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He was a bit thick then wasn't he.

How much is a decent, Premier league ready, striker? You're in cloud cuckoo land if you think Ashley's going to go out and buy 2. ...or are you just doing the old dad joke when Top Gear are reviewing a sports car worth quarter of a million..."I'll have 2!"

But is this not a reflection also of when we played these teams and the fact 2nd time round they had the added pressure of being relegation fodder? So therefore it renders the whole argument useless. sammynb, who said it was an argument? It's certainly an observation, but if it's an argument, it has to be an argument for something. You're jumping to conclusions. Bullshit, you're using a fucked up, not very accurate stat as an argument that rapey is better than Hughton. If not, why do you keep updating it? The stats are accurate. It's the conclusions that are a bit iffy.

Would like to read cost/benefit breakdowns of all the small beer drug cases the police do. Chez's points reminded me of a series of podcast about white collar crime from 2009... http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nqht5 That was 2 years ago though. Meenzer posted a good article in the politics thread about how the Tories are slackening the laws on corporate crime to encourage business, unfortunatley.

Perhaps we need a police version of NICE to decide which crimes are cost effective to investigate and to fund investigation/prosecution only to a limited amount. I suppose we already do it with petty crimes quite a bit, but I'm sure white collar crime gets far less funding than other crime, given the returns on prosecuting such a crime.

More intelligent & less poverty stricken than your average suicide bomber.

I think you start with 10 points, then lose 1/3 or each yellow/red - so a high score is better, and we're actually the second worst. Thanks. Got there eventually. I'm sure it made sense to whoever at the FA came up with it.

I couldn't work the table out like but didn't want to appear stupid As I read it you get points for negative things, i.e. red and yellow cards, but you also get points for positive things, like 'positive play' so I couldn't really tell how they worked out the top and bottom on a points basis. Think I've got it...you start a game with 10 points and lose them for every yellow and red. So our low score is a bad thing. Worse systyem than AV that though.

So on reds and yellows we are the second cleanest team in the league after Man City? How the fuck can you come bottomof the fair play league if that's the case. Daft.

Now's your chance CT. Pounce!

Only Johnny 5 can save us now...

He's a funny and self aware chap. Many could learn from him.

The author might be a clue there I never read page 1. Sorry for repeating anyone.

Not sure why there's a thread about him being shite after a game he's apparently been canny in (I never saw much of it so can't comment) and a game where he scored a penalty Shearer would have been praised to the hilt for. He'll NEVER win some people over. But he never cost us owt, never got daft wages, never missed a penalty, never fucked up off the field, never brought us any bad press. He's not the world beater we all hoped he might be ten years ago, but some of the vitriol that gets thrown at him is bang out of order for someone that's put as many as he has past the mackems.

What REALLY pissed me off over the weekend was Hansen on football focus saying how Pardoo has turned it around at Newcastle. Credit him with keeping the ship steady by all means, but we were looking perfectly goodbefore he arrived.

I predict he'll be sacked in the future.

But is this not a reflection also of when we played these teams and the fact 2nd time round they had the added pressure of being relegation fodder? So therefore it renders the whole argument useless. I'm not sure, but I think Pardoo has failed to take 3 points off ANY team we played that were in the top half at the timeof the game. Where were Liverpool on his first day?

Comparing like for like, of all the teams both managers played, Hughton did much better aainst the better teams. Out of the current top ten Hughton beat Arsenal away while Pardoo got a draw at home. He beat Everton on the road and Pardoo couldn't manage a point at home. He took a point off Fulham at home and Pardoo couldn't on the road. Even the better teams in the bottom half, Hughton faired better. 3 points each off the Mackems and Villa when Pardoo only managed a total of 1 point from both his games against them on the road. Pardew only managed to better Hughton by taking a point each off Man U and Bolton....both at home rather than away. Of the top 14 teams both managers played, Hughton took 14 points where Pardoo took 5. Where Pardoo has "improved" us is getting points off the bottm clubs. 11 points out of West Ham, Wigan, Wolves, Blackpool and Blackburn. Hughton had only managed to take 5 points from those teams.

Yup, our new strikers will love those crosses raining in next season. QFT

Innocent until proven guilty Robster.

Can't see Ashley paying the English player premium. He could get much better abroad for £4m - £6m.

You must have missed the bit where he left the Chelsea player for dead and crossed for the header that led to the corner that led to the goal. I did. He crossed it straight to a Chelsea player then?

He's a cunt

I think he's the best manager we've EVER had.