loki679

We're fucked.

Shit, quick, board up Minhosa's house.

Or maybe he heard about Fergie's 'Siege mentality' and got the wrong end of the stick / took it a bit too far. I don't know, the whole thing is fucking nuts and getting weirder by the week.

I'm gonna look on the optimistic side and think maybe they've been trying something new he doesn't want people to find out about until we demolish Fulham with it.

A small squad is a major part of the problem. Other managers are doing better with less. And we've used about 30 players so far. Did many managers do better with less last season? Didn't think so. Time moves on. It's not last May. It wasn't so long ago that it is no longer relevant. It doesn't help us in our current situation. Falling from 5th to 14th should be cause for concern instead of dreaming about last season. But it's completely 'short termist' to overlook it. He worked brilliantly with a small squad last year and badly so far this year. On any sensible analysis of Pardew, you wouldn't then ignore last season's achievements. Equally you wouldn't ignore this season's shortcomings. And I haven't done so - I don't think anyone could. Unfortunately, key players being out of form, some injuries and suspensions haven't helped - things which we didn't have as much of last year. Those things are normal for a football team. It is equally valid to say that last season we were fortunate in our lack of these and this season, with a normal load of injuries, suspensions etc we are seeing a truer reflection of the squad and setup we have.

A small squad is a major part of the problem. Other managers are doing better with less. And we've used about 30 players so far. Did many managers do better with less last season? Didn't think so. Time moves on. It's not last May. It wasn't so long ago that it is no longer relevant. It doesn't help us in our current situation. Falling from 5th to 14th should be cause for concern instead of dreaming about last season. But it's completely 'short termist' to overlook it. He worked brilliantly with a small squad last year and badly so far this year. On any sensible analysis of Pardew, you wouldn't then ignore last season's achievements. Equally you wouldn't ignore this season's shortcomings.

It's not that we can't or don't laugh at the unwashed in this situation, it's just that it's so much more fun when we're doing ok. Not least because it drives them to new levels of insanity. Newcastle and Sunderland have always took the p*ss out of each other club regardless of league placings.

Oi dont say like its a dirty job.....i did that sort of thing for 20 years I'd be fucking fuming if it took you twenty years to move my furniture.

It's not that we can't or don't laugh at the unwashed in this situation, it's just that it's so much more fun when we're doing ok. Not least because it drives them to new levels of insanity.

The 8 bells. whereabouts? Just up the road before the 9 bells, can't miss it.

We're all gonna be so disappointed when it's 4-4-hoooof.

What a monumentally crap rule that was. Concede free kick 25 yards out, show 'dissent', free kick moved forwards 10 yards which makes it masively harder for attacking team to score. Should be allowed to move it up to 10 yards in any direction.

Bastards will be scoring from set penises too in a minute just to rub it in.

Shelvey looks like such a cunt.

Take the gimp mask off when you're trying to type, dude.

Great move by Dekka wasn't it? I'm really pleased for Hughton. Good guy and did not deserve the way he was treated. Dekka wanted to move in another direction. What direction was that then? Ashley was struggling to angle his head downward far enough to see the ball on the pitch due to the multitude of extra chins he had. Dekka decided to get someone in who would ensure the ball was on a level with the directors box for as much of the game as possible to save him this terrible inconvenience.

I fucking love a good RTG meltdown

Southampton score, mackems in the relegation zone

RTG mod is just randomly merging threads now.

Seem to have

That's probably why they insist on these release clauses. If he were to go on the open market a club would be looking at paying 15-20m for him and there's no way in hell they'll chuck in £5m of agents fees on top. If they artificially lower his asking price with a release clause then the buying club will be more willing to part with a higher agents fee. That's likely also why Ba has it in there that he'll get 50%. If i'm not mistaken, a player usually gets about 15% of the transfer fee unless they have requested a transfer. 15% of £7.5m isn't that much for Ba himself compared to the 15% of £20m he would stand to receive on the open market so they've covered his cut there.

Bugger 4-3-3, we'll end up playing a 2-7-1 at this rate.

£5m to his representatives no wonder they seem to want to keep him moving on

Disappointed he didn't get a game against Bordeaux. Haven't seen too much of him but he looks like he could be a decent prospect, hopefully he'll start getting some time this season.