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Thanks for that edit Ian, my post makes loads of sense now

Aye, like Swindon.

surely they could have came up with literally anything and it would have been better than that?

absolutely disgusting

Jack Colback's midfield performances, forget about what they looked like to the naked eye, his stats were very good, which is great news.

Fuck knas if he should but he's absolutely spot on.

If Colback was trying to play out of his skin for us then that's even worse. Jonas is the only player who put in an effective 'grafting' performance for like 3 games at the end. Mainly because his type of graft is actually relevant - as it was in the season we finished 5th.

Fucking ambition man We're essentially over the moon that we're now allowed to boil our rice before we eat it. Thank you Mike.

Aye we wouldn't want to forget any of that irrelevant bollocks like.

"wow all of these players we've signed this january look mint, hopefully this is a sign of change!" "oh god we're getting beat 6-0, oh god we're getting beat 3-0 off the mackems, oh god we're getting relegated" "why aren't you sacking pardew?" "please" "thank god... maybe we can get remi garde!" "why have you given the job to john carver? oh god we're going to get relegated..." And so on. We're going to be absolutely sick of our lives within a year.

The fact we signed Steve McClaren to me shows we're not willing to progress at all, fuck the cunts. We've had periods of "have they changed?" before and the answer has always been "no, he's actually gotten loads worse." I cannot be arsed to fall for it again.

I didn't want to hammer him, he set himself up as an arse licker and I'll give him stick for it. I really hope that he does well here but can't see it happening. This We know we're going to absolutely hate the bloke so we may as well start early

Ian's back

You'd want to hope so considering he played over 1000 minutes more.

Sissoko was really good until the New Year. They were both absolutely shite after it.

Gail Platt fucking loves it.

That ball's fucking shite.

'Shola fucking boffs mediocrity like.

What a hopeless fucking club we are.

Of course it is, it's the most important say of all in fact, it decides whether or now we're going to attempt to sign the player

"final say"

Pardew was the wrong manager for the club but giving him players he didn't want was still a stupid idea. Fair enough having a hands off role in scouting and transfer dealings but to have players brought in that he doesn't want will never work, I'm not sure this is as prevalent in the footballing world as you think it is tbh.

As long as they're not forcing players on a manager then it's a good system IMO. That's exactly what they would be doing by default though if the manager hasn't got the final say. We don't know the setup but what I would see as being ideal is that we don't sign anyone unless both McClaren and Carr are in agreement that he is both good enough to improve the squad and is a good fit for the way the manager wants to play. As long as McClaren and Carr have a good relationship I'd guess they'll work together well. Yeah, we cannot have it like it was under Pardew where he was just refusing to play anyone he didn't want

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