Dr Gloom

not a city but i'm taking mine to peppa pig world in the new forest for his second birthday in april. can't wait

it wouldn't surprise me if speculation starts to mount about pardew's job if we lose this one.

Absolutely crippled after three days training this week following the best part of two weeks doing fuck all. Massage on the way home for me

it took cabaye a few months before he started showing his true quality. he wasn't that impressive at first, but then you wouldn't expect that to be the case as the premiership is the quickest league in the world. same applies to debuchy. we could do with him being one of those signings that hits the ground running though, the situation we find ourselves in.

Berlin is lovely for a weekend away with the mrs, as is Munich. Frankfurt is a dreadful place - avoid. I'm off to Hamburg for a stag do in a few months. Not sure what it's like for a weekend with the wife but I gather it's along the lines of Amsterdam - culture and hedonism in equal measure. Madrid's a cool place too. Of all those, I'd probably go to Amsterdam if you haven't been as an adult.

how gay is that pose? great news. two more of this quality please mike.

Anyone back to the gym after a Christmas binge? I really let myself go for 12 days and am back on it like a trooper. Funny how busy the gym is this time of year

Please delete this thread and get LBT's alter ego to start one. His hit rate was quite good last season

Exactly. We're down to one quality striker in the books. The fact shola is now our second choice and Ranger third says it all. Shola should be 4th choice and Ranger rotting in the reserves

no announcement on the official site. i wouldn't blame him if he didn't fancy it after watching last night's game

it's a disaster that we are where we are after last season. at this stage of the season we should up there with everton and spurs just behind the top 4, not languishing just above the relegation zone. classic case of going backwards by standing still and not investing and building on last season's success.

the most worrying thing for me is the spirit that got us through so many games last season seems to have gone. the football was never the best last season. but the way we capitulated at arsenal and the complete lack of ideas after everton went ahead other than punting it forward to shola was worrying. the will to battle until the final whistle seems to have gone the same way as our form.

yeah, i get that. just one of the reasons why it was ridiculous.

none of them have played well since pardew was given that ridiculous 8 year contract

he's got enough good performances in the bank to be forgiven for his poor form of recent months, particulalry given the way the team as a whole has been playing.

i like santon. he's comfortable on the ball and offers a threat going forward from left back that we've lacked from the right back all season. he needs to work on his positional awareness and discipline though. ryan taylor improved massively at that last season so i'd hope it's something that can be coached into santon by our current staff too. he's clearly got ability.

wrong. re-read what i posted

can you not? it says we might return to a striker in the summer and instead rely on signing a younger striker instead of the two senior strikers we actually need. so we're looking at cisse, shola, ranger and potentially one other young striker as our options for the rest of the season. if that's the case and cisse gets injured, i wouldn't fancy us to get the goals needed to avoid a relgation battle.

great, let's see out a relegation battle with cisse, shola, ranger and younger player as our striker options up front. genius.

sorry, a fil-um

Wish I'd watched a movie last night now instead of that shite

Nice one mate. Good luck

Fowl mood after last night's game. Honestly don't know why I let it bother me so much, really ought to know better after all these years

We're starting to look right in the shit. Ashley HAS to do something.

Fucking shit result this like at home when we can't buy a result away