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Aw man, those French lessons for nothing.

Do you not get that frustration at losing the ball in most countries? Genuine question. It is frustrating when you have an opportunity open up and the ball is lost through a failed trick or an over ambitious run or whatever. Although I'd obviously see players try them as it is a real defence opener.

It's not a sideways step really, for reasons mentioned by hithere. Can understand him wanting a challenge in Spain.

Lack of a proven striker + Pardew relying heavily on a striker scoring majority of the goals = an ok shout. I can't see it happening though.

Imagine Pardew went to Palace and completely changed his philosophy, playing expansive football and having great cup runs every year. "Europe gave us the added energy we needed to really push on and cement our top 4 place with a 4-0 win over Sunderland."

Nah, not a chance. Despite all his false bravado, he knows as much as we do that he'll never get a job as big as this one again.

Sunderland is a Citroen C1. It'll try and tailgate for a while but ultimately can never overtake you.

Probably got good fuel economy.

Funny how? Funny like a clown?

Southampton are fucked, like. The players they have signed or looked at to replace those have gone are a few steps down in quality. Not convinced on their manager either.

There will be club officials who view this forum but I doubt any of them post on here with much regularly. It's just different people with different views and they should be respected whether you agree or not.

Oh how the keyboard makes a man.

Ironic considering your patter about him is solely based on him being dead canny in the playground. I've given reasons why I think he's a good player on more than one occasion.

He'll have a good season and people will still be OTT with their criticism. The sniping at his looks are embarrassing. A bit of maturity is needed, this is primary school stuff.

Janmaat looks very happy with Cabella on that picture.

Might be like the England home shirts, you can buy a player version or the stadium version which is more baggy?

Fuck it, could be interesting. I'll let you.

I imagine they don't want to lean on either side of the argument incase some pro Pardew supporters refuse to drink there.

Can imagine Pardew being like Hagrid after he's said something positive which could put pressure on him. "I should not have done that! I should not have done that!"

I'd agree but he said we'd be pushing for the Champions League around a week ago. Sometimes it's as if he doesn't know that his comments are being recorded. It feels like he gets away with it with most fans off the forum. It's like he occasionally comes into an interview with a spring in his step but the majority of the time he's shit scared of being optimistic.

Setting points targets like that just stinks of being happy to avoid relegation and finish mid table. God forbid he would say something like we'll look to go into every game for maximum points and see where we end up. Expectations successfully managed.

I think QPR will stay up but it won't be as comfortable as anyone in their position would like.

Glenn Hoddle has joined the coaching staff at QPR. Good addition for them, IMO.

Aye, don't let it go back to Berwick man.