Fantail Breeze

Really? MA has shown way before Pardew, he’ll appoint idiot after idiot after idiot.

We had a few highs under Pardew. Obviously there's the 4-4, the 5th place finish, the Europa League run, quite a few surprising one off wins, beating Man Utd at Old Trafford for the first time in 41 years, but with Bruce there's nowt. It's just been an absolute shitfest, and amazingly it's getting worse. The only slight positive for Bruce v Pardew is that we haven’t been spanked as many times as we were under Pardew. Under Bruce we’re so dogshit awful we often pull teams down to our level.

For a club who pay next to fuck all, we always seem to have a huge number of shit players on wages “they’ll never earn elsewhere”. Especially when they’ve been signed to be first team players rather than youth who fail to hit the mark. Saivet, Lazaar, Colback, Elliot, Anita all come to mind.

That team would’ve almost certainly gone down. If McLaren couldn’t have their respect, this chump would have no chance. At least McLaren made some sort of sense.

VAR just doesn’t bring enough positives compared to the disruption it causes: - We now have countless pauses while the most ridiculous decisions are reviewed. - Some decisions aren’t even looked at when they should be (one in our game recently). - We still have at least one major talking point every gameweek where a decision is wrong. Sometimes even 3 or 4. - Maybe a very slight reduction in diving. But it still happens. Players have also got wise to ‘contact = penalty’ and now dive in a different way by initiating their own contact. - The offside and handball rules have become complete farces. - Rules (and the agreed interpretation) are being continuously changed. - Goal celebrations are almost manufactured now. When I have a bet on, for example, I don’t properly enjoy the goal until I’ve seen the match restart. Nearly every football fan could see each and everyone one of those issues before it was even implemented. Yet the still forced it through. I don’t know if it’s because of my lack of passion for NUFC at the moment due to MA/Bruce, but my enjoyment for football as a whole has dwindled recently. This is probably one of the factors in it.

Don’t think it’s that simple. I think Jacobs is meaning all the prep and choosing of the panel is part of arbitration where as I think Kennedy is meaning the actual hearing So In a sense they are both right Possibly. But why not just say that? Kennedy leaves everything far too open for interpretation, whereas Jacobs is always very clear and to the point. That’s because Kennedy is drip fed tiny bits of info without having any real knowledge whereas Jacobs has been pretty much spot on with his info since the beginning.

Don’t think it’s that simple. I think Jacobs is meaning all the prep and choosing of the panel is part of arbitration where as I think Kennedy is meaning the actual hearing So In a sense they are both right Possibly. But why not just say that? Kennedy leaves everything far too open for interpretation, whereas Jacobs is always very clear and to the point.

Jacobs completely contradicting Kennedy then, stating arbitration has started.

Kennedy’s confidence seems to have reduced recently. Whitley mag[/member], what do you think mate?

That’d be a great job for him.

I mean... Leicester were 14 points clear of Man Utd at this stage last season and finished below them. With Fulham’s games in hand, we could only be 2 points from the drop. We’re 20th in the form table over the last 10 games. Sheff Utd have gained 5 points on us, Fulham 2 (with 2 games in hand), and WBA a point. Sheff Utd have played into a bit of form, they’re only 11 behind us now and we still have to play them again. Fulham have drawn 7 of their last 9, which is not the losing run we need them to be on. If Fulham win tonight, I’d be around an 8. If they lose, that’d probably settle to a 6. I won’t be confident of finishing above the dotted line until we do.

That surprises me, until they had an injury crisis (and now 4 losses on the trot) they were knocking on the door of the top 6. Fortunately for them, they couldn’t ask for a better fixture than us right now.

That Luiz decision is ridiculous. Jose kicks Luiz while running. How can that be a foul? If Luiz initiated the contact, fine. But he doesn’t. The movement is from Jose.

That first red card was bloody awful. What was he thinking? The offside, second penalty and red card were all pathetic though.

Oh fuck off. We had a good 10 minutes, the rest was garbage.

isn't Vardy back? Think there are going to be plenty of goals for sure. No. He’s not even training properly yet.

Fulham’s next 5 games: Leicester (h), West Ham (h), Everton (a), Sheff Utd (h), Crystal Palace (a) It’s not inconceivable they’ll win 3 of those.

To be fair, tonight he looked like a strong wind in the wrong direction could finish him off

They played well second half, but we didn’t exactly make them. The substitutions were bizarre and made us lose any momentum we could gain. Rubbish game management from Bruce, yet again. Interesting that Jones was in the stands. He was very vocal in the first game on the touchline, why send him upstairs?

We committed 14 fouls, 1 booking. Palace committed 11 fouls, 3 bookings. I’m sure Hayden committed a cynical foul late on and got away with it too.

Fuck off. One booking needed.

Did that not even get reviewed?

I need one Newcastle booking and Newcastle not to win for £180

£40k to one man can be the equivalent of 20p to another. Not everyone has money/time to throw around speculatively. Who’s to say his rancid Twitter posts and ramblings to the PL aren’t actually causing harm? In that case, doing nothing is just as good. Your opinion on what is ‘better’ is simply that, an opinion. Every supporter of the club is entitled to their own which is why I think the dick measuring is pathetic. Yes but there is dick measuring and not even having a dick to measure My girlfriend has told me for years that size doesn’t matter.

Let’s get some bookings, lads!