Darth Crooks

A freakish sucession of injuries is what we are experencing lately; it hasnt been the case over the course of the seaon imo. Too much is invested in that factor to hold weight.

He must think pretty lowly of Anita because wor Cheik has been absolute dump.

To extent I think the fact that this respect campaign beng a complete farce has helped make referees powerless and inadequate and thus perpetuate the problem.

They are coaching to keep shape and contain wth little movement and rask taking. The other night Jonas was stood regularly between our two centre halves waiting for their players to run at them. Adam Cambell came on and instead of being on the shoulder of their last man was sat deep wathcing the runs of ther right back. Against ten fucking men. People say what a good team they were and what a great result and they would be right. But blimey did we make hard work of it. That was the one cross that was of any use and the man who can do it stuck it away. Given the opportunity. We are so dour and inhibited that when the fates stac against us like this with piss poor decisions; it only ever goes one way. I was a massive factor no doubt but we don't do ourselves any favours.

Agreed.

Hilarious. Constructive. Come on then Alf Ramsey, help us figure a way out then...How do you supply Cisse with what we have? It's all his fault remember?

no, Its my opinion on this game .I dont think we have a team yet, their isnt enough cohesion over the lentgh of the pitch . I,m not saying pardew is great but fuck me he had to contend with some shit all season Injuries? Depth? Aside from the shit refereeing decisions today he's had no worse than anyone else. He got full support this transfer window and had a strong nucleus of players in the first place. People are pig sck and rightly so.

Absolutely. What beleve people are sick of is the fact we are scrabbling about for the points at the bottom with the dross after a season of identi-shit performances even after the influx of players that Pardew stated were requred to push on. Any other way and this game panning out in the same way and I'm sure a lot more people would just chalk it off to a shit referee and a poor day at the office. The ref has cost any advantage we may have had for sure and he needs to be rightfully scorned but other teams can get past that. Reading yesterday managed to give good account of themselves despite a shite decision. We have been pss poor for a very long time and people are sick of it; the manner of this defeat just hammers that home.

Its not so much it being Pardew's fault but how he sets us up to deal with factors such as physicality, poor decisions and footballing sides. I and many of the others who subscribe to a certain viewpoint believe he doesnt so this adequately and certainly doesn't do it compentently. In fact we don't create, we don't contain and we don't play football. We've had an influx of players of a high quality in Jan (which we had before imo good enough to hold our own in the top 10) and the combined wisdom of the manager and owners up to that point failed spectacularly to deliver that. Now Ashley has acquieseced to Pardew's pleas and we're still seeing no real term improvements. I'm fed up of it. FWIW I think we gave the Russian side far too much respect the other night against 10 men and they were a good side but not anywhere the quality of a side the likes of Benfica and if we play as negatively as we continue to do so then the Europa League is pie in the sky stuff in all honesty.

Well in dwight; you may well be an ex-manure/mackem scumbag with the parenting skills of an alcoholic one of those fish that abandons and eats their own children, but you're alright in my book.

I agree hes not the most intelligent, 'football brain' type of player but this guy is simply not being used the right way, along with many others in the squad. He is literally sometimes the only player in the opposition half with fuck all movment around him or options. He missed some chances today granted but thats not representative of his season imo. He's the only player looking to attack at times.

Those arguing that we lost due to the referee and that is that. Does that stop us forming decent attacking football? To an extent in this game possibly but this has been going on all season and today is no exception. decisons have been a massive factor today but where do we go when the fates conspire against us? Nowhere..we just stick to the same godawful shite thats been served all season. We made hard work of it the other night; playng one up front, all in our own half against 10 men. We are poor and the decisions today are just factors that compound and epitomise the turgid groan that has been this season. I don't know for sure what needs to be done but there needs to be a tectonic shift away from whatever we are doing.

Part of the reason he goes for insane shots is that he's frustrated at beng the only attacking prescence n the whole squad. Every other player s milling about in our own half. So dour. So negative and not the way to get the best o0ut of the lkes of this guy.

Think the shitstorm that surrounds this is masking the fact that we are poor every week...even the win mid week masks the negative shite we peddle.

I understand that they were good opposition and the result was great. The likes of Jonas coming on a regularly being stood between the two centre halves and Campbell played so so deep when they were a man down doesn't inspire me going forward. It may be negative but I dunno...be nice to have all the pieces of the puzzle all in place to try to win something to say the least.

Have to say I'm really surprise and the glowing responses. I thought we looked cagey and cautious pretty much the way through with little movement and urgency given the gravity of the game.

cack. perch please. or let jonas do his job.

Great result. Inspid performance in general. 1 up front against 10 men and chancing a 93rd minute winner doesn't inspire positivity gong into the quarters.

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Championship speed merchant fodder. (Obertan)

At least he's got his job working in the lab with Beaker to fall back on.

When I think he got the wrong end of the stick when his mates said lets go to match dressed as Shaft.

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'After a hard day at the football office beating Stoke, I like nothing better than to renact Temple of Doom whilst pretending to be Stephen Hawking whilst being chased by actor of TV and film Sam Elliot....but hey that's just me I guess...' - Papiss Cisse, 2013

Who put us in it then? Obviously Pardew takes his share of the blame along with the ownership, players and injuries/circumstances. Logically then Pardew only takes his share of the praise for turning it around along with the ownership, new players and lessening injuries etc. We were mostly shit this season, then we got some new players and some injuries cleared up and we haven't been as shit since. I'm not particularly on either 'side' here because I'm perfectly prepared to see what happens next season and think some go too far, but it's not hard to see why people are continually cynical about Pardew's management ability. If things had turned around without an influx of new players, there wouldn't be half as much cynicism. Basically. He just appears to be phenomenonally mediocre based on the style he has produced consistently snce being here.