Pardew has spoken of playing football that gets results, I don't think he'll throw youngsters in unless players are suspended or needing a rest. Guess you could say that is the case with most clubs, though.
Whether they make it here or not, I'm glad we've sent them out on loan to allow them to make a name for themselves out of the reserve league.
Time will tell. I don't think they'll get much chance here once they've returned. Bigi is ahead of Abeid for example and Sammy will get time over Ferguson.
And then you factor in that it appears we have been flogging him for the last few weeks to any club with a fax machine, and his morale must be rock bottom.
Can't argue with that logic. I'm surprised there's not a queue of clubs wanting to pay us £10m for Shola.
I'd rather he stayed but since Cabaye has gone our manager has decided we can't play passing football anymore. Sholas dead tall and that.
Joe Kinnear will step in, he has said himself the only way he would take a DoF role was if he thought he had a chance of being manager.
Pardews our best option until Ashley sells up.
He was a good shout for the summer as he was on a free. If we assume Remy is gone in the summer and we lose Cisse this month, we're left with de Jong (if he still fancies it). Easiest option for the hierarchy is to keep Shola on so we don't lose too many bodies and have to spend loads on replacements. Urgh.
Sunderland weren't fired up, they seemed quite calm and relaxed at times. Derbies aren't all about getting stuck in and grafting, they've moved on from that and Pardew should realise that after 3 straight losses.