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Definitely. He's a good manager IMO, and I still reckon WBA have a reasonable chance of staying up. Next 4 games are critical for them. There are problems behind the scenes there, though, and I think Mel has made a mistake pandering to the players who want to play the type of football which saw Clarke sacked in the first place. At the time same time, they don't have the pace in their defence to play the high line Mel usually plays, so it's difficult.

Sczczeny, Debuchy, Terry, Jagielka, Shaw, Toure, Ramsey, Hazard, Lallana, Aguero, Suarez

GW 29: West Brom 1-1 Man Utd Cardiff 0-2 Fulham Crystal Palace 1-1 Southampton Norwich 1-0 Stoke Chelsea 2-0 Spurs

At least that confirms once and for all that all reports of tension between Ashley and Pardew are bullshit. Doing a perfect job as far as Ashley is concerned and it is unlikely he will go until Ashley does (possibly barring us looking like we will be relegated). This was his chance to act.

Absolutely loves owt like this

Reminds me of Edin Dzeko.

Gameweek 28: Everton 2 - 1 West Ham Fulham 0 - 2 Chelsea Hull 2 - 1 Newcastle Stoke 1 - 2 Arsenal Southampton 2 - 3 Liverpool Aston Villa 0-0 Norwich Swansea 2 - 1 Crystal Palace Tottenham 2 - 0 Cardiff

Would love Mel here.

Yep. Even in the last twenty minutes, where some people seem to be under the impression we played well, we were swinging it into the box and hoping it lands at someones feet as our primary attacking strategy.

Especially not in a 4-4-2.

Excellent performance. Will be gutted to see him leave.

Speculative shots, speculative crosses. Our attacking outlook under Pardew.

Whoever would have thought this lineup would have zero in the way of creativity..

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6 year deal

We looked like we controlled it, which is the important thing.

Terrible selection. Hopefully we'll lose heavily enough to see some discontent at the ground, at least.

Looking forward to hearing the commentary today. "Alan has made a bold choice going 4-4-2, he's been under some pressure recently but he always likes to set his teams up to play on the front foot".

Seriously, what the f*** are we doing? Should be a shocking quote, but I'm not even slightly surprised.