night.

Sissokho is the starkest contrast...that debut game when he 'rapes' (PardewTM) Ashley Cole and looks as if he's been given the opportunity to show what he can do. Few months on and he's another in the long list of static drones that'll get brought off if he shows too an advanced tendency (a la Gouffran).

No doubt Pardew has little clue with these players; but by christ this guy is an utter clown these days.

that's appropriate attire for the ass raping we just took. The ghost of our hopes and dreams?

Shouldn't start for long time if it were up to me after that. Soundbiting about what we should expect and then doing that; he wants keelhauling. Unfortunately squad dictates that he's a pretty integral player these days. Fuckwittery par exellence.

That's nice. Alright knobhead It's pretty big deal for me, being so detached from a match. If I was at home, I'd be there, and here I am just going to bed and checking the score in the morning. Fairweather-plastic-nineteyn-ninety-thraay-mag marra. FTM

I see a pattern of that happening the longer his tenure. Provided we let them go of course. Go positivity.

'kin hell.