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Marveaux's only started 11 league games for us. That's less than Gouffran. For the limited opportunites he's had, I think he's done reasonably well and shown a lot of promise. Well worth keeping.

Good player. I'd be happy with him. It shouldn't be such a big issue that we'd have to create chances for him because we already need to be creating much more for Cisse. It's an existing problem, not a new one. Another genuine door-opener simply to stop teams doubling up on HBA would be a nice start. (Not that our Pardew or DOF fills me with hope that the creativity problem will be fixed)

Well done to the lad for turning around his reputation here after a terrible start. However we need better cover at CB and creativity in midfield. The role typically played by Perch in the middle can be managed by others. On the assumption that CB cover and another midfielder are coming, this is a positive move. Good luck to him at his new club.

Evra and Rafael pretty much picked up the slack last year for a big fall in output from the wide positions, a traditional ManU strongpoint. None of Nani, Young, and Valencia had a good year. Evra might be on the decline defensively, but he put up some good, I dunno may his best ever, numbers going forward. He only scored one less than Baines, two of whose five goals were penalties.

Keegan won his constructive dismissal case so undermining Pardew to get him out would be daft. I've been hoping the 8 year contract was just to scare off the FA for England (already down to McLaren/Hodgson level) and didn't mean anything regarding compo for Pardew if we sacked him. Maybe that's not the case after all. The decline in Sissoko over just ten games was remarkable, so I know whose side I'd take in Carr vs. Pardew on player evaluations.

Indeed, if anyone froze or bottled anything, it was Man U two seasons ago who were seven points up with equal games played with just seven games to go. In those seven games they managed to draw a game they were winning 4-2 with ten minutes to go, and put in an insipid and honestly timid performance against their nearest and dearest in their derby. They barely managed a shot on goal in that game. The remaining points were lost against Wigan of all people. They lost the title on goal difference, but ironically goal difference lost in the first derby where it looked like suspiciously like they had given up at the 90 minute mark. The whole point of this is that the above happened with the players experienced at winning and the most successful manager of the modern era. Do not fall for simple narratives from journalists that paint everything in absolutes, if not in black and white.

Got ya. I looked it up on .com and rather than pull out of a tackle, he simply lost the ball and then pretended to be injured. The mistake made a 1-0 2-0, so perhaps it didn't change the game. Hughton's last game in charge, as it happened.

Was WBA the one where he pulled out of the tackle on halfway and it led to a goal that turned the game? for the general sentiment. Simpson's not that bad but most of our memories of him are with a stellar Colo in the team. No Colo and Eliot in goal is a whole different situation. The decision to keep or replace Simpson strikes me as a bit of a sideshow so long as Colo is off and Eliot is our backup keeper.

That sounds right. No more benefit of the doubt for Pards. Hopefully the fifth place last season will still be enough to a. keep the important team members and b. attract good players on the assumption that this season has been the exception not the rule. Another underperforming season and we'll struggle to keep HBA, Krul etc.

Mostly Pardew but I reckon Williamson cost us Reading home. We had a reaction off that one, so it wasn't a momentum changer or anything. So mostly Pardew. Cisse right wing ffs.

Aye good to see him get a run out next week. Not that I expect much.

Two time CL winner. Djimi Traore and that blerk that played for the Mackems only got one.

Counting the positives, I think that's outdone Shola on the unstoppable pelantyometer. Nice one HBA!

Sack the fucker now!

Bosingwa!

The wages mean the fee might be out of your hands, but he's a class player who people are too quick to criticize. I'm pleased you said Kagawa and not Young Player of the Year elect Wellbeck....

I can't see this working well, so bring it on. Just last week, they were saying Moyes has a terrible record in the Merseyside derby, and he's going to have many bigger games than that to come. Against better sides than Liverpool over the past ten years too.

We've scored twice in our last six matches. (plus the Cisse one vs. Sunderland and the borderline one today)

And Cisse right wing. What a nightmare

Isn't the eight year deal only to stop him being poached? I'm sure they'll be able to sack him for next to nowt. Why give cushty terms to a yes man? Rather than the "eight years", the worry is that they'll see this season as a blip and won't want to sack him.

If I'm allowed another, Cisse has had a difficult season, but he didn't deserve to have his goal against the mackems disallowed. It would have evened the scores at 1-1. When the game ends up swinging badly one way, it's easy to forget how important certain incidents may have been when the game was still even. The classic example is England Germany with the Lampard goal. For all England's woeful performance in the first half, they would still have gone in at 2-2 having grabbed two before half time. Germany's third and fourth came on the counter as a hapless England pushed for an equalizer they shouldn't have needed. The net result was England becoming a laughing stock and replays of Ozil pissing past Barry. The Lampard goal was dismissed as an irrelevance, which it wasn't 43 minutes or whatever it was from the start.

I would normally dismiss this question out of hand but I reckon the McManaman tackle (and non-punishment) and obvious handball in the Wigan game for the game-winning goal right at the death were unlucky enough to give this matter some consideration. The handball goal enough was a three point swing to the team who needs them most to push us into a relegation spot and was late enough in the game to be called a deciding factor. Before anyone jumps down my throat, this has been a shit season and Pardew needs to go. I also know we had lucky incidents in other games, but some incidents are more important than others. The "poor decisions even themselves out" idea is nonsense, as shown by the major teams surrounding the ref at every opportunity they think they can get an advantage. Decisions affect results and results affect league placings. When the margins are slim, every advantage helps. If it does come to relegation, expect the Wigan game to be completely forgotten, like the Viduka disallowed goal the last time. We may have been turboshit, but that goal would have had us finishing in 17th. 17th doesn't go down. I'll repeat that Pardew is a clown and has us in a precarious position where the big incidents in the Wigan game are looking far far more calamitous than they should be. That said, if we play shit against QPR at least and don't get a result, then I doubt we'll deserve any sympathy at all.

Well said Nixon. I couldn't believe Waddle even chiming in on it after he played in France. He is a mackem c*nt though who slags us at every opportunity. Someone should remind him that we've had two French wingers that are more fondly remembered than him. Pardew's tactics are terrible and he's lost the dressing room. The "long balls played" stat is a simple indicator of why. Its more than Stoke with Crouch and Cameron Jerome ffs! The demoralization of the team means that they are more likely to disappear as they did at 3-0 on Saturday.

Another Chopra next week Andy lad! For your drinking mates in the Toon! http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/04/01/article-2123735-126CE85B000005DC-777_468x286.jpg Given the length of time it took Pardew to get a come from behind win, we'd have probably lost that game if he'd scored.

Clueless and has evidently lost the dressing room. No way back, I reckon.