Darth Crooks

All the talk about expectations and success. I just want to have a club that is run properly at all levels. Professionalism and competence is pretty minimal as a request.

http://www.everyonedoesit.com/img/products/nowmPP0268-511x768.jpg 'I'm Ganna sit doon and born he-ah til the daft cunt fucks off oot, alreet? Then I'm gan doon the pub...'

Yep. It's as if his Sports Direct philosophy of buy cheap and get huge revenues is going to wash the same way in football. It could be argued it has to an extent with the quality of scouting. Is it sustainable? Nah.

Sadly if you look at Ashley's other appointments that's where we are as fans & the true colours of this regime is they don't want to sack their drinking buddy. Should he go then; in a footballing sense? If so does that make us unreasonable in our expectations? If the expectations we're matched by the clubs ambition/investment they wouldn't be unreasonable. A tiny squad lacking quality/depth finishing 7th whilst playing 50 + games? Nah. All debatable and debatable whether everyone expects that. Not when we have to rely on a beyond nervy win at the worst team in the league to scrape survival. We've had sufficient investment to deal with that. Again it comes back to whether he is fit for the job. He'll be sacked when we're in the same situation at xmas. You have a tone of acceptance which I envy to some degree but none of it means that this man should still be in charge of this team.

Sadly if you look at Ashley's other appointments that's where we are as fans & the true colours of this regime is they don't want to sack their drinking buddy. Should he go then; in a footballing sense? If so does that make us unreasonable in our expectations?

If the only remotely tangible argument is that 'there may be someone worse come in' and that the clubs aspirations correlate then we are fucked as fans. It's not beyond the realms of possibility but the more thread relevant issue remains that this man is hugely culpable, the easiest to replace and, whether he will or not, SHOULD cease to be the manager of this club. This is the time where we'll see the truest colours of this regime.

I have enough faith in humanity to beleive there can't be many WUM's out there bar the ones who get paid like Adrian Durham. Otherwise they are sad individuals who need more fulfillment in their lives. Not pointing fingers btw just don't understand the mentality. I believe there are some who genuinely content to stick with him; which I equally don't fathom.

We know Ashley's previous too. Amazed people forget so easily. Yeah ok. Silly forgetful old me for not putting up and shutting up. Jesus wept. Stagnation for the win.

Hysterical fannies spoilt rotten off 5th? We have survived by the skin of the skin of our teeth man with one worst goals conceded stats in the league and a manager that is thankful we aren't in European competitions. Great Expectations indeed.

The fear of a poorer replacement argument is mental. That will only ever be evident in hindsight whereas with Pardew we know his previous. Better the devil you know it ain't.

No reason to sell particularly many, but aye, buy players for the first team (striker and CB mainly), January window was good. Just need them players to settle, our internationals to get a summer off after 2 years without a break which has strained them. Eh, you said before they're mainly relegation fodder. So sign a striker and a CB, and where do you think Pardew will have them finish? And presumably the football will be positive and attacking? Mid -table at best. We're a poorly run club from the top. Ashley has a yes man in charge of team affairs. Someone who won't be critical of him. Who will take the players he's given and never question it. It's that sort of thing that players lament once they see how it goes. Players bust a gut to finish in the top 5. They secure a massive tv cash windfall......and then they see a summer investment of £2m. that's more disheartening than anything Pardew can do. I don't think the players in 2009 or 2013 are relegation fodder, but both of them have seen players tire of the lack of ambition at the top and look less and less interested on playing for the club...or the manager, no matter who he may be. Agree wholeheartedly for the first part; the second bit with regardless of manager I don't. A more positive motivator would get far more out of these players.

tbh

Not to mention some inhibited and disenfranchised players too...the worrying thing is that he wont change tack at all, it's not about whether he'll be brilliant or ok as he is incapable of it and we're in for a similar ride. He's not cut out for football management at all imo. Fold like origami under pressure/archaic anti-tactics and worst of all a complete sense of self-importance manifesting itself in pig-headed stubborness, bullshit politics and plain idiocy (in light of recent comments). He is the wrong man and the consensus and results suggest the same. Why the hell should we be happy to persist? I honestly don't see why another season wouldn't be 'anywhere near as bad'. In fact I will go on record to say that I will be looking back in hindsight at a similar run in the run up to xmas as we have had last year and yet another, lon-overdue sacking. I'm all for stability. I question Pardew's massively however.

I'm on record calling Pardew a cunt. We were relegation bait before Pardew and we will be after though. Ashley is the common denominator. Ashley is a tool granted, but after the biggest spend of any team in the January window, he can hardly take any blame for the appalling showing since then. You can always gauge how good a Manager is when the chips are down. It's about how they react to improve in areas you're struggling in. Lets look at some of the issues. Passing is still fucking shocking overall. Corners are, well I think we all know. Movement off the ball is still too static and easy to read. Lack of pressure on the ball. I could go on, but as not one of those areas have improved over the course of the season, I think it pretty much spells out he's not the right man for the job. We have improved since the window closed and the show hasn't been so appalling since then. We're 10th in the table on games since the window closed. It was the awful run before the window that fucked our season. That awful run didn't ever really end bar a few iffy wins.

I actually think it's Alan himself. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/17/article-2050213-0E673FC400000578-993_468x310.jpg 'Happy' looking 'face' there like. If the slipper fits...rumbled Alan.

Happy face is troll face in disguise.

Bottom line is; after several years of inexcusable dross people want a side they enjoy watching, a manager who is competent and owners who have compassion. Not a lot to ask it? Yet we fail on each count. It is more apparent that just like his native business; Ashley wants as best profit for as minimum investment as he can. This extends, not from just the monetary but people he is willing to employ. More than willing to rely on kids and cheap merry go round managers to suit this ideal. The only reason we were invested in so forcefully in January is that he shit himself and through this plan even then we nearly lost out. It's not all their fault, but despite the financial benefits for the club and Ashley, we are club dependent on a lack of ambition and getting by. That's why Rafa et al are laughable. Enter Barry Fry, John Gregory, O'Leary et al instead. Everyone is treated like his 6 pound peanuts lackeys in Sports Direct; except that its just relative to the money that is in football. The football is tertiary.

That can be attended to http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnl53xs8FA1qbz9fx.gif WUT....

Rafa will never happen as long as there is a hole in my arse. Not worth getting your hopes up.

Delaying inevitable disappointment and a future sacking with this chump. We'll finish bottom half.

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We are a joke; pains me to say it but this another example of the sheer pantomime this club is at times.

Keep reading that title over and over and am incredulous to think why youd happily say that in any context. He genuinely seems to believe his own EL bullshit too.

Least we know 100% where.we stand.

This is what it boils down to. I live in Leicester and it's similar (not to Istanbul); doesn't matter if your from Wallend or Westminster, we all pay our money and support the club with a view to success. Beyond infuriating and I don't begrudge anyone this opinion.