Jump to content

David Kelly

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    13363

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    7

 Content Type 

Everything posted by David Kelly

  1. David Kelly
    Gouffran's a striker really isn't he?
  2. David Kelly
    Don't have anywhere near your confidence that even losing the next two games will see him sacked but lets hope so. Can't say I can stand Pulis much but he's certainly preferable to Pardew. Moyes would be much more palletable. They are very obvious choices and if we can agree terms with either of them I think it's likely that one of them would be the way Ashley would go. I think it's almost impossible that we'll pick some top up and coming coach from abroad because Ashley won't have a clue who they are. I also can't see him paying anyone compensation for taking their manager.
  3. David Kelly
    Isn't there some sort of ruling about showing any controvertial incidents? Mind you I suppose an offside goal would be shown.
  4. David Kelly
    Sitting in the East Stand I assume I'm going to be one of the 12k who get to avoid the additional sports direct adverts then. Happy days!
  5. David Kelly
    There's more than enough reason there to get him sacked. All they have to do is turn up against us these days because under this fucking idiot we will bottle it every time no matter how shite they are.
  6. David Kelly
    It seems pretty likely that regardless of the ability of our players, we have a clueless manager and a massive problem in terms of self belief (we've barely won a game this year don't forget). We need a dramatic change in order for us to get even into the top ten and that means removing Pardew and replacing him with someone compitent who can get the players we have going and managing to get Ashley to spend the required amount on a new striker and centreback in January. Personally I don't see that happening so I think a relegation battle is more likely at the minute.
  7. David Kelly
    I don't buy the couldn't attract anyone better argument. Yes we're not going to attract absolute top class managers in the same way we're not going to attract the very top payers. But there are plenty of managers who work all over europe who have had to deal with lunatic owners and or financial meltdowns. We are still a reasonably big name in world football and we still have plenty of international players. That would attract some pretty decent managers. The bigger problem for me would be that I have no faith in Ashley and Charnley to be able to recognise what qualities are needed in a good manager let alone find someone who has them. Unless Ashley has some advisors we don't know about in that area I really can't believe that we're capable of doing any sort of extensive recruitment process. That said I'm at the point that I really don't care who comes in as long as Pardew is gone. I fucking hate everything about the smarmey cunt.
  8. David Kelly
    We need to make sure we get balance right between not losing him and making sure he keeps his feet on the gound and progresses. It's increasingly difficult to that these days with the wages that are on offer.
  9. David Kelly
    The experience of Pardew being totally unable to get us playing without his plan A last season (ie Cabaye) and so far this season (a fit SDJ) suggests that we will not be winning many matches any time soon. Hopefully that results in Pardew getting the boot. Even if he's replaced poorly I'd still get some enjoyment from seeing that cunt gone.
  10. David Kelly
    This is when pardew really earns his money and comes up with a plan b. Oh wait.
  11. David Kelly
    I'm sure everyone would agree with you there. Everyone except CT who of course would disagree just to argue!
  12. David Kelly
    His peak really isn't good enough to be a starter though is it? I've no problems with him as a squad memeber though.
  13. David Kelly
    I don't have massive problems with Saylor or Raylor (assuming he can return to the levels he was before injury) as squad players tbh. Neither of them should be starters at any time other than an injury crisis though. Your assesment of the missing ingredients to the starting 11 is blindingly obvious to everyone but Ashley/Charnley/Pardew (if you believe his shite which I personally don't) or it would have been addressed this summer. At the start of the summer we needed three things. Creativity, a striker to lead the line and a centerback. One of those things was addressed with a combination of SDJ and Cabella (and to a small extent Colback). The other two have been shamfully dismissed (and in the case of the defence actually made weaker).
  14. David Kelly
    Ben Arfa, Sissoko, Debuchy, Cabella - All French Internationals Krul, Anita, SDJ, LDJ, Janmaat - All Dutch Internationals Cisse - Senegal International Tiote - Ivory Coast International Santon - Italian International He's had all of those players at his disposal since January. Hardly a car with a missing wheel. A decent manager should be able to get international players (from good teams too) to play some football should he not?
  15. David Kelly
    You've nicely picked comments from the spell of two months when we played well last season. If you've got so much time on your hands to trawl through all the posts from last season try and find comments like that from any other part of the season.
  16. David Kelly
    No Ben Arfa didn't play well last season but certainly from January onwards he mostly was given a few minutes at the end of games when things weren't going well and was expected to magic something out of nothing while still tracking back. Regardless of that though and the fact that he didn't help himself, Pardew's treatment of him cost us money. (I do actually agree that Ben Arfa's the type of player who starts off well but then falls away) And I just plain disagree about Mbiwa. He got a run of starts at centreback when Colo was out alongside Williamson and that was the best our defence looked all season. He's certainly shit at rightback but I don't blame him for not being good when he's played out of position (again pardews fault especially when he had the choice to play Taylor there who's probably played better at fullback than he ever has in the centre).
  17. David Kelly
    He's not really doing much of a job of that either so far. But then again the service to him has been pathetic.
  18. David Kelly
    It's a concern how the new players (baring Janmaat and Colback) have started but it's amazing how quick some people are to write them off. Colo had more than a season of being absolutely comical before he came good. But it's the position Ashley and Pardew have put us in that has made people like this. We don't have any options at all so we desperately need these players to hit the ground running and because they aren't there is immense pressure building on them. I feel most sorry for Riviere as he has basically been hung out to dry.
  19. David Kelly
    Having to deal with the constraints you list doesn't stop a manager from being able to coach. They don't make him fall out with Ben Arfa to the point that we lose a player who we could have easily got upwards of £10m for nothing. They don't make him think Steven Taylor is better than a French international that led his team to a shock title. They don't make him give Dummett a squad number. They don't make him play Cisse right wing or persist with Gouffran on the right when he's offering nothing. They don't prevent him from adding another striker to the game when your 1 - nil down at home with 20 minutes left on the opening day. They don't make him play Dummett. And they don't make you congratulate yourself for signing players or dedicate a win to the man who sold your best player from under you. The appointment of a decent manger who would live with those constraints you mention could easily eliminate those problems.
  20. David Kelly
    I think that was exactly the case on Saturday. As soon as Zaha came on the players were terrified of him. There's no reason any of our players should have been immediately frightened of a player who had previously done nothing in the premier league. But Pardew has repeatedly praised him. I can just imagine how he talked to our players about him before the game!
  21. David Kelly
    No there's nothing to judge him on, I'm just suggesting that he has no experience. He might be a mastermind but since he's not been a part of anything like this we can't know. Allowing someone with his limited experience and Ashley's clearly limited knowledge is like allowing someone without any football experience manage a premier league club.
  22. David Kelly
    My point exactly. Two blokes who seemingly know very little about football. I bet most of the people who post on here could come up with more realistic targets than those two.
  23. David Kelly
    After the first three league games last season we got Cabaye back into the squad and Remy playing. That was when our season took off (up until it ended in January). We're already 2 points down on last season with a similar set of fixtures. If Cabella, SDJ and Riviere don't kick on for us after the international break then our season is going to be a massive struggle.
  24. David Kelly
    Supposing that is true, the question still remains who in the club can be trusted to find a decent manager? Ashley's record of appointments for us is pretty appalling. They have either been kneejerk, cost cutting or a combination of both. He knows how to appoint the right people to run his business's because he knows what it takes in that field. He seemingly has no clue in football.
  25. David Kelly
    Most likely. They won't have the knowlege to go outside the club or someone they know which seem to have been their only ideas so far. Getting rid of the clown we currently have might not change much other than having to listen to his constant shite.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.

  I accept