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That there's a rift between the Spanish and French speakers.

It was to Indirecto on TyC Sports. Fuck knows who they are though.

What was the Macdonald story by the way, if someone can be arsed to paraphrase?

What the fuck? I hope this is just a case of his dad saying the wrong thing and wanting his son to come home or something like that, or Coloccini has just been pandering to him in conversation. /clutching at straws

What is this strange white substance seeping from my penis?

Eh?

That's class

Aye, but Barca are Barca and might have said one thing and then done another. We say we're poor and act like it. so true.

I'm being serious there by the way, the spikey top shite doesn't work for him, he needs to go down the Maldini route.

Debuchy would really benefit from a more rugged hair style, I imagine.

An Ameobi dominating the Premierhsip from the centre of midfield is just too much for the fine folks of Newcastle-Online to comprehend.

Ronaldo had a point there tbf, and it's a one that we chillingly saw when Nolan came back to St James' Park.

Once he scores his first goal for me, until then he doesn't even exists on these shores.

Cisse is hardly slow though, which is the point here. When Pardew says pace and power how probably doesn't mean Obafemi Martins.

Pilko has just alluded to it in another thread, but the amount of conversations I find myself having to pander to in the real world with people who take every piece of transfer news they read or see as gospel, it's just starting to pick up again and it's fucking tedious. It's the same with "x player played well at the weekend didn't he?"... "[i don't know mate, I didn't watch the game, neither did you, you just saw him score a goal on MOTD] Aye, he looks a player, apparently Barcelona are after him..."

Sky Sports News can confirm our transfers now?

"We're looking for a player who is going to threaten at set-plays" No matter which position we are looking to sign a player in, Pardew, without fail, uses pretty much that exact phrase

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/11_november/11/assets/gfx/forEMP/bubble.jpg

it feels good to have been disgustingly wrong for over a year?

I don't think it's just Pardew's like, I think the whole coaching staff need looking at.

Changes would be better made now than in a months time if they were to be made.

Why the hell would anyone hit Sylvie van der Vaart?

He's absolutely no where near the worst player we've signed in the last decade for the money we signed him for, but you could make the argument about his off field actions giving the club a bad name, if you could be arsed. Personally I loved Barton during "The Nolan Age" but it predictably ended in tatters.

I think Anita in Cisse's position and Bigi back in the centre would have been how I would have lined up, it obviously isn't ideal but it would have gave us some better protection against their left which, again, cut us to shreds.

If he cant switch things in a couple of hours what chance has he got during a game, explains his s*** subs etc He could have changed it, but what about the players? Would they be comfortable with an entirely different set of instructions, for a different position, a couple of hours before a game? He made the right, if unpopular, call last night. That's laughable, how long do you think it would have taken to tell and coach Cisse to play in his usual position? Yeah, and the others? What others? Sammy, Obertan or Marveaux would have played in Cisse's place. And? Obertan had been playing on the left, in this formation. Marveaux had been playing as part of the midfield three. Sammy is Sammy. If we'd taken Marveaux out of the midfield three, someone would have had to replace him. That would have been Perch. But, wait, Perch was playing right back. So, who do we play there? Santon, and bring Fergie in? Who knows. My point is that Shola for Ba was a straight swap, and the work in training could be retained. If we'd went for Cisse up top, then we'd have had to make at least three other changes. I'd agree that Shola was a straight swap for Ba had he been a player of similar quality. Being a big b****** doesn't justify the straight swap however. Shola's movement (lack of) up front dictated our forward play. The only time he got into a good position he fluffed his shot wide. And? Just because Shola has similar physical attributes to Ba doesn't mean could replace his quality forward play. I really can't see how making this straight swap benefited us in any way last night. It was a defeatist move by the manager. As soon as Chelsea's bid was made, Pardew should have had an arm around Cisse to tell him "right, it's your time son - get out there and do what you do best". Probably ridiculous to say this in hindsight, but I'm pretty confident we'd have won last night if Cisse started in the middle. The amount of fouls and aimless headers by Shola was staggering and hindered us big style. I've already said how I think the straight swap benefited us. You can honestly say looking back at that game that we benefited from playing Shola upfront by himself? The only times we looked like getting on the end of anything was when Cisse threw caution to the wind and dropped into the centre when we were attacking from the left. I understand why we were set up this way. No, it probably wasn't the best system with the players available. I'm sure even Alan would admit to that. However, we'd obviously geared our whole gameplan around the formation and personnel in training. Shola for Ba was the change that would cause the least disruption to the rest of the team, and I can understand that. Last time I'm typing any of that. But we knew there was a big chance of Ba fucking off on Sunday, so even if it was absolutely vital that we caused as little disruption the set-up we had been working on in training, we still wasted 2 days basing our game plan around someone who potentially wasn't going to be here And then this whole rigid and 'meticulous' process is contradicted when he starts making random substitutions in the 60th and 70th minutes.