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I don't mind them tbh.

Would be up against a Stoke CM pair of Glenn Whelan and Charlie Adam though, not exactly a couple of speed merchants!

tbh I've not seen enough of De Jong to even really know what he's capable of, but surely he would have more to offer than Jack Colback?

It's OK, Pardew is brilliant at turning things round once they start to turn to shit.....

Excellent. Now if they could just allow us to play the second half with 11 men that would be lovely. Cunts.

Get in. The international breaks are the only thing I look forward to these days. And I rarely watch international football, just means I get a weekend off from watching our shambolic displays.

The mackems have already had a better new manager bounce than we got

What, reagardless of who the new man is? What if it's Kinnear or Carver?

Mark Halsey on Bein Sports said he didn't think it was a pen and that no-one would've batted an eyelid if play had just been waved on. He did try and defend the ref a little by saying it looked worse from his angle.

Looks like Lascelles is ahead of Dummett in the pecking order for centre half so he'll probably get the start - the extra height should come in useful against this lot. Expect Anita in for Colback as the only other change.

Dwight Yorke was pitching himself for the Villa job on Bein Sports yesterday - that would be amusing.

Is that 4-3-3 for the mackems?

Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew: "We've made one mistake and it's been costly. We were better second half and certainly deserved something from the game. "I thought (Claudio Ranieri) was goading our players (not getting the ball back) and he didn't shake my hand at full-time, which is disappointing. But it's a long game and they've got to come to our place and we'll remember that." Tosser

The fucker that sounds like a manic Chinese psychopath? Almost had to turn it off at one point!

Next 3 games are Man City, Man Utd and Liverpool - hope the wheels start to come off.

José in the stand

He seems like such a solid lad, really good attitude.

Seriously, look at the team we put out there last season: Krul R.Taylor Janmaat Williamson Colback Sissoko Gutierrez Gouffran Ameobi Cabella Perez Ryan Taylor and Colback at fullback, Janmaat and Willo centre half, Gouffran in centre mid and Sammy & Cabella playing. And they still only beat us 1-0.

Most confident I've felt about a derby for quite a while, for the last few years we've always seemed to go into them in terrible form and with key players missing. Only area I think they can really trouble us is at set pieces, whereas from the other side I would be very worried about what Mitro and Perez could do. Would still take a draw like.

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Advocaat, Poyet and Di Canio all lost their first game in charge before beating us in their second game ffs

Just noticed the thread title change Couple of Shearer-esque headed clearances from corners yesterday as well, always good to have a forward who can help out back there.

Not sure that's a good thing tbh.

Would take a draw, anything to stop the ridiculous losing streak.