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As unrealistic as it sounds id cry of happiness if we got Bielsa

Would take Di Matteo asap. You see, for me, I'd prefer to take a punt of a foreign manager on the off chance they turn out to be decent. I'm not sure RDM or GP are going to take us significantly further forward. Are they capable of changing cultures? Of embedding an ethos and style throughout a side? I'm not sure they are. I'm not sure anybody that's readily available is to be honest. More capable than Pardew. Pardew has no reached his ceiling he struck the lottery when he was gifted our club.

My team: Krul Debuchy Mbiwa Colo Dummett Anita Moussa Cabaye Ben Arfa Remy Gouff Anita role is simple cover the fullbacks/midfielder and come and take the ball of the centre backs and distribute it (like he did for Ajax)

Only in our wildest dreams.

Science and Sunderland are mutually exclusive though.

Better dig that neck brace out then.

You use the word "Merchandise" loosely their I see

Aye our commercial and PR departments are clearly non existent.

Christ! I can't unsee that. If that line up does come to fruition I see a meltdown occurring on here. What a horrible side that is.

Shock Horror! I don't think anyone expected anything other than this. It's good to see the club bullshit being exposed, too bad we don't see any such work from the Chronicle etc.

Aye let's retreat against Cardiff ffs. Funnily enough i'm rather looking forward to seeing how Pardew reacts. While i expect him to go into his shell and go defensive, he might just think sod it. If i'm getting sacked i might as well give it a go. It'll definitely be interesting. Hopefully he'll see that he had started to get it right against Villa (and to some extent Hull) and the problems got worse when he tried to just stop the opposition. I hope so too gents. The everton game wasn't the first when we played 2 holding midfielders and still got our asses handed to us. I wonder if Pardew putting such emphasis on everyone we play affects the mind state of our players a little too much. Personally speaking I'd like to see us pick a formation and style of play which suites us and stick to it. All of this chopping and changing can't help a already unsettled squad.

Aye let's retreat against Cardiff ffs.

Williamson lumps it when he's not even pressed and has passing options. He's the most blinkered player I've ever seen to be honest.

5 for me. I fear the worse whilst we have Pardew in charge though.

TBh relegation in the short/long term may be a blessing in disguise if Ashleys revenue stream suffers and he trys to sell actively We thought this the first time around and nothing materialised. Club is pretty much un-sellable whilst it's straddled with that debt, interest free or not.

World class though. He was hardly the inventor of diving was he. It's apart of the game and personally I'd happily see our players show such a will to win even if it meant deceiving the referee.

You still going on about Forster leaving? He said unless he was going to be first choice he wanted to leave. I take it you'd have had him as number 1 over Krul? Let it go. He's long gone. Two posts = going on? Was merely commenting on his good performance tonight. I like to see our ex lads do well.

Slim to none. Ten Hagen and Courtouis will be the young goal keepers to get imo.

Napoli have been poor tonight. Higuain is really looking crucial to everything they do without him they are a shadow of what they've been showing.

Another top notch Save from Fraser

More than Elliot is what he's got...

Exactly I'm really worried how bad our morale will be with the fixtures we have coming up

Yup Napoli can't even get near him

Yup he was making all the right noises too. Fat chance mike would have paid his wages though

Which happen week in and week out... No they don't. a lot of the goals we concede appear to be down to this, How many times have people slagged off various players already? Debuchy, Santon, Colo and & Mbiwa last night. We must have some of the most error prone defenders in the league. Well, there wouldn't be many mistakes in football if players didn't make mistakes. Our players aren't perfect, they make mistakes, as does every other defender. When they do, they deserve criticism, and when it happens often, they need dropping or replacing. I'm not denying defensive organisation is part of the problem (our high number of goals conceeded since the start of last season), but there's more to it than that, such as seasoned professionals not even challenging for a bouncing goal kick.. It appears their is a lack of ownership being taken by everyone in the team. But Pardew is the one selecting the players, he's the one coaching them day in and day out. No one should have a clearer idea of who is good at what. Every single player we've bought has regressed under him. Pardew must go, I don't need convincing about that. It just bugs me people will blindly point at him and let Colo off the hook for schoolboy errors the latter (and others) made.. But there's no solution to that other than getting shot of the manager is there? Yes we can buy four centre halves in January, two new full backs, along with a new midfield and three new forward players (arf!) but is anyone convinced that would solve the problem? I'd put heavy wedge on the new players making exactly the same cock-ups a year down the line. Sick of reading the same constant cycle of criticism, which comes up with the valuable insight that all the players in the entire squad are s*** (apart from the one who's only been here a month, funny that) and that what we really need in the team right now is the ones who've been out of the team for a while because I've forgotten how s*** they are. I don't think it really needs pointing out that the players individually and as a team have been dreadful for over a year. Pointing out individual errors isn't going to solve the problem, and going off the evidence of last January, nor is replacing the players. So what's the solution? There's only one. Rounds of applause. This is spot on.