Lush Vlad

Carroll?? Oh hell no.

Still not sure how people are expecting him to learn from his mistakes? He's been here 2 and a half seasons! He's following his career trend of starting well, fading, then it all going to shit. I was more than willing to give him the benefit of the doubt this season. Despite concerns about formations and playing styles. But from about November/December onwards, it's been painfully obvious he doesn't have a clue and doesn't plan on changing anything. The set pieces, distance between the midfield and forward(s) and aimless long balls up field just reitirate the fact. He is incapable of changing things for the good, or too stubborn to do so. The football is only marginally better, because of the new players and those returning from injury. The rest of the season on the whole has been pretty painful. Constantly out played by lesser teams, with more organised squads and tactics. Home losses to some utter dross and against sides with poor away records. A pathetic and worrying away record, that I can't see improving and probably a whole lot more I've forgot to mention. The derby was the final straw for me and many others. Yes the players have to take some of the blame. But this is arguably the most talented side I've seen properly in my lifetime and it's being totally wasted.

Hopefully the players go above him and voice their concerns to Ashley or whoever and they make the right decision (no not sell all of our decent players). Cabaye and Cisse in particular seem throroughly pissed off. Colo, our captain, can't wait to fuck off for whatever reason. Although there was the spat with Pardew and all the rumours that followed. The new lads look frustrated and have gradually got worse since they've been here. Surely they must be fed up of his kick and run tactics as well? You'd like to hope so anyway. But then they might just be happy picking up their pay cheque and getting on with it. They might even really enjoy playing for him

The only consolation for me is that I don't live in the NE and I hopefully won't have to see any of her mackem family for a long while. Never felt so low after a game and I think I include Villa away in that. At least the relegation was expected and was coming all season. Feel for anyone that has the misfortune of having to work with mackems or live in split areas. Would kill me listening to them go on about it. Oh and to the fan that booted the metal railings over, that nearly crushed a small child. You are a cunt and you're not cool for wearing your snap back on backwards.

Out, but at the end of the season. He was embarrassed by a managerial novice yesterday and we've been outplayed by teams with worse players and less resources than us the whole time he's been here. He's wasting a talented squad and yesterday was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. It was nearly as bad as the relegation IMO and I can't remember feeling so low after a game? At least with the relegation, you could see it coming as we had a team full of shit, mixed with mercs and we were so poorly run, it was almost laughable. But this? I didn't see this result in a million years, I actually felt quietly confident for a change. I saw some managerial comparison stats on twitter and it doesn't look good for him. Only skimmed it, but seems his win% is farily low and the stats back up how useless we are at set pieces, how negative we are (not much possession in opposition's half, plenty in our own) and also how many long balls we play per game. I've not got up for many games this season, despite the 5th place finish last season and constantly going to a lot of matches during the shit years. I've not been overly bothered, as it just doesn't seem like he's learnt from his mistakes, or that he plans on changing his horrendous style of play. The clueless attacking displays and woeful set plays being my main gripes. As others have said, he's here until we get relegated.

a mewn bewt shewerly? Class

Him and Cheik training today then? Would be great to have them both fit for the derby. Debuchy is a feisty fucker as well as being class and it's the sort of game where you want Tiote IMO.

Seeing how long he took to get up to speed last season and how off the pace he looked against Anji. I'm not holding out much hope of him being our svaiour. Still be great to see him back playing though. Games just aren't as enjoyable or exciting without him. I hope he's 100% and will play a part between now and the end of the season. Pardew saying today in the chron the hamstring hasn't fully healed?!

Ah but remember this is Dr.Pardew we're on about. He could tread on a land mine and just be a doubt. But on the other hand, he could have a broken nail and be out for the season. Never trust Nick Riviera.

You were the better side. But statistics never lie?! What a crock of shit!

The amount we pass back to our keeper, I am surprised it's taken this long for this to happen! We actually have quite decent possession stats in Europe. But about 90% of it seems to be in our half. 10 passes along the back 4, lay it back to the keeper, hoooooof. Rinse and repeat.

I can't see them playing such a suicidal high backline at SJP. If not for the post twice and Marveaux choosing not to pass, Cisse could have easily had 4 goals. Granted they had a lot of chances themselves, but we looked like we'd weathered the strom until we gifted them 2 sitters. That's what hurts most really. If one of their quality passing moves ended in a goal, or one of their potshots from outside the box flew in. Then fair enough. But we've imploded and gift wrapped them the tie. I think 1-1 would have been a fantastic result, 2-1 would have been ok, 3-1 is just too much. I think we'll leave a lot of space attacking them and they've supposedly been scoring a lot away from home in Europe. I just don't think we'll be able to keep a clean sheet and I don't see us scoring 3 or 4 goals! If we score in the first 20 minutes, I think the crowd will believe and we could actually pull it off. Going to be a nerve wracking game though!

I'd like to see Marv play as our 10. Sissoko looks great going box to box and he doesn't have the same vision as Marv. He just gets the ball and tries to steamroll through the opposition I don't think Sissoko is incapable of playing behind Cisse. But in certain games, I'd like to see him deeper.

Sums up my feelings on him perfectly.

Is it a lack of free speech though? Similar to what Gervais always says when he's on one of his boring religious rants. "You have the right to hold those views. I have the right to find them utterly fucking ridiculous". Or something like that. It's the same here. Although nobody even knows what's going on with his supposed views. As SAFC have dealt with it terribly and have just put up a wall. That statement from Margaret Byrne was so bad it's just fueled the fire. Although he has said it in the past, he's a supporter of Mussolini and has a DUX tattoo. Plus all the stuff with Lazio fans. But how dare you accuse him of being fascist or racist....

Didn't hear it properly in the car before. He repeated the "black aga" bit 2 or 3 times as well didn't he?

Yeah I just mean after the handball, the ensuing chaos and ping pong. I'm not sure where he's supposed to come and claim the ball and how Krul would have stopped the goal?

From my experience of mackems. They're not all as bitter and twisted as the mongrels that frequent RTG. Bit OTT there Dr.Zaius I can see us being a mid table club for the forseeable fture with Pardew in charge. So I for one want them in the league, for the derby at least.

Pure conjecture. Of course. I stand by it, though. I genuinely think Krul would've been out getting both of them, as a keeper should. The first one I would probably agree with. Not sure at what point he is supposed to stop the second mind?

The main worry is repeat injuries, especially for someone that needs that burst of pace. Didn't Bellamy and Owen get repeat hamstring problems?

So we decided against the op. Tried to let him get fit for 3 months. Now he needs an op. What the fucking fuck? I'm sure we did this with Cabaye as well.

I'm back to thinking The College Dropout is a pedantic fucker. Sorry NO.

I agree with The College Dropout. Have some of that NO!

Best performance I can remember from him in a black and white shirt. Outstanding.

Love his quick, flat distribution. Looks to play it short, has a hell of a throw on him and his kicking is usually pretty accurate.