Hughesy

I wish I had known that - would have hunted him down. Would love a Pards sighting. Would give me a Pard-on I think.

To a certain extent, I think it's just being a football fan. Spurs fan at work is convinced they won't win another match this season.

to put a positive spin on the Waffa Cup, games in that competition are more likely to mean trips to proper weird and wonderful places. Also less days off work if you are going to make a short break of it...

Not surprised.

Thought he looked more up for a physical battle on Saturday which was good to see.

Come on - you know what I mean. Smug may not be the correct word, but some of patronising posts on here over the last few months in relation to tactics and our style of play... don't know about patronising but the extent we were supposed to have played hoofball was massivly over exaggerated. I think the general theme that somehow only the anti-Pardew brigade were enlightened enough to see what was really happening was a fairly common, patronising and, as it turned out, incorrect theme. But anyway - going to leave it there. We're 4th so I don't care who is right or wrong. You could try and leave it without saying "I won". I'm happy to do so. It was thinly veiled.. But in all seriousness - it's done now. Hopefully we will get 4th and won't need to look back on it anymore.

Come on - you know what I mean. Smug may not be the correct word, but some of patronising posts on here over the last few months in relation to tactics and our style of play... don't know about patronising but the extent we were supposed to have played hoofball was massivly over exaggerated. I think the general theme that somehow only the anti-Pardew brigade were enlightened enough to see what was really happening was a fairly common, patronising and, as it turned out, incorrect theme. But anyway - going to leave it there. We're 4th so I don't care who is right or wrong.

Come on - you know what I mean. Smug may not be the correct word, but some of patronising posts on here over the last few months in relation to tactics and our style of play...

I've decided it's best to keep quiet on this as I do agree that point-scoring in the main is futile. But, and it is a pretty big 'but', I have no doubt whatsoever that if the anti-Pardew people had been proved right, there would have been a lot of pretty smug people on here (even though it would have ultimately meant NUFC had failed). So I think the people who actually backed Pardew in the face of some pretty unwarranted and harsh criticism might be somewhat keen to point this out.

Off topic but.. early start for the cricket season? Think we start down here a week later in May.

This right here, gentlemen. I did not see it coming at all, I can't think of any logical reason that suggested it would come, nor was one suggested by any poster on this board. Negative tactics were accompanied by cries of "you idiot, how can you pass it from the back with simpson, willo and Krul in the team/ Cabaye is in terrible form" ect. Pardew's change of mentality also exactly coincides with Ben Arfa forcing himself into the team. Now try to remember objectively, Ben Arfa was not eased into the team or anything like that, he was thrown on as a wildcard, an "oh-s***!" button. And he preformed so well in those cameos that he simple could not be dropped from the team (fan pressure being a factor too). I'm not taking anything away from Pardew he's done unbelievably well. And I almost regret typing this already as this can of worms is in the past. But people gloating ' i woz right bout somethin' , 'will you admit you was wrong' is really irritating. But you're wrong. There were people that took in past form and what Pardew had said through his time here, his general interviews, his use of players, his explanations when we played badly and his admittances when things didn't go to plan and came to a different conclusion. Buy into what we felt he was aiming for, and the way he ideally would have us play. Sometime that faith looked shaky at best, but I thought that there was very little to suggest he was a negative manager, or married to the concept of 'hoofball' that some here kept banging on about. There will be many many more games where we f*** up, set up wrongly, or end up lumping it forward. I just hope the current form makes the likes of HTT hesitate from jumping off the deep end again when we hit a bad patch. I fear it wont. /Christ, it wasn't that many weeks ago he was still calling for Pardew to be replaced sooner rather than later. /But then, it wasn't many moons ago, he was fighting Allardyces corner, or siding with Souness over Bellamy and Robert iirc... Revisionist to the extreme, did you watch ANY of the games where he was accused of this? There was open conflict on the pitch as Demba Ba was arguing with Coloccini for Krul to stop punting it up the pitch every time he got it in at least 1 game that I saw. Krul, and Colo, to their credit, kept on doing what they were told to do by their manager. When did these arguments happen???

That was just laughable shite though really. Tried to just ignore anyone who came out with that.

Just brilliant. Done an amazing amazing job.

That's an utterly ridiculous thing to say.

Love the way the whole team celebrated together for every goal and looked delighted.

Don't think they would ever have won the league under Rafa. They started going the wrong way quite drastically towards the end of his tenure, didn't they?

There have always been poor teams playing poor football in the Premiership (as there are in every league). The quality of this year's football is not markedly different from any other year.

What makes a season a bad one? Does it have to be a season that goes to the wire in terms of relegation, CL qualification and the title?

Parker isn't anywhere near as bad as people on here make him out to be.

They should be more than a little bit embarrassed by that.

Had a load of s*** about causing trouble End of the day today has proved I am right they are wrong! Don't forget it was Ba that caused that ruck at the west ham do at the end of last year was it? My memory is normally s**** but I thought he was racially abused there? Refused to sign autographs at an end of season party (f*** knows why they were having one, like. Was inevitable) and a fight broke out as a result. Didn't cover himself in glory when he left Hoeffenheim either iirc He was racially abused though. Kind of hard to gloss over that.

Officially supporting France in the Euros now if he is picked..

What a man, what a manager.

Shola - brilliant!!

Tevez is quite fat.