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Don't know why anyone is defending Cissé. We were knocking that ball about with real verve and purpose, the ball goes into Cissé's feet along the deck, he first times it out of play 10 yards inside our own half. Inexcusably bad play made worse by the fact that Hull equalised from the resulting possession. I'd have subbed him there and then.

Fucking hell. Any last requests?

Canadian birds are total filth and love it in the rickshaw.

No this is Machiavellian PR tricks. Pardew spent the summer reading Alastair Campbell's All In The Mind and this is textbook 'how to an excuse a transfer window stuff'.

Gutted, i thought that was comedy gold from Stevie there. Well it was, just not intentional.

Felchester Rovers.

Nice baps.

Not anymore!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3QrhdfLCO8

That your point of him only having a plan B of stoke-ing his way through games is rendered nonsense by the words Manchester, United and Arsenal.

Nonsense. Man U and Arsenal away for one and Simpson looks poor in the championship.

Fair enough, Luis Suarez probably suffers from the same fate. I have seen people on here and elsewhere saying 'he shouldn't get any credit for merely starting the 11 players in the positions that everyone has been saying they should start in' The logic and reasoning behind that is just barmy, its the logic of extremists who contort every argument to fit their world view. And daft.

Simpson is an average championship player. Watched him the other week and his crossing was wank and positional play poor even at that level. Many of the sides performances last season were judged through the prism of having Colo and Ben Arfa etc in the squad when the reality was Williamson and Marveaux were the ones on the pitch playing.

The lack of credit the manager gets is criminal. Psychologically who would blame any of our supporters for fearing the worst, the Cabaye situation, Kinnear, no new faces and then 4-0 away at Man City. Its a credit to the manager because its his responsibility to focus the players from these distractions (they dont live in a bubble, they know whats going on) and get them playing with focus and purpose. I can see that in these circumstances, that last thing Pardew wanted was to lose the game against West Ham.

Couldnt help yourself.

Some great records in that playlist. I remember going to Rez 6 at the old Mayfair on a school night (thurs) and seeing N-Joi and. I can still recall over 20 years later the feeling when Anthem kicked off. I think there was something in the drugs. N-Joi's front woman was Saffron from Republica, random fact.

Its been nothing but balloon knots and shitflumes on here today.

No need just compare possession stats, if possession is roughly the same then HF's analysis holds. How 'certain' are you of that 18th place now btw?

He was responding in the french press to the reports from last week. As i said, its highly unlikely you put a formal offer of £10m on the table and agree a deal with the player then pull out at the last minute because you dont actually want to sign the player, just create the impression you do.

Aulas now saying that wages were agreed and that the deal fell through because of agent's fees

Shelvey Scored one and set up 2.

Isnt that what writing is really all about? Why should i read your words over someone elses? If the writer never attempts to elevate his voice above that of the common drone, there is no real reason to listen. Alright, that might be a bit contrived but the point is you've got to try and add something to the mix other than 'well we seemed to pass it about quite well but if our best players get injured i cant see us doing as well'. Anyway, post #27 made the thread worth it.

Draws against West Ham twice, West Brom once. 13 games against opposition outside the top 6. Wins Villa, Fulham, QPR, Fulham, Stoke, Southampton, Villa. 7 wins, 3 draws, 3 defeats. Versus top 6: 1 win, 5 defeats.

All a bit Lance and Oprah tbh.

The edifice of shite erected by the self-satisfied Pardew haters slowly crumbling around their ears.