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I assume one of the reasons Murphy left was because he wasn't guaranteed starts at Ipswich? Better sitting on our bench than theirs.

It's a shame like, even though he's no longer with us (as in playing for Newcastle, not dead). I get proper moist over old-school English battering ram centre forwards, there's just something simplistic and beautiful about a man cannoning a ball off his head.

Bet she walked into the hotel room with his brother standing there holding a boom microphone telling her not to worry.

You're weirdly eager to prove to yourself that something properly sordid went on like, do you think he brought his brother and mate out as some kind of gonzo camera crew or something? Were they trying to sell the footage to Girls Gone Wild? They were all with each-other throughout the night, Evans and the other lad fucked some lass and they, being proper lads, were laughing and got their phones out. It's not too hard to imagine how it would have happened.

Which point isn't valid? Do you think rafa trusts him? How was he against villa? Am I wrong about him being offside for the winner against Norwich? Saying he cost us against Villa, doesn't win headers, some bullshit about Norwich. A possible offside and a fairly poor cameo against Villa. Quick, throw him under the bus. He's s***. If you wanted to point to his lack of composure and pace. Then I'd tend to agree. But you're not. You're talking s***. i haven't even got to those points, my villa point was a reaction to someone claiming he came on 'as we were getting battered in the air', something he did the square root of f*** all to change, and if thats is what he is going to be used for, then he needs to win more in the air, because he currently doesn't. What are you onabout man He isn't going to single highhandedly stop us from getting humped in the fucking air, is he? He's not Mats Hummels. That's likely why he was brought on though, he has a far better chance of winning a defensive header that fucking Dwight Gayle who he replaced. And he's a better target to hit to release us of pressure at the other end. Just because Villa continued to rape us in the air doesn't mean Mitrovic is undeniably shite and can't header or hold onto a ball

Was that what happened though, like did they plan on making some weird sex tape with a random lass, or were his brother and mate not just outside being 'lads'? I've got no doubt there was a load of proper 'bloke' behaviour going on like, shit craic probably but there's a massive difference between that and sexual abuse. One's sick, the other is probably just shite patter.

Which point isn't valid? Do you think rafa trusts him? How was he against villa? Am I wrong about him being offside for the winner against Norwich? He came on and made a joke of Bassong against Norwich, playing a massive part in both goals with Shelvey picking him out in the air just outside the box. For the equaliser he also dragged Bassong away from Gouffran who was left with a free header. Of all the matches to have chosen to criticise him on, the one where he massively helped us to win the game with his power in the air probably wasn't the best choice. EDIT: Catching up a bit with the thread. How you could have only seen the Sky footage from the Norwich game and come to the conclusion that he nearly lost us the game is beyond me like. You literally only watched him play a huge part in creating 2 goals. EDIT 2: He was nowhere near being flagged for the winner (which he set up), unless we're to assume Gayle was going to banana curl it with the outside of his left boot around him and the defenders into the top right corner, in which case he might have impeded play. He pulls offside for a second (which you are allowed to do btw), tobably to get out the way of the impending strike, and is a good yard away from their defender and about 7 yards ahead of the keeper and to his left. If the ball comes his way it's hitting the corner flag.

He doesn't win anywhere near enough headers for his size,certainly not enough to become the 'outlet' you talk of. That more clear? Watch the villa footage, see how many he wins to justify being brought on 'because they were killing us in the air'. From the stands, I counted 0. Could be wrong. He's not even THAT big though, he's certainly not a towering centre forward. He wins a lot and forces mistakes from defenders by generally giving them a hard time, he's certainly not Andy Carroll but saying he isn't a good outlet for us up top is one of the most ludicrous critiques of a player I've ever read on here.

If it wasn't rape then it was still sick, according to Thompson, even though he doesn't know what happened - nobody does. Evan's legs should be broke in any case because why not?

That Sanchez lob...

"I've been so busy in this dumb distraction called real life" How vile is that sentence? Imagine someone whispering that into you ear.

Next week Lovejoy tells us that Dwight Gayle needs to start scoring goals if he's to surpass the half dozen mark this season.

Have you been reading the Chronicle? http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rafa-benitezs-decision-leave-aleksandar-12046018 IMO, he wasn't used because he wasn't needed. If it was still 0-0 at 65/70 minutes then we'd have seen him. But we were controlling the game and didn't need to change anything which is why the subs came on late. He'll have a part to play this season, but he cant drop Gayle when he is scoring so many goals. Aye, he was brought on against Norwich becuase we needed to break them down and against Rotherham becuase they'd won about 40 corners. Probably the same thinking against Villa too as they were killing us in the air for the last 20 minutes. He gives us an outlet to hit when under pressure as well. 2-0 up against Barnsley he's probably thinking the pace of Atsu, Diame and Gayle can get in behind. He's got to start winning headers to become that outlet you mention. wat

You saw a slight glint of that 'behind closed doors Pardew' in his eyes.

Speaking to they guy who's club have just come up and won the league within a couple of years too, he's amazing.

Top 10 is success

Nah Alan, Gareth shouldn't have it.

I'l tell you what bovvers me, Alan. The way you say bothers.

Is this the Churchilian speech one or a new one?

Cannot get Bravo's howler out of my head Struggling to think of a worse display of decision making that I've seen anywhere throughout my life.

Jusus fucking Christ man. The internet was a stupid invention.

That's the worst thing I've ever seen on a football pitch like. City on top too

Doing the back 4 in seems a decent idea tbf.

They could have gave us the HD channel the scruffs.

I bet there's a load of gold from back then that just didn't really register with us.