loki679

"Yeah, that's it, float it in, don't ping it. Willo, Tayls, go for the back post, they'll never see this coming."

We're playing s*** and the best he can come up with is to train somewhere else because it can't be his methods. Turns out it has nothing to do with playing s**** or shaking up the regime according to the Journal Bigger fences will fix that. And running faster and jumping higher of course. And a borehole.

what does this mean, he's just moved the location? We've been talking about pass and move, compressing the play, getting Cabaye forward and getting Tiote playing again and getting some patterns and game plan going again when the solution all along was to go train somewhere else. Must be those pesky spies.

The ball doesn't have to be in the quadrant anyway. As long as part of the ball overhangs part of the quadrant marking it's cool.

I can hope can't I?

I hope he gives Cabaye a bit more license to get forward in this one, I don't think we need 2 defensive midfielders. If he could get Tiote back to doing what he did so well when he first arrived, i.e. sit in front of the back four, break things up and give it simple then Cabaye can focus on doing what he does best which is get forward and create something. Let's have a bit of adventure and a lot less cowardice please.

As in, sacking people before they've had a decent chance. Reacting too soon to downturns etc. Although TBF I would have to admit that a lot of our previous errors have been bad appointments as much as sackings. 2 years is a pretty decent 'chance' like. He's shown nothing to make me think he'll improve. Get a new man in and give him preseason to get to know the players, a full summer transfer window to bring in the right players to fit his vision and a good few months to get things right on and off the training pitch. Or we could just sack him a few games into the season so all the good managers are employed and the shite we bring in has to hit the ground running with players he doesn't know and Pardew's picks from the window.

Don't forget that at the time of this 8 year contract he was flying high and being touted as a possible england manager. The 8 years just means we would get a big compensation payment if anyone tried to poach him (not likely now, is it?). There'll be break clauses that will limit our exposure in the event of sacking him.l

It's mackems so their great great great great great great great great grandchildren will be telling our great great grandchildren in the year 2120 "3-0, marra. FTM"

Really? Because I haven't said anything like that and you're bracketing me in the that group. No need to trash others just because they have a different opinion to you.

In terms of results last season was excellent but the football was still turgid for the most part. As for that list, he's had 2 years to accomplish those things, all of which are the basics you'd expect from any half decent manager, and is he any further forward? I have zero faith in him as the man to improve us as a team.

'Luiz regrets his popper binge the night before as Aguero loses a boot.'

I voted a 5 simply because of our woeful away form and the fact we have two difficult home fixtures. Liverpool we never get ball all off, Arsenal are playing well so they're a tricky proposition. We've won one in 16 away from home with 5 draws. That's 0.5 points per game away from home. If we get bugger all off Arsenal and Liverpool and our away form continues to, er, form, then we'll get another 1.5 points leaving us on 37-38 points. That's why I give us 50/50 to go down. If we can get anything from one of our home games then I think we should be ok but it's by no means certain and we're still in a very dangerous position.

Need to stop fighting each other and focus our anger where its deserved, Pardew (and Mike).

Having had time to sleep on it and think about yesterday in the calm, rational light of day, I want him sacked right now. Useless tosser.

Didn't deserve much more tbh. Embarassing.

Mackems lobbing stuff onto our fans according to talksport.

Nasty tackle that

Howay! Stuff them into the championship.

Gouffran's pace against their dinosaur defence should be interesting.

http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=774118 Mag on a Plane plus needless physical violence as a bonus. You stay classy sunderland.

I always thought you were from rye hill. Never heard of it. Born in Newcastle, most of the family live on the leam or over Pelaw/Heworth way.

It's here! Got the afternoon off so just a couple of classes this morning followed by go karting then beers and pool in preparation for a 7pm kick off Gonna be a great day.

Superb

What attacking players did we have available on Thursday of that ilk? Plus the back four was a lot better then, and Ferencvaros are no Benfica. You're right, night and day. I probably shouldn't have mentioned KK I just happened to have watched the highlights of that game minutes before posting. It was meant to illustrate the differences in their approach. You could pick a bunch of managers and make the same comparison, Laudrup, Martinez, Adkins, Rodgers etc etc. They set their teams up to attack and try to impose their game on the opposition.