Rayvin

He stayed quite a bit longer than I thought he would mind... But yeah it's a good post. Pardew is actually very consistent, it would seem.

Playing it now it is fun! Better now they've improved Suez.

Nah he definitely is. It just makes way too much sense. When he talks about middle class trappings and the decor in his living rooms, he's actually just parodying us Brits and our hoity-toity ways And to think we thought someone would seriously suggest using frozen grapes to chill wine

Can we change his Member icon so it's the same as OTF's? That would clear up a lot of this confusion.

The Fish is Australian? Actually that explains a lot, surprised it never occurred to me before now. I bet he knows Ken irl. G'day, Fish!

Makes you think he actually could do a job for England based on that. Given that the FA seem to be attempting to moderate expectations and broadly kill any sentimental attachment people have to the team, Pardew would be a perfect fit.

The radio commentary mentioned it was kneed back to him and apparently that's allowed. Just can't be the foot.

If he stopped forcing himself into the papers, no one would even give a fuck about him.

Well we can't win them all, and the 5 point cushion makes this easier to swallow. If we win at Hull, I'll accept that this was the price of doing so.

Doesn't sound like very much is coming off, although we've got a whole half yet so it's hardly a worry at this point. Hopefully Rafa can reinvigorate them for next half.

Are Blackburn just doing a bus parking exercise or are we not creating very much?

Isn't that what we were to Ashley? At least initially. Maybe we're luckier than we think with him in charge though.

Sounds a good shout. As much as I hope Burnley surprise them it seems doubtful. Decent effort by them so far though.

True, would be very conceivable for them to go down. And aye, they've developed a small club mentality. The championship really is a graveyard of 'big' clubs. Glad we only seem to dip in and out.

Even if City did just equalise

Yeah I think those people who were making out that Guardiola was going to breeze the PL will be finding this season to be eye opening.

They really have found their level then. Weird to think they won the PL once.

So how come there aren't mass protests about the venky family like in the Steve keane era? Blackburn don't look like they'll ever come back up to me in fairness. Too small a team to compete. But that said, I'm still surprised that their supporters have put up with this.

Wonder how Trump will do for those sorts of lies.

Hard to argue with that account.

The latter. Because IF I was Phelan, I'd be mindful of the fact that Hull barely have 10 outfield players to their name, and can't afford to take risks.

That would be special. And I'm pretty fucking sure we can turn Hull over ffs. They've got bigger fish to fry anyway.

Well aye, I'm just saying that it appears to have swung away again - what's to say things wouldn't have mapped out broadly the same (on average) had we gone down, just with different people involved and some deviations to the specifics? I do get the point about momentum though - and it's unlikely we would have enjoyed a period anywhere near as satisfying as the PL Keegan era without that moment.

Still interesting though - seems good at 'management' as well as just tactics and football. He's going to be a damn sight better than the Charnley-Carr combo from our last couple of seasons anyway.

I wonder if we'd be more or less in the position we're in now. I think the longer we go from the relative success of the Keegan/Robson era, the less influence that time period will have on the overall trendline of our success. So yeah, we'd have gone down, probably had a wholesale clearout, maybe headed into financial ruin, but eventually we'd have come back right? Then again, the Keegan era got us to 52k seats, and with 36k it's less likely we'd have had the financial muscle to pull back. There's a million other variables mind.